Challenge: Creating Snow with Particle Systems
Tutorial
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Beginner
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+10XP
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10 mins
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(226)
Unity Technologies

In this tutorial, you will create a snow effect using the particle system
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1. Create a Snow Effect
1. Create a new Particle System in the scene and position it in one of the scene’s demo regions
2. Modify the general particle settings:

a. Increase the Duration of the particles to around 20
b. Reduce the Start Speed to 0
c. Modify the Starting Size to around 0.1
d. Increase the Gravity Modifier to around 0.2
3. Enable and modify the Emission and Shape

a. Increase the Rate over Time to around 500
b. Change the Shape to Box
4. Enable and modify the Noise

a. Reduce the Strength to around 0.1
5. Enable and modify the Collision

a. Change the Collision Type to World
6. Your snow effect should look similar to this:

2. Next Steps
Nice job! By completing this challenge you have learned the basics of the Particle Systems in Unity. These steps provide a foundation for most Particle Systems you will want to build. Feel free to explore the Examples scene to gain inspiration and create more Particle Systems