Unreal Rendering Order

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I was watching Gabriel Aguiar’s new Beam tutorial

Unity VFX Graph - Vertical Beam Attack Tutorial

and when trying to recreate it in Niagara it occurred to me that rendering order isn’t straight forward as unity, I tried playing around with the sort hint order for each emitter but it was not working, is it made for transparent materials exclusively, because even that’s not working? I’m pretty sure I’m missing something in UE 5.3

I was looking at this Thread but nothing seemed to work

[Niagara 5.3] Sorting Mini Tutorial

Sorting in Niagara [soring] The way sorting works for particles in Niagara is obscure and not well explained. This article is meant as a basic introduction into how sorting works for Niagara and some of the techniques that are available for sorting. Note : All elements in the scene will be compared to the depth buffer (unless opted out of) before drawing, so translucent elements will draw behind opaque elements correctly no matter which of the following options you use. High level overview …

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Edit: it works but requires a transparent material on my mesh, but honestly I think is a limitation, but the issue is solved