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#1 Luca

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Posted 09 October 2003 - 11:23 AM

in the gendev site at the download link to the particle editor I found this

"A useful particle system editor, found in the Nvidia Demo. Place file in your main Generals directory, and use with -particleEdit and -win commandlines to run."

What does it means? I think that I have to creat a link to the execute file and at the line "target" i have to add something...but what?

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Posted 09 October 2003 - 02:48 PM

You can just copy the shortcut to Generals that is on your desktop, then right click on the shortcut, choose properties, and in the target you need to put in "-particleEdit" and "-win" (no quotes though) to use the particle editor.
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Posted 09 October 2003 - 03:38 PM

i've done it, but the result is just CCG in a windows instead od fullscrean...why?

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Posted 10 October 2003 - 03:05 PM

Do you have the ParticleEdit.dll (or whatever it is) file in your Generals root directory?
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Posted 10 October 2003 - 03:54 PM

yeas in C:\....\command and conquer\

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Posted 10 October 2003 - 06:17 PM

Well, whatever your Generals game/root directory is. Default is C:\Command and Conquer Generals and make sure you correctly add -win and -particleEdit to your shortcuts command line.

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Posted 11 October 2003 - 11:53 AM

but does nothing. the game just starts in a window...

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Posted 25 March 2004 - 07:27 PM

Finally i've made it!

Now, how I use the window on the left...i think is to make me see what does this or that FX...well how?

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Posted 26 March 2004 - 04:49 AM

I've seen this around here. I kow what particle affects are. Namely explosions and emps effects and stuff. But never understood the particle editor thing. How about a 3 paragraph description from somebody telling us newbs what it is, the function and stuff.

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Posted 14 May 2004 - 05:10 AM

all I know for certain is that if you press go button, it will show you the effect, so just change the numbers around and press go to see what those numbers do.

But I do have some question...

Is there any way to increase the numbers of particle in an effect? Cause I want to make the nuclear explosion bigger, but whenever I increase the radius or the size, the effects get scattered and there are gaps between them as there aren't enough of them to cover larger areas...

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Posted 06 July 2004 - 02:19 PM

Hi! Sorry for my bad english because i'm a german ( ;) )
Ok, i have the particle editor, i can start it and i can see all the particle animations and i'm using it only in the particle test map. Only, and that is the problem when i will chanche something and press "go" or I chanche to annother particle animation the game will crash with that failure:
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sorry..................


a serious error occoured
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I've tried it annother times without my ini files...... and with different adjustments in game.. but nothing works!
And that problem have some other guys except me too.



can anyone help me????

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Posted 13 July 2004 - 07:29 PM

i need help how can i use the cameo mapper???

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Posted 13 July 2004 - 10:43 PM

http://gendev.origin...?file=camap_use This covers mapping the file, and the only thing left to do is put the TGA file in your C&C Generals Directory\Art\Textures, and the INI File you saved in your C&C Generals Directory\Data\ini\mappedimages\Texturesize_512 or something very similar.
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Posted 20 July 2004 - 02:33 AM

i can't install the cameo mapper because it gives me an installation out of date eror :p

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Posted 20 July 2004 - 05:25 PM

Try just downloading the lite version. People have had success with that when the normal installer fails.
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Posted 22 April 2005 - 07:43 AM

Hello every body there! i have a question
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how can i build a new model in gmax or renx i dont know
i'm starting in raptor i'd model it but i dont know how to export it

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