Unity muzzle flash prefab.

Hey guys!

Im fairly new to unity and im having trouble with muzzleflash. I bought the prefab for muzzleFlashes and impacts (https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/impacts-and-muzzle-flashes-57010) and im not sure how to add the muzzleflash to the gun so that is activates when i shoot.

Any help would be appreciated!

Harry

 

Likely you would approach this as follows. If you are using some prebuilt FPS system, it may have some or all of this implemented for you.

On a script on your player or gun you have a public GameObject reference to your muzzle flash prefab. You place an empty GameObject at the point on the barrel where you want the muzzle flash to appear, and orient it in the direction you want the muzzle flash to point. When you fire the gun, in that same code which runs you instantiate an instance of the muzzle flash prefab, set it as a child of the empty GameObject on the barrel, and set its rotation and position to all 0's (so it matches the position/rotation of the parent). You then destroy the instance of the muzzle flash after it finishes its animation (destroy the instantiated instance, not the original prefab of course).

Documentation on instantiate:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html

It should be easy to find videos or tutorials on how to instantiate prefabs as well.