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I've written a particle, and since there is no good documentation, just modified an existing particle and used DR to get "live" feedback on how it looks. After it was all done, I tried it in the game, and TDM refused to load.

 

It turns out that things like:

 

 time "2" to "3"
 gravity "-2" to "-4"

 

and others, are happily parsed by DR and shown, but not by TDM. Likewise things like:

 

 time "2.2"

 

whereas TDM requires "time 2.2" (string vs. float). This made it quite hard, I had to rewrite quite a few parts of the generated particle to make TDM use it.

 

Is this a known issue?

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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I've used the particle editor in DR quite a bit and tried out every feature and I've never had any problems. What version are you using?

 

I haven't used the editor, just the "select particle (viewer)". I have modified (edited) the particle file myself, then used the "Refresh" button to load it.

 

I'm still stuck at DR 1.7.0 (64 bit) because there are no compiled packages for Ubuntu (or my older Kubuntu) that I could install.

 

And compiling DR myself was a task I didn't want to get sidetracked with :)

 

https://launchpad.net/~orbweaver/+archive/ubuntu/darkradiant (1.7.0 is the latest for Ubuntu Lucid)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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