Material Creation

Name / Description			Site/Author
Creating alpha blending textures. How to create an alpha blending texture.
The Source Spraylogo Tutorial - Creating a Fading Spray Creating a Fading Spray
The Source Spraylogo Tutorial - Creating Animated Sprays Creating Animated Sprays
Animated Textures by Yomother (101) how to make an animated texture work for you in Half-Life. You will need these programs: Photoshop and VTFEdit
Drax's Photoshop Tutorial - Pixel Stretch Signatures (76) how to make a signature for a forum, using pixel stretch technique to give a blurred matching background.
Drax's Photoshop Tutorial - User Bars (75) how to make those User Bars often seen on Forums.
How to Create Custom Textures for the Source Engine This tutorial will show you how to create custom textures for use in creating maps for the Source engine
Converting textures with Paint.Net by Last.Exile (211) How to create textures with Paint .NET and notepad.
Learn To Make Normal Maps In this tutorial you will learn how to create and implent normal maps into your custom source engine textures. Normal maps are textures that make your original texture look 3d.
Converting Wads to HL2 Convert those old wads to HL2
The Source Spraylogo Tutorial - Introduction What are source spraylogos? Spraylogos are images you can place on most surfaces in source multiplayer games with the exception of models.
Water Textures by Stadric Visible representation of water textures
Using GIMP to make self illuminating textures (209) Using GIMP to make self illuminating textures
Model Skins - MiniTut This tutorial is a small introduction to skins.
Adding Effects to Source Textures From bump mapping to phong shading - This tutorial covers a large number of texture effects. Look inside to discover how to give your textures an extra special touch.
Source Custom Materials This covers creation of custom textures in the Source engine
Extracting and editing a source texture by #1Duck (142) how to extract a texture from the game, and then edit it.
Specular Bumpmapping with the Source Engine Some hints for you to manage bumpmapping with your custom textures
Texture file formats Guide for texture artists - creating material textures for source
Custom Decals with Alpha Maps Creating your own decals
Using GIMP to turn a photograph into a texture with transparency (207) If I can find a photograph of something similar, it's fairly straightforward to turn it into a texture file.
Creating blend textures for Displacements How to painlessly make functional blend textures.
Create a Spray Decal by Bud Doug Lee (145) Tutorial on making a spray decal that contains a full range of transparency, such as text or graffiti like used in HL2.
Transparent Textures Video by YoMother (129) How to make a transparent texture.
Surface Materials by Gronblad Surface Materials for Source
Creating transparent textures a pretty simple tutorial on making transparent textures
Custom Textures Custom Textures
The Source Spraylogo Tutorial - Pixelated Sprite Sprays Pixelated Sprite Sprays
Texture Basics (64) This is the first of a series of texturing tutorials from Gronblad, and covers making a texture, and converting it for use in Hammer and HalfLife 2
The Source Spraylogo Tutorial - Creating a Static Spray Our first tutorial is creating a static spray with no transparency.
Custom Textures in HL2 and CS:S Learn how to use custom textures in HL2 and CS:S.
Customizing/Merging HL2 textures (Fireworks MX) Merge HL2 textures to create new ones.
Custom particles in maps & spritesheet VTFs Custom particles in maps & spritesheet VTFs
Basic Re-Skin (62) This tutorial will cover the basics of reskinning a model for Hammer and HalfLife2.
Placing Custom Images into a VGUI Menu This tutorial walks you through creating a material with transparency and then placing it into VGUI menu.
The Source Spraylogo Tutorial - Creating a Static Spray With Transparency Our second tutorial is creating a static spray with transparency.
lights.rad Where is it and how do I make one?
Blending Textures by Stadric (144) This shows you how to make a blend texture for use on displacements and was created by Stadric.
Your world in HL2 This article gives tips and advice to anyone wanting to make custom photorealistic textures to be used in Half-Life 2.
Specular Bumpmapping for Textures in Source by Stadric (143) This tutorial fom Stadric shows how to make textures look more realistic with depth and texture, by specular bumpmapping.

Material Creation

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