# How do you setup a Depth Fade to work on objects with translucent materials? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rendering\ **Tags:** unreal-engine, question\ **Created:** [June 10, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-you-setup-a-depth-fade-to-work-on-objects-with-translucent-materials/285549 "2014-06-10T21:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
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You need to consider the UVs of your sprites, and the screen align method, your rays should run down the Y axis for a rectangle/square/velocity aligned sprite…placing them @ the angle of your window won’t quite work…you can put your particles in local space, and then rotate the emitter to align them. There may be good reasons to use particles for this, easy to get camera facing etc. working…but in terms of GameThread time etc. etc. you will spend less update time using static meshes. There are a few basic material tricks here… > **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)** > > After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — ue4community.wiki! You will be able to find content from the official... Lesson\_03 goes into near camera fading, you can combine this with Depth Fade and other techniques to fade the mesh at differing view angles. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-you-setup-a-depth-fade-to-work-on-objects-with-translucent-materials/285549)._