Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies/@comment-4546491-20140414121735/@comment-4009269-20160716043407

N-N-N-Necrobump!!!

Over two years later, I have finally determined how to edit particle animations! It was right in front of our faces the whole time.

In PvZUtil, click Decompress, then select the compiled particle animation (.xml.compiled) and it will export a decompressed version of the compiled version. From there, you can edit the decompressed version with a hex editor to change the images it uses. You can't actually change the effect of the particle, though through clever usage of the existing particle animations, some rearrangements, and this decompression method, you should be able to get pretty much any effect you want! Then just use the Compress button to re-compress it to the .xml.compiled file.

I wonder if anyone still cares.