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MonoBehaviour.OnParticleTrigger()

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Description

OnParticleTrigger is called when any particles in a particle system meet the conditions in the trigger module.

This can be used to kill or modify particles that are inside or outside a collision volume.

#pragma strict
public class TriggerScript extends MonoBehaviour {
	function OnParticleTrigger() {
		var ps: ParticleSystem = GetComponent.<ParticleSystem>();
		// particles
		var enter: List.<ParticleSystem.Particle> = new List.<ParticleSystem.Particle>();
		var exit: List.<ParticleSystem.Particle> = new List.<ParticleSystem.Particle>();
		// get
		var numEnter: int = ps.GetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Enter, enter);
		var numExit: int = ps.GetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Exit, exit);
		// iterate
		for (var i: int = 0; i < numEnter; i++) {
			var p: ParticleSystem.Particle = enter[i];
			p.startColor = new Color32(255, 0, 0, 255);
			enter[i] = p;
		}
		for (var i: int = 0; i < numExit; i++) {
			var p: ParticleSystem.Particle = exit[i];
			p.startColor = new Color32(0, 255, 0, 255);
			exit[i] = p;
		}
		// set
		ps.SetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Enter, enter);
		ps.SetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Exit, exit);
	}
}
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class TriggerScript : MonoBehaviour { void OnParticleTrigger() { ParticleSystem ps = GetComponent<ParticleSystem>();

// particles List<ParticleSystem.Particle> enter = new List<ParticleSystem.Particle>(); List<ParticleSystem.Particle> exit = new List<ParticleSystem.Particle>();

// get int numEnter = ps.GetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Enter, enter); int numExit = ps.GetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Exit, exit);

// iterate for (int i = 0; i < numEnter; i++) { ParticleSystem.Particle p = enter[i]; p.startColor = new Color32(255, 0, 0, 255); enter[i] = p; } for (int i = 0; i < numExit; i++) { ParticleSystem.Particle p = exit[i]; p.startColor = new Color32(0, 255, 0, 255); exit[i] = p; }

// set ps.SetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Enter, enter); ps.SetTriggerParticles(ParticleSystemTriggerEventType.Exit, exit); } }

In order to retrieve detailed information about all the collisions caused by the ParticleSystem, ParticlePhysicsExtensions.GetTriggerParticles must be used to retrieve the array of Particle.