Material Creation

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

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