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Creating a selection menu for particles

Discussion in '2D' started by Sir-Magic, Apr 3, 2018.

  1. Sir-Magic

    Sir-Magic

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    Hi,

    I'm trying to make a menu that allows the player to choose some particles to follow the player. I am using scriptable objects for the particles as each has a name, description and the particles. I've been trying to create a menu to allow the player to select the particles but due to the game being on mobile, this severely slows it down even when there are only 6 different particles per page. I was considering creating previews for each particle effect but this would take a lot of time.

    I am looking for a way to create previews of the particle effects in the editor itself. I have considered using cameras and drawing onto planes but this would be more performance intensive than just using the particle system. I don't just want to have one particle system per page either, as I plan on having many particles and this would make it time-consuming to scroll through.

    Any help would be appreciated.