How to emit particle or un-pause particle when timescale =0?

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How to emit particle or un-pause particle when timescale =0? My particle i have now runs great when timescale is = 1 but when it is = to 0 it is paused? how can i keep the particle playing even when timescale is = to 0?

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Answer by Negagames · Apr 27, 2013 at 07:21 PM

When you set the timescale to 0, everything on the scene is paused. No, you cannot run a particle system when the timescale is at zero.

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liju_juego · Jun 18, 2018 at 11:51 AM 0

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The wrong answer. For the best way, find the answer to @$$anonymous$$ikina. The same technique is used in my RPG game.

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Answer by kk93 · Feb 19, 2014 at 11:36 PM

I know this is an old post, but the above answer is incorrect.

Just attach this script to the particle system you wish to ignore Time.timeScale:

https://gist.github.com/AlexTiTanium/5676482

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Answer by Mikina · Dec 15, 2018 at 03:36 PM

For anyone who stumbles upon the question now:

There is a Delta Time property on Particle Systems, that can be set to Unscaled, which will cause the ParticleSystem to be independent of TimeScale.

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jennal · Apr 19, 2019 at 03:26 PM 1

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This is the correct answer.

liju_juego · Jun 04, 2019 at 10:15 AM 0

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This is the answer. After a long search, I integrated this technique in my RPG game. It's working fine. No need of adding any additional script.

dennispr33 · Mar 26 at 06:57 PM 0

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The Right way! Thank you very much for the help!

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Answer by seantheyahn · May 30, 2015 at 11:29 AM

Just attach this script to the GameObject with your particle system:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class UnscaledTimeParticle : MonoBehaviour
 {
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update()
     {
         if (Time.timeScale < 0.01f)
         {
             particleSystem.Simulate(Time.unscaledDeltaTime, true, false);
         }
     }
 }

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Andriy-Zimbitskyy · Nov 11, 2015 at 03:37 PM 0

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Nice solution ! Thank You!

Xenocide · Jul 13, 2017 at 11:21 PM 0

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Firstly, this code has been very helpful, so thanks for that! However, my looping particle effects wouldn't 'un-pause' when Time.timeScale became 1 after being 0.

So I did this to fix my issue:

     void Update()
     {
         if (GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().main.loop == false)
         {
             if (Time.timeScale < 0.01f)
             {
                 GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().Simulate(Time.unscaledDeltaTime, true, false);
             }
         }
         else if (GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().main.loop == true)
         {
             if (Time.timeScale < 0.01f)
             {
                 GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().Simulate(Time.unscaledDeltaTime, true, false);
             }
             if (Time.timeScale > 0.01f)
             {
                 GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().Simulate(Time.unscaledDeltaTime, true, false);
             }
         }
     }

I hope that helps anyone who faced a similar issue to myself. If someone else finds a cleaner way to write this code, however, please don't hesitate to edit this... umm... edit. Thanks!

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