Spawned Particle System in game looks different from prefab

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When I spawn a particle system (prefab) in the game it looks totally different in comparison to dragging the prefab in the scene view and playing it manually. At first I thought it's the "limit-velocity over time" (bound to fps) t$$anonymous$$ng, but I am using Unity 5.2 and the Issue Tracker says that t$$anonymous$$s issue is resolved: [link text][1] [1]: http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/shuriken-particle-system-module-limit-velocity-over-lifetime-is-fps-dependent

Has somebody got a different Idea ? Maybe its a problem that the particle system was created in Unity 5.1 and was imported to 5.2 ? If so what can I do about t$$anonymous$$s ?

Thank you !

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Answer by outasync · Oct 02, 2015 at 07:03 AM

Could it be that the prefab particle has the simulation space set to world and should be local or the other way round? Also check under 'Renderer' of the particle that it is on the correct sorting layer

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JamToak · Oct 02, 2015 at 10:40 AM 0

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@outasync We already did change the simulation space and it did nothing.( which is quite logical) I'll check the sorting layer later. Thanks !

JamToak · Oct 02, 2015 at 12:35 PM 0

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@outasync Im afraid but the problem doesn't seem to be caused by incorrect sorting layers. The whole particle animation is different....

outasync · Oct 02, 2015 at 03:04 PM 0

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@JamToak

May I suggest that you revert back to 5.1 as 5.2 is anything but stable right now, unless you are using a feature specific to 5.2 you have no benefit over 5.1. Regards

JamToak · Oct 02, 2015 at 06:17 PM 0

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Thanks @outasync I'll try it on 5.1 and look if it changes anything.

JamToak · Oct 03, 2015 at 01:40 PM 0

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@outasync turns out my programmer did a mistake in his long script -- with a short instantiate script it worked without any problems -- Im sorry -- Im the art guy (I understand a bit of coding), but my programmer is sometimes a bit lazy when it comes to visuals ("It's an explosion -- I don't care how it looks" ;)), that's why I have to do a lot of visual bugfixing and then I don't have a lot of insight in his other coding. I think we have to restructure our distribution of work, but thank you very very much for your Unity 5.1 advice -- otherwise we would have never found that mistake !

outasync JamToak · Oct 03, 2015 at 01:53 PM 0

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No problem, I'm glad you fixed it :)

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Answer by JamToak · Oct 03, 2015 at 02:40 PM

Downgrading to Unity 5.0 worked @outasync !

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