Particle, Commentary, and Materials Editors Released

[grazr]

What about the confetti?

 

[Lord Ned]

I'd assume it's a particle effect replacing the blood.

 

[Brandished]

I still lol at the fact that the tf2 devs made a birthday mod for their own game.

 

[Lord Ned]

I believe it was for Germany, and their violence rules.

 

[YM]

Yeah but the germans only get the funky gib replacements and no blood, they probably thought it was so comical that they added confetti and balloons in particle effect and called it birthday mode, its awesome.

Its not really what we're doing here, but the balloons and confetti are a particle effect, which is what we're doing. The gibs is something else though.

 

[Spacemonkeynz]

I made a custom particle effect for my map, I packed it in with the bsp, but TF2 can find it when it loads the map.

Anyone else has this problem?

I mayb just include it with the zip file.

 

[Lord Ned]

Did you add it to the manifest?

 

[YM]

and did you add the manifest to the bsp as well?

 

[Spacemonkeynz]

I found out what was wrong, pakrat didn't automatically fix the pathnames, like it usually does with models and materials.

 

[Spacemonkeynz]

I found out what was wrong, pakrat didn't automatically fix the pathnames, like it usually does with models and materials.

That didn't solve the problem either.

TF2 either can't find the particle_manifest.txt I included with the bsp, or the particle files themselves.


Has any one tried packing any particle stuff with their map, what happend?

 

[Shmitz]

Resurrecting this thread:

particles_manifest_<exact map name>.txt
particles_<exact map name>.txt
particles_<exact map name>_manifet.txt
<exact map name>_particles_manifest.txt
<exact map name>_manifest.txt
<exact map name>.txt

None of these work, has anyone found one that does?

We HAVE to find one that is map specific so that we don't end up barring all new particles valve maps after our map is released.

Has anyone figured this out yet?

 

[Brandished]

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:Particle_System

Valve has finally started uploading their guide to the VDC.

 

[Spacemonkeynz]

Resurrecting this thread:




Has anyone figured this out yet?

I sent the valve guy (the one that wrote the guide in the VDC) an email about the particle files and packing them along with the map, I didn't really mention this aspect, but when he replies I will.

It's important though, we really can't have our particle_manifests overriding the default ones.

Ideally what I'd like to see it that particle_manifests add to each other, i.e the lines in say one we wrote would be appended to the default one that comes with TF2, or something like that.

 

[YM]

I've also emailed mike durand about it. hopefully they'll have got enough emails about it to actually do something

 

[Spacemonkeynz]

They posted this on the discussion page

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category_talk:Particle_System

I've made a custom particle file for my TF2 map. But even when the particle files and the modified particle_manifest.txt are in the bsp file, TF2 still can't find the particle files when it loads the map. I'm guessing that TF2 doesn't look in the bsp for either the particle files or the particle_manifest.txt. --Spacemonkey 18:23, 3 Jul 2008 (PDT)

That's right, it can't be done. We've asked Mike to look into getting rid of the manifest file and simply scanning all PCFs in the particles folder, which will help alleviate this. --TomEdwards 00:54, 4 Jul 2008 (PDT)

That hopefully should make things easier, won't have to worry about conflicting manifest files

 

[YM]

IF they let us do it that is <- not optamistic

 

[YM]

Time for an ultrabump

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=707777

I actually wrote some code for this, to load per-map manifests.
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just like soundscapes, except it would go in the particles folder like the other manifest.

ie: particles_mapname.txt
and then you just place the pcf's you've made in there.

So you make a particles manifest file and add in only your new ones in and then pakrat it in The fact hes working on it calls for some small celebration

 

[Spacemonkeynz]

Yay, celebration

Finally others can see my explosion, instead of being killed by an invisible nothing of Death!


How is the explosion coming along for hoodoo?

 

[Spacemonkeynz]

just like soundscapes, except it would go in the particles folder like the other manifest.

ie: particles_mapname.txt
and then you just place the pcf's you've made in there.

Do you think it would be a safe bet to include this file already with a map, so when the game is updated, it will automatically work?

Certainly there's nothing to lose by doing so.

 

[YM]

I've done that and will continue to do that for all new maps I publish