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Material Creation

Name / Purpose
Engine
Redfield plugins
Photoshop plugins for simplifying the creation of textures for games
Half-Life Texture Tools
Half-Life Texture Tools - create and view wad and spr files
TGAtoDUDV
Convert TGA's into a DuDv format, without the need of having Steam to be running
VMTMaker (phatsams)
VMT Creation Tool
3T Previewer
Check if your textures tile correctly
VTF Creator & VMT Generator
Quick way to convert mass amounts of image files to VTF/VMT
Spray Maker
Create animated Sprays for use in Source Games
Photoshop VTF Plugin
Photoshop plugin for creating VTF files
Wood Workshop
A free seamless texture editor
Gimp tools
Small collection of GIMP plugins for Valves Engines
Wavelength PalMerge
Paletted images merger for half life
Detail Tool
It auto generates 'detailtextures.txt' for the detail file generator the Trinity\Abyss engine use.
Paint.NET VTF Plugin
Paint.NET plugin for creating VTF files
TexturEd
GUI for the vTex
Sprview
View .spr files
Sprayr
Create logos/Sprays for Source Games
Auto Seamer
Create a seamless tileable texture from an input image
Sprite generator
Sprite generator for HL
VMT Compiler
Automate the process of creating VMTs for VTFs
VTFTool
GUI replacement for the VTF2TGA and VTEX applications
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.
Targa Tool
A modified version of the Trainsim utility TgaTool2
Easy WAD Maker
GUI application to help simplify the WAD creation process
VTF Reader
Open and View VTFs
360
View and edit VMT files for Source
Sprite Tool Pack
Includes, SprWiz, SprView & Sprite Explorer
ENBSeries HL2Mod
Modified DirectX libraries for a better experience in Half-life 2
VTF Version Changer
Change the version of vtfs without having to hex
Sprite Fixer
Make some simple changes to Sprites
easyspritemaker
View sprites and play them back
HL TagConverter
Convert an Image to a Spray
Sprite Explorer
Explore the contents of .spr files
Terrain Texture Generator
Here's a little toy that synthesizes a unique terrain texture
by blending a set of base texture layers
Goldsrc Texture Viewer
Texture viewer for Valve's GoldSrc engine (Requires Compilation)
VMTGen
Valve Material Type file generator
Custom Shaders
Small collection of custom shaders for Source
Spraygen
Create sprays for use in games such as CS:S
Alphaconv
Convert images between TGA, BMP and PNG
Vtex Modified
new working version of vtex
Wad Configuration Manager
a tool to help manage WAD configurations.
VMT Creator
Simple vmt creator
Sprwiz
Put together a sprite from a series of .bmp files
VMTMaker (TN Skoop)
VMT Creation Tool
Crazy bump
Create normals, bumps, AO and other maps from the diffuse for use in games
SkyGen
This is a simple seamless skybox bitmap generator. It generates
six bitmaps which can be used as the textures on a skybox within
a game engine
HLC: Half-Life Logo Creator
This is a cool logo creator for in-game logos for Half-Life.
VTF Edit
Widely used VTF editing tool
nDo (nDo1)
The original photoshop action/script that started it all for Quixel.
Half-Life: 2 - Texture Tool (HL2TEX)
Simplifies the transformation of TARGA images to VTF files, creates the VMT file that Hammer uses
dDo
dDo Legacy, free for commercial Use, pre PBR, great texturing tool plugin for Photoshop
Color Tile Generator
Generates images based on a color
VMTMaker (sonicsight)
VMT Creation Tool
VTF Lib
Library for adding VTF support to your own apps
VMT Batch Creator
Create Material definitions for textures using this tool
Fast VMT Generator
Fast VMT Generator is tool that generates VMT file for multiple textures AT ONCE!
Quick Tiler
Photoshop plugin that creates tiled images for game
XWAD
utility that converts Wads to TGA's
TGA Tool
Simple Interface program to allow the easy editing of the 24 bit Bmp & 32 bit Targas
Wally
Defacto tool for texture management in GoldSrc
VTF Explorer
A tool for viewing, converting and extracting from GCF files Source materials.
Crosshair Factory
This is the "All_you'll_ever_need_for_Sprite_generation_Pack" for: HalfLife.
Wad Viewer
Viewer for previewing WAD files (source code only)
SkyPaint
Skypaint is a legacy program that can view and create skyboxes as well as doing direct edits to them.
NVidia Photoshop Normals Plugin
Photoshop plugins for normal map creation
Source Material Manager
Source Material Manager is an application to manage VTF and VMT files. SMM makes your texture and material editing faster!
Lump Tool
Edits and creates WAD files for the game Doom. It's 9 years too late, but better late than never!
Decal converter
Turn images into Decal files (WAD format)
Wavelength PalMerge
GFX Wad compiler taken from nextwish.org
Material Enumerator
This programm lists all materials wich are used in your selected vmf.
Sprite Mage
Used to lock the z, x and y axis of a sprite.
VMTCreate
Ease the creation of .vmt files as wells as convert Targa files to Valve's Texture Format.
Half-Life Weapon Sprite Definition Generator
Well, actually an editor for weapon sprites
JamDonut
Older tool for creating textures in Quake & HL
VMT Editor
a visual editor for Source Engine material files.
WAD2BMP
Converts the contents of WADs into BMPs
Texture Tool
Auto generate large flag script files for Trinity Render
Sprite Maker
Create sprites for GoldSrc
textureSDK
Toolset and tutorials for creating good GoldSrc materials
Color Logo Maker
Create colored logos for Half-Life