[Bug] Particle visually disappearing at certain angles

So currently one if the particles I made visually disappears at certain angles, in the cascade as well as in the editor/pie/in game.

If I export the whole particle array into an empty particle emitter the problem does not transfer.
If I copy the particle emitter (duplicate) the problem is still there though.
So it might be a once in a blue-moon bug but I do think you guys would want to know about it.
I did export the particle, send it to a friend who then imported it and the same problem occurred.
Yet it did not happen when he imported the copied/duplicated version.

I got the file uploaded to dropbox, but I rather not post it (with all the containing meshes/materials) for nda-esque reasons.

Can an admin please supply me with an email so they can take a look at it?
(and hope the problem is still there so they can swat the bug)

Here is a video of the bugged particle emitter:

And here is one where I copied the array to an empty particle emitter:

You need to increase the bounds of your particle system. When the bound is too small and it gets out of screen the whole particle system disappears.

Do you have fixed bounds set on your particle system? If your bounds are not set correctly you may get odd rendering issues, especially with GPU particles when you reach the edge of the view frustum. If you exported into a new effect I would expect the bounds properties to transfer over, but perhaps there is a bug? Please make sure your GPU effect is within the bounding box of the effect (click the bounds button in Cascade.)

Is this only happening in the Cascade viewport?

Does this exhibit the same behavior outside of Cascade when placed into an empty level?

Even when the bounds are from -100k to 100k it still occurs.

To quote my first line: “So currently one if the particles I made visually disappears at certain angles, in the cascade as well as in the editor/pie/in game.”

The bounds are the first thing I expected it to be, but even from -100k to +100k (the particle itself is only 200 long (and yes I tried that and various other bound sizes) and the problem still occurred.

Hello,

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Works fine now!

can you tell me which version of unreal engine fixed this problem? cause I’m still suffering it… I’m using 4.13

you know this isnt an answer to a question, but a question to a question right?

anyways, set bounds properly and reboot ue4.

I know :)… I accidently posted it as answer… realized that like 1 sec later… ty anyways, I found it already :slight_smile:

What was your solution Mufaya?

they were right… tick set fixed bounds and put large numbers with - in minimum and + to max… don’t make it auto. if you have issue on actor collision aswell, untick drop detail and collision range limit in the actor collision component.