Source SDK - Custom textures in Hammer

[@RubenCatweed]

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.

[@Venomzz1337]

The reason I love these videos is because Phillip makes the smallest things soo EPIC!

[@Yahiamice]

"Definitely not porn"

[@docpossum2460]

I didn't see that, despite rewatching the video quite a few times

[@pyrogash3831]

@@docpossum2460 its one of his drives at 1:40

[@adog3129]

lmao i used this video to discreetly put furry porn on a tv in my level

[@c.l.magnus6360]

haha yes yahia! you go! :)

[@kean4218]

@@adog3129 Disgusting degeneracy.

[@prog_demos]

One thing left to say: You're the best.

[@XKDUBSTEP]

1:38 "H:\Definitely Not Porn" Philip you are a god.

[@mikestahhh]

What's inside the "Really sick stuff that nobody must ever see" Folder???

[@argmarc]

+TheOnlyMichael161 Really sick stuff that nobody must ever see.

[@Xfier246]

your mum

[@ripmo3503]

When a reply gets more likes than the original comment you know shits real

[@kersenify]

Tentacle porn

[@X1L2E3]

@@ripmo3503 lol so true

[@neoocm]

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!!

[@mirkoruhl9324]

Hey, where did you download vtfedit as of august 2020?

[@SUPERskrat1996]

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.

[@fossil64]

this is an awesome tutorial, and even as old as it is, the method still works on modern windows!

[@MacacoDoSistema]

best tutorial ever, short and clear, many thanks dude

[@Mr.T4LLY-0]

I find your info very handy. It saves me time in searching through oodles of out dated forums. Thanks!

[@SirL33Ts]

When i look for hammer tuts on youtube and see the name "3kliksphilip" it's an epic win.

[@samwolfe1000]

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 :)

[@nicolasleyton3592]

"LightmappedGeneric" { "$basetexture" "NAMEOFTEXTUREHERE" "$translucent" 1 "$decal" "1" "$decalscale" "0.35" } its for decals, i hope its works.

[@grim6793]

Thx idk why it didnt work but when i pasted in your code i worked THX

[@grongolio2122]

thanks man i love you

[@sci_pain3409]

anyone else getting the error texture from this? am i doing something wrong?

[@GUSRG]

All your Source SDK tutorials 10/10

[@Wolsk]

Oh, wow, the way I learned to do it is way more complex than that. Thanks for making this.

[@Tdogredman]

Amazingly extremely helpful as usual

[@abytc2023]

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.

[@FreelanceDev4life]

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?

[@MrGruntsworthy]

Short, to-the-point, and extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@Magnymbus]

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.

[@Action2me]

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.

[@the_real_oskar]

love your tutorials so short but work so well

[@Haunting]

That worked. It makes the texture itself transparent but only very slightly. Thanks a lot!

[@sgt.nikolaikalashnikov9497]

Christ dude right to the good stuff, no bullshit beforehand. Thank you!

[@dilydaly123]

Very good tutorial, Short, concise, and informative!! Well done!

[@Dubswitcher]

Guys, forget about vtf edit - just find a photoshop or gimp export or something I found one and it worked for me

[@Action2me]

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"

[@pkrazybrtz]

i love you philip you are the goat

[@Nozza56]

quick, concise and clear as always

[@Verbalaesthet]

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?

[@Verbalaesthet]

I've changed the folder's name and and somehow it worked. Thanks anyway. Great videos btw.

[@johnlime1469]

You have saved my life.

[@alexkubrat3868]

Hey! The link no longer works. Can you update it?

[@Vycter_Real]

Yes now I can use the frontline textures yes! Thanks for making this!

[@Vycter_Real]

Hello past me. You were really stupid back then.

[@Vycter_Real]

How dare you say that.

[@Vycter_Real]

Lol your all dumb.

[@HumanGrunt]

@@Vycter_Real no you

[@Vycter_Real]

@@HumanGrunt ok boomer Jk

[@burpyoshi9503]

Does the texture automatically download for people who use the map? If not how to I make sure they have it?

[@admersuko2535]

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!

[@Heroheenie]

@@admersuko2535 How do you make a .res file?

[@PrinceLeader]

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.

[@Xfier246]

so how ?

[@dassatisfan]

Just send your map with textures inside archive

[@mikrala]

VIDE is essential tool , i agree with you

[@liam6345]

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.

[@tylerpage5660]

@@liam6345 addon folder?

[@empirestatepolitics]

Incredibly helpful video!

[@yeflynne]

im glad you made this, or that someone asked you to. ty!

[@cwidd1929]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much!

[@slayercft]

This was incredibly helpful, and I don't believe you are getting have the thanks you deserve.

[@DTGplays]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you for making it!

[@paellarusa]

Wow man your videos still lit in 2020 (VTFEdit now has another site by the way)

[@niklasb8588]

!!! In options, you might have to enable " Auto create VMT file " !!!

[@azumanguy]

thanks a lot

[@pedraum9668]

You helped me a lot!!! Thanks for this great tutorial

[@nikolaj121314]

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 ;-)

[@hsnotivclon9485]

Thank you!! It's working! You're the best!

[@ICanHasCrab]

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.

[@UnknownMan98]

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.

[@dubbellok]

Finally a good tutorial for this! ty bro

[@IDGAdamAnymore]

Just Uploaded it to the Workshop, friends tried it out, the textures are missing for them, how do i fix it ?

[@BestCleveri]

one of best tutorials Subscribed :)

[@SUPERskrat1996]

the vmt and vtf files don't appear on my desktop when i save as. any ideas?

[@BeansOnButter]

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%

[@emilf7150]

What do you mean "use it as your spray"? Do you mean desktop background?

[@BeansOnButter]

@@emilf7150 "Use it as your spray" what do you think I mean?

[@tibixd]

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.

[@Electronic424]

+Tibi2001 try 'Modulate' under Create VMT options

[@terryarmstrong1203]

+masterofmusic Where do i find it??

[@Electronic424]

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..

[@terryarmstrong1203]

ok thanks. i found it now ^^

[@azumanguy]

thanks a lot for the concise and helpful vid

[@UseZapCannon]

What if I'm making a decal/overlay? Will the resolution of the texture alter how it's sized in any meaningful way, and is it better to keep it at 512x512 for convenient sizing or at 1024x1024 for better quality decals?

[@-tweeomoz-1786]

Hello, if I use a custom texture in a map of mine and upload it to the workshop, will the texture be included with the map automatically?

[@CHaoS.GaminG]

Is it also possible to import files containing transparant background? For example, if i want to use my logo in the map without the white part.

[@Mathri94]

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.

[@Surkee]

I always get black and pink colored textures, I made the .vmt and .vtf files correctly, what am I doing wrong? I'm using hammer on Garry's Mod.

[@jan12491]

same. This dosent work with gmod

[@SCP-ThePlagueDoctor-cb1rx]

Well i seen some custom SCP textures on some of maps. That MUST work with gmod. There may be other thing to do.

[@Technoguyfication]

+AmateurKZbinr Edit the VMT file with the correct location.

[@Technoguyfication]

YOGSCAST Turps Wow, that was rather rude and uncalled for. I was just trying to help, how was I supposed to know that you did that? From your comment it seems you're either around or under the age of twelve, so I'll give you some advice right now. Insulting people trying to help you will get you nowhere online or in the real world. While I understand your new middle-school vocabulary may be very appealing to use and interesting, it's not going to help fix your problems. You can go figure it out by yourself now since I'm sure nobody in this comment thread who has seen your previous reply to my advice will want to assist you in any way.

[@jackholbird8857]

+YOGSCAST Turps FAKKKEEEEE

[@ygaming]

Thanks 3kliksphilip, nice tutorial!

[@Samkruso]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\content\csgo\materials seems not to be the right place? I cant figure out where the correct folder is to put my vmt and vtf file. Pls help. :S

[@Hayal1337]

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.

[@Julian_H]

thanks for the tutorial, very helpful!

[@lamofabull7844]

The custom texturs to me is just blank it still sees the file but when I replace it , it doesn't work

[@Denis9ROCKSTAR]

im wondering if i do this, as u showed in the video and then put for example the map file onto the workshop will other people get this texture or will they get the missing texture texture (black and purple) ?

[@user-it6jd1sb6k]

I thought so too. But there is a program called "pakrat". It is used to add/delete custom files in .bsp files. I think you need to use this program if the map is used to play with others.

[@Denis9ROCKSTAR]

oh ok, thx for help!

[@TonettaFans]

I'm curious about the folder "really sick stuff nobody must ever see". What's in that folder?

[@tycoonassassin]

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.

[@lsrwLuke]

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

[@KaTeX-IL]

Thank you so much, You succeeded learn me make maps :)

[@Lu-fn5st]

When I upload the Map with custom textures to the workshop, they are black ingame! HELP!

[@FlamingCuntLips]

Okay, didnt create a VMT file but I found the Create VMT option under the Tolls section... inside it has multiple options like connecting to a bump file. If I use a normal, bump, reflector thing to make all of them from the texture I have do I need to convert each of them into a VFT file as well or can they remain a png or jpg ? ? ?

[@orange756]

Worked for me! Thanks.

[@Alex2001646]

I don't see a VMT file!

[@Alex2001646]

Oh Okay... Thanks for helping :)

[@elerosvecchio]

You now have to manually change this in VTFEdit's options menu. Tick "Auto Create VMT File" or something.

[@Infarlock]

Does it share when I publish the map on the workshop? The new operation maps got custom textures and when I decompile them it's actually white instead of that custom texture. What about custom models? do they share at the workshop as well? I mean if people will download it won't they see a white texture or an error instead of a model simply because they don't have it? Thanks =)

[@big7650]

Can u release the texture pls it look so good

[@janhrcan8906]

Really sick stuff nobody must ever see kek

[@Kylieelee]

Oh my god, thank you so much!!!!!! it worked!

[@xGrOffical]

What program do you use to record CSS + which program you use to Render it and what's you'r settings? thanks for the answer :) please make a tut where you show you'r programs and all the proccess of making a video it might be usefull

[@Gucksav]

Thanks Philip. I found out how to fix my image.

[@stank7200]

1:49 "Which folder doesn't fit in that category? o-o

[@furryfan87243]

What about custom textures for the hud? Are the VMTs and the VTFs done differently?

[@bioman1hazard607]

Can you import multiple images into a single vtf file, or do you make multiple vtfs for each individually. I know that the vmt can reference multiple textures

[@merit7344]

Hey, I wanted to ask if I will publish this map to Workshop and if I'll play it with other people will they be able to see my custom texture or no? From what I have read in the comments it seems like they will not be able to see it. Anyways is there a way to make my custom textures to be auto-installed on the player systems?

[@blueelite70]

I got it to work, I was just applying the texture wrong, thanks though!

[@dhuill8900]

I saw your master plan phillip.

[@KLKstudios]

Hey....The Best Tut ever ;-)

[@korvallis]

Will custom textures travel with the map file or will they need to be downloaded and put into the materials folder by who ever downloads the map? -Please reply

[@idioticcrazybusscots8260]

thank you! it actually worked!

[@raxelgaming3530]

hey, i tried to do this and i keep getting stuck with the VTF edit not making the VMT file. Your link to the VTF Edit you had does not work anymore so I was wondering if that was the problem but I am not sure. Please help

[@Elmo28493]

Make sure its on auto create vmt file

[@pavel1697]

Is there a way to change the properties of the texture so that it sounds like something that isn't the generic footstep sound when you walk over it?

[@sirsansdinner2400]

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 :)

[@SwedenQuatre]

Hi, I've downloaded textures from CG Textures, one 512x512 (carpet) and one 1024x2048 (wallpaper). I followed your tutorial and was able to create without a single problem the 512x512 texture. I did the exact same steps for the 1024x2048, but nothing appears in my texture browser, only the 512x512 I first created. Any idea how that comes ? I've been doing the steps over and over, doesn't work.

[@SwedenQuatre]

Actually, on CG Texture it says that the image is 1075x1600, but in VTFEdit, it says that the image is 1024x2048. Something to do with that, I guess... I'll probably juste take another texture..

[@SwedenQuatre]

I SOLVED THE PROBLEM : Actually, when creating the .vmt file, I forgot to set the type file to "all files", creating a simple .txt file. Fuck me, right ? Nice tutorial (y)

[@CathodeRayKobold]

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?

[@Haunting]

What if I wanted to make the material partially transparent? I tried some partially transparent materials I made, and the transparent part either turned out black or white for some reason. Can you help me out?

[@arcanefella]

Hmm, when I saved the image in VTFEdit, it only exported a vtf file, no vmt.

[@arcanefella]

Ah ha, I have found the solution: under tools, create VMT.

[@cocanecaulk]

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

[@jakobsailer]

Hey there :) I'm from germany so sorry for my english. I'm working on a new map right now but there are some Textures in Hammer wich are not in CSS so they are black pink :/ for example brickwall034b so I searched for this texture in materials (I'm using an old CSS Version and Revolution CSM SourceSDK SP3) but it wasn't there so from where Hammer is gets its textures ?! Or can I download the newest materials from the newest CSS ? Thank you in advance :)

[@TheHellInspector]

how come when i import a vmf model file in hammer it wont show up