[solved] ParticleSystem of childobject starts but should not

Hallo,
I have an object with a childobject, and both, the parent and the child, have a ParticleSystem.
I start the ParticleSystem of the parent with this code.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class GischtStart : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.  
8.     void Update()
9.     {
10.  
11.         if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1))
12.         {
13.  
14.             var p = this.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>();
15.             p.Play();
16.  
17.         }    
18.  
19.     }
20. }
21.  
22.  

But it starts both ParticleSystems (from parent and child object).
How can I start only the ParticleSystem of the parent ?

 

Put one of them next to the other. In other words: arrange on a way when they aren't in parent-child relationship.

Code (CSharp):

1. - root
2.     - particlesystem1
3.     - particlesystem2
4. or
5. - root
6.     - particlesystem1
7.     - child
8.          - particlesystem2

I have no better workaround.

 

I first had it arranged like this, what didnt work (thats why I opened the thread) :

Code (CSharp):

1. - root
2.     - particlesystem1
3.     - child
4.          - particlesystem2

now I made an empty object and made them both a child of it:

Code (CSharp):

1. - empty
2.      -child
3.          - particlesystem1
4.     - child
5.          - particlesystem2

but both didnt work.

 

I tried in 2018.3b9 both of the hierarchy I had offered works for me. I was playing with your problem for a good half an hour.

Maybe you should open a bug report about it with minimum viable project.

 

I think I know what I did wrong. I used the ParticlesSystem as a component (add component) and not the gameobject from effects dropdown list, which can be arranged as itself. Didnt think of the two possibilities.
Think thats the solution.

 

yes this was the problem, your hint with the hierarchy was right.
Thanks