Disable sheet animation on an individual particle?

Hi all,

we have a "bush-hit" particle system that plays when a bush is hit. It uses a texture sheet animation with FPS time mode to animate the particles from a texture sheet. There's also a plane with a collider underneath the particle system that particles collide with.

We want to be able to stop a particle from animating once it hits the collider on the plane, but it doesn't seem to be a public way to do that? I can turn on/off the entire sprite sheet animation module but that's not what we want, and there's nothing on the Particle struct that has to do with it animating.

Any pointers are appreciated.

Cheers!

 

I don't think there's a way to do so, one way I can think of is when the collision is detected destroy said particle and instantiate another one.

 

Yeah I thought of that, but I'd need to get the sprite frame the particle was at when it collided so I can use it when I spawn in the new dummy object otherwise it wouldn't look right, and I don't see a way of getting that either lol.

I'm pretty sure they're able to do all these things per particle it's just not exposed, kinda lame.

 

You can get alot of information about the particle, https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ParticleSystem.Particle.html

You can derive what frame it was on based on startLifeTime/remainingLifeTime I think?
There's also a random kajigger there so that may play a role if you randomize the particles..