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ParticleEmitter.particles

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public var particles: Particle[];
public Particle[] particles;

Description

Returns a copy of all particles and assigns an array of all particles to be the current particles.

Note that after modifying the particles array you must assign it back to the particleEmitter to see the change. Particles with energy of zero or less will be killed when assigning the particles. Thus when creating a complete new particle array, you need to set the energy of all particles explicitly.

var emitter: ParticleEmitter;

function Start() { emitter = GetComponent.<ParticleEmitter>(); }

function LateUpdate () { // extract the particles var particles = emitter.particles; for (var i = 0; i < particles.Length; i++) { // Move the particles up and down on a sinus curve var yPosition = Mathf.Sin (Time.time) * Time.deltaTime; particles[i].position += Vector3 (0, yPosition, 0); // make the particles red particles[i].color = Color.red; // modify the size on a sinus curve particles[i].size = Mathf.Sin (Time.time) * 0.2; } // copy them back to the particle emitter emitter.particles = particles; }
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour { public ParticleEmitter emitter; void Start() { emitter = GetComponent<ParticleEmitter>(); } void LateUpdate() { Particle[] particles = emitter.particles; int i = 0; while (i < particles.Length) { float yPosition = Mathf.Sin(Time.time) * Time.deltaTime; particles[i].position += new Vector3(0, yPosition, 0); particles[i].color = Color.red; particles[i].size = Mathf.Sin(Time.time) * 0.2F; i++; } emitter.particles = particles; } }