This Is A Stick-up

[Satiagraha]

Well, I understand most of the abilities and values of the env_particles_custom entity now. Although I can only seem to get the particles to appear with certain sprites, every once and a while. I guess NS 3 beta3 just doesn't like particles for the time being. I really hope that the next release of NS is more Particle-Friendly




Weeee! Particles are fun!

[Satiagraha]

Wow, I feel even dumber... All those times when I had a PS set up, Nothing showed up when I ran the map. This was because I didn't wait the 20 seconds to let it start...
If you don't know what I'm talking about, HL (or NS, not sure) starts the particle systems 30 seconds after the map loads, to increase performance on the server when a bunch of people are popping into the map. So basically, I just have to stand there for 30 seconds, and then all my beautiful particles appear

Bubbles!




It's not nice to make mappers sit and wait 30 seconds...

[BobTheJanitor]

Yeah, it's not a bad idea to pop a res node (or 3 if you have cheats on as two are automatically capped on round start) in the room and then just wait. Your PS will usually fire up about 5-10 seconds after the res node starts smoking.