Unity Issue Tracker - Editor or player crashes when using a deeply nested Particle System with a sub-emitter that has multiple references

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Under Consideration for 6000.0.X, 6000.2.X, 6000.3.X

Fixed in 6000.4.0a3

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Regression

Editor or player crashes when using a deeply nested Particle System with a sub-emitter that has multiple references

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Sep 15, 2025

Steps to reproduce:

Import the attached package to the URP project
Open SubEmitterCrash Scene
Enable Particle System 7 GO
Observe the crash
Reopen the editor
Enable Particle System 7 it shouldn't crash now. If it crashes, reopen the editor again and and turn the camera away from particles before enabling Particle System 7
Enable Particle System 7
Save the scene
Build Player with Development Build flag on and run it with -debugallocator argument
Player crashes

Actual results: Editor and Player crashes

Expected results: Particle Systems are able to handle more complex scenarios and do not crash

Reproducible with versions: 6000.4.0a1

Not reproducible with versions:

Can’t test with versions:

Tested on (OS): macOS, Windows

Notes:

Expected particle count is wrong after UpdateModulesPreSimulationIncremental (Particle System 7)

toIndex is out of bounds after UpdateModulesPreSimulationIncremental (Particle System 7)

I set User Prevalence to 3 because this case isn't something users would often run into, but there are similar cases that could affect them more.
Callstacks of trunk and 6000.0.54f1 version are in the attachments