the only reason a coroutine won t

[candid halo]

hmmm... let me check if it is actually getting deactivated

[rancid stone]

First thing to do is double check which object actually is running the coroutine. Where is the StartCoroutine running?

[candid halo]

ahhh

i think i know the problem

im destroying the object OnMouseDown() which is also the script that calls the coroutine.

so i have it being destroyed, then spawning the particle, which is why the coroutine isn't executing fully, am I right in understanding this?

[rancid stone]

If you are destroying the object that is running the coroutine, the coroutine will stop, yes

[candid halo]

Ok thank you for the clarification.

Ill have to adjust this then

[rancid stone]

you can have the coroutine run on some kind of manager object

[candid halo]

yeah that's what im in the process of doing now, moving it to my SpawnManager :)

ok so that seems to not have worked. Does the object that calls the coroutine have to be in existence for the entirety, even if the coroutine called is in a persistent game object?

I think i answered my own question :) .. had to call a method which itself calls the coroutine in another script. Thanks for the help

[rancid stone]

To clarify things:

• If you do StartCoroutine(SomeCoroutine()); it will start the coroutine on yourself. it's equivalent to this.StartCoroutine(SomeCoroutine());
• If you do someObject.StartCoroutine(SomeCoroutine()); it will start the coroutine on someObject

The source of the coroutine method itself doesn't matter. So:
StartCoroutine(someObject.SomeCoroutine()) Still starts the coroutine on yourself, not someObject. The thing that matters is which object StartCoroutine was called on.

[candid halo]

Riiiight

i understand now.

It was the way I was calling it was the issue, so didnt really need to go about it the way I did.. oh well.. I now know for the future :D

[rancid stone]

I think the approach of making a method which calls StartCoroutine like you did is actually the best and cleanest way.

[candid halo]

oh ok, even better then :)