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Material Creation

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