[Solved] Issues with getting custom particles to work

I created a particle system friendlymode.pcf and placed it in tf/particles/. In it, there's a particle named friendly.

I copied the particles_manifest.txt from the .vpk to the same location as friendlymode.pcf, and added the following line at the end, before the closing bracket:

Code:

"file"		"!particles/friendlymode.pcf"

Yet, the particle is still not visible in the test map. The .bsp loads with these errors:

Code:

Attemped to precache unknown particle system "friendly"!
Attempting to create unknown particle system 'friendly'

I don't know what I am doing wrong, any help gladly appreciated!

Spoiler

Yes, "Start Active" is set.

 

My bad, haven't read up on the wiki:

Let this be an example for future people like me

 

You will need to create a text file in the tf/maps/ directory named cp_nameofmap_a1_particles.txt (replace cp_nameofmap_a1 with the full filename of your map).

Inside paste this in:

Code:

particles_manifest
{
        "file"        "!particles/friendlymode.pcf"
}

You will need a new particles file (and pack it into the .bsp each time - VIDE/Compilepal/BSPZIP) for every map version.