Unity3d: Animation helper for Particle Systems (Edit mode)

There is an inconvenience, that you can't play an animation with a particle system in the Editor. A particle system just won't work when you preview an animation. Often, it is crucial when you develop a visual effect which uses both an animation and a particle system.

I tried to find a solution and I wrote this helper.

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Clone the source code and see the full example.

There are some important notes:

• you should enable the particle system in your animation
• you shold select the particle systems in the Hierarchy when you are playing the animation (otherwise editor won't render the particle systems)
• set the correct duration for the particle system
• this helper works only in edit mode

PS

I consider that the Unity Editor should allow playing particle systems in animation out of the box.

So, the developers of Unity: pay attention to this helper!

Other guys - feel free to copy and modify this script.