Ribbon facing following a mesh sample orientation

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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

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The Ribbon is not following the mesh orientation ( the cut of the ribbon spawn should follow the hilt of the weapon) like this
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But as soon the mesh have a rotation the mesh doesnt stay oriented to the mesh rotation/orientation.

Here is my system:

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i am truely at loss after trying lots of techniques.

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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:

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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.