Hi..
Note: I have Nothing against CGPlanet. They are in the business of selling pre-made Particle libraries...
HOWEVER . Every Combustion v2 user should be aware that they can download additional Particle Libraries for FREE for use in their systems.
These are posted at the Wondertouch.com website.
The relevant Particle Libraries should be dated AFTER January 2002, since most of the libraries BEFORE that date are already included with the release of Combustion v2. This includes effects such as Abstract, Explosions, Natural, etc.
All of these FREE Libraries are "User Submitted" and are generally very nice, but, unfortunately, they are totally un-organized. However, if you search through them, you can find some cool new unique effects.
To Install them to Combustion v2, first download a library. Next, simply use the "Load Library" button in Combustion. Or, you can drop the Illusion library file into the "Particle Libraries" folder in combustion's program folder and then restart combustion. The new library will be converted and it'll become another entry in the Library popup list.
Note that Particle Libraries actually have TWO different extensions:
*.IEL (illusion emitter lib)
*.ELC (emitter lib combustion)
When you load an IEL into c* it gets converted to a ELC.
Goto: http://wondertouch.com/downloads.asp
and keep combustin' !
Bye,
jack