CS:GO "particals" how to sorta get them working.


Let me be very clear and state without a plugin you will not be able to display CUSTOM! particals.
How ever you can still used the default shiped particals and there is an easy way to test our custom particals.

1:Default particals how to display them and use them.
2:How to launch particle editor for cs:go
3:Custom particals how to test them.(bug "exploit" valve pleas don't patch)


1:
Get gfscape http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/?p=26

click file open and navigate to # C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo
Open pak01_dir.vpk navigate to the partical folder.

Now exstract all the content to # c:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\particles


Open your CS:GO sdk launch hammer and place "info_particle_system" entity

click Particle system name --> click browse.

Now top left next to mods click Rescan .
Now you have a nice particle browser where you can select your wanted particle.
Select your wanted particle et voala enjoy.
(not working set start active to : Yes)

2:
Steam library right click CS:GO / properties / set launch options / -nop4 -console -tools -windowed / #type in console# /toolload pet

Make sure CS:GO is NOT running while setting launch options

How do i make a particle system ? DO NOT TRY TO PACK IT WILL NOT WORK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_voAm7l38
This video is great the packing how ever will not work

(ty nicoreda https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/29mabs/you_can_now_use_tools_on_csgo/)


3:
This is where the good stuff starts valve forgot to add one of its partical systems to be exact /particles/money_fx.pcf
And i have no clue why but for some reason CS:GO searches for it in the CSGO/particles folder not just the VPK
Now why is this good ? because we can exploit it to test our own particle systmes without having to edit the VPK files and add our own little particle without the need of a sourcemod server.
What ever your particle system name is rename it to money_fx.pcf place it in csgo\particles and it will work fine.
Again you can not pack and ship this (you can but cs:go wont look in the map file for the partical)



This is where the plugin comes into play to get them to work you will need to rename your actual partical system to some thing.
And hold the naming convetion being described in that video .
How ever it might just overwrite money_fx.pcf if you just use that partical system and downloads evry single time.
(i have no clue note you need to pack a .txt file as explained in that video for the plugin to work)
https://youtu.be/_Eti-U7t6D4

Huge thanks to PLUGIN_AUTHOR "Rachnus" , SourceJump youtbe channel for the video.

(again follow that video for custom particels and pleas use his naming convention)