Remove cursor particle effect

[Hiorth]

Hello,

is there a way to remove the cursor particle effect from a wallpaper downloaded from the Workshop?

I like the wallpaper itself but I really dislike having a effect wherever I move my following cursor.

[LastHero]

I don't know if you still need this, but I was struggling with this myself (been googling this and got to this topic) so I just leave what I found out in case someone will be looking for this.

To remove those particles you need to open a folder that contains this wallpaper (easy way : right click in wallpaper browser -> open in explorer), then you need to open scene.pkg file with a text editor (preferably Notepad++[notepad-plus-plus.org]),
after opening the file, press Ctrl + F to search, type in halo and hit search.
You need to find something close to this(usually at the end of the .pkg file):

 "material" : "materials/particle/halo_1.json",
"maxcount" : 500,
"operator" : 

There, you need to change the maxcount value to 0.
It is important to leave the file length untouched or your wallpaper will most likely stop working, so you probably want to replace all numbers with 0 like this:

 "material" : "materials/particle/halo_1.json",
"maxcount" : 000,
"operator" : 

or you can use a few space characters to preserve the same file length.
That's it. Now save the file, go to Wallpaper Engine, select another wallpaper and then switch back to the one you changed. Now it should be working without this nasty particles around cursor :).

[ANTI FUN]

Originally posted by LastHero:

I don't know if you still need this, but I was struggling with this myself (been googling this and got to this topic) so I just leave what I found out in case someone will be looking for this.

To remove those particles you need to open a folder that contains this wallpaper (easy way : right click in wallpaper browser -> open in explorer), then you need to open scene.pkg file with a text editor (preferably Notepad++[notepad-plus-plus.org]),
after opening the file, press Ctrl + F to search, type in halo and hit search.
You need to find something close to this(usually at the end of the .pkg file):

 "material" : "materials/particle/halo_1.json",
"maxcount" : 500,
"operator" : 

There, you need to change the maxcount value to 0.
It is important to leave the file length untouched or your wallpaper will most likely stop working, so you probably want to replace all numbers with 0 like this:

 "material" : "materials/particle/halo_1.json",
"maxcount" : 000,
"operator" : 

or you can use a few space characters to preserve the same file length.
That's it. Now save the file, go to Wallpaper Engine, select another wallpaper and then switch back to the one you changed. Now it should be working without this nasty particles around cursor :).

Worked Thanks!!

[ImTotallyNormal]

Hi! If anyone has found this discussion and the fix here is outdated like it was for my wallpaper i was trying to remove the cursor effect from, the fix is still similar just slightly different in the .pkg file.

I still used Notepad++

I found that if you find this near the bottom of of the .pkg file:

"emitter" :
[
{
"directions" : "1 1 0",
"distancemax" : 0,
"distancemin" : 0,
"flags" : 2,
"id" : 5,
"name" : "sphererandom",
"origin" : "0 0 0",
"rate" : 00
}

And change the "rate" near the bottom to 00, ensuring the text file is still the exact same length as explained before, then this should remove the cursor effect.

I already changed my rate to 00 but I believe mine was on something like 52.

So 52 become 00 but if it's a triple figure like 132, it'd become 000.

Hope this helps someone needing a more updated fix :)

[柯斯达很健康]

Originally posted by LastHero:

I don't know if you still need this, but I was struggling with this myself (been googling this and got to this topic) so I just leave what I found out in case someone will be looking for this.

To remove those particles you need to open a folder that contains this wallpaper (easy way : right click in wallpaper browser -> open in explorer), then you need to open scene.pkg file with a text editor (preferably Notepad++[notepad-plus-plus.org]),
after opening the file, press Ctrl + F to search, type in halo and hit search.
You need to find something close to this(usually at the end of the .pkg file):

 "material" : "materials/particle/halo_1.json",
"maxcount" : 500,
"operator" : 

There, you need to change the maxcount value to 0.
It is important to leave the file length untouched or your wallpaper will most likely stop working, so you probably want to replace all numbers with 0 like this:

 "material" : "materials/particle/halo_1.json",
"maxcount" : 000,
"operator" : 

or you can use a few space characters to preserve the same file length.
That's it. Now save the file, go to Wallpaper Engine, select another wallpaper and then switch back to the one you changed. Now it should be working without this nasty particles around cursor :).

Thank you wise man! made my wallpaper perfect now, have a great one!

[Bruhsty]

This thread should not be used as answer anymore, I believe this was posted even before wallpapers had user properties. Just look in the user properties for the cursor trail options, these options are up to creator of the wallpaper to add, but usually you can find them, if there isn't any, try asking for this option in the comments of a wallpaper.

[vajper]

dont work sadly