Animation Event Particles from Bone

I'm happy to have figured it out this far but now I am stuck.

Here is my working code:

I have the particles attached to the animated models bone object where the particles need to emit from and this event script on the model itself.

I have to have it attacked that bone so it can follow it during the animation.

If I move the script to the proper bone I can't access it in the animation Event.

I am getting an error:

MissingComponentException: There is no 'ParticleSystem' attached to the "Dragon" game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a ParticleSystem to the game object "Dragon". Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.


How do I get the script to see the nested particle system attached to the jaw bone object?

 

As it turns out I can't even get it to play the event with the particle system directly nested to the gameobject.. same error.

I'm not sure what is going on?

 

You could try simply this.GetComponentInChildren<ParticleSystem>(), that will find that particle system within the hierarchy of the gameobject

 

Thank you for the reply...

I found out that there is/was some sort of problem attacking particle systems to Bones rigs so I ended up finding this example that worked well:

Code (JavaScript):

1. #pragma strict
2.  
3. var castSpot            : Transform;
4. var castPrefab            : GameObject;
5.  
6. function CastMagic(){
7.     var newSpell        =Instantiate(castPrefab, castSpot.position, castSpot.rotation);
8.     Destroy(newSpell, 5.0);
9. }

 

Also to mention that I made an empty object a child of the Bone and attached the particle prefab to that..

It is working great!