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awesomebillfromdawsonvile
14 Aug 2009, 07:10pm
I seem to have lost this knowledge. I used to be able to make tranparent textures and author sprites even, but i can no longer make the tutorials i have work for me.

Either the way to author transparent textures has changed, or i have gotten a little dumber. However it may be, i really need some help on this.

Thanks in advance:thumb:

edit; im working with vtf edit, and gimp/ paintshop, if that helps at all.

Bob Loblaw
14 Aug 2009, 07:59pm
Make the picture, make sure it has a transparent background. I trust you already know how to do this. After that save it as a png in the material folder in cstrike and make sure auto create vmt file is checked off. Save it and then open up the vmt just by double clicking on it and make sure it looks like this:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "NAMEOFTEXTURE"
"$translucent" 1
}
So all you should have to do is add the "$translucent" 1.

awesomebillfromdawsonvile
16 Aug 2009, 07:56pm
thankyou, this worked perfectly.