Particle system clones are being left in scene without cleaning

Unity Engine
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In my very simple scene - I have 2 kinds of enemy - cylinder and sphere - one has cylinderEnemyScript and the other sphereEnemyScript
both of these scripts inherit from enemyScript:

public class EnemyScript : MonoBehaviour 
{
	public GameObject particle;
	virtual protected void OnDestroy()
	{
		Instantiate(particle, transform.position - transform.up, Quaternion.identity);
	}
}

so yea - once an enemy blows up a particle system gets instantiated - I have a gun that I fire projectiles from - here’s the projectileScript:

public class ProjectileScript : MonoBehaviour 
{
	void OnCollisionEnter(Collision other)
	{
		rigidbody.useGravity = true;
		GetComponent<TimedDestruct>().enabled = true;

		if (other.gameObject.tag == "Enemy")
		{
			Destroy(other.gameObject);
		}
	}
}

so I destroy the enemy - and on his OnDestroy() I instantiate the particle system - which is just a flame from the std assets.

I hit play and everything’s acting how it’s supposed to - but when I exit out of play - I get these Flame(Clone) instances in my hierarchy
and also get a “Some objects were not cleaned up when closing scene”
Everytime I play and exit out I get more and more instances!

why is this happening? - how to resolve it? - Thanks a lot for any help in advance :slight_smile:

2

The massive load of instances comes from Instantiating in OnDestroy - you shouldn’t do that since OnDestroy is also called when the game is being quit.