[color=#FF8040]Particle Editor Working (FAQ)[/color] wrote:...
A note about blocky looking effects when viewed in PE:

[color=#FFBF40]psych0fred[/color] wrote:If you use the particle editor and the particle effects you open look like colored squares then the program is not finding the munged assets it needs to display them.

To fix this you need to copy the munged assets to a location the particle editor can find. Internally we have everything in common\munged but I don't think I gave you that with the mod tools, so you would need to recreate the munged assets by copying all the files into your mod's project common\effects folder and munging them from there. I haven't tried this, and you should only do it to restore the munged assets you need to run all the effects with the particle editor because if you do this in a real project it will fatten the project unnecessarily. All you are trying to do is copy the files need to create the munged files you need so they can be copied into a location such as ParticleEditor\Munged where the particleeditor is looking for them.

You can get the munged effects from Method #2 mentioned earlier in this post; just extract the munged folder to the same location as the Particle Editor executable.