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Advanced Particle Controller

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Content Type: Addon

Addon Type: Effects

Addon Tags: Cartoon, Comic

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27 Mar, 2014 @ 10:48am

13 Nov @ 1:03pm

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Description

A tool that lets you spawn and control particle effects.

Features:

Particles are used for all sorts of different special effects, from explosions and fire to weather effects, electricity, bullet tracers, smoke, beams and more! You can attach them to models and turn them on and off with a key.
Includes every effect from all compatible games you have mounted (Gmod, TF2, HL2: Episode 2, Portal, and CSS). Other addons can also add their own particle lists.
To use the tool, left click to add an effect to an object, or right click to attach a new prop with the effect on it. You can also use the scroll wheel to place the effect on an attachment point.
In the particle browser, you can right click any effect to add it to your favorites list, making it easy to find again later.
Includes two separate tools for Tracer and Projectile effects - tracer effects are particles that fire out like a bullet; and projectile effects launch models that have one particle attached to them, and another particle that plays once they expire or hit something.
Also works with effects that have been scripted in Lua - look for the "Scripted Effects" category under "Source Engine / Garry's Mod", or use your own Lua effects by typing !UTILEFFECT! in front of the effect's name.
100% compatible with dupes and saves.

Known Issues:

Beam effects tend to break when bone merged. This is because this tool uses a constraint to tie both ends of the effect together, and the bone merger tools treat all constraints like a weld, attaching the objects on both ends of the beam.

Popular Discussions View All (31)

16 hours ago

A lot of people (including me) are having this error

NegativThousandDegrees

1 May @ 7:01pm

Issues that users have

Zaku II (Alias WatcherZigzagoon)

3 Jan @ 12:13pm

Tool just isn't working

Endruv

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dosh.ivon 3 hours ago

update after 8 years wowie

no loafing [author] 10 hours ago

@dim sum un
good catch

dim sum un 11 hours ago

Description might need to be updated if permanent particles have been fixed. But very nice 👑🐐

Zomlouis 15 hours ago

Thank you so much! You have no idea how much for gmod animations how often I use this amazing addon! I wonder if my comment on your profile the other day is what led you to notice that but I'm glad it's fixed 😄.

no loafing [author] 16 hours ago

Alright, the bug from the latest update that made particles not work at all has been fixed. Somehow I was unsubscribed from this addon's comments in particular and didn't know about any of the bug reports, and I'm really sorry for that.

Updated particle lists and new features like Adv. Bonemerge support will not be added to this version of the mod. In their current implementation, all the particle lists have to be typed out manually , and I have to individually check every single effect to see if they're colorable or usable as a beam or broken or whatnot, which is an enormous amount of work when TF2 updates add dozens of new effects three times every year.

I've been working on-and-off on a remade version of the addon that can read .pcf files and do all this stuff automatically (no need for other mod authors to add their own lists, either), along with a bunch of other improvements, but it's slow going and definitely won't be out this year.