ParticleSystem showing in scene but not in game.

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I have a particle system that is being instantiated any time the user clicks a button. This ParticleSystem shows up in the scene view perfectly when the button is clicked, however, it is not displaying in the game view! I have the material of the particles set to Unlit/Transparent Cutout as it is an image. The particle system is in front of everything else in the scene except the button. I also have the particle system as a prefab (obviously, to instantiate) and Play On Awake is set to on. Why isn't my particle system showing up in game view?

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Answer by s_guy · Oct 18, 2016 at 05:15 AM

It may not be on a layer that the game camera culling mask allows. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Camera.html

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Aimorris · Oct 18, 2016 at 05:19 AM 0

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I have Culling $$anonymous$$ask set to Everything.

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Answer by Schreur · Feb 13, 2017 at 08:12 AM

Starting the particle system in the script with the "particlesystem".Play() function could help.

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Answer by LiamofElites · Dec 23, 2017 at 11:46 AM

If you know that your particle system is playing (with particleSystem.Play()) check to see how far away the emission field is. I had the same problem so I tried making the emission field smaller and it came into view. I know this is an old question but I hope this helps other users if they have the same problem

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Answer by MrCringeGaming · Sep 23, 2019 at 01:29 PM

I'm having the same issue and can't figure it out :( My particleSystem.Play() seems to work code wise, but in game i don't see any particles when i click my coin prefab....here is my reddit thread someone tried helping me but no still nothing.

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Answer by Retro-1up-Junkie · Oct 20, 2020 at 10:45 AM

@MrCringeGaming and to anyone else hoping for a possible solution still.

here is my solved solution. I have my "player" on a sorting layer called "entities" and not the default layer, when adding the particle system effect as a child of the "player" I couldn't see the particles (only in scene view).

I highlighted the particle effect and in the "Inspector" scrolled to the bottom where it says "Renderer" (see image attached).

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In the "Render options" (by clicking the render tab) you will see the > Sorting Layer ID I changed this from default > entities (or whatever layer your player is on), this was the solution for me.

Hope it helped any, glnhf

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