Getting a texture In-Game tutorial - Half-Life 2

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So you finished your texture? Time to get it into Half-Life 2!

Posted by Sallycin on Jan 2nd, 2007 - Basic Textures

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Before saving your texture make sure it is a power of 2 (256, 512, 1024, ect.). The most common is 512px, but you can make it bigger if you want more detail. Save the file as a .TGA (Targa) in the folder C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Username\sourcesdk_content\gameshortname\materialsrc and run it through Vtex.exe (for instructions go here).

Now move your newely created .VTF file into C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Username\half-life 2\hl2\materials

Now you will create the .VMT text file which tells the game how to display it. Open up notepad and type:

&#34;LightmappedGeneric&#34;
{
    &#34;&#036;basetexture&#34; &#34;y&#111;ur texture&#34;
    &#34;&#036;surfacepr&#111;p&#34; &#34;surface&#34;
}

Replace "your texture" with the name of your .VTF texture file, without the .VTF extension or the 'materials' folder.
For example, a material in materials/wood/wood1.vtf would become wood/wood1
Replace "surface" with the type of surface the texture is. Choices are:

metal
paper
wood
concrete
glass
brick
tile.

Save the file as *your texture name*.VMT in the same folder as the .VTF

The final product would look something like this. In this example the file is "wood1.vtf" and it is in the "wood" folder in the base material directory.

&#34;LightmappedGeneric&#34;
{
    &#34;&#036;basetexture&#34; &#34;w&#111;&#111;d/w&#111;&#111;d1&#34;
    &#34;&#036;surfacepr&#111;p&#34; &#34;w&#111;&#111;d&#34;
}

Your all done now :) You can go Hammer and search for your texture and it will come up. Hope this helps with you mod/map. Contact me with any questions.