foreach GameObject condition error

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Hi,

When the player instantiates a particlePrefab, particles emit at the players position. What I need to do is for when the player moves, I need the particles to move with the player, in the direction the player is going, and also to gradually destroy several of the particles (not all of them at once).

Essentially, the player runs up to a trigger, player instantiates particles, player moves, and the particles destroy immediately (not what I want). I need to gradually destroy particles in the direction the player moves in...for now, I am working on gradually destroy particles (fading them out) while holder[4].a is > 0.

//In seperate script file public static GameObject instantiated ;

instantiated = (GameObject) Instantiate(particlePrefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity); //End seperate script file //Call our coroutine to gradually destroy particles

public static IEnumerator ResetParticles() {

 resetting = true;
 holder = new Color[5];
 holder[4].a = 1;


 while (holder[4].a &gt; 0) 
 {
     foreach (ParticleAnimator m_emitter in emitters) 
     {
         if (m_emitter) 
         {                   
             holder = m_emitter.colorAnimation;
             holder[4].a -= .005f;
             m_emitter.colorAnimation = holder;
         }
     }
 }
 foreach (ParticleAnimator m_emitter in emitters) 
 {
     if (m_emitter) 
     {
         m_emitter.particleEmitter.emit = false;
         m_emitter.particleEmitter.ClearParticles();
     }
 }
     resetting = false;
     sent = false;

 yield return 0;

}

What the above does, without a PreFab instantiation is destroy's particles gradually. I need to be able to use my instantiated GameObject varaible because it has the instantiated particle prefab.

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Answer by qJake · Jun 25, 2010 at 06:51 PM

Note: This answer was posted before the asker decided to completely rewrite their question, adding more details. This answer may no longer apply.

What are you trying to accomplish here? Perhaps if you actually explained your goal, we may be able to help better (instead of just posting code and saying "this doesn't work, help me").

Regardless, the problem is that you're trying to iterate through a variable that isn't a collection. A GameObject isn't an array or a collection, there isn't "more than one of them", so you can't use a foreach on it. I think you just want to do this:

PlayerDidStuff.instantiated.particleEmitter.emit = true;

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lampshade · Jun 25, 2010 at 07:54 PM 0

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$$anonymous$$y Goal is to make particles flow around the player in the direction that the player moved, using eulerAngles. I instantiated my preFab and I am trying to control the movement of the particles according to the direction that the player moves.

lampshade · Jun 25, 2010 at 08:08 PM 0

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Thanks, I reposted with more code.

lampshade · Jun 25, 2010 at 08:39 PM 0

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I tried to fade out each element in the Color array for holder (collection) and still nothing..I need to use my instantiated varaible somehow but their is no defintion of Color or ParticleAnimator for UnityEngine.GameObject

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