Texture Sheet Animation Unity

Texture sheet animation module a particles graphic need not be a still image. The sprite packer can help you share materials between different particle systems by atlasing your textures which in turn can improve performance via dynamic batching an automatic unity process which attempts to render multiple meshes as if they were a single mesh for optimized graphics performance. A texture sheet is a series of images inside one texture file that can be played on a particle in the particle system.
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In this workflow well set up a texture sheet animation to randomly spawn different star images on the particles in a single emitter.

Texture sheet animation unity. First frame is played again when particle dies hi. Particle system with texture sheet animation. The number of tiles the texture is divided into in the x horizontal and y vertical directions. This module lets you treat the texture as a grid of separate sub images that can be played back as frames of animation.

The sprite packer can help you share materials between different particle systems by atlasing your textures which in turn can improve performance via dynamic batchingan automatic unity process which attempts to render multiple meshes as if they were a single mesh for optimized graphics performance. In the particle system you can use the texture sheet animation module to select images for the particle system to use in an animated effect. If you are using unity 20192 or below click here. The animation mode can be set to whole sheet or single row that is each row of the sheet represents a separate animation sequence.

Im spawning some particles that play an animation through the option texture sheet animation and its playing nicely except that just before they die the particles play the first frame of the animation again for what seems to be just 1 frame. In the particle system you can use the texture sheet animation module to set a texture sheets parameters. Chooses a row from the sheet at random to produce the animation. Select your unity version last updated.