Particle System Renderer mode is breaking Texture Sheet Animation

Questions & Answers
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It seems like you cant use the Texture Sheet Animation module when Mesh is selected as the Renderer module’s render mode.

In other words, when I set the Renderer module’s Render Mode to Billboard, my 2x2 texture grid shows up fine.
When I select Mesh as the Render Mode however, the particles revert to displaying the whole image (all 4 images in my 2x2 texture grid)

The options for the Texture Sheet Animation are as follows:

Tiles               X:2      Y:2
Animation           Whole Sheet
Frame over Time     0        4
Cycles              1
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This issue was addressed here

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/116833-Shuriken-the-new-particle-system/page19?p=915023&viewfull=1#post915023

2012, so it’s been a while

it would be an unbelievably valuable tool for fantasy spells/melee flashes so as to NOT use a default billboard plane (with it’s pivot in the center)

instead a hybrid of geo + sprite for optimization; desperately needed for Mobile