I use one of the basic explosion particle emitters from UDK, there’s one area where combat gets very close to terrain for effect, when that happens the explosion particles (with SDPG_Foreground set on the emitter) will show the sparks on top of the terrain, but not the smoke and fireball.
Could anyone help me figure out what causes this difference? Because looking at it in Cascade, the emitters have very similar properties, so I don’t see why the sparks would show while the smoke and fireball get obscured…
Maybe it’s because smoke and fireballs are done with flipbooks, but even then it should be possible to get them to render on top, without changing the Z location so much that the effect is placed inaccurately.
With meshes there was a rendering priority maybe particles have the same? Something like foreground and such… I am just trying to help :rolleyes: I don’t even remember the variable name.
You can use translation on them in the emitters properties. Then you should be able to move them where you want them. to move like 5 feet in front of you, one of the settings is like 200 to 250 to get it to move that far. I used this on our rain emitter attached to our player, to back it off so the 1st person could see it all the time in his face.
I can give this a shot, moving the whole particle object definitely didn’t work, it would get moved out of position and still render behind terrain somehow.
Are you using a translucent material on the emitter? if so there is a setting in the properties to render that on top or some thing like that, check that box. I had the same issue with my see thru ribbons for the out of bounds markers. i checked that box and it solved it. You could see my ribbons exactly how your describing your emitter. Not sure if this is the same issue, but it sure sounds the same.
Nothing changed sadly, even after fiddling with all those checkboxes.
Hm, it doesn’t look like the particles are overriding each other, it’s only the terrain causing problems, things only change when terrain proximity is involved.
wow, bummer. That check box is suppose to render the scene behind the translucent material not in front like it sounds like it is doing.I figured this would solve that for you. i will install my old version just so i can see if that is all i set to get that working.
if I understand correctly you want to change the sorting of the different systems inside the emitter?
i.e. take a look at this picture. you want to determine the order in which “Primary”, “Fire_Dup” and “FlareCore_Dup” get rendered?
if that’s the case, unreal sorts these from left-to-right in the order they are displayed in that very window. In this example Primary will be rendered first, then Fire_Dup is rendered on top, and then FlareCore_Dup. so FlareCore_Dup is what you see rendered on top.
if you want to reorder the systems just select the emitter and press the left/right keys in your keyboard
if the issue is with proximity of other objects, double check the material as it might be doing a depth fade
Thank you my friend.Will try it out again from the ground up in a few days.There is also the possibility that the udk fog(or my separate fog material) is also accomplice so I will deactivate it and even try in dx9 mode just in case there is something strange on dx11(which wont be the first time).
