Particle System playing spontaneously

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First I have to say, that I consider myself still a beginner, when it comes to the Unity-Software.

A Particle-System called “engineParticles” is attached to my Player. Whenever I am moving the player by using the dedicated joystick, the particlesystem should play to simulate exhaust from the player´s thrusters, which works perfectly.

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public ParticleSystem engineParticles;

    void Update()
    {
        if (joystickMovement.isUsed)
        {
            if (!engineParticles.isPlaying)
                engineParticles.Play();
        }
        else
            engineParticles.Stop();
    }
}

The problem occurs when a different GameObject is instantiated as a child to the player, which also holds a Particle-System. In this particular case this object is a missile. Its Particle-System is supposed to play only when a “launch” function is called. This is also the case, but apart from that the Particle-System of the missile also plays while the Particle-System “engineParticles” is playing.

First I assumed that the code somehow confuses both Particle-Systems. But this is not the case as both Particle-System are specificly assigned in the editor and not during runtime.
When more detailed information including code is needed, please tell and I will provide it!

Edit:

I have not managed to solve the issue to this day. But, I thought also this could be just a visual bug or something that only appears in the editor, but that is not the case, since I have exported and built the project to iOS where the “bug” still is persistent.

Furthermore, I checked whether the ParticleSystem of the missile is really playing by checking its isPlaying state, which equalled true .

So, one solution was to deactivate this ParticleSystem (missileParticleSystem.Stop()) every FixedUpdate call. This is of course not a solution I can live with as it still does not solve the underlying problem.

One solution I accepted, was to attach the ParticleSystem of the missile to an empty GameObject, which I then disabled and enabled when the ParticleSystem needed to be played.

Because this does not solve the underlying issue, I don´t think it is the time to close this question. And I am still open for any ideas.

2

Try turning off “Play on awake” on the particle system