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Show off your creations in the new Particle Editor!

Here's mine:

:O Looks delicious. I think I'll go mess around with it and see what I can come up with.

Seems I can't find out where it is... Is it only available in game at the moment? Didn't they say they'd release it soon as an external program? I don't really want to try it out in game

thebeanie wrote:Show off your creations in the new Particle Editor!

I would, if I could figure out how to use it

A. How do I use it

B. Did they fix the crash on save issue?

ghost12332 wrote:A. How do I use it

Read this: http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/show ... p?t=550481

ghost12332 wrote:B. Did they fix the crash on save issue?

Yes.

phooey, i thought this was going to be a tut

score! i've been waiting ages for this... awesome

Zipfinator wrote:Seems I can't find out where it is... Is it only available in game at the moment? Didn't they say they'd release it soon as an external program? I don't really want to try it out in game

Just make an episode 2 mod called "Particle Editor" and add -tools to it and boom it's standalone!

wow, this particle editor is epic. I'll upload some of my stuff later, but you can create some really dramatic and stylized results. Playing with the editor is making me rethink particles in general, they're alot more involved than getting a bunch of sprites to render at the same time.

Mr. Happy wrote:

Zipfinator wrote:Seems I can't find out where it is... Is it only available in game at the moment? Didn't they say they'd release it soon as an external program? I don't really want to try it out in game

Just make an episode 2 mod called "Particle Editor" and add -tools to it and boom it's standalone!

Thanks , I'll have to make a tiny particle editing map though...

tutorials plx

This is confusing... Haha. First of all I forgot to add an info_particle_system into my map, and now I don't know what I'm doing...

tutorial or GTFO

<3

Please?

Zipfinator wrote:This is confusing... Haha. First of all I forgot to add an info_particle_system into my map, and now I don't know what I'm doing...

I added one, and saved it into my tf2 particle folder, even copy/pasted the name of the system. Then in console it tells me my particle effect doesnt exist, when the file is in the right spot... I check ed with GCFScape just ot be triple sure...

ghost12332 wrote:

Zipfinator wrote:This is confusing... Haha. First of all I forgot to add an info_particle_system into my map, and now I don't know what I'm doing...

I added one, and saved it into my tf2 particle folder, even copy/pasted the name of the system. Then in console it tells me my particle effect doesnt exist, when the file is in the right spot... I check ed with GCFScape just ot be triple sure...

I made something I think... Then after I made an emitter, it wouldn't let me make any other things like operators and such. I'll just wait until there's a good tutorial out. The Facepunch thread on Page 6 is actually getting some facts down, so those will be useful.