Creating textures... Created 19 years ago2005-04-01 17:28:57 UTC by Avison

What can I use to create textures? And where do I put completed textures so they can be applied?

You use any image program to create textures. I use photoshop. Save it as TGA (24) and use the vtex.exe program located in your source sdk hl2 bin folder.

It should create a TXT and VTF file, rename the txt to .VMF and edit the data (it is blank originally) so that you get the coding for the texture. Default simple code is:

"LightmappedGeneric"

{

"$basetexture" "dir in texture folder/texture name"

}

Once moved in to the appropriate texture folder, once you restart hammer you should see your new texture under its name. So just type in your texture hame in the texture application viewer and it should come up.

This was kind of a sloppy response because I am kind of lazy right now, and I am sure someone will post a link to a tutorial sooner or later - hope this at least gives you an idea

Oh yes and I forgot to say it must be a multiple of 2, so like 64X64, 128X128. etc... up to 512X512

Thats image size

What folder do i put it in?

and i cant find a vtex.exe...

found it but dont know how it works...

Tutorial. Most recent.