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Question Particle System and Trigger Colliders

Discussion in 'Physics' started by mattbru2, Dec 1, 2022.

  1. mattbru2

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    I can't post my whole project, but basically imagine a trigger collider (10 meter sphere) around the player. If a particle enters that trigger collider, I want to do something (like a pop up that says "vision is obscured!"). I don't want the particles to actually collide and be moved by this collider, thus it is a trigger.

    I cannot get the OnParticleCollision to activate when the collider is a trigger. I've found a few posts/youtube videos saying this is true, but I haven't found any Unity documentation on it.

    Is there a way to do this?
     
  2. MelvMay

    MelvMay

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    The physics team don't deal with this. If you have a particle question then it's best to add a tag of "particles" so they can see it.

    It's right there in the particle docs and the first link in a Google Search: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PartSysTriggersModule.html

    Just like physics itself, there's a distinction between a collision and trigger.
     
  3. mattbru2

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    So in my actual sim I have dozens of short lived particle systems being created at any point and potentially hundreds of dynamically created colliders. The trigger module seems to suggest that I would have to keep track of all of my particle systems and then register any dynamically created collider against all of them? I would hope there is a way to do this with layers as is done with the collider module?
     
  4. MelvMay

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    I'm not a particle dev. As I said, you should use the particles tag to try to get a particle devs attention. The physics teams did not create the particles modules etc. Personally, I've never used them.

    Sorry.
     
  5. richardkettlewell

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    Sorry we only have an option for a list of colliders in the trigger module.
     
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