Material Creation

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

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