I know about the particle system in unity, but I don’t think I’m gonna be able to make the particle effects I want with it. So I want to know what other ways of making particles are there.
Thanks in advance. 
Are you sure the system wont work for you?
What sort of particle effect are you trying to make?
Depends very much on what you want to achieve and what platform you’re aiming for but here’s a few systems out there;
Particle Playground extends the built in functionality of Unity Shruiken particles with many cool effects
TC Particles is a DX11 GPU Particle system that can simulate millions of particles
Hydra Particles is an upcoming open source alternative/replacement for the Shruiken
and then there’s my own humble, good ol’ fashioned particle system PA Particle Field for high performance looping/ambience particles.
But yeah definitely depends on what you want to make
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I have a sphere, and I want particles to spawn around it, and get sucked in. Which will also have to cause them to sort of stretch out, just like in hyper drive.
Thanks.
That should be possible with the built in system. A good way to pull particles in is to use the SubEmitters and give them a negative inherit velocity value. Do you have a video of the effect you want?
That doesn’t seem to work. Also I’ve searched up some similar questions made on the forums in the past. And when I read the answers I just can’t understand what to do.
Sorry, I should have mentioned this at the start. I’ve never worked with particles before. The only time I did was when I was bored and was playing around with the particle system to see how much I can change the particle effects.
Is there any sort of video tutorial on this?
Start with the learn video:
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/particle-systems?playlist=17102
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I got it! 
Thank you so much for that link.
However there’s still the question of making the particles stretch like in hyperdrive.
StrecthedBillboards may help
It works! Thank you so much!
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