Instead of cluttering the offtopic topic with something that's a topic i'll do this thread
i've just got renderer particles working though it's only fired through a special deformVertexes (compatibility/ehnancing for mods in a Darkplaces way?). It's actually a port of the very hacked cgame particle code (rather than take JK2/JA/s FX system, MME system (which is msvc2007+ centric) and RTCW/ET's system)