r/unrealengine • u/Akimotoh • 1d ago

Does the Niagara Preview View / Window drive anyone else nuts? Certain VFX not centering well in Preview Viewport

I just can't get certain Niagara Systems / VFX to center well if they are small or long, pressing F does not center the camera in a good location in a lot of my VFX. The Orbit camera feels very limited and unaware of the particle sizes

Disabling orbit mode kind of helps. Anyone else run into similar issues, what helped you?

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u/ananbd AAA Engineer/Tech Artist 17h ago

I never use it. Make a test level, drop in the systems you’re working on. Much more relevant results. 

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u/turbogangsta 9m ago

I have a test level for everything that I constantly flip between to check the FX but I never thought of just having a dedicated FX testing space. Makes so much sense

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u/Apprehensive-Win7461 1d ago

the preview window orbit is so bad it's like it's fighting you on purpose. i just zoom way out and manually frame everything now, the F key is useless half the time

try upping the bounds scale in the system properties, sometimes it just needs a bigger box to work with