Particle system effect moving with parent object

Hi,

I have a bullet with a muzzle effect as a child. I've set the particle simulation space to world so when the bullet is fired you se the muzzle right next to the gun, but the muzzle effect is still moving with the bullet. The bullet is just an empty object that moves with transform.translate.

Here is the object:



And here is the particle:



Any idea why this is happening? I've used particles a few times with world space with no problem. But a few months ago with older versions of Unity. I'm using Unity 2017.3.1.f1. I don't think it's a bug, probably something I'm missing but I can't find it.

Thanks!

 

Can the muzzle flash be parented to a EGO at the end of the weapon rather than parented to the bullet? I'm guessing you have a good reason - but off hand I can't think of one.

 

Yeah it can be parented to the weapon (I think this is the proper way to do it) or just spammed from a pool of effects at the weapons end. That works fine.

I was using this approach to be able to have different muzzle effects for different bullets. And also because it was easy and quick to prototype

Anyway that should be working and I still don't know what I'm missing