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