Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Time for action – creating a spark material

It's looking pretty good, but in order to really pull off this spark effect, we should add a material to the Particle System. This material will be applied to all of the little round fuzzy particles in our system.

1. Create a new material by either right-clicking/secondary-clicking in the Project panel and navigating to Create | Material, or by navigating to Assets | Create | Material in the menu.
2. Name the new Material Spark. The sphere icon helps us remember that this is a Material. Consider dragging this new material into the Materials folder to keep your project organized.
3. In the Inspector panel, choose Particles | Additive as the Shader type.
4. Click on the Select button in the square swatch labeled Particle ...