Black squares in Particle Editor problem

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Black squares in Particle Editor problem

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So, I got PE. I open it up, it gets the error about common.lvl. I keep going. I get to opening a .fx file. I open it up. It's all black squares. I know this is a common problem, but I thought it generally did that when it wasn't in _lvl_pc. What's wrong?
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http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... =27&t=5322
maxloef 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.
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The thing is that I'm using the PE that was released by Face.
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They are the same
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oh. So I need to open the munged assets? 'cuz that's what I'm thinking by what maxloef said.
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If you followed SkyHawk's install instructions when you downloaded the files then you should already have a Munged folder residing with PE that includes most of the munged files you need.
The problem here is that you might be trying to open an fx that did not have it's munged files included in the Munged folder that came with the files you downloaded, to fix this just add them yourself.
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oh. That makes sense.
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