Issues with inserting custom particles into a map.

Pikmin 23

Pikmin 23

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I'm having some issues with a custom particle that a friend made for me. The particle works when I test my map, without having pakratted anything in, but when I insert the particle using pakrat it no longer works. I'm adding both the particle_manifest.txt (From my maps folder) and the particle file itself, yet it still doesn't work.

So, anyone know how I'd be able to get this working?
 
Psy

Psy

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You have to rename your manifest to yourmapname_particles.txt and pakrat it in the maps folder.
 
Psy

Psy

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You have your manifest in the maps folder and your particles in the particle folder, correct?
 
Terr

Terr

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Try using bspzip. I had a similar problem with pakrat, and I suspect there was some sort of file corruption or bad pathing going on.

Which is why I'm working on a replacement :p
 
Psy

Psy

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Oh, and FYI you have to manually type the folder name out when you pakrat the content otherwise it ends up going in the root of the BSP.
 
Pikmin 23

Pikmin 23

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I have them added as:

2012_core.pcf | particles/
pl_2012_a10_particles.txt | maps/

I'm pretty sure it's just something I'm doing wrong.
 
Pikmin 23

Pikmin 23

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It's still not working. After my friend activated the particles via ent_fire:

Attempting to create unknown particle system 'nucleus_finale'
KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer: got EOF instead of keyname in file maps/pl_2012_a10_particles.txt
xtpl_2012_a10_particles,
Unable to read particle definition particles/2012_core.pcf! UtlBuffer is the wrong type!

So I honestly don't know what's going on. Anyone know what this means, apart from the particle not working? Could someone give me a step-by-step tutorial to make sure I haven't messed anything up?
 
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