Had this problem for a while.
If I add a brand new ParticleSystem into my project, and then select it in the Hierarchy and play it, then if you have ‘Selected Outline’ and ‘Selected Wire’ in the Gizmos drop down, then you get an orange outline around each particle and you can see the mesh wire and sizes.
Now, for some particles I have in my project this does not happen, and I can’t see the orange outline or the mesh. So I just can’t see how big the particles are. (Not so easy for transparent particles)
After a long time at looking into this, I have found the reason.
In the raw Scene save file (ie the scenes .unity file in explorer, the YAML), there is a section for each ParticleSystem called ‘ParticleSystemRenderer’ and under that section there is a setting called ‘m_SelectedEditorRenderState’
On the particles that display correctly, this is set to 3, on the ones that don’t display the outline, it’s set to 0.
So my questions:
- Why are some set differently, and how can I change this ‘flag’ in a more ‘safe’ way within the editor and not have to edit the scene file directly.
- Is this purely for the outline or is there any other side effects I might get by setting this to 3 on particles.
I really don’t want to go through all my particles by hand and do this, but I can’t seem to understand why it is like this, and why there doesn’t seem to be a correct way to set the flag.
Any help would be appreciated.
… thanks.