Custom Particles crashing world of goo because of resources

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I have no Idea how to properly import images into fx.xml because goofans wont tell me. Because of this, it is crashing world of goo because I dont have an image for my custom particle. Someone tell me how to PROPERLY add images to fx.xml

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First, put the image somewhere. For example, res/images/fx/bone

After that, you'll add that to the resources.xml, something like

Then, when you want to use the image, use "IMAGE_FX_BONE".

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It stopped crashing, but the image wont show up! My resources path is properties/boltfx (boltfx is the image) does this path effect my resources?

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Yeah. Put the image in the fx folder, and make a path to res/images/fx/boltfx. That should work.

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The particles don't show up! I set the particle effect to a fire geom, and changed the resources path, and it doesn't show up!

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What was the effect based on? If it's something instant like beautypop or splash, it won't show.

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Ish gpu bitspew. It also doesn't show up on the plasma goo and the energy bomb I made, which I set it to

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Does the regular effect work? Also, paste the particle effect in something like this so I can help further.

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The classic particle works, and also how do I type like that?

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 just look at what I've done. 
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I tried.. I will make a video on it later

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The full path is removabledisk/iggworldofgoooo/res/images/fx/boltfx
Should I add this full path?

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Toxic Goo wrote:
The full path is removabledisk/iggworldofgoooo/res/images/fx/boltfx
Should I add this full path?

You only need res/images/fx/boltfx

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but its not working.. I will look very deep into it

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Here is a video:

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I checked the effect you used, and I tried it out myself. It doesn't make a lot of particles, so I decided to try to make an effect for you. Hope you don't mind.

   <particleeffect name="electricfx" maxparticles="30" rate="0.5">
  <particle image="IMAGE_FX_BOLTFX"
            rotspeed="0.2" 
            directed="false"
            scale="1.0,2.0" 
            finalscale="0" 
            fade="true" 
            additive="true"
            lifespan="0.5,1"
            speed="0.2,0.4" 
            movedir="0" 
            movedirvar="180" 
            acceleration="0,0"/>
</particleeffect>

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That's ok! Does it work? If it does how can I make it work?

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I've tested to make it work and see if its kewl.

Anyway, just put this into the fx.xml.bin and you should be good to go.

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Haha.. Goo-d

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Can you make a video of the particle? I kind of want to see how it looks.

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I am preparing for a trip so I will be away from my computer for a while.. I might be back in about 4 days

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"Sigh"
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Yeah, particles are one of the most difficult things in this game to make. A while back, me and a few other goofans made a level with custom particles, I may have a look and I'll see if I could maybe help you fix it

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Try using an image of 32*32. It's what I did for the particle effect I made, and it worked fine.

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I just changed the image to ish_char_1 and it still didnt work....

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I just changed the image to ish_char_1 and it still didnt work....

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what effect did you use? if you used mine, use the image "IMAGE_FX_FIREMAIN1ISH"

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No I changed the image for electricfx to Ish_Char_1 and it still didnt work

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If you used your effect, one thing I noticed was that it didn't make a lot of particles. Maybe that's why.

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It makes 0 particles

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Toxic Goo wrote:
It makes 0 particles

Once again, which effect? The one I gave you, or the one you made?

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