Update out: Particles may now be loaded in custom maps!

[Fearlezz]

You do relise now that this is a bad thing. This enables players to create there own particle effects in game. Eg. making the spy particle affect when he clocks stay on 100% of the time. You can always see the spy. Or the particle affect stickies have around them you can change it so you can see stickies through walls.

There is no way to stop this and its not classified as hacking but more exploiting AND there is no way to detect it. I think people were talking about making there own whitelists for sv_pure 1 to try and stop it.

This does not work at all. Worked before, but they fixed it. They turn the particle off in the model after a few sec, so the particle stops emitting. And for all I know, its impossible to parent a actual particle that has been emitted to a model

 

[Aragon]

This does not work at all. Worked before, but they fixed it. They turn the particle off in the model after a few sec, so the particle stops emitting. And for all I know, its impossible to parent a actual particle that has been emitted to a model

Then why can the people do it in our community. They have sent in all these jpegs of what they can do since the update and complaining that something should be done?

We got our guy who knows alot of shit to do it and relised that you can do alot of the stuff when sv_pure 2 is on? Try changing the particle effect on the stickies so its got a massive radius. You'll see it through walls.....

 

[Nineaxis]

...you could edit particles clientside long before this update, this is an entirely separate issue dealing with the ability of mappers to package custom particle effects with their maps.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Though, perhaps the "abuse" comes from making a ctf_2fort_particles.txt and in it referencing a custom PCF that has similarily named particle systems that override the originals?
I don't know what the "old" cheating method was exactly, or how it was fixed, so I'm not sure.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Though, perhaps the "abuse" comes from making a ctf_2fort_particles.txt and in it referencing a custom PCF that has similarily named particle systems that override the originals?
I don't know what the "old" cheating method was exactly, or how it was fixed, so I'm not sure.

 

[Gaw]

What used to be done, was people were changing what was in their 'materials' folder, however that stopped working after VALVe added 'sv_pure' that made sure you had the same files as the server.

The cheating rate in TF2 is less then 1%, and I doubt this is going to affect a thing.

 

[jpr]

Uh, so, they can't be bspzipped yet? At least I didn't succeed in it

 

[Fearlezz]

Then why can the people do it in our community. They have sent in all these jpegs of what they can do since the update and complaining that something should be done?

We got our guy who knows alot of shit to do it and relised that you can do alot of the stuff when sv_pure 2 is on? Try changing the particle effect on the stickies so its got a massive radius. You'll see it through walls.....

Care to show some of these jpegs?

 

[Icarus]

Uh, so, they can't be bspzipped yet? At least I didn't succeed in it

Yes you can. You just need to do it right.

 

[jpr]

Yes you can. You just need to do it right.

How do I do it right then? I packed the txt file, named correctly, and the pcf file.
Console says: "Unable to read particle definition particles/snowdrift_particles.pcf! UtlBuffer is the wrong type!"

 

[Icarus]

Console says that no matter what you do. It can still work regardless.

Unless, of course, you uh-oh'd your particle system.