Particle textures are drawing in wrong order. Tried all draw settings :(

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Particle textures are drawing in wrong order. Tried all the options under ‘Sort Mode’ in within the requirements module in both of this effects:

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Any solution to this?

Thanks

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Hey Bruno_G -

I see your problem in the picture, but cannot diagnosis without seeing your particle system setup. Would you mind sharing your particle system and materials for that system so I can help you solve this issue?

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

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Yeah no problem man here you go:

The effects are under the Ambient Folder and the materials and Textures are in the folders along the Ambient folder.

Hope you can see whats wrong

Thanks!

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Hey Bruno_G -

This is a simple fix though it might take some explaining as to why it is happening. Translucency Depth Rendering is controlled by object bounds and the origin of those bounds. So for Particles, the Fixed Bounds and the size becomes very important to ensure that the particles render in the correct order. For your particles the heavyflame and the P_SmokeHeavy I adjusted the Fixed Bounds downward from the values you have set to values of Min -250,-250,-10 Max 250, 250, 1250 for both emitters. This way your bounds in the World Space do not overlay and will render based on the origin bounds depth from camera correctly.

Thank You -

Eric Ketchum

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Ok cool so where do i go for those options ? sry lost me there :confused:

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Click on the Black Space outside of your emitter module list and you will bring up Whole Particle System settings in the details area of Cascade and the Fixed Bounds Min and Max settings are located here.

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

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Ok found it, checked the Use fix relative bounding box option and added the values you told me. it did not fix the issue, the white column of smoke still has the problem, that it will display the other heavy flame on top of it even if it is physically in front of it :frowning:

Did you got it to work? like none of them overlapping and showing correctly?

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Emitters are drawn from the back of the scene to the front, it looks like the translucency sort priority of your front emitter has been set higher than the emitter in the back. Click the emitter actor and make sure they have the same translucency sort priority.

I.e. anything with sort priority of 1, will render in front of priority 0.

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Or, wait are these effects in the same emitter actor? If so you from what I can tell in the screenshot you should break these out into two separate VFX…I think you have a column of smoke in the distance behind a closer column?

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Its two different separate effects -.-

Where is that sort priority feature?

My problem is, what if i dont drag and drop those effects? what if i pull these when a vehicle in my game is destroyed? where would i tweak that sort priority then?

If you download the rar in the link i gave you’ll see its two different effects that if you lay on a map, the flamey one is always gonna render on top of the one with white smoke only.

Tricky stuff :frowning: …sigh…

Thanks

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Hey Bruno_G -

In the setup of these two effects what is the distance between the emitters in your level? Are they right on top of one another, or some distance apart?

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

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They are not on top of each other they are within a distance and no matter the distance, the flamey one draws on top even if its behind the other one that is just grey smoke. You understand? You can download it and place them in a map and see what I mean.

Thanks, can’t afford this to happen for other effects and wanna know how to fix it in general.

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They are not on top of each other they are within a distance and no matter the distance, the flamey one draws on top even if its behind the other one that is just grey smoke. You understand? You can download it and place them in a map and see what I mean.

Thanks, can’t afford this to happen for other effects and wanna know how to fix it in general.

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Hey Bruno_G -

Here is the results with my bounds settings I mention above. (Excuse the small size of the gif):

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As you can see I get the appropriate overlay when viewed front to back, but as I transition around the two systems one’s bounds will tell the other that it takes precedence. You can manual go in to a transparent object and adjust the transparent sorting order, but going into the object’s Rendering >> advanced Drop down and Change the value of the Translucency Sort Order. Higher numbers here will render on top of lower numbers. This will set a hard value which will always render as this value has set.

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

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Hey :slight_smile:

Thank you for your response you seemed to fix the problem.

I,m just not sure where to find those options you told me about the sorting order! Sorry bit of a noob here :confused:

I wanna see if i can fix it or know how to handle it. I’ve got this cool dirt explosion effect that is having the same problems within its emitters :(, i feel that i cant control it at all within the required module you know what i mean.

Please guide me to those options you told me, the Translucency Sort Order, if that fails i would love to send you my dirt explosion for you to check and diagnose better?

Thanks man :slight_smile:

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Hi :slight_smile:

Please guide me to those Translucency Sort Order options, i cant find them anywhere. This seems like it could be my solution.

Thanks man!

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Hey Bruno_G -

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There are in the details panel of your particle in the level.

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

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Oh cool ok. But what about effects that i wont place in my map? But rather show when i shoot at surfaces?

I,m having issues now with a cool dirt explosion i made. Basically the shockwave effect i made with GPU particles is showing in front of the other emitters like the flying debris and the dust animations making it look weird. So within different emitters within a particle system, how do i decide which one shows in front of the rest? Specially since the sort mode options within the required module dont seem to work for me :frowning:

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By the way, look at this :frowning:

I set its Translucency Sort Order to 3 while the other effect behind it is set to 0

Same problem, also tried those exact fixed bound parameters you sent me, still get the same problem.

Need an easy way to designate which emitter within a particle system will show in front and which one will show behind but the Sort Mode options within the required module wont work at all, tried all of them.

So at the moment i dont have any control on this whatsoever, really need to solve this for the rest of my effects i,m making :frowning:

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Hey,

To make things much easier for you, here is my Ground_Blast effect:

Please check it in the editor, youll notice that:

1- The shockwave effect draws on top of the main dusty body of the effect which is wrong.

2- The brown dust base emitter draws on top of all the flying debris even if behind them

So basically i just want to find a way so i can designate each emitter’s drawing order. Basically, i wanna make it realistic, depending on the position of the sprites they should render in front or behind each other correctly and not always on top of all of them like in the case of my shock-wave :(.

Please take a look at it i,m sure you’ll find a way around this,

Thanks man , cheers!