How to enable/Disable/enable the Particle System Component of a child object on the same object/Parent? (Solved)

Is the gameObject that contains your particleSystem active? What I meant by disabling the particle system's emission is, go to your particleSystem, then uncheck the 'emission' checkbox.

Ah, I see. I'd assumed you just had a looping particlesystem and that the time didn't really matter (that's how I use them the most).

What I think you want to do is set your particlesystem so that -play on awake is disabled -emission is enabled -disable looping -call particleSystem.Play() when it should start playing ins$$anonymous$$d of setting enableEmission to true. (and maybe also .Stop() when it should stop. I dunno, I never use those functions.)

I forgot returns don't work, reformatted how I said you should set up your system:

• play on awake is disabled

  • emission is enabled

  • disable looping

  call particleSystem.Play() when it should start playing ins$$anonymous$$d of setting enableEmission to true

...okay, I'm out of ideas on how to get the particlesystem to reset, so how about this: ins$$anonymous$$d of trying to reset your attached particlesystem, put your particlesystem on a prefab, then instantiate that prefab on the trigger (and just have it pla y on awake and have it destroy itself once the particlesystem is done playing). edit:

Something like

 public GameObject boostSparkles;
 
 
 void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider){
  GameObject go = (GameObject) Instantiate(boostSparkles,  transform.position, transform.rotation);
  //set sparkle effects parent to this transform
  go.parent = transform;
  //Destroy after 5 seconds
  Destroy(go, 5.0f);
 
 
 }

ah, it should be go.transform.parent ins$$anonymous$$d of go.parent