Now you have an edited material and are ready to put it into the game. It can only be accomplished through trial and error STEP 3 : Getting your material in game In VTFEdit, it’s impossible to be sure which way is up. You can see this with the water barrel, where “WATER” is turned upside down.

TIP : Consider keeping a backup of both your image and the original texture just in case you need to make edits later. Make sure when editing that you stay within the resolution of the image, otherwise it will not appear properly once we import it back into Gmod.įor this, you use whatever 2D image manipulation program you have, whether it be Photoshop or MS Paint, as long as it gets the job done.

This section is the fun part, as you get to do what you want with your material. The procedure works the same as described above select your addon, drag it over “gmad.exe” and a folder should appear STEP 2 : Editing your material Some addons still remain in the “addons” folder located in the “garrysmod” folder. Export the material to a folder on your computer as a. If the model you are trying to add a custom texture to is from Garry’s Mod or another Source game, you are going to need to use GCFScape to access the materials.įor the sake of example, we are going to use this Water Barrel’s texture from Team Fortress 2.ħ. However, what if you don’t know what the material you are trying to edit looks like? For this there are two methods USING GCFSCAPE (IN-GAME MATERIALS ONLY) You will need two addons from the workshop:Īlright, now you have your tools and you are ready to start adding your materials.

– (Not really needed, but highly recommended).

Any Image manipulating program (Photoshop, GIMP, Paint, etc…).

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