Particle Forge Version 1.1 (THE LAST RELIABLE VERSION)

Lol--nice title.  Good to know it's not just me and @allthepeople who said, "You're just not doing it right".

Thanks for the DL.

No prob

I hope that other people can use PF as much as I have...

I hope other people will always do particle effects for me with PF as much as you want me to be able to use it.

So this version works ok for the latest game versions?

If so, what's the difference between in and PF3?

Asking because I'm sick and tired of PF3 displaying reference models as featureless white blobs, makes it hard to scale and align particle effects.

Yep!

Make sure that your meshes have the ParticleMeshOld shader...

And the reference model doesn't work in any PF version...

I've found that making a point-type emitter with 0 possible rotation and a mesh works best.

EDIT_

PF3 and PF1.1 are different in the fact that PF3 looks for game files and fails to see Diplomacy and Entrenchment stuff. It has difficulty seeing everything and custom Textures won't load on my version...

PF1.1 only sees what you give it, which makes it far more logical.

Hey, good idea with that point mesh emitter, I'll use that! Now I feel... duh.

I feel duh just reading this and wondering what you're talking about.

Please don't tell me.

Win 7 64-bit Ultimate.  What's the big deal, PF3 has always worked fine for me.  Cool though if it fixes issues for others.

Unfortunately, the point emitter doesn't work - I run into the same display error; if I have textures in the relevant folder, then the model is invisible. The only way to view meshes in the PF (either version) is to remove all textures, at which point I get a featureless pure white outline.

That way at least I can scale the effect, but it makes the process much more difficult, especially since alignment of particle effects can get tedious.

Anyone knows a solution to this issue?

What?

Make SURE that your shader is set to ParticleMeshOld

That is the only one that works.

Hah, that worked. Thanks! It works with PF3 as well, so I can just keep using that (it also reads what you give it, as far as I know).

No prob

That's what I'm here for, and no one really seems to appreciate that...

T.T

post a screenie of a mesh in your Particle Forge.  I know with 3 you just get an untextured mesh. 

Again, are you making a point-type emitter with 0 possible rotation, your mesh, and the shader "ParticleMeshOld?"

I'd appreciate it...if I understood it.

Open PF

1. New Point Emitter

2. Select Particle Mesh file (near the bottom of the list)

3. Set Emitter:Point Angle Variance to 0

4. Set Particle Shader to "ParticleMeshOld"

5. Hit F5 to start particle simulation

That's it. You of course have to have relevant texture files in the "Textures" folder where your PF is located and have them referenced in the mesh file itself, which should be in the "Mesh" folder, again in the same location as the PF.

You lost me at, "open particle forge".

We need a more reliable version:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/427354