custom particles not working?

DrSquishy

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I have quickly made a custom particle and saved it as a pcf, but it wont appear in my map. I have tried packing it as well as a manifest text of sorts in the folder but it just keeps saying
Attempting to create unknown particle system 'fireflies'
How can I get this to work?!
 

Exactol

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can you post what your particle manifest looks like. also is it appearing at the origin of your map?
 

DrSquishy

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can you post what your particle manifest looks like. also is it appearing at the origin of your map?
I don't think it is appearing at the center of the map, but something else to point out: in hammer, everything was wireframed but working normally
 

DrSquishy

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Here is what I have in the manifest in the maps folder:
particles_manifest
{
file "!particles/fireflies.pcf"
}
 
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What particle effect have you set for the info_particle_system? Mind that you have to use the name of the effect and not the name if the pcf file.
The particle manifest txt is fine though
 

DrSquishy

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What particle effect have you set for the info_particle_system? Mind that you have to use the name of the effect and not the name if the pcf file.
The particle manifest txt is fine though
I am using just the name of it: fireflies
 

DrSquishy

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here is the log when I get into the server:
Attemped to precache unknown particle system "unusual_transcendance"!
Attemped to precache unknown particle system "fireflies"!
The server is using sv_pure 0. (Enforcing consistency for select files only)
[Т.С.В.М]DrSquishy connected
Compact freed 561152 bytes
JOY_AXIS_X: mapped to Turn (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_Y: mapped to Look (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_Z: unmapped
JOY_AXIS_R: mapped to Forward (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_U: mapped to Side (absolute)
JOY_AXIS_V: unmapped
Advanced Joystick settings initialized
Attempting to create unknown particle system 'fireflies'
Redownloading all lightmaps
Starting ping measurement
Ping measurement completed
EntSelectSpawnPoint(): No valid spawns for class #TF_Class_Name_Demoman on team 2 found, even though at least one spawn entity exists.
EntSelectSpawnPoint(): No valid spawns for class #TF_Class_Name_Demoman on team 2 found, even though at least one spawn entity exists.
MDLCache: Failed load of .VVD data for error.mdl
MDLCache: Failed load of .VTX data for error.mdl
'demoman.cfg' not present; not executing.
Attempting to create unknown particle system 'fireflies'
noclip ON
noclip OFF
--- Missing Vgui material vgui/..\vgui\maps\menu_thumb_Missing
--- Missing Vgui material vgui/..\vgui\maps\menu_thumb_Missing
--- Missing Vgui material vgui/..\vgui\maps\menu_thumb_Missing
 

MOCOLONI

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You should use the original particles_manifest.txt file and add your custom particle in it. Also make sure that the .pcf is located inside "tf\custom\whateverfolder\particles\YOURPARTICLE.pcf".

Note that when editing an existing (official) particle and saving it with the same name, your server must be set to "sv_pure -1" since not even "sv_pure 0" allows you customize the existing particles. They're all listed inside the pure_server_minimal.txt file.
 

DrSquishy

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You should use the original particles_manifest.txt file and add your custom particle in it. Also make sure that the .pcf is located inside "tf\custom\whateverfolder\particles\YOURPARTICLE.pcf".

Note that when editing an existing (official) particle and saving it with the same name, your server must be set to "sv_pure -1" since not even "sv_pure 0" allows you customize the existing particles. They're all listed inside the pure_server_minimal.txt file.
I have absolutely no idea where the original manifest is. I have looked in all of the folders, the main tf folder, bin and hl2 but cant find it
 

DrSquishy

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You should use the original particles_manifest.txt file and add your custom particle in it. Also make sure that the .pcf is located inside "tf\custom\whateverfolder\particles\YOURPARTICLE.pcf".

Note that when editing an existing (official) particle and saving it with the same name, your server must be set to "sv_pure -1" since not even "sv_pure 0" allows you customize the existing particles. They're all listed inside the pure_server_minimal.txt file.
Damn. Might actually be because it saved into the particles folder normally within tf2, not custom,
 

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Got it to work, as I realized in the info particle system I had typed the pcf name not the directory in it: fireflies, not unusual_fireflies...
Now there are no errors in the console but the particles wont appear ingame
 

DrSquishy

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Got it to work, as I realized in the info particle system I had typed the pcf name not the directory in it: fireflies, not unusual_fireflies...
Now there are no errors in the console but the particles wont appear ingame
the info particle systems start enabled, I checked
 

Exactol

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the particles manifest should not be named particles_manifest.txt, but (yourmapname)_particles.txt. if they arent appearing, check the origin of your map to see if they are spawning there. If they are, you are lacking a initializer to define the position they spawn in, such as spawn within sphere random or something similar.
 

DrSquishy

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the particles manifest should not be named particles_manifest.txt, but (yourmapname)_particles.txt. if they arent appearing, check the origin of your map to see if they are spawning there. If they are, you are lacking a initializer to define the position they spawn in, such as spawn within sphere random or something similar.
I have tried a particles_manifest in the particles folder and a (yourmapname)_manifest in the maps folder. Should I be putting it in the custom folder?
 

DrSquishy

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They are also not in the map origins
 

Exactol

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it should be (yourmapname)_particles.txt, not manifest, and it goes in the maps folder.
 

DrSquishy

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it should be (yourmapname)_particles.txt, not manifest, and it goes in the maps folder.
fireflies_test_particles.txt
This is the exact name of the manifest