Particle Emitter normals only showing in certain directions

Troubleshooting effects
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I created a particle node for flowing water effects, and passing a direction for the effects to display flowing down a block face, not sure if there is a bug or having missed something in my code, but the particle node isn’t working correctly.

Particles facing East & West ([java]Vector3f(1, 0, 0) || Vector3f(-1, 0, 0)[/java]) using the [java]setFaceNormal(direction)[/java] not displaying, any other facing direction, North, South even diagonal direction are working correctly.

[java]package mygame;

import com.jme3.effect.ParticleEmitter;
import com.jme3.material.Material;
import com.jme3.scene.Node;
import com.jme3.scene.Spatial;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
*

  • @author Wayne Barron
    */
    public abstract class AbstractCellularEffectsNode extends Node {

    protected final ParticleEmitter emitter;
    protected float waitTimer, lastTimer = 0;

    protected abstract void update();

    public AbstractCellularEffectsNode(ParticleEmitter emitter, Material material, String name) {
    this(emitter, material, name, 1);
    }

    public AbstractCellularEffectsNode(ParticleEmitter emitter, Material material, String name, float timer) {
    super(name);
    this.emitter = emitter;
    this.waitTimer = timer;
    this.emitter.setMaterial(material);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateLogicalState(float tpf) {
    super.updateLogicalState(tpf);

     lastTimer += tpf;
 if (lastTimer > waitTimer) {
     lastTimer = 0;
     update();
 }

    }

    public static String format(String name, int x, int z, int dir) {
    return String.format("%s[%d%d][%d]", name, x, z, dir);
    }

    public void setEnabled(boolean enabled) {
    emitter.setEnabled(enabled);
    if (enabled) {
    emitter.setCullHint(Spatial.CullHint.Never);
    } else {
    emitter.setCullHint(Spatial.CullHint.Always);
    }
    }

    public void remove() {
    if (emitter != null) {
    emitter.setParticlesPerSec(0);
    if (emitter.getNumVisibleParticles() == 0) {
    emitter.killAllParticles();
    boolean removeEmitter = emitter.removeFromParent();
    boolean removeNode = removeFromParent();
    if (!removeNode || !removeEmitter) {
    Logger.getLogger(this.getClass().getName()).log(Level.WARNING,
    String.format("%s%nSelf terminate was unsuccessful%nNode Removed? %s%nParticles Removed? %s",
    toString(),
    removeNode,
    removeEmitter));
    }
    }
    }
    }
    }
    [/java]

[java]package mygame;

import com.jme3.asset.AssetManager;
import com.jme3.effect.ParticleEmitter;
import com.jme3.effect.ParticleMesh.Type;
import com.jme3.math.Vector3f;
import static mygame.AbstractCellularEffectsNode.format;

/**
*

  • @author Wayne Barron
    */
    public class EffectsWaterFlowNode extends AbstractCellularEffectsNode {

    private final float size, offset = 0.01f;
    private static final String id = “WaterFlowNode”;

    public EffectsWaterFlowNode(AssetManager assetManager, Vector3f direction, String name, float size) {
    super(new ParticleEmitter(“WaterFlow”, Type.Triangle, 1),
    assetManager.loadMaterial(“Materials/WaterFlow.j3m”), name, 2);

     this.size = size;
 applyParameters(direction);

    }

    @Override
    protected void update() {
    remove();
    }

    public static String getUID(int x, int y, int dir) {
    return format(id, x, y, dir);
    }

    private void applyParameters(Vector3f direction) {
    emitter.setImagesX(1);
    emitter.setImagesY(3);
    emitter.setLowLife(1);
    emitter.setHighLife(1);
    emitter.setEndSize(size);
    emitter.setStartSize(size);
    emitter.setInWorldSpace(false);
    emitter.setFaceNormal(direction);
    emitter.setGravity(new Vector3f(0, 10, 0));
    emitter.getParticleInfluencer().setVelocityVariation(0);
    emitter.getParticleInfluencer().setInitialVelocity(direction);

     emitter.updateLogicalState(0);
 emitter.updateGeometricState();
 emitter.setLocalTranslation(direction.mult(size + offset).subtract(0, size, 0));

 attachChild(emitter);

    }
    }
    [/java]