The only thing you need to change from default is the top bar, and it needs to be set to 'DXT5 ARGB 8bpp | interpolated alpha'.

When you click on Save you will get an options box popup. If you don't have it already you can get it here. You will only have this as an option if you have installed the Nvidia plugin installed. Go to File > Save As and choose D3D/DDS (*.DDS) as the image format. Because the image we used is already transparent, the only thing we needed to do was change the canvas size so it matched the games size requirement. The far away image is handled differently from the one you will see when you are close up. When we are creating fading sprays we do things slightly differently from normal. You will now end up with something like this.īecause I would like the present to appear closer to the ground when it's sprayed I'm going to adjust it so the bottom corner of the present touches the bottom of the canvas. With the present open, go to Image > Canvas Size and change the Height and Width to 256 by 256 pixels. We want the present to appear when you are far away, and disappear as you get closer. To do this go to File > Open and pull up the picture of the present. NVIDIA Texture Tools Photoshop Plugin įirst of all we need to go ahead and open up the image in Photoshop.I have provided links to all of the required software below. We will also need the Quick & Dirty Bloodlines Tools which will convert the DirectX image to a VTF.Īnd of course, VTFEdit (Valve Texture File Editor) which is a tool used to convert your image in to the game world. We are also going to need to download a plugin which allows us to save our work in to a DirectX image format.Īdditionally we are going to need another piece of software called DirectxSDK by Microsoft which will allow us to edit our DirectX image once it's saved from Photoshop. You can use GIMP as a free alternative to Photoshop as well. In the guide I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS5 but other versions of the program should work just fine. Before we get started you are going to need a few tools so you can follow along with the guide.

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