Help with custom particle textures.

[Chelmo]

So I created a 64x64 image, made what I wanted for the particle, saved it as a dds file under the DXT1 setting, mip maps enabled. Load up the editor, assign it as the texture, made an emitter and the particles are all blank white squares. I even tried saving as DXT3, but to no avail I can't get it to work. So my question is what am I missing? I should mention I have the dds file in my mods folder in it's own custom folder hierarchy.

My path is appdata/runic games/torchlight/mods/mymodname/media/particles/pickups/particlehere.dds

I'm guessing my issue stems from the dds settings? Anyways it would be really nice if someone could shed some light on this. I'm gonna take a look through the documentation again, I may have missed something.

[Gbrown]

So I created a 64x64 image, made what I wanted for the particle, saved it as a dds file under the DXT1 setting, mip maps enabled. Load up the editor, assign it as the texture, made an emitter and the particles are all blank white squares. I even tried saving as DXT3, but to no avail I can't get it to work. So my question is what am I missing? I should mention I have the dds file in my mods folder in it's own custom folder hierarchy.

My path is appdata/runic games/torchlight/mods/mymodname/media/particles/pickups/particlehere.dds

I'm guessing my issue stems from the dds settings? Anyways it would be really nice if someone could shed some light on this. I'm gonna take a look through the documentation again, I may have missed something.

try setting the texture path on the particle to your new texture in your mod, save the particle, then restart and reload your particle system. I don't think the particle textures are getting reloaded if they're in a mod. I was seeing what you're seeing until a restarted and it picked up the new texture. Going on my list of things to get fixed.

[Chelmo]

Thanks for the reply, great to see developers interacting with the community and even when they're not working. I tried what you said twice and it's still not working correctly.

EDIT: I saved the DDS to the TorchEd particle folder and it works, it'll work till that bug can get sorted out. Thanks again for your time.

[bltpyro]

I was having this problem too and it was driving me crazy. Sometimes a restart would work, but sometimes is wouldn't. I noticed a lot of the time there were just path problems.

Make sure your mod path is set to your current mod like this:
c:/Documents and Settings/appdata/runic games/torchlight/mods/mymodname

Then make sure everything else, like texture and layout paths are only in this form:
media/particles/pickups/particlehere.dds

I noticed if it had the full path,
c:/Documents and Settings/appdata/runic games/torchlight/mods/mymodname/media/particles/pickups/particlehere.dds
it wouldn't work. It seems like it tries to append the full path to the mod path which is obviously not where the file is.

There is a button in the middle of the top toolbar that says reload with a drop down menu for all, particles, etc.
I think this button works for reloading the textures/particles/etc so you don't have to restart.