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Hello, some time back I assembled a few fireworks code ... and I thought there looked like particles ... today it was 4th of July, so I tried to make a quickie opportunistic machinima, but I find that the firework textures are appearing 'squarish', I am wondering if there's been some changes in the way particles are rendered?
Here's the clip
http://youtu.be/Zn67cht-0MM

In the past two days (since July 3) I've seen this problem with a couple of scripted objects also. In both cases they had been working properly before, but suddenly the "smoke" particles behave as if the texture used as their pattern was not available. I suspect the issue is actually a problem with the asset database rather than particle scripting.

To test this, with the object I had created, a fire brazier that uses Handy Low's Fire System to generate both fire and smoke, I tried changing the textures for each component. One or two textures still work properly, but the rest fail, showing the blank "square" that indicates the texture is not available.

YES! This is happening to me as well. It started yesterday, or perhaps earlier. I thought it was one smoke smoke particle messed up in the cashe, but now that you mention it, I looked around and EVERY PARTICLE EFFECT in my world is messed up. Some of the particles look like solid white rectangles, other ones look like reverse video versions of themselves (eg: black rain drops in a white rectangle). These are all particle emitters that I have had running successfully for weeks or months before. Now they look very bad.

However, if I look the textures up in inventory and view them, they look fine. It is only when they come out as particle that they look wrong. I think this needs to be elevated to a BIG BLACK BUG that needs to be fixed!

Ilan and Oren are working on it. See: http://www.kitely.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1787

Happy to know Kitely Gods are working on it.
I hope it turns out like this
http://youtu.be/5u1clIYPZxg
I recorded this last night