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Getting started with Particle Systems

Project

Beginner

+300 XP

3 Hours20 Mins

(30)

Overview

Live

Summary

 In this project, you will learn how to make fire, smoke, snow, and rain using Unity’s Particle System.  

Project Objective

Make fire effects with Unity’s Particle System
Make rain & snow effects with Unity’s Particle System
Customize the particle shapes with custom 2D textures.
Modify the omission shape, color, lifespan, and other properties to customize the Particle System’s shape.
Time the Particle System at specific time stamped moments.
Understand the utility of the deterministic nature, from a cinematography perspective.

Materials

Introduction To Particle Systems Assets.zip

Language

English

Submission Gallery

Playground

A Playground with several particle systems examples

Shockball

Made from three different particle systems. One for lightning, one for the energy fog and one for the shockwave.

Basic Fire with Embers

Nothing too fancy tweaked the fire/smoke emitters some more to match the firepit and added another emitter to give off embers

Particle Effects Blade Runner Sequel

Updated my existing Unity project to play around with more particle effects to the sound of Blade Runner: https://play.unity.com/mg/other/particle-effects-blade-runner-sequel

MyParticle

lesson

dgq

edu ;o

Particle Systems are fun!

A couple results I created while going through the Getting started with Particle Systems course.

Fire with smoke

fire with smoke :)