Niagara Particle System Stops Working When Attached To Character

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Hello, I have a particle system component on my blueprint-based character, and I’m trying to animate it using Sequencer. I had it working in a previous project, but after upgrading to UE5, the particle system stopped working.

To test it, I tried dropping an instance of the particle system in the scene (so it’s just attached to the root of the scene), and it emits as expected. However, if I attach it to my BP-based character, it no longer emits. This is the case if I attach it manually, or if I trigger an attachment in sequencer. With the latter, it emits up to the point when it’s attached and then it stops. I tried attaching it to a random wall in the scene, and it emits. It just seems to stop working when attached to the character.

Is there anything I have to set to make an attached Niagara particle emitter work?

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double check when you are attaching the vfx to a bone of your char, that the bone has a correct scale of 1.1.1 .
it most likely inheriting something from your character that causing that seem stop vfx.
or it got refreshed somehow when attached, try to replay the vfx after attached with an event.

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Thanks, I now think it was an issue with Sequencer, which is quite buggy sometimes. I deleted my character track, re-created the character track, and after that things seemed to work. I’m not 100% sure that this was the problem, but it seems likely based on my previous Sequencer experiences.

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