How to use the Particle System Prefabs?

Not finding anything useful in the manuals, just older tutorials for the particle assets.
Can anyone show me how to use the new Particle System prefabs in a C# script or tell me how to find previous posts where this was explained?

 

there is an Explosion prefab in the Particle Systems asset folder. I tried this:

Code (CSharp):

1. GameObject e = Instantiate(Explosion, hitInfo.collider.gameObject.transform, hitInfo.collider.gameObject.transform.rotation);
2.                     Destroy(e);

but getting this message:

Error 1 The name 'Explosion' does not exist in the current context

 

going to need to see more code than that, what is "Explosion" where is it declared/instantiated etc.

Also instantiating and immediately destroying a thing will likely mean it wont exist long enough to do anything much...

 

right, the prefabs are in the standard package assets "Particle Systems", but the only examples I can find are for starting from scratch?

 

Just like to see a code sample of how to instantiate and use it?

 

You'll want a public variable to reference that explosion prefab

add

Code (CSharp):

1. public GameObject Explosion;

to your class, add that class as a component to a gameobject in your scene if you haven't already, then drag the Explosion prefab into the Explosion object field in the components inspecotor

 

Very different, but cool. Never would have guessed dragging into the public variable of the script.

So this makes the explosion show up and run great, but do I need to destroy the object or is that handled by the object itself? Should I make the particle instance a global and destroy it in a coroutine? How would I know when it has stopped playing? Or is there a way to keep resetting and resuing it? As a generic Object not sure how to access any of the particle prefab properties.
Oh yeah, thank you so much for your help!

Code (CSharp):

1. Object e = Instantiate(Explosion, hitInfo.point, Quaternion.identity);
2.                

 

6 years later popMark and your comment is still helping people homie.

You just helped me figure out how tf to do this after spending DAYS on it. I kept trying to code my script to call the prefabs script rather than the prefab itself and dragging it into the script.

Thank you so much! You've saved me and my computer science homework assignment.

 

Check the particle system object, in the inspector you should see a “Stop Action”. From there you can pick what happens when it finished (including destroy).

Check this answer for some screenshots: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1755602/how-to-destroy-particle-gameobject-after-its-finis.html#