Popular Post obi Posted February 27, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 27, 2019 What'll you need to make your own skin(s):The original .tga files supplied by roast WinRAR (For the original .tga files) Any image editing softwareVTFEdit Once you've got your skin cut and clipping masked. Save it as a .png. We'll use a simple Red Tiger camo from MW2 as our example skin. Open up VTFEdit and go to File > Import and select your skin. You'll be greeted with a screen like this Within the spoiler below should be all the information you need on picking the right settings for the best outcome Spoiler Sources: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Creating_a_Material https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Texture_Format#Choosing_an_image_format Once you have your desired settings save it as a .VTF file. Make sure you call it the same as whatever the weapon part you chose was called. For eg. we change the receiver from the ak folder. Go to your garrysmod addons folder, commonly found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons Find the desired addon, for us, we're using the AK-47 from the M9K assault rifles pack. Open up another instance of file explorer and head to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\bin here you'll find a file called gmad All you need to do is drag the addon file on top of gmad.exe and it'll create a folder with everything needed to see your skin in game. This should open a command prompt just give it a few seconds and it'll be done. If you scroll back up to the top of your addons you should now see a folder. Create a backup of this folder so you can access the original materials, or if you can't be bothered you could always reinstall the addon after you're finished. You're going to want to open it up to here, C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\addons\m9k_assault_rifles_128089118\materials\models\weapons\v_models This'll give you access to all the weapons in the pack so if you want to do it on one of the other weapons you can. For us, we're going to open up the folder called "thanez_ak". Once open replace the existing file(or files depending on what and how many parts you altered) with your textured skin. Open up or tab back into gmod and your skin should be on your weapon. Obviously, there's much more you can do and each weapon has multiple parts, but that's for you to figure out (because I can't get my tiny brain around it yet) You may want to be careful because certain parts will cause your skin to be flipped. NightBlade, Toxic Squirrel, Agent and 13 others 5 1 10 Link to comment
Holm Posted February 27, 2019 Report Share Posted February 27, 2019 Neatly done, that's going to be very useful! Huge thumbs up obi 1 Link to comment
roast Posted February 28, 2019 Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 Just note, this is only client side and will overwrite the skins default which could cause problems when skins are implemented into the game. Also note when skins are implemented it will not only be client side it will be on the world model too therefore everyone can admire your swag! obi and Oaky 2 Link to comment
TobiasTES Posted February 28, 2019 Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 @roast How are we going to get skins? Buy them for money? in game money? or tokens? Link to comment
roast Posted February 28, 2019 Report Share Posted February 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, TobiasTES said: @roast How are we going to get skins? Buy them for money? in game money? or tokens? Haven't decided yet. TobiasTES 1 Link to comment
NightBlade Posted March 1, 2019 Report Share Posted March 1, 2019 15 hours ago, roast said: Haven't decided yet. Could make a skin case for 25 tokens (maybe more) and having the ones you win into inventory or adding a 'skins' tab in store. From there you are able to equip the skins you want to use? Nice guide bud, this is very useful. Lucky Ducky 1 Link to comment
Immersel Posted March 2, 2019 Report Share Posted March 2, 2019 I think this will work very nicely Link to comment
Lucky Ducky Posted March 20, 2019 Report Share Posted March 20, 2019 On 3/1/2019 at 2:37 AM, NightBlade said: Could make a skin case for 25 tokens (maybe more) and having the ones you win into inventory or adding a 'skins' tab in store. From there you are able to equip the skins you want to use? Nice guide bud, this is very useful. this is a great idea my friend Link to comment
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