Why is my trail renderer flickering?

Unity Engine
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I created an empty game object and added a trail renderer to it, as is suggested in the Unity documentation, and added a rigidbody2d and a custom material (mobile —> particles —> additive) and then made it a child to the player’s game object which it will be a trail of. The problem is, anytime I run my game the trail flickers and doesn’t seem to update quickly enough. I thought it was supposed to be a constant trial that follows the player, instead it is updating maybe every three frames, if I had to guess.

To see what I mean, see my screen recording here: https://vid.me/nzUL

It is really strange because I have an fps counter on my game for debugging which says that it is running at 59-60 fps this whole time.

Does anybody know why this would be happening? I tried playing around with different textures for my material, and changed the trail renderer to interpolate, extrapolate, and neither, none of which helped. Any help would be great, thanks!

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Add your cpde of your trail rendere in the “void LateUpdate()” methode

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You mean the LateUpdate() method on the player object which the trail renderer object is a child of? Or on the trail renderer object itself?

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On the object which handled the trail renderer through script

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Thanks for the reply. However, I am not really using script to control the trail renderer. I just added it as an element to the game object through the ui. So I am not sure what code I would put in the LateUpdate() function.

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Have you tried playing with the Min Vertex Distance? It may be that your object needs to move too far before the trail creates a new segment. Try setting it to a lower value.

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That was it, thanks!

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