Looking for an explosion particle effect

T

The Asylum

Much bigger than the ExplosionCore_Wall, but not quite as big as the Goldrush explosion.

Halp pls
 
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Well just look around the particles which are avaiable in game. There are a few unused ones
I think you could use the explosion of the sentry-buster.

And if the size isn't correct just edit a few parameters of the effect
 

xzzy

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There's a list of all particle effects in the developer wiki if you just want the names.

To actually see them, you have to extract them with gcfscape into your tf/particles directory. Then run TF2 with the -tools option to access the particle editor, which allows you to view the particle effects at game quality. There's tutorials all over the internet if you google a bit, it's not hard if all you want to do is look.
 

Pocket

Half a Lambert is better than one.
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So Steampipe broke the particle editor too? Gee, what a surprise.
 

henke37

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In other words, it was already broken.
 

Pocket

Half a Lambert is better than one.
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I'm pretty sure I've successfully used the particle editor to look at stock particle effects without jumping through any hoops, back in 2011 when I was trying to find out if it was possible to modify the Bonk! invulnerability effect. (It's not.)
 
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T

The Asylum

Well for those interested, I didn't actually find a bigger (but not too big) explosion effect, but I combined the ExplosionCore_Wall and heavy_ring_of_fire effects to make it look bigger

because everything's better with fire