Adding a partical effect to an object

I am trying to add a particle effect to the Rock 3(Clone) as a child as below, using this code below it doesn't seem to work, anyone got any ideas?

I just get this message

Setting the parent of a transform which resides in a prefab is disabled to prevent data corruption.
UnityEngine.Transform:set_parent(Transform)
WorldMaker:AddAsteroidToScene(String, Int32, String, Single, Int32, Int32, Int32, Int32, Int32) (at Assets/Scripts/WorldMaker.cs:163)
WorldMaker:Start() (at Assets/Scripts/WorldMaker.cs:74)

Code (CSharp):

1. private void AddAsteroidToScene(string preFabName, int damageAmountValue, string orbitType, float scale,int x,int y,int z,int speed,int decay)
2.     {
3.         GameObject asteroid = Resources.Load(preFabName) as GameObject;
4.         var position = new Vector3(x, y, z);
5.  
6.         Instantiate(asteroid, position, Quaternion.identity,transform);
7.            
8.         MeshRenderer mr = asteroid.GetComponentInChildren<MeshRenderer>();
9.         mr.transform.localScale = new Vector3(scale, scale, scale);
10.              
11.  
12.         Instantiate(AsteroidExplosionEffect,position, Quaternion.identity, asteroid.transform);
13.                    
14.         AsteroidExplosionEffect.transform.parent = asteroid.transform;
15.    
16.  
17.         var script = GetComponent<RotateAroundThis>();
18.         if (script = null)
19.         {
20.             asteroid.AddComponent<RotateAroundThis>();
21.         }      
22.  
23.  
24.     }

 

You're trying to set the parent of the prefab instead of the instance you just created from the prefab. Try this:

Code (CSharp):

1.         GameObject explosionInstance = Instantiate(AsteroidExplosionEffect,position, Quaternion.identity, asteroid.transform);
2.                  
3.         explosionInstance.transform.parent = asteroid.transform;

 

Hi, thanks for the response, that gets rid of the error but it still doesn't add it to the scene for some reason

 

Are you sure? Can you show a screenshot of the hierarchy after adding the asteroid?

Does the explosion destroy itself shortly after being created possibly?

 

The explosion does not destroy itself

 

Again, you're making a similar mistake you're trying to set the parent of the explosion to the prefab instead of the instance in your scene. Capture the asteroid instance:

Code (CSharp):

1. var asteroidInstance = Instantiate(asteroid, position, Quaternion.identity,transform);

Then use that for setting the parent of the explosion later:

Code (CSharp):

1.         GameObject explosionInstance = Instantiate(AsteroidExplosionEffect,position, Quaternion.identity, asteroidInstance.transform);
2.  

Then get rid of this line completely because Instantiate in that form will already set the parent properly:

Code (CSharp):

1. explosionInstance.transform.parent = asteroid.transform;

 

That worked , many thanks mate.