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[ChrisG]

HOWTO #1
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/>How to create custom textures for Source SDK Hammer Editor?
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/>STEP 1 )
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/>Find or create a picture and open it with PAINT.net, GIMP
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/>or any other photo/picture editor which can save pictures as .tga!
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/>STEP 2 )
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/>Locate the "Change Size" Button!
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/>STEP 3 )
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/>Change the size to something which is divisible by
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/>2! Example: 1024x1024 or 1024x512 or 256x1024 (i mostly try to
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/>choose the same value for Heigth and Width)
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/>STEP 4 )
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/>Now "save as" your file in folder [1]
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/> or create your own folder in it [2] and
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/>save the file there. Choose a name (smiley) and save as .tga
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/>[3]
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/>STEP 5 )
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/>Now its a bit complicated. Open 3 windows with
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/>path [1], path [2] and path
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/>[3]!
/>In path window [1] locate
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/>your smiley.tga, in path window [2] locate the
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/>vtex.exe!
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/>STEP 6 )
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/>Drag [1] and Drop
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/>[2] your smiley.tga at the vtex.exe!
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/>STEP 7 )
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/>This will open a window where you can see the
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/>create process of your texture. If it looks like the picture it
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/>should be correct. If you can see an error which says that pictures
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/>have to be divisible by 2 then you didnt changed the size correctly.
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/>After this process a new folder in your 3rd window is created
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/>depending on where you've saved the file before.
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/>STEP 8 )
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/>Open this new folder and locate your smiley, the
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/>new ending is now .vtf!
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/>STEP 9 )
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/>In the same folder create a .txt [1]
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/> now and put the following text [2] in
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/>it. The folder GPOINT should be replaced with your folder name, if
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/>you saved your file to materials then you only have to write smiley
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/>without GPOINT/
/>For surfaceprop you can choose many other options
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/>instead of wood. Examples: paper, brick, concrete, stone, glass
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/>"LightmappedGeneric"
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/>{
/>"$basetexture" "GPOINT/smiley"
/>"$surfaceprop"
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/>"wood"
/>}
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/>STEP 10 )
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/>Now "save as" your file, before you save choose
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/>"all files" [1] and save it as smiley.vmt
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/>[2] to the same folder where the .vtf is!
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/>STEP 11 )
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/>Now you should have a smiley.vtf and a smiley.vmt
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/>file in your materials/... folder!
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/>STEP 12 ) Final Step
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/>Now open your Source SDK Hammer
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/>Editor, open the texture-browser, search for smiley [1]
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/> and Tadaaa, there is your smiley [2] and
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/>can be used as a normal texture for your map.
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/>Extras:
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/>FOR STEP 5 )
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I wrote
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/>a small batch so u mustn´t locate ur folder where your vtex.exe
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/>is.Just download the batch,
/>put it on your desktop and drag and drop
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/>it the tga over this file.
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/>http://www.file-upload.net/download-2980242/vtex.bat.html
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