So my particles are broken, saw that having a broken pcf can cause that to be an issue, where you instance the particles, and it causes a crash.

I recently had a model that was causing conflicts (at least I assume) which I downloaded from sfmlab, deleted it and everything was back to normal no problem

Now out of nowhere its doing the same thing even though that pcf is gone and was already working just fine before.

Went ahead and removed particles and sorted them, add on particles, workshop particles, all into seperate folders on another drive for saving or moving back later, and only have the starter pcf's from when you download sfm (tf,hl all that stuff) have double checked they are all the normal regular particles.

The program still suffers the issue with the bug.




Description of said bug in detail:

Opening particle effect for example: blood_trail.pcf

The drop down menu won't show for the Particle System Definition it is just blank

When hitting OK it spawn in a particle that isn't a real particle labelled as 1

When instancing the fake particle it crashed sfm.

Appreciate any help, dunno what am doing wrong at this point.


Let me know if I need to explain anything I didn't write properly or explain well. Thanks!