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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Pickups Add Pickup Particles

Diego Roda
Diego Roda
340 Points
Posted by Diego Roda
Diego Roda
340 Points

Is there a way to destroy the particle system's game object from within the script that instantiates it?

ie: Something like calling the "destroy" method (with 5 seconds of delay) but in the next line after instantiating it (clearly, that would require referencing the effect game object from a script in another game object, but I'm not sure one can do that in Unity at this point in the course, so hence the question.

Annet de Boer
Annet de Boer
900 Points
Annet de Boer
Annet de Boer
900 Points

I guess so; why don't you try it out :) I'm wondering though why you'd want to instantiate something you want to destroy immediately?