Blocking custom particles on volcanic

[Mac-]

I wasn't sure which forum to put this in, but is there a way to block the stupid custom particles from volcanic? I want to put volcanic on my server, but I hate the particles that are stuck on after playing it. Any help would be appreciated.

[200]

You can try Stripper: Source for this. Noclip once through the map and remove all particle systems you want.

[Mac-]

I'll try this, but I'm not sure what the entity is that applies the custom rocket/sticky trails or how to filter it out.

Edit: I decompiled the map and looked through every entity and I can't find anything that points towards replacing the stock particles, I'm confused.

[Shooter]

Look for an info_particle_system applying something like rockettrail.pcf.

Volcanic has a couple custom particles packed into it like this: http://puu.sh/wT8vU/d2bd0e7f9f.png

It'll probably be one of those.

[Mac-]

Nope, looks like none of them are for rocket trails. Could the particles.txt be changing the rocket trails without the use of an in game entity?

[Shooter]

Yes, but I don't know how that works or how you would fix it. Here's a screenshot of all of the particles that particles.txt calls: http://puu.sh/wTfOc/f5d84622bd.png

I can't find most of those packed in the bsp file so I'm not sure where it's calling them from but a couple of them look like possible candidates.

[AI]

There is no reference to the particle in the decompiled vmf, but it looks like the custom rockettrail particle in the map was precached when the map starts, and lingers on even after a map change due to a bug in the particle system manager.

Looks like you'll have to remove the custom trail from the particles manifest and repack the bsp (and rename it).

[Mac-]

Looks like you'll have to remove the custom trail from the particles manifest and repack the bsp (and rename it).

Is there an easy way to do this with VIDE or something similar?

[AI]

Have a look at https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/BSPZIP

You may want to bring this question up in the mapping subforum.