Material Creation

Name / Purpose	Rating		Engine
Wavelength PalMerge GFX Wad compiler taken from nextwish.org
VTF Reader Open and View VTFs
easyspritemaker View sprites and play them back
Sprite Explorer Explore the contents of .spr files
dDo dDo Legacy, free for commercial Use, pre PBR, great texturing tool plugin for Photoshop
VTFTool GUI replacement for the VTF2TGA and VTEX applications
Spraygen Create sprays for use in games such as CS:S
Color Logo Maker Create colored logos for Half-Life
Crosshair Factory
Redfield plugins Photoshop plugins for simplifying the creation of textures for games
VMTCreate Ease the creation of .vmt files as wells as convert Targa files to Valve's Texture Format.
Wood Workshop A free seamless texture editor
Targa Tool A modified version of the Trainsim utility TgaTool2
Vtex Modified new working version of vtex
Wad Configuration Manager a tool to help manage WAD configurations.
3T Previewer Check if your textures tile correctly
Custom Shaders Small collection of custom shaders for Source
Sprayr Create logos/Sprays for Source Games
textureSDK Toolset and tutorials for creating good GoldSrc materials
NVidia Photoshop Normals Plugin Photoshop plugins for normal map creation
VMT Batch Creator Create Material definitions for textures using this tool
TexturEd GUI for the vTex
Easy WAD Maker GUI application to help simplify the WAD creation process
VTF Version Changer Change the version of vtfs without having to hex
TGAtoDUDV Convert TGA's into a DuDv format, without the need of having Steam to be running
Spray Maker Create animated Sprays for use in Source Games
VTF Creator & VMT Generator Quick way to convert mass amounts of image files to VTF/VMT
360 View and edit VMT files for Source
VMTMaker (TN Skoop) VMT Creation Tool
VTF Edit Widely used VTF editing tool
VTF Lib Library for adding VTF support to your own apps
Wad Viewer Viewer for previewing WAD files (source code only)
VMT Compiler Automate the process of creating VMTs for VTFs
Half-Life: 2 - Texture Tool (HL2TEX) Simplifies the transformation of TARGA images to VTF files, creates the VMT file that Hammer uses
Sprwiz Put together a sprite from a series of .bmp files
Wavelength PalMerge Paletted images merger for half life
WAD2BMP Converts the contents of WADs into BMPs
Half-Life Texture Tools Half-Life Texture Tools - create and view wad and spr files
Material Enumerator This programm lists all materials wich are used in your selected vmf.
Sprite Fixer Make some simple changes to Sprites
VMTMaker (sonicsight) VMT Creation Tool
Photoshop VTF Plugin Photoshop plugin for creating VTF files
VMTMaker (phatsams) VMT Creation Tool
Texture Tool Auto generate large flag script files for Trinity Render
Alphaconv Convert images between TGA, BMP and PNG
Sprite Mage Used to lock the z, x and y axis of a sprite.
Gimp tools Small collection of GIMP plugins for Valves Engines
Crazy bump Create normals, bumps, AO and other maps from the diffuse for use in games
Half-Life Weapon Sprite Definition Generator Well, actually an editor for weapon sprites
Detail Tool It auto generates 'detailtextures.txt' for the detail file generator the TrinityAbyss engine use.
ENBSeries HL2Mod Modified DirectX libraries for a better experience in Half-life 2
Auto Seamer Create a seamless tileable texture from an input image
HLC: Half-Life Logo Creator This is a cool logo creator for in-game logos for Half-Life.
Wally Defacto tool for texture management in GoldSrc
Paint.NET VTF Plugin Paint.NET plugin for creating VTF files
Sprite Tool Pack Includes, SprWiz, SprView & Sprite Explorer
Sprview View .spr files
Quick Tiler Photoshop plugin that creates tiled images for game
Sprite Fixer Useful for locking sprites to Z-axis rotations.
Pretador's VMT Generator makes one .vmt out of every .vtf file in the folder selected.
Decal converter Turn images into Decal files (WAD format)
nDo (nDo1) The original photoshop action/script that started it all for Quixel.
VTF Explorer A tool for viewing, converting and extracting from GCF files Source materials.
HL TagConverter Convert an Image to a Spray
Sprite Maker Create sprites for GoldSrc
Color Tile Generator Generates images based on a color

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