Ribbon facing following a mesh sample orientation

[SnokayBunny]

Hi !
After looking everywhere i could not find the answer.
basically i have my system shooting some mesh “weapon” in a niagara system and it supposed to have a ribbon trail beind until here no problem.
Issue i have is that it looks like this

The Ribbon is not following the mesh orientation ( the cut of the ribbon spawn should follow the hilt of the weapon) like this

But as soon the mesh have a rotation the mesh doesnt stay oriented to the mesh rotation/orientation.

Here is my system:

i am truely at loss after trying lots of techniques.

[yeray_art]

Hi

Have you tried setting the ribbon facing to custom and then overriding it to the side vector (0,1,0)? It works like that in the test I’ve made:

[AW_VFX]

Hey there,
Off the top of my head, I assume this is happening because location event doesn’t automatically account for orientation. You’ll need to find a way to pass the orientation information from the mesh to the ribbon, as it’s probably defaulting to “camera facing” orientation.

[SnokayBunny]

I had to put Custom Side Vector for me, but it worked ! Thank you very much ! I didn’t think of calling the Facing post location event ! thanks a lot !

[SnokayBunny]

That was the case ! thanks to another answer and yours i understand better what knowledge i lacked thanks a lot !