all right thanks i found it. thanks for replyng. it's hard to find people who make tutorials to still stick around them, when tutorials get older the users just ditch em and never respond to u anymore ya know.
Was watching some 3kliksphilip while mapping. Forgot how to do custom textures. Click the first video that pops up when I search. Back to 3kilksphilip. The unescapable Philip.
Great tutorial short and to the point. This is what I was looking for and after some time stuck with the textures not loading, I finally got it working. Great job man, many thanks!!
You have made this very simple. I wish this video was around years ago when I was starting to make maps. Now after many years of inactivity I am returning to the Source Engine for CS:GO, this is not only a nice tutorial but a very nice refresher. Any chance you'll go into details on various properties you can make in vmt?
Hey, 3k. This tutorial doesn't really help when you want to Release the maps With the custom textures. Only the person who owns the textures will see them. You need to do a follow up tutorial on porting maps to steam With the textures embedded within the maps files, so that other people who download the maps get to see the textures as well! This comment is for 3k, as many will say to "use pakrat" or "try VIDE" but the wikis dont adequately explain HOW to use them, only what they are. So, a video tutorial may come in handy for those of us who are New to making custom textured maps.
All you need to do is create a folder called materials in your addon folder, add the textures to the materials folder and then publish it, and when people subscribe to the addon the textures will automatically be placed into their materials folder. There's no need for pakrat.
At Portal 2, the material directory is not "Portal 2\portal2\materials" (In Hammer it appeares, but ingame it is rendered as a flashing flat white texture) The right folder is "Portal 2\platform\materials" But anyway, it's working, so thx philip for great tutorial as always :)
This one time I was looking for a way to bounce all my tracks in Ableton at once. Found a 10 minute tutorial where the guy talked for like 5 minutes about his track and stuff and played his song and whatnot. Finally he gets to the menu where you render the audio, and guess what? The solution is right in the render menu, in a little drop down box. It took him 10 minutes to show something I could have told you in a sentence.
Now this is a damn good video. Good work. Why can't everyone else on the planet teach this well?! Now I'm just angry that other ppl cannot teach this well. Great, there goes my blood pressure-up, up, up. Tyvm for taking the time to make this video and sharing it.
Thanks man. I wanted to edit textures mods I got from steam. But I'm no modder so I didnt know what to do. Kept looking online on how to open vmt files, and some pops up showing what and how to open it. But didnt say clearly WHAT vmt files are. You solve my question 30 seconds in. Really thanks a bunch.
Jakob, if a texture shows up in hammer but not in the game its probably because its from another game, you could find which game its from, then copy the texture from the game files into a new file within the game you want it to work with
Actually the easiest way to create a custom texture is to go use a picture on your computer and use it as your spray, then it'll be available in the Hammer Editor, you don't even need the VMF file or VMT file and it can be any resolution you want, I don't know if this was an intended feature or not but it works 100%
When you have your VTFEdit open, click "Options" and click "Auto Create VMT File". You can also click "Tools" and then "Create VMT File", but if you chose the last you have to do it everytime ;-)
Hey Philip. You have by far the best Hammer tutorials. In following this one, everything works perfectly but the textures won't appear in game (purple and black squares instead). I have followed all the steps correctly and they show up nicely in Hammer. Any ideas?
Half-Life 1 uses a different file format for textures. You need wad files which must go to the valve folder if I remember correctly. You need to select those in the worldcraft options.
I believe how I can help: If you want it to download automatically when they go to play the map, I think you should include a .res file. But if you're going to pack the materials with the map, do the following: You have to download a program called 7-Zip. It's a *free* file manager. And then, using 7-Zip, create a new .zip file by right-clicking the desktop or an empty space and selecting '7-Zip < Create *.zip archive' or something similar. After doing that, open the .zip file, and then right-click on an empty space _inside_ of the .zip file, and select 'New folder' or 'Create folder'. Make 2 of them, with one being 'maps', and the second one being 'materials'. Now, minimize 7-Zip, and open the folder where your map is located. Copy the .bsp file into the folder 'maps', located in your .zip file, and wait for the map file to 'inject' itself. After doing that, go to your 'materials' folder (not in 7-Zip), and copy the materials into the 'materials' folder in your .zip file. NOTE: In 7-Zip, you have to open a folder inside the .zip file, and *then* put the file in there. I hope it sums it up!
Thank you for starting the tutorial at the beginning of the video, and not going "hey guys hwats up, its me again dont forget to check out my other tutorials, my mom is alright thanks for asking, anyways here's the tutorial, after 5 more minutes of me talking and using pirate bay"
If you want custom textures/sounds etc to be included in the bsp file so people dont have to download them seperately. You need pakrat (google it) after you put your map together, run pakrat on it, it creates a new bsp file for the map, rename the old one. Test the new bsp file to see that it works. Pakrat is super easy to use.
Well, for private reasons, I do need them. I figured it this morning, I just went into Tools>Convert Folder, thanks for the help though. I hope people can see my comment if they're having the same problem.
If the VTFedit wont make a VMT file go into options and there should be a cross-off sign saying "auto create VMT-file" and then save as. and then it should create a VMT file
You could go to Tools->Create VMT, and browse the "Base Texture 1" to your file, but move it to your Materials folder first. Then you don't have to edit it.
Btw, I can convert more files into .VTF at once, or I have to manually convert them one by one, since I wanna convert 900+ .BMP format materials into .VTF (I resized them to 256x256 already.)
I wish there were more in depth videos on how to do this, I'm shit with computers and I have no idea what's going on in this video. Anyone know a tutorial I can find to help me import textures to SDK or is this as good as it gets?
For those who are still having issues with the VMT file, you can toggle 'Auto Create VMT file' by hitting the options button. It's the first thing that will appear in your screen.
Hello mate, great channel. I used to map a lot in source years ago and have recently built a PC after having several years off and your videos are really inspiring me to get back into it. I remember using pakrat to embed all my custom textures into the .bsp, is this still the case with cs go? Thanks :)
where would the dev/measure textures be located? in the CSGO folder, or the SDK folder? i can't seem to find them. i only ask because i want to use them as a reference to creating my own dev textures. good channel. subbed. and your site is bookmarked. great stuff.
For the dummies out there, keep in mind that the filepaths in the description may not be the same as yours. If you installed on the hard drive, it could be C:\Program files or C:\Program files (x86)
I needed this eventually, but what I need first is the best way to make a diagonal wall that is both the same width as the rest of the walls in the building, and lines up to the grid. Think you can give me some tips?
Its random PC launguage symbols you know if like you try to type a different language in like say CoD it will give out random gibberish. And it doesnt say just VMT file or VTF file it says Valve Material/Texture File.
Jesus christ, I've been trying everything to get my texture to work and nothing did it. turns out I made a .vmf file instead of a .vmt Thanks for the help lol
there are a lot another videos that shows you how to do with gm but hl2 MUST be in sdk (if you installed portal1/hl2/css/...(source games) first and THEN sdk)
I'm trying to make a remake of my CS:Source map, but I can't seem to activate the custom textures for CS:GO in hammer editor. I took the vtf and vmt files from the old map, put it into ...steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\materials\mytextures (vmt files say folder is: mytextures ame) - now when I open Hammer editor the textures are missing even though I've selected the folder in the options for materials. What am I missing here?
What's inside the "Really sick stuff that nobody must ever see" Folder???
+TheOnlyMichael161 Really sick stuff that nobody must ever see.
+TheOnlyMichael161 kittens.
your mum
When a reply gets more likes than the original comment you know shits real
Tentacle porn
One thing left to say: You're the best.
"Definitely not porn"
I didn't see that, despite rewatching the video quite a few times
@@docpossum2460 its one of his drives at 1:40
lmao i used this video to discreetly put furry porn on a tv in my level
haha yes yahia! you go! :)
@@adog3129 Disgusting degeneracy.
The reason I love these videos is because Phillip makes the smallest things soo EPIC!
1:38
"H:\Definitely Not Porn"
Philip you are a god.
"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "NAMEOFTEXTUREHERE"
"$translucent" 1
"$decal" "1"
"$decalscale" "0.35"
}
its for decals, i hope its works.
Thx idk why it didnt work but when i pasted in your code i worked THX
thanks man i love you
anyone else getting the error texture from this? am i doing something wrong?
all right thanks i found it. thanks for replyng. it's hard to find people who make tutorials to still stick around them, when tutorials get older the users just ditch em and never respond to u anymore ya know.
Was watching some 3kliksphilip while mapping. Forgot how to do custom textures. Click the first video that pops up when I search. Back to 3kilksphilip. The unescapable Philip.
Great tutorial short and to the point. This is what I was looking for and after some time stuck with the textures not loading, I finally got it working. Great job man, many thanks!!
Hey, where did you download vtfedit as of august 2020?
You have made this very simple. I wish this video was around years ago when I was starting to make maps. Now after many years of inactivity I am returning to the Source Engine for CS:GO, this is not only a nice tutorial but a very nice refresher. Any chance you'll go into details on various properties you can make in vmt?
best tutorial ever, short and clear, many thanks dude
Short, to-the-point, and extremely helpful. Thank you!
Oh, wow, the way I learned to do it is way more complex than that. Thanks for making this.
!!! In options, you might have to enable " Auto create VMT file " !!!
thanks a lot
Hey, 3k.
This tutorial doesn't really help when you want to Release the maps With the custom textures. Only the person who owns the textures will see them.
You need to do a follow up tutorial on porting maps to steam With the textures embedded within the maps files, so that other people who download the maps get to see the textures as well!
This comment is for 3k, as many will say to "use pakrat" or "try VIDE" but the wikis dont adequately explain HOW to use them, only what they are. So, a video tutorial may come in handy for those of us who are New to making custom textured maps.
so how ?
Just send your map with textures inside archive
VIDE is essential tool , i agree with you
All you need to do is create a folder called materials in your addon folder, add the textures to the materials folder and then publish it, and when people subscribe to the addon the textures will automatically be placed into their materials folder. There's no need for pakrat.
@@liam6345 addon folder?
this is an awesome tutorial, and even as old as it is, the method still works on modern windows!
Amazingly extremely helpful
as usual
At Portal 2, the material directory is not "Portal 2\portal2\materials" (In Hammer it appeares, but ingame it is rendered as a flashing flat white texture)
The right folder is "Portal 2\platform\materials"
But anyway, it's working, so thx philip for great tutorial as always :)
All your Source SDK tutorials 10/10
That worked. It makes the texture itself transparent but only very slightly. Thanks a lot!
I find your info very handy. It saves me time in searching through oodles of out dated forums. Thanks!
When i look for hammer tuts on youtube and see the name "3kliksphilip" it's an epic win.
This one time I was looking for a way to bounce all my tracks in Ableton at once. Found a 10 minute tutorial where the guy talked for like 5 minutes about his track and stuff and played his song and whatnot. Finally he gets to the menu where you render the audio, and guess what? The solution is right in the render menu, in a little drop down box. It took him 10 minutes to show something I could have told you in a sentence.
love your tutorials so short but work so well
In VTFEdit, go to Options and make sure that "Auto Create VMT File" is enabled. If it isn't you wont get a vmt file.
quick, concise and clear as always
Now this is a damn good video. Good work. Why can't everyone else on the planet teach this well?! Now I'm just angry that other ppl cannot teach this well. Great, there goes my blood pressure-up, up, up.
Tyvm for taking the time to make this video and sharing it.
Guys, forget about vtf edit - just find a photoshop or gimp export or something
I found one and it worked for me
Very good tutorial, Short, concise, and informative!! Well done!
Hey! The link no longer works. Can you update it?
You have saved my life.
Thanks man. I wanted to edit textures mods I got from steam. But I'm no modder so I didnt know what to do. Kept looking online on how to open vmt files, and some pops up showing what and how to open it. But didnt say clearly WHAT vmt files are. You solve my question 30 seconds in. Really thanks a bunch.
I've changed the folder's name and and somehow it worked. Thanks anyway. Great videos btw.
im glad you made this, or that someone asked you to. ty!
Thank you, since it’s higher quality, it’s much easier to see soo thank you
Edit: why is hammer crashing about my texture?
I don't see a VMT file!
Oh Okay...
Thanks for helping :)
You now have to manually change this in VTFEdit's options menu. Tick "Auto Create VMT File" or something.
i love you philip you are the goat
Christ dude right to the good stuff, no bullshit beforehand. Thank you!
Jakob, if a texture shows up in hammer but not in the game its probably because its from another game, you could find which game its from, then copy the texture from the game files into a new file within the game you want it to work with
Actually the easiest way to create a custom texture is to go use a picture on your computer and use it as your spray, then it'll be available in the Hammer Editor, you don't even need the VMF file or VMT file and it can be any resolution you want, I don't know if this was an intended feature or not but it works 100%
What do you mean "use it as your spray"? Do you mean desktop background?
@@emilf7150
"Use it as your spray" what do you think I mean?
When you have your VTFEdit open, click "Options" and click "Auto Create VMT File". You can also click "Tools" and then "Create VMT File", but if you chose the last you have to do it everytime ;-)
Incredibly helpful video!
Holy shit... When I started this video I was like "I recognize this voice" Sure enough, it's kliksphilip. I had no idea you did tutorials.
Hey Philip. You have by far the best Hammer tutorials. In following this one, everything works perfectly but the textures won't appear in game (purple and black squares instead). I have followed all the steps correctly and they show up nicely in Hammer. Any ideas?
Half-Life 1 uses a different file format for textures. You need wad files which must go to the valve folder if I remember correctly. You need to select those in the worldcraft options.
Thanks 3kliksphilip, nice tutorial!
Does the texture automatically download for people who use the map? If not how to I make sure they have it?
I believe how I can help:
If you want it to download automatically when they go to play the map, I think you should include a .res file.
But if you're going to pack the materials with the map, do the following:
You have to download a program called 7-Zip. It's a *free* file manager.
And then, using 7-Zip, create a new .zip file by right-clicking the desktop or an empty space and selecting '7-Zip < Create *.zip archive' or something similar.
After doing that, open the .zip file, and then right-click on an empty space _inside_ of the .zip file, and select 'New folder' or 'Create folder'. Make 2 of them, with one being 'maps', and the second one being 'materials'.
Now, minimize 7-Zip, and open the folder where your map is located. Copy the .bsp file into the folder 'maps', located in your .zip file, and wait for the map file to 'inject' itself.
After doing that, go to your 'materials' folder (not in 7-Zip), and copy the materials into the 'materials' folder in your .zip file.
NOTE: In 7-Zip, you have to open a folder inside the .zip file, and *then* put the file in there.
I hope it sums it up!
@@admersuko2535 How do you make a .res file?
If Your VTF File Doesn't come With A VMT File when Saving, Open VTFEdit Go To Options Then Check "Auto Create VMT File"
This Should Fix It :)
Thank you for starting the tutorial at the beginning of the video, and not going "hey guys hwats up, its me again dont forget to check out my other tutorials, my mom is alright thanks for asking, anyways here's the tutorial, after 5 more minutes of me talking and using pirate bay"
If you want custom textures/sounds etc to be included in the bsp file so people dont have to download them seperately. You need pakrat (google it) after you put your map together, run pakrat on it, it creates a new bsp file for the map, rename the old one. Test the new bsp file to see that it works. Pakrat is super easy to use.
For me it only makes a vtf file.
"go into the options and you should see its says "Auto Create VMT" file. Just check it m8 " -Sinthetic Swine
***** thanks m8
thank Sinthetic Swine he created the comment i jsut reposted it :D
one of best tutorials Subscribed :)
Finally a good tutorial for this! ty bro
Wow man your videos still lit in 2020
(VTFEdit now has another site by the way)
Just Uploaded it to the Workshop, friends tried it out, the textures are missing for them, how do i fix it ?
This was incredibly helpful, and I don't believe you are getting have the thanks you deserve.
The custom texturs to me is just blank it still sees the file but when I replace it , it doesn't work
Well, for private reasons, I do need them. I figured it this morning, I just went into Tools>Convert Folder, thanks for the help though. I hope people can see my comment if they're having the same problem.
If in vtf edit you save it to the final location you can have it so it automatically has the correct directory in the vmt
If the VTFedit wont make a VMT file go into options and there should be a cross-off sign saying "auto create VMT-file" and then save as.
and then it should create a VMT file
You could go to Tools->Create VMT, and browse the "Base Texture 1" to your file, but move it to your Materials folder first. Then you don't have to edit it.
Btw, I can convert more files into .VTF at once, or I have to manually convert them one by one, since I wanna convert 900+ .BMP format materials into .VTF (I resized them to 256x256 already.)
thanks a lot for the concise and helpful vid
I wish there were more in depth videos on how to do this, I'm shit with computers and I have no idea what's going on in this video. Anyone know a tutorial I can find to help me import textures to SDK or is this as good as it gets?
You helped me a lot!!! Thanks for this great tutorial
he has that in other videos, just search for them.
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much!
Awesome tutorial. Thank you for making it!
Thanks Philip. I found out how to fix my image.
I'm curious about the folder "really sick stuff nobody must ever see". What's in that folder?
For those who are still having issues with the VMT file, you can toggle 'Auto Create VMT file' by hitting the options button. It's the first thing that will appear in your screen.
Can u release the texture pls it look so good
Thank you!!
It's working! You're the best!
thanks for the tutorial, very helpful!
Hello mate, great channel. I used to map a lot in source years ago and have recently built a PC after having several years off and your videos are really inspiring me to get back into it. I remember using pakrat to embed all my custom textures into the .bsp, is this still the case with cs go? Thanks :)
Yes now I can use the frontline textures yes! Thanks for making this!
Hello past me. You were really stupid back then.
How dare you say that.
Lol your all dumb.
@@Vycter_Real no you
@@HumanGrunt ok boomer
Jk
How to change the texture's material? Like it's wood or metal or else?
Also, nice video, extremely helpful !
2:50 NO! all those years of work down the drain! how could u do that philip?
Thanks. Needed that!
Thank you so much, You succeeded learn me make maps :)
the vmt and vtf files don't appear on my desktop when i save as. any ideas?
where would the dev/measure textures be located? in the CSGO folder, or the SDK folder? i can't seem to find them. i only ask because i want to use them as a reference to creating my own dev textures.
good channel. subbed. and your site is bookmarked. great stuff.
The fact you have 19 Blu-Ray drives that can be virtual drives is fucking insane
For the dummies out there, keep in mind that the filepaths in the description may not be the same as yours. If you installed on the hard drive, it could be C:\Program files or C:\Program files (x86)
I needed this eventually, but what I need first is the best way to make a diagonal wall that is both the same width as the rest of the walls in the building, and lines up to the grid. Think you can give me some tips?
Worked for me! Thanks.
Really sick stuff nobody must ever see kek
thank you! it actually worked!
Philip, how do you put in a texture with transparency? Like, let's say I have a logo .PNG that I want in the game. VTFEdit screws it up completely.
+Tibi2001 try 'Modulate' under Create VMT options
+masterofmusic Where do i find it??
Terry Armstrong Exactly where I said, under create VMT options, just look around at all the options, it's under a drop-down menu you can't miss it..
ok thanks. i found it now ^^
There's also a VTF plugin for GIMP, which I swear on.
Its random PC launguage symbols you know if like you try to type a different language in like say CoD it will give out random gibberish.
And it doesnt say just VMT file or VTF file it says Valve Material/Texture File.
Hey....The Best Tut ever ;-)
Jesus christ, I've been trying everything to get my texture to work and nothing did it. turns out I made a .vmf file instead of a .vmt
Thanks for the help lol
"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server." shows up when ever I click the link to VTFEDIT :(
Oh my god, thank you so much!!!!!! it worked!
my texture was made in paint.net and it has transparency on it
i made everything you showed but the transparent part is white for me
there are a lot another videos that shows you how to do with gm but hl2 MUST be in sdk (if you installed portal1/hl2/css/...(source games) first and THEN sdk)
Can you make a tutorial on how to create bumpmaps please? ;_; Or maybe advanced custom textures in hammer (e.g. decals, or describe the vmf more).
I'm trying to make a remake of my CS:Source map, but I can't seem to activate the custom textures for CS:GO in hammer editor. I took the vtf and vmt files from the old map, put it into ...steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\materials\mytextures (vmt files say folder is: mytextures
ame) - now when I open Hammer editor the textures are missing even though I've selected the folder in the options for materials. What am I missing here?
I did every step to make it...
Still shows the missing texture ;-; welp plz