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VTFEdit's import process asks you all sorts of scary questions. Fortunately, you can just skip over them by pressing OK.
Now that all your images are properly sized, you're almost ready to create the spray. Open up VTFEdit, and go to File -> Import. Control-click each of the images you want to use, and click OK. Select the default options on the Import screen, and wait while your images are converted. To get an insanely high-speed preview of your spray, you can go to the Image tab and press Play. If everything looks right, you can go to the Info tab and make sure that the overall size of the spray is less than 120KB. Then save the file in c:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/<your username>/team fortress 2/tf/materials/VGUI/logos for Team Fortress 2, or your c:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/<your username>/counter-strike source/cstrike/materials/VGUI/logos folder. Once you've saved the file, go to the Tools menu and click Create VMT file, then save the resulting file to the same folder.
All done! Mom would be proud if she knew the first thing about PC gaming. Or lolcats.
Now, your files should be in order, iand you can fire up your game and enjoy your handiwork. From the game's main menu, go to the options menu, and select the Multiplayer tab. Your new spray should be available in the drop-down list, for you to select. Before you venture into the wilds of the Internet, you'll want to test your spray in a private place, so why not create a server all your own, and make sure it works properly there. If you make adjustments to the spray, you'll need to disconnect and reconnect to the server in order to see any changes. Once you're happy with the way things are working, fire up your game and get spraying!
Not Feeling Animated?
Don’t sweat it! Stop yourself after you’ve cut out your picture and save it as a targa (.tga) Size doesn’t matter, so just place it somewhere that it’ll be found easily and import it from Counter-Strike: Source or Team Fotress 2’s in game menu.
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SuperiorBeing
February 10, 2011 at 3:43pm
Just thought I'd mention that Photoshop hasn't been able to easily save TGA images with transparncey for some time. GIMP is actually far superior for outputting TGAs.
PhoneyVirus
September 04, 2009 at 7:08pm
Just Tracking Thanks
You can use this for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
Darth Ninja
March 10, 2008 at 9:48pm
You cant have transparent layers in JPG files (at least not in TF2) you have to save them as a .TGA image
As for requiring photoshop to make sprays, that's overkill; Paint.Net works just fine for people who dont have $600 to burn, but then, maybe you didnt buy it :P
edm203
January 05, 2008 at 7:32am
So jpgs can't be transparent. Anyone know what file type you should save as instead?
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bgthigfist
January 30, 2008 at 2:26pm
I tried following the tutorial and couldn't get the background which was transparent in Photoshop to stay transparent in the spray, no matter how I saved the output file. Also the article references "for a high-speed preview of your spray" but where can you specify the delay between frame switch? I got the spray up on a wall in a TF2 server, and it was flipping as fast as it did in the preview pane in VTFedit. It's seizure inducing. More details please on an otherwise excellent, inspiring, and exciting tutorial.
DRAGONWEEZEL
November 30, 2007 at 5:31pm
Just great, now we're going to see people's balls. Animated. Son of a Bitch!
THERE ARE ONLY 11 TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD. Those that think binary jokes are funny, those that don't, and those that don't know binary
mautzu
September 29, 2010 at 7:38am
JPG is an executable files which is is a commonly used method of lossy compression for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.
