Material Creation

Name / Description	Rating		Src / Author
Making textures using Wally and PhotoShop			matt
The GoldSrc Spraylogo Introduction What are spraylogos? Spraylogos are images you can place on most surfaces multiplayer games, with the exception of models.			TheCorp303
Adding startup movies to your Steam mods So you want a movie to play, right before your Steam mod loads? Did you know that you can actually do it very simply with Steam?			Doofus
Developing Photo Textures Using PanoTools A small little tutorial on how to turn an object from a digital photo into a reasonable texture.			ginsengavenger
Half-Life Full Crosshair Tutorial. Half-Life Full Crosshair Tutorial.			Crosshair Central
GoldSrc Map Texture Tutorial - Part 6 PART 6 WATER Textures			TheCorp303
Modifying the HUD Changing the look of your HUD in Half-Life			Daubster
Creating Custom Splash Screens for Your mod in Steam Just as the title says, this tutorial will explain how to create a Splash Screen for your Mod.			omega
Texture Types Info Texture Types Info			tommy14
Making a Half-Life Decal in Photoshop Decals are as easy as drawing in black & white and saving it into the right directory.			Spider
Making Decals Decals are images that you can 'spray-paint' on walls to...um make a statement. Making decals is extremely easy, so let's get to it.			Vlad
Adding .bmp in .wad OK, this tutorial is about how to make a .wad. I'm only showing how to import a .bmp into a .wad with Wally			Naigel
The GoldSrc Spraylogo Tutorial 1 - Creating a Spray Our first tutorial is creating a Simple spray			TheCorp303
The key to making good tileable textures Relic explains the techniques on how to make textures that tile seamlessly.			Relic25
Detailed Textures in Half-Life Improve the look of your maps using Valve's powerful 'Detail Texture' upgrade.			hlife_hotdog
Half Life Sprite List A definitive list of all worthy Sprites in HL			Ferret
Texturing Techniques (PS Filters, And Features) jOeSmOe gives us a tutorial on advanced texturing using PhotoShop.			jOeSmOe
NS-type Metal Textures How to make amazing metal textures like in Natural Selection			Campaignjunkie
TEXTURE REDUCTION TUTORIAL TEXTURE REDUCTION TUTORIAL			Evile
Animated textures Making them, and getting them to work			NOmad
GoldSrc Map Texture Tutorial - Introduction Creating Textures for GoldSrc Mapping			TheCorp303
HalfLife Crosshair Tutorial. From concept to reality. HalfLife Crosshair Tutorial. From concept to reality.			Crosshair Central
Materials.txt Change the sound of your textures!			paulkennedy
The glass(es) texture(s) The glass(es) texture(s)			Naigel
Making good WADS for distribution			Waldo
The GoldSrc Spraylogo Tutorial 2 - Creating a Spray With Transparency Create a Simple Spray with Transparency			TheCorp303
Textured lightning. Textured lightning.			Naigel
The easiest way to make tileable textures with PhotoShop7 or above The easiest way to make tileable textures with PhotoShop7 or above			DaddyCool
Custom Skyboxes for Goldsource Using Terragen to render and put together a custom skybox.			JeffMOD
Animated sprites & fixing palette issues in Photoshop How to make animated sprites in Photoshop, and how to fix the frames of your sprites so they share the same palette.			imaculata2000
How to get perfect texture rotations in Hammer Tutorial covering how to calculate the perfect texture rotations in hammer			isolated-design
GoldSrc Map Texture Tutorial - Part 3 PART3 ADDITIVE TRANSPARENT Textures			TheCorp303
GoldSrc Map Texture Tutorial - Part 4 Part4 ANIMATED Textures			TheCorp303
Making a Half-Life Decal in Paint Shop Pro Decals are as easy as drawing in black & white and saving it into the right directory.			Spider
Custom Textures Learn how to incorporate your own custom textures into maps.			atom
GoldSrc Map Texture Tutorial - Part 5 PART 5 TOGGLED AND TOGGLED ANIMATED TEXTURES			TheCorp303
The see through texture. The see through texture.			Naigel
How to Make Transparent Textures with Wally How to Make Transparent Textures with Wally			Robert Olesen
Making Textures and Wads Im no texture making expert, but ill give you what I believe to me the way to make textures and wads, wait keep reading!			Eyeronik
Info tutorial on texture types This is NOT a tutorial on how to make textures. Instead, here are all the texture types I know of, the symbols their names should start with, roughly what they do, and some of the potential problems.			Tommy14
GoldSrc Map Texture Tutorial - Part 2 PART 2 Masked Transparent textures			TheCorp303
Blast Marks using Painter Blast Marks using Painter			Evile
GoldSrc Map Texture Tutorial - Part 1 PART1 SIMPLE TEXTURES AND WAD PACKING			TheCorp303
Texture dimensions vs. appearance, memory, and r_speeds Texture dimensions have a significant effect on the appearance of the texture, the memory used by textures, and in a minor way on r_speeds.			tommy14

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