Particle Editor

Particle Editing Tool

• Initializers
• Operators
• Emitters
• Renderers

General knowledge

• To run the particle editor, run the game with -tools on the commandline and select 'Particle Editor' from the tool menu on the far right.

• In Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, tools mode is run via Authoring Tools menu instead. To test out a particle within a map while in tools mode, make sure that sv_lan is set to 1 in the console located in the lower-left corner.

• To load a map so you can test your particle, look to the console window at the bottom of the screen and type "map <levelname>"

• A helpful command to restart all particle systems in a level - useful when tweaking them in the editor : > bind h "ent_fire info_particle_system stop;wait 120;ent_fire info_particle_system start"