Please Help, My Tracer Particles are Going Flat in the Distance

My tracer particle system is pretty basic. I just changed the shape to narrow cone, applied a bullet tracer trail texture and changed the particle billboard to stretched billboard.

Here is a video of the issue
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trying to achieve a volume with oblique stretched billboards is going to always be a challenge.

you can introduce a bias inside the system locally moving the emitter screen-left -

or investigate another solution such as volumetric lines - https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/29160

 

Can you do a cross billboard mesh. It's a cheap trick but it can give you more depth. Basically like two billboards crossed one a circle glow texture and the other the one you have.

 

Have you tried upping the anisotropic filtering level on the particle's texture? https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ImportingTextures.html#AnisotropicFiltering

 

good suggestions. I'll be trying them soon

 

From 2017.1, you can have mesh particle aligned to its velocity, its material can use unlit color shader.

 

Alright after trying the suggestions above it finally worked! I just changed the texture type to "2D Sprite".


Issue solved