Ok, I might have missed someone clarify this one but hey I thought I'd make a post for everyone who's puzzled like me.

In 1.0, when you shoot certain textures they have their own particle gibs type effect, e.g if you shoot snow a little puff of snow will shoot up. You all know what I mean.

What I want to know is how does this work? Is there a file a little like a .rad file that defines what a texture does when shot. Or what?

The reason I ask this is becuase when I compiled my map with some grass textures from xerents wad file, the old dod bullet hit sprite came up when I shot the grass.

kthx

you have to load the wad "hlbasics" and use the textures in there. There is a leaf texture and a few others, like sandbags. Just make a regualr brush and put the "leaf" texture on the outside. Now turn the brush into a func wall and set its properties so its invisible. When you load up the game shoot where your brush is at and leaves will fly out, YAY!

Does anyone know how to get the new particle_shooter to work right? I thought it was supposed to be for shooting smoke, and it has a key for "sprite", but when you try to look for a sprite, it limits your choices to models.

There is actually a materials.txt for regular textures to do particle FX. Do not modify it because it has a limit on the textures allowed. You can however make a special wad that uses the same names in the materials.txt, but make sure to compile with

-nowadtextures.

Originally posted by Majestic 12
Does anyone know how to get the new particle_shooter to work right? I thought it was supposed to be for shooting smoke, and it has a key for "sprite", but when you try to look for a sprite, it limits your choices to models.

Just type *.* in the models directory (when the window that lets you select a file) and hit enter. Then change over to your sprites folder.