Question Particle System won't Play with Time scale set to 0. Is this a bug?

Hello!

The thing is that I have a Particle System that I want to throw when a new item is gathered by the player. I pause the game (Set the time scale to 0) and then the Particles.Play won't do anything. If I set the PlayOnAwake property to true and I just activate the GameObject, then the particles do Play. But if I try to Play them by script (or even in the Scene view) I can't. I the scene view when I hover the Play button on the particle simulation menu a tooltip says that I can't play when the Time scale is 0.

First of all, I have to say yes, I have the particles Delta Time property set to unscaled. My settings are the following:



So... Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong here?

I am using Unity 2020.3.1f1

Thanks in advance!

 

Thanks a lot for the response. I am not 100% sure if this is a bug. I managed to solve it with this line of code just before the Particles.Play():

Particles.Simulate(Time.unscaledDeltaTime, false, true, true);

Not sure why did I have to do this, tho. In my opinion this line should be obviated.

 

Hi, sorry to reopen the thread.
Was this fixed in recent Unity updates?
I'm currently in U2021.2.14, and thinking if I should upgrade...