Can I pause a trail renderer?

Hey, I was just testing out a slow-mo feature, and I can pause everything in the game fine except Trail Renderers.

Is there a way I can tell a trail to stop and start simulating?

 

there is a way, i dont remember specifically but i had the same problem with a similar space type game. pretty sure i had to edit the trailrenderer fadeout time to = 0 or infinity or somethin on pause then set it back to whatever it was previously on unpause.

 

Setting the TrailRenderer.Time to 0 will immediately turn off the trail renderer.

For one of my games, I wanted to trail to stick around and slowly fade rather then turn off instantly.

One option we used was to make the trail a separate game object, and unparent from the target when turning off the trail. This would lock the position of the trail renderer and let it slowly fade away. One thing to watch for, though, is that attaching back to the parent again in the future will create a streak as it moves from the last locked position to the updated target's position. You can set time to 0 after the trail goes away to avoid this streak.

Another option we used is to slowly reduce the TrailRenderer.time value when we wanted the trail off. I had a 2 second length trail for airborne vehicles, and, upon hitting the ground, would reduce the TrailRenderer.time by time.deltaTime * 2 each Update(). It looked good enough for our project. To turn it back on, just set the TrailRenderer.time value to the original value, 2 in our case.

 

Make your own TrailRenderer with desired functionality built in!
The procedural examples project in the asset store shows how to do this.

 

thread is 3 years old.

sure op doesnt care anymore... might help someone in the future, but meh

 

Oops!

 

not your fault.. you're not responsible for the resurrection of this thread.

kevincodesforfood must be pretty hungry

 

@KevinCodes4Food 's answer is the only correct one on the internet!! Thanks Kevin.