Creating Basic Particles tutorial - Half-Life 2

Today I Will Be Showing You How To Create Basic Particle Effects That Can Increase The Look And Style Of Your Map Incredibly

Particle Effects Are Used a Lot In The Half-Life Episodes, To Increase The look Of The Level By a Significant Amount.

• Some Examples Of Particle Effects:

Although Creating Massive Particle Systems Is Difficult, If You Manage To Master Basic Particle Creation, then You Are About 50% Of the Way There

To Create A Simple Particle, Follow These Steps;

Step 1, Create a "Info_Particle_System" in Your Map, This Is From Where The Particles Are Emitted

This Is The Model For The Particle System:

Step 2, Now, Open The Properties Window Of The "Info_Particle_system" We Just Created,

To Keep This Tutorial Simple We Will Only Be Focusing On 3 Things Today:

• Name
• Particle System Name
• Start Activated

Name:

Just Put In Any Name You Want To Call The Particle System, As Long As It Doesn't Contain Any Spaces Then It's Fine

Particle System Name:

This Is The IMPORTANT Bit, This Box Defines What Particle Effect Will Be Displayed, Please See Below For a Full List Of Particles Available:

• Particles For HL2 + EP1 & 2: Developer.valvesoftware.com
• Particles For TF2: Developer.valvesoftware.com
• Particles For L4D: Developer.valvesoftware.com

Just Copy The Name Of The Particle You Wish to Use, Make Sure Not To Put In Any Spaces Or miss Anything Out!!

Start Activated:

Once Again, This Is Also very Self Explanatory, If You Wish For The Particle System To Activate When The Map Loads, Select "YES"