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This tutorial is going to show how you can change textures of models in Half-Life Source
app by Neil Jedrzejewski & Ryan Gregg | Thanks to Valve Developer Union for hosting the download

Requirements:
- Half-Life Source
- VTFEdit (Download here | Direct Link)
- A picture editing software (example: Photoshop, PaintDotNet)

Converting VTF to & from <well-known-image-type>

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Converting VTF to <well-known-image-type>

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1: Open VTFEdit
2: Click "File" & then "Open", then open the .vtf file you want (making a backup is recommended)
3: Click "File" & then "Export", save the file anywhere you want
4: Open the exported image in your picture editing software & do the editing you want

Converting <well-known-image-type> to VTF:

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1: Go in VTFEdit, Click "File" & "Import"
2: Select the image you want to import
3: VTFEdit will show a dialog with a lot of controls, you normally don't really want to touch anything except if there's somehow some problem while converting, compressing or you just want to edit some properties of the image quickly
4: When imported, just click the "Save" button and save it anywhere you want

For some entities (& most weapons, if not all), you will also need to edit their texture present in "hl1\materials\models\world_models\..." to have a different texture in the world itself, in hand, you normally want to open their texture present in "\hl1\materials\models\..." (atleast, this is how the crowbar works)

You normally want to keep the size of the texture the same!




Enjoy playing with your new texture