Import Textures

[H2oKiD01]

How do I import my own texture so that I can use in hammer? Is it possible to do so?

[Blaze]

I know it is possible, you just need to convert the file into a valve file. Valve included a program to switch a photo into VMT or VMF (Forgot which one). I'm looking for a tut on doing this now and I'll post back if I can find it. If not I'll just use Ducks ;D

I found it!

Go here for a tutorial on making custom textures (not the best but it works) developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Material

[Duck]

actually its quite simple...

First start photoshop ( I use photoshop cs2) and make your texture, and save as a .vtf on your desktop

Now you go to your cstrike/materials folder and make a folder and name if of your choice

then you open notepad and type

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "<name of folder in cstrike/materials/nameofvtf>"
"%keywords" "cstrike"
}

and save that as a .vmt

and put the .vtf and .vmt in your folder that you named in your cstrike/materials folder.

Ex.-

I make a picture of transparent glass save it to my desktop name it glass.vtf

then I make a folder in my cstrike/materials folder called glass

then I open up notepad and type:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"basetexture" "glass/glass"
"%keywords" "cstrike"
}

and I save that as an all file glass.vmt on my desktop

then I place them both in the folder in my cstrike/materials folder named glass

If that doesn't work, I am still having trouble myself with it, I will get fixed as soon as I get it figured out.