Bullet Trails Using the TrailRenderer

In this tutorial I go over how to implement a ScriptableObject to configure the TrailRenderer component that we attach to our Bullet GameObject. This allows us to separate the Bullet Trail Configuration from the bullet, so we can reuse the same trail on similar bullets with a centralized configuration for those. We can also define as many bullet trail configurations as we need for different bullets, decoupling the TrailRenderer configuration from the Prefab instance.

I explain many of the TrailRenderer configuration properties and we will implement 2 TrailRenderer configurations in this video. One "hot trail" and one "smoke trail".

We're only taking a look into the TrailRenderer for setting up the bullet trail. You can of course add a Particle System in a similar fashion to have even more flair on your trails!

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