Is there any way I can turn off the "particle systems dotn start until 20 seconds after the map has finished loading" bit, so i can make myself a nice little cube with a player start and a paticle system so I can fiddle/compile/fiddle/compile etc. rather than having to fiddle/compile/wait/fiddle/compile/wait? I knwo its only 20 seconds but it would still be handy...

as far as i kno u cant, i think its hard coded to allow the game to start up proper before any particles start

I think theres a program sumwhere with allows u to view particle systems out side of hl tho, never downloaded it so i wudnt kno where to get it from, im sure someone else will be able to tell u tho

/edit - was looking for particle information myself and stumbled across the program u need NSPEdit

Thanks! even though it seems to be non-QuArK compatible, it should still be mighty handy.

i think hes working on making it quark compatible