Tonemapscale is not a great way to make a scene darker because it also makes particles darker, you need to use a map that has no maplighting so that the particles won't go invisible. So try to look for a dark / night version of the map you're using or try to remove the maplighting yourself in Hammer

https://gyazo.com/2d5c51b827897cf941341b50e8bb1dbe

well the particle editor you'll probably barely ever use anyway so don't worry about it, as long as you have the same User interface as the first screenshot, everything should be normal. Yeah i know its a bit annoying that sfm closes if you try to close the particle editor, same if you were to leave game when pressed F11

I think you may have accidentally selected the particle editor tool, just go to tools above and select ''switch to sfm''

You might need to decompile the map and enable HDR and or Dynamic range in hammer, although I'm not a hammer expert. But usually when the lights look like that is due to missing HDR and it might also glitch your work camera.

had a similar problem once, try this: go to your sfm folder (either Program Files x86 or whatever other map) and go to steamapps\common\SourceFilmmaker\game\platform\config, and delete ''ingamedialoguefig.vdf'' I should normally fix your model viewer and stuff with the next restart.

no problem !

right click (on the roottransform) > Utilities > 'add scale control to models'

Lol thanks. Never thought anyone else would bother to check out. If you're interested the whole video has been released couple of weeks ago

no problem!