Instantiated explosion prefab running immediately

Hi everyone, I want to initialize explosive prefab for a gameobject dynamically so I am using Instantiate(Resources.load("Explode Player Particle")) but this is making the explosion to occur as soon as it is getting instantiated. I want to run this explosive prefab when my player dies in the game. Also, I dont want to add the prefab from inspector I want to do it dynamically . How should I do this ?

I am using this to initialize the explosive prefab - healthsc.explosionPrefab =(GameObject) Instantiate(Resources.Load("Explode Player Particle"));

then on the Health(other script) I have a public explosionPrefab and I am running this code in this script -

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Health : MonoBehaviour {
2.    
3.     public enum deathAction {loadLevelWhenDead,doNothingWhenDead};
4.    
5.     public float healthPoints = 1f;
6.     public float respawnHealthPoints = 1f;        //base health points
7.    
8.     public int numberOfLives = 1;                    //lives and variables for respawning
9.     public bool isAlive = true;  
10.  
11.     public GameObject explosionPrefab;
12.  
13.     //public string explosionPrefabName;
14.  
15.     public deathAction onLivesGone = deathAction.doNothingWhenDead;
16.    
17.     public string LevelToLoad = "";
18.    
19.     private Vector3 respawnPosition;
20.     private Quaternion respawnRotation;
21.    
22.  
23.     // Use this for initialization
24.     void Start ()
25.     {
26.         // store initial position as respawn location
27.         respawnPosition = transform.position;
28.         respawnRotation = transform.rotation;
29.        
30.         if (LevelToLoad=="") // default to current scene
31.         {
32.             LevelToLoad = Application.loadedLevelName;
33.         }
34.     }
35.    
36.     // Update is called once per frame
37.     void Update ()
38.     {
39.         if (healthPoints <= 0) {                // if the object is 'dead'
40.             numberOfLives--;                    // decrement # of lives, update lives GUI
41.            
42.             if (explosionPrefab!=null) {
43.                 Instantiate (explosionPrefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
44.             }
45.    

Note - I haven't posted the full code for convenience.

 

Has your explosion particle got PlayOnAwake set to true? If so you need to set it false.

 

After setting PlayOnAwake to false. Its not playing at the start but its not playing when player dies too

 

Make that:

Code (csharp):

1. healthsc.explosionPrefab = Resources.Load<GameObject>("Explode Player Particle");

You should Instantiate it only when the player dies (and it appears that you are doing that part correctly, on line 43 of the pasted code). Until then, you just want a reference to the prefab, which is what Resources.Load gives you.

 

Thanks StarManta one line change did the trick