Text as particles in Niagara

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I’ve tried everything to importing a PNG with transparency, and it always looks wrong…
Here a few of the threads about it, in all of them they recommend NOT to use PNG (but PSD), and they describe procedures to save with alpha channel, which I tried, and then UA4 said “failed to import”. More than two hours I spent:

Transparent 'PNG' texture stretches when its been imported into UE4?

I made a decal sheet texture for my decal sheet material but when I imported the PNG decal texture into UE4 it’s all disfigured. [DSQuest.png] [DSQuest.png] But when the texture is in a material and is on a decal panel or a object it’s normal, why is this? It mainly becomes a problem when I am UV cropping it when I’m in a material instances, because I can’t see what I’m cropping. How do I fix this? Thanks!

Importing any PNG with alpha channel messes up the image

TL DR: Don’t use png. Use .TGA with alpha channel or .PSD

PNG with Alpha: How do you get them to work?

This is a totally basic question that has me banging my head against the wall. I am not a noob when it comes to image channels and all…which is probably the source of the issue. I have a bunch of wonderfully small png files that I want to use as material mattes. They are RGBA png files that import fine in Nuke and have all the data I need. After Effects and Photoshop are a little weird with Alphas but I can at least see the data is there. I was hoping to be able to use the straight data for ma…