How do you make Particles?

Pearl

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How do you make Particles? I want to know how you go about making particles. Like the basics of them.
If anybody here knows how you make them. I would love to know! Thanks.
 

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Any clue on how to make custom particles from scratch?

  1. You need to launch TF2 with the -tools and -nop4 launch commands.
  2. Right click TF2, click properties and under the general tab click "Set Launch Options" you can add -tools and -nop4 there.
  3. Launch the game normally.
  4. At the top of the new window (it should be all great with "Tool Mode" in the upper right corner, with some other stuff) click "tools" in the upper LEFT corner, and select Particle Editor.
  5. Click File, then New. Again, this is from the yellow menu in the upper left corner.
  6. You can now make a new particle system. I would click File > Open, and go to SteamApps/Team Fortress 2/tf/particles and find some particles that have already been made, to see how it's done. You're looking for a .pcf file. From there, you can look at how particles are created. You can modify existing ones to do what you want, or you can make one from scratch.
These are just a couple of tutorials I found online, not sure how great they are, but hopefully they're helpful.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=264673373
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Creating_A_Fire_Particle
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Particle_Editor (This is actually just the VDC for the Particle Editor)

Hope that helps!
 

Pearl

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How about a particle with in a particle? Not quite sure if you can do that.
 

Pearl

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Oh. So the particles with in particles are just one main particle that have Children with other particle systems... Yay nesting.