Particle effect not being destroyed

[mystrymaster]

The AttackFX(Clone) in this picture goes away when the particle is done playing

But the HitFX (Clone) sticks around after, and I am left with this

I am calling them both what looks to be the same to me

I added the yield return null in there thinking I wasn’t returning anything from the coroutine bit that didn’t work either, any idea what I am doing wrong here?

[Olmi]

Couldn’t you use a simple script on the instanced Particle object in your scene that checks in it’s Update method if it’s still playing, and if it’s not, call Destroy on this gameobject? You could check isAlive, it should return false when the particles are no longer alive.

Unity - Scripting API: ParticleSystem.IsAlive

[mystrymaster]

@Olmi

Couldn’t you use a simple script on the instanced Particle object in your scene that checks in it’s Update method if it’s still playing, and if it’s not, call Destroy on this gameobject? You could check isAlive, it should return false when the particles are no longer alive.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ParticleSystem.IsAlive.html[/QUOT

I think I should be able to destroy the object after it is done playing without much trouble, I am more wondering why this one isn’t being auto destroyed like the rest of the particle effects, they all look the same to me, from a game logic and execution standpoint that is.

[mystrymaster]

So I figure this out, in case anyone happens upon this, I saved the prefab with the game object disabled, as soon as I enabled it, all behaved as expected

[DancingZombie]

Make sure you set all child particle systems to destroy as well. A number of effects are made up of multiple particle systems.

[MelvMay]

@DancingZombie

Make sure you set all child particle systems to destroy as well. A number of effects are made up of multiple particle systems.

Make sure you don’t necro really old threads please.

The 2D forums are not even related to particles btw. I’ve moved it to the scripting forum.