Particle Effect for Glitch Garden Lesson not working

sbowl001 · June 18, 2020, 2:24am

I have watched and read a lot of tutorials and I still cannot get my particle effect to instantiate when it hits the lizard as per the lecture. It doesn’t show behind or in front of the camera. I have tried playing with so many things in the settings - please see on the picture the latest attempt. When I drag an instance of the particle effect directly to the screen, it will show, but not when it is linked to a lizard.

I am using unity 2019.3.3f1

This is the code I currently have on that health script:

public class Health : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] float health = 100f;
    [SerializeField] GameObject deathVFX;

    public void DealDamage(float damage)
    {
        health -= damage;
        if (health <= 0)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }


    private void TriggerDeathVFX()
    {
        if (!deathVFX) { return; }
        GameObject deathVFXObject = Instantiate(deathVFX, transform.position, transform.rotation);
        Destroy(deathVFXObject, 1f);
    }
}

Nina · June 18, 2020, 10:02am

Hi,

Welcome to our community!

Is the z-position of the camera set to z = -10, the background to z = 10, and the rest to z = 0?

sbowl001 · June 21, 2020, 4:14pm

Just put it to those , background was on 0. No change. Still doesn’t show

sbowl001 · June 21, 2020, 4:15pm

Would the world camera need a fix?

Nina · June 21, 2020, 8:28pm

I don’t know if it will fix your problem but there is definitely an issue in the Canvas component. Do assign the camera to the field.

sbowl001 · June 22, 2020, 6:17am

Did. Nothing changed though. So at lost at what’s wrong with this particle effect

Nina · June 22, 2020, 7:40am

Could you please upload your project to GitHub without the Temp and Library folder and share a link to the public repository here? I’d like to take a look into this.

Here is a tutorial video by Brackeys:

sbowl001 · June 22, 2020, 4:29pm

Hi Nina,

Here’s the project link : https://github.com/sbowl001/unity_fromUdemy2d . Thanks for the help!

Marc_Carlyon · September 13, 2020, 5:59pm

Closing due to inactivity.
If this is still an ongoing problem please make a new thread or message a moderator to unlock the topic.

Nina · October 1, 2020, 9:03am

Hi Stephanie,

I’m sorry for the late reply. I’ve now taken a look at your project. The particle system does not appear because TriggerDeathVFX does not get called anywhere in the Health instance. This should fix it:

    public void DealDamage(float damage)
    {
        health -= damage;
        if (health <= 0)
        {
            TriggerDeathVFX(); // <------- This!
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }

If the particle system still does not appear, increase the duration in the Explosion VFX prefab.

Did this fix it?