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Unity 4.3 (2D) particle system not showing
I am creating a 2D game and I set all the sprites material shader to sprites/diffuse to allow lights to affect the sprites. This works perfectly fine, however it seems setting a sprite to sprites/diffuse is affecting my particle systems and causing them to not be visible anymore.
Here is a screenshot of the game when the background image is currently set to sprites/default: 
And here is a screenshot of the game where the background image is set to sprites/diffuse: 
As you can see the particle system (spacecraft thruster) is not visible in the second screenshot where nothing has changed (the z values and sorting layers are the same), apart from changing the background image sprite to sprites/diffuse instead of sprites/default.
Does anyone know how I can keep the background as sprites/diffuse and get my particle system to be visible?
(I am using the following particle system rather than the shuriken one:
)
This probably has to do with the rendering queue of your shaders.
Open the shaders and look for something like:
Tags { "Queue" = "Geometry-10" }
This queue defines what gets rendered in front of what.
I tried messing about with that but couldn't get it to work. I managed to fix it by moving my particle systems closer to the camera in z space. Don't know how that worked but it did.
If this helps; Drag the default sorting layer above all the others (to the bottom). This fixed it for me.
