my particles won't hit my object

my particles aren't debugging or hitting my game object for some reason, i literally have the particles right in front of my game object and i'm pretty sure they are hitting, what could be the issue?

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
5. using UnityEngine.UI;
6.  
7. public class PlayerDeath : MonoBehaviour
8. {
9.     GetAudioSource audioSFX;
10.     SceneLoader sceneLoader;  
11.     [SerializeField] GameObject ball;
12.     [SerializeField] ParticleSystem deathVFX;    
13.     [SerializeField] Image loseScreen;
14.     [SerializeField] Transform playerUI;
15.     [SerializeField] float delayToShowScreen = 0.5f;
16.     [SerializeField] GameObject laserParticles;
17.  
18.     private void Awake()
19.     {
20.            
21.     }
22.  
23.     // Start is called before the first frame update
24.     void Start()
25.     {
26.         audioSFX = FindObjectOfType<GetAudioSource>(); // find this object and reference it whenever the variable is used.
27.         sceneLoader = FindObjectOfType<SceneLoader>();      
28.     }
29.  
30.     // Update is called once per frame
31.     void Update()
32.     {
33.        
34.     }
35.  
36.      public void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
37.     {
38.         if (other.gameObject.tag == "DeathTrigger")
39.         {
40.             PlayerDying();          
41.         }
42.     }
43.  
44.     private void OnParticleCollision(GameObject laserParticles)
45.     {
46.             Debug.Log(ball);
47.             PlayerDying();      
48.     }
49.  
50.     public void PlayerDying()
51.     {
52.         Debug.Log("laser");
53.         deathVFX.transform.parent = null; // deathVFX loses it's child relationship with player parent
54.         deathVFX.Play();
55.         audioSFX.audioSource.PlayOneShot(audioSFX.deathSFX, 1.5f);       // plays audioSFX
56.         Destroy(ball);
57.         Instantiate(loseScreen, playerUI); // instantiates loseScreen as a child of UI game object
58.     }
59. }
60.  

 

please help

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnParticleCollision.html

The docs say you need to have "enable collision messages" set to true on the particle system's inspector. Did you do that?

 

yes

 

this will only kill me if i put world collision, but the particles will fly randomly around