#ok so the explosion is the gameobject

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snow aurora
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Your Explosion component is attached to a GameObject

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there is also a ParticleSystem on that GameObject

elfin stone
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ye

snow aurora
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Your code is only destroying the ParticleSystem

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leaving everything else behind

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You're instantiating a prefab, right?

elfin stone
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yes

snow aurora
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Then your script will be affecting just the instance that was created

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so destroying that GameObject will get rid of the instance

elfin stone
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okay and i dont understand how do i get the other instances

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i am creating them with instantiate, no?

snow aurora
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Yes, and then each one is, individually, going to destroy itself when it's done, right?

elfin stone
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its supposed to i guess

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but it doesnt

snow aurora
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Because it's only destroying the particle system

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The game object has several components on it -- the particle system, your explosion script, and maybe some others

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If you do Destroy(particleSystem), you will only destroy the particle system component

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The explosion script will still be attached, and the entire game object will still exist

elfin stone
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yeah i dont wanna destroy the game object because its a gamemanager

snow aurora
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Is it really, though?

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I thought you were instantiating explosion prefabs.

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ah, I see the confusion

elfin stone
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yes it would be better from another script but i cant change the prefab script anymore

snow aurora
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you're thinking I'm saying to do this

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Destroy(gameObject);
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I was also a bit confused; I thought that the Destroy was being run by the explosion prefab

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but no, it's being run by the manager script

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Consider this:

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Destroy(explosionInstance.gameObject, 2);
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this will tell Unity to destroy the entire explosion object in 2 seconds

elfin stone
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ah

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i thought the particle system is the same as a gameobject already

snow aurora
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ah, no, they are distinct

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ParticleSystem is a component

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You can Destroy() any kind of unity Object

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elfin stone
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it tells me this

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snow aurora
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Show me what code you ran

elfin stone
snow aurora
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you may have done Destroy(explosion.gameObject);

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yes

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that tried to destroy the prefab

elfin stone
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oh

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yea

snow aurora
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which Unity doesn't let you do, so that you don't actually lose the asset

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explosionInstance is a reference to the ParticleSystem on the prefab you just created

elfin stone
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that would be a crazy mistake lol

snow aurora
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yeah, you can do a lot of damage if you start messing with the assets themselves :p

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but there are guardrails, like the one you saw

elfin stone
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aaah yes now it works

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so i need to make sure i actully destroy the gameobject

snow aurora
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right

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you can destroy individual components, or you can destroy the gameobject

elfin stone
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interesting

snow aurora
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(you can't destroy the transform, though; that's not allowed)