Custom Particle Effect not working

[StefanC19]

So in the particle editor I made this simple particle effect of a few glow orbs floating, I put it in the correct folder :
half-life 2 episode two\ep2\particles and I added it to the particle manifest:

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particles_manifest
{

   file "particles/particle_gloworbs.pcf"
}


When in hammer I use info_particle_system and for particle system name : Particle_Parent which is correct since my particle "particle_gloworbs.pcf" is made out of 2 particle systems, Particle_Parent and a child named Particle_MoreGlow. Basically I followed this tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CJLPWiu1Dc
I really don't understand why this doesn't work, I even tried ripping particles out of the game and use those instead but they don't work either, as for engine I'm using the one for episode2

Help please

[Jangalomph]

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particles_manifest
{
   "file"      "particles/error.pcf"
}

make sure you have the "file" not sure if it matters, but it should.

And absolutely positive the name is particle_gloworbs.pcf?

If it still doesn't want to work.

put a ! infront of the particles like this, It will make it force precache. When importing episode 2's in. Make sure you use the provided manifest.txt too. I've kept episode 2's manifest and slowly added on to that list.

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particles_manifest
{
   "file" "!particles/particle_gloworbs.pcf"
}

EDIT: If it still doesn't work post the errors of it from the console

[StefanC19]

huh interesting, I put the "file" and the ! infront of particle and now it seems to work thanks

[Jangalomph]

Nice