UNITY – Particle Effects

To create a particle physics system in Unity I go to GameObject - Create Other - Particle. This applies a particle system to my unity scene.

From the Inspector menu I can adjust the variables of the particle system to suit an effect of my choice. For this blog post I will create a rising flame. To do this I go to the Particle Renderer script in the inspector menu and double click on Materials - default elements section. This brings a new window within the Inspector menu which allows me to change the textures of the particle system. From here I select Flame D which is a particle texture that comes with the Unity software, this now changes the textures that the particle system generates.

Now I can adjust the variables of the particle system to get the effect of a rising flame. To do this I change the Max Size to 1 (this adds a variety to the size of the particles being emitted) , the World Velocity to 5 on the Y axis (this sends the up the Y axis to a factor of 2), the Local Velocity to 1 (this adds a sway to the particles direction which gives the effect of the particles being swayed by the wind) and finally the under the Local Rotation Axis - Size Grow to 1. Below is the result.