@"Big Dick" 1999

Real shi homie! Valve should hire THG!

Wow these look so good, wonder why they didn't use it?

@Ragdoll Nation

Oh, I absolutely love that you brought this up — the idea of seeing this mod find a new digital home in Garry’s Mod, with all the delightful, distinct impact effects for every material type, really tickles my imagination. It’s something I’ve daydreamed about too, though I admit porting it properly (with all those juicy impact variations) would be quite the undertaking — Lua can be a stubborn beast! Still, your comment nudges it higher up my mental list of “maybe someday” projects. Who knows? Maybe one day you’ll see sparks flying, wood splintering, and concrete thudding in GMod too.

id really like if this was in gmod, and if it had all the different impacts for the diff materials

I was able to get it running in gmod, but there are no particles for maps like gm_construct.
I already said it, but please make a version for gmod.

Can you make a version for Gmod?
I find Gmod's particle mods too exaggerated, and I'd like a more vanilla-friendly mod.

I think i get it now, thanks for explaining.

Shooting an antlion with an SMG has chunks of these flakes flying out everywhere and it just doesn't look right.
It could probably work for the Antlion Guard but even then, it would require a lot of tweaking and probably custom textures instead of reusing the single "flek" texture. It just doesn't work out so I am keeping it cut instead of restoring it.

i have already, and i just can't seem to see the ugly part of it.

Look at the video

This comment felt oddly passive-aggressive.
Could you clarify what you mean by "ugly"? As just saying "it was ugly" doesn't really give much of a reason.
I'd say that it's better to have the particles rather then have none.

No, I removed it because it was ugly (you can see it in the video demonstration.)
If you are genuinely hurt by having the error message in console then simply add an empty particle in -tools mode

will there be a fix for the impact particles on the antlions?
when using cl_new_impact_effects, it tries calling for "impact_antlion"

working perfectly now, thanks

I'm sure it's conflicting with another particle mod you have installed. You need to disable those addons ingame, extract them to your custom folder and change a line in "particles/particles_manifest.txt"

"file" "particles/impact_fx.pcf"
to
"file" "!particles/impact_fx.pcf"

The ! makes it load correctly otherwise it only has a chance of working.

got it to work by restarting the game 5 times, weird.. thanks though!

Download the mod from GameBanana. Make sure this addon is unsubscribed or disabled because it will cause conflicts when actually loading the mod files.
Extract the "cl_new_impact_effects" folder contents from the .zip file into "steamapps/common/Half-Life 2/hl2_complete"
90% sure that should be it and it should just work if you did the cfg.


If you can't see any impact particles then put the entire "cl_new_impact_effects" folder into "steamapps/common/Half-Life 2/hl2/custom" instead.
If it still doesn't work then you have another particle mod installed probably from the Workshop and you'll need to extract that addon manually to your "custom" folder to fix it yourself.

not working, added the cfg and put the stuff in the right folder. no idea how to run this

worked well in css and gmod too. nicely done

Well, you put something on the Workshop hoping people can use it the same as you and then, as you can see, later find out that it doesn't work because of the weird file loading Valve does. At that point, what am I supposed to do? Both you and I can't do anything about it. Is it really so much trouble to ask you to do a few extra steps instead of pressing one button?

why put this in the workshop if it doesn't work when you install it through the workshop? genuine question

Yeah, this feature made it's way into L4D and maybe TF2 but it's been in the engine for a while and was meant to be included all the way back in EP2. The EP2 particles are also much more detailed as L4D's were optimised for multiplayer.

didn't valve use these in left 4 dead? that's where most of their cut half life content goes anyways

I tested without MultiLoader. It seems to be either the custom impact_fx.pcf particles or the manifest file. Either way, it doesn't work properly when loaded through the workshop

it could also be any mod that includes its own particles_manifest.txt file

this and seemingly all mods that change the impact effects are not compatible with Script MultiLoader - so if anyone's having trouble, try disabling that and see if this starts working

After testing I found out this addon will not work when downloaded through the workshop. Either extract the .vpk archive of this addon to the "hl2_complete" folder or download from the GameBanana page https://gamebanana.com/mods/563680
Sorry for the trouble again for creating another addon that requires more than just pressing subscribe but I really can't do anything about it.

concrete/tile impacts broken, the little chunks fly in the wrong direction.

I got it to work by adding the command to launch options (in quotes)

"cl_new_impact_effects 1"

Alright, thank you.

I'll test everything some time later but moving the files from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\220\3388681321
to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life 2\hl2\custom
should fix the issues

Well, I don't really know on how its happening but the issue is that I just don't see any of the new particle effects, like whenever I shoot a surface like a concrete wall, there would be no impact effect, not even the old particles.

Are the old particles being shown or none at all? If none then it's possible that you have a mod conflict or some issue causing the addon to not load properly. If the old particles are shown then the autoexec isn't sending the "cl_new_impact_effects 1" command properly

I tried using this mod and I've put in the autoexec.cfg file in the folder and while it does work command-wise, it doesn't show any of the new particle effects? I'm confused here.

I see so many things Valve has forgotten to do in anniversay it seems.

Sorry all those suggestions won't be possible as they require code edits.

Purple blood is a mistake on Valve's part since they forgot to create a blood color definition in code. Unique impacts require the code to be edited to add more impact types. Antlion impacts should show in EP2 but I guess it requires code edits. Water and slime particle impacts require code edits. You know what else requires code edits? A single line to re-enable NPC turning animations which they disabled in EP2 for some issue that has long since been fixed

@Desano That would be great, reminds me how a while back someone did make a restoration of the original toxic water particles on Gamebannana. https://gamebanana.com/mods/373490

@Drag0n I agree with him maybe u can do improvements on 2004 effects? like fire, blood and water splash?

Wow, these look fantastic. Only issue I found is that the antlion impact effects don't show up, any chance of a fix?

Hey just a suggestion, but have you considered "fixing" the Classic blood effects for episode 1 and 2? They work, but under certain lighting conditions the blood turns purple. (Also purple for Hunters)

Looks great!

Yes

Do they work in Base HL2 and ep1?

i see

The command cl_new_impact_effects needs to be set to 1 for the game to use the particles

Why do we need to create a autoexec.cfg