Particle effect only visible at certain height

C86G

Hello.


I got a simple particle effect that does what it is supposed to do. The proble is ,that it is only visible when it is at a certain height (I need to render it from above). When I duplicate the effect and put it to a higher position it become svisible. WHen I select both and move both with the camera (shift + move) you can clearyl see that there is some kind of height barrier where they drop their visibility.

What I checked so far:

- fog
- occlusion bounds

- LODs

- camera facing settings

- using the exact same efect in another project (where it works!)

- changing the engine scalability settings

I´m really out of ideas why it won´t render slightly above the ground. And no, the particle sprites do not intersect into the groudn and become invisible because of that.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Obscura

What happens when you increase the bound scale?

C86G

Just tested it again. It does exactly nothing.

Obscura

Ok. What happens if you change the particle bounds directly instead of the actor bounds?

C86G

Neither the bounds in "details" nor the particle bounds in the effect have a change (or I dont see it). No matter how big or small the numbers get : /

Obscura

Thats too bad. Bounds are used to determine if a mesh is on the screen. If you make it smaller than the actual asset, when it gets to the edge of the screen, of partially behind things, it may disappear before you would expect it.

C86G

Yeah, I remember looking into that when the smoke I had started too late (which didnt fix it, the warmup did)