can we please get strider blood/final magnusson explosion/strider and ministrider vomit ? I'll look up what the effects are if someone tells me how?

What you may be able to do is manage to have a local timer rapidly repeat each effect after certain amounts of time, that's how I got some things to work. Just map it to a checkbox that says "toggle" so that when you press the button, it activates the timer AND the effect. I don't know why, but the aiming of info_particle_system in hammer is just weird... i think they turned the model 90 degrees to the left and forgot... :P

There really isn't a way to look up effects names yet without the particle editor. I have found out some of the tf2 particle effect names though by opening the particle file with a text editor and scanning it for the name.

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I'll look into finding those effects for you. :D

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I am adding many more effects to the list including the Vortigaunts beam.

Also the looping is for effects that don't last long like a blood squirt. You could make it loop by using the loop function, you just can't have more than one loop going at the moment..

Nice work except it say max limit reached. How do i fix this?

Mine is better.

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/s...d.php?t=482253

Here is 2 things I implemented:
1. Set the effect's "angle" KV to the prop's forward vector. Makes it easier to understand the effect's structure.
2. Added control nodes. Basically I went through all the effects and added an extra field to the table which causes the SENT to spawn oranges which act the the control nodes (1-63/7) for the effect.
I suggest you implement it also.

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PS: To know if an effect needs a control node check to see if the particles start flying towards 0,0,0.

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PPS: This was quite useful in previewing thanks, now Genesis looks even better. (I scaled it though so you can't lag servers to death.)

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Where are the particle enumeration files located?

Effects. Have fun adding all of these. ;)

Love,

Captain Comedy

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w...le_Effect_List

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w...le_Effect_List

Edit: I'm an idiot. Looking into what effects? Maybe I shouldn't have skimmed the thread.

haha captain comedy, he already has ALL of those. maybe you shoulda tried the stool out first.

I wonder what the other TF2 effects are.

Can i change color of this? This would be cool.

I love to use this tool but could you move this to Render rather than Construction tab?
Just a suggestion, I modify the lua anyway for me :)

Source SDK Base Orange Box is released, so maybe they'll release the particle editor. Who knows.

used here. at the end

What's used at the end of the video?

Wow, that is some eye candy, and nice choice with the map too.

i need some help,i have garry's mod installed, got all the orange box content(ep2,tf2,portal etc.
but if i for example use the ignite stool i do not see the fire, only the smoke and that is also for the particle effect maker here, is there some console command to fix this because there is no command like sbox_maxparticle or sbox_allowparticle or a command like that.
(and yes i do have the newest version of garry's mod AND i have even tried to reinstall episode two, clean up my entire gmod folder but nothing works,please help me.
Oh and you better send the reply to my steam account as i do not often visit the forums here(steam account is martf16)
if you help me and get it fixed ill make you superadmin on my server!

How's progress going on this?

Nothing much... I added a text box for when custom effects (if they ever) come out. Cleaned up the particle list a bit to remove broken effects. Don't expect an update anytime soon unless it breaks.

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I just started working on control points too, but it's not functioning yet.

Could you make the particle effect rotate with the emmiter? the ep2 citadel rift is an awesome ship jump effect but i can't rotate it to fit on the front of my ship.

Should be easily added. I'll see what I can do.

Be sure to keep us updated :D

Try adding these to the list.

stickybombtrail_red
stickybombtrail_blue
eleporter_red_entrance_disc
teleporter_red_exit
teleporter_red_floorglow
eleporter_blue_entrance_disc
teleporter_blue_exit
teleporter_blue_floorglow
teleported_red
teleported_blue
teleported_flash
teleportedin_red
teleportedin_blue

EDIT: They do work!

bump, any updates?

Huge bump, wheee. Could you make it so that the emitters work like the built-in ones so that they are invisible when using the camera tool? It's sort of a pain to manually make them invisible whenever you want to take a screenshot, and then to fumble around with an invisible object when you want to move them again.

Can we add those particles we made in particle editor to this?

Yes. You have to do a bit of work with the particles manifest file though.

You actually got them working, how?

You do what he just said.


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And I've taken the liberty of fixing the disabled angular functionality for effects that support it as well as adding control points (hoppers, you drag 'em around, they're the focus).

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Can your particle system STool do this?
To be fair it is your base code, I just fixed everything and added features. I hate writing things from scratch.

Actually i lied, i thought it would work, but they refuse to show up. I don't know if i have a broken version or what, but it won't work. Can you use custom ones?

Yes. As always you need to write a manifest for them before they can be loaded into the engine.

I did, it's still not showing up.

Can you link me to yours, i think i might have a broken version.

Did you move the pcfs and the manifest to the <steamapps>/<your_username>/garrysmod/garrysmod/particles directory? I'll upload the fixed STool as soon as I have permission from Blackops (if he doesn't want me to upload I'll give the code to him and he can do it).

Yes i did, and thanks.

how do i install this? moving to addons folder?

Ever since the Gmod particle update, half of these are now broken.

Can you reupload this? I really want to use the Pyro's flamethrower effect but it seems like no other mod can spawn this effect.

Cool, thanks. ^^ You could end it, it rox