Switched from regular Particle Systems, now Play() resets the simulation and I have no way to determine whether it's already playing or not

Hi guys!

I'm using a particle system to highlight a card in my game. It has 3 distinct coloured highlight states or turned off entirely.

• So if it has to be highlighted, I set the color and called Play().
• If it doesn't have to be highlighted, I called Stop().

This way:

• it slowly started and stopped,
• while seamlessly "faded" between states/colours: e.g. when the highlight state changed from "Usable" to "Forbidden".
  • There was no issue with always calling Play() when changing the highlight state/colour, even if it was already in some other highlighted state -> thus playing.
  • Because Unity didn't care about the particle system already being played, it just ignored my unnecessary Play() request I guess.

But now I switched to this package, and here it seems that Play() resets the simulation.

• So when I switch from blue highlight to green, all particles get erased and the system starts over slowly. So no more seamless transition.

I tried to fix this by only calling Play() if the particle system isn't playing. But after hours of trying I couldn't get it to work.

• I could only find IsPaused but it's false in the beginning, when the system is stopped. So it really means just "being paused" and not "is not playing".
• Checking isPlaying on the underlying particle system didn't work either, because I guess it's never really playing. It's just used as a template and for Simulation by the package's UIParticles, right?

How could I make my highlight system work once again? Should I fork the package and disable somehow the auto-reset in Play()? Or how could I detemine whether it's already playing or not?

Thanks in advance! :)