The Valve Texture Format (VTF) is the proprietary texture format used by the Source engine. VTF files are generally referenced in a Material instead of being accessed directly, which allows re-use in different ways. VTF files can be created from TGA images using the Source SDK Tool VTEX, or from most common image formats with third-party tools.Both textures and materials are stored in. To make custom textures from scratch, you will need a couple of programs. GCFScape [nemesis.thewavelength.net] to extract the unmodified textures from Left 4 Dead VTFEdit [nemesis.thewavelength.net] to convert.vtf (valve texture file) files into files you can edit, and back again. Any program to edit image files, such as photoshop.

I apologize for the delayed response as I've been somewhat busy lately. First of all, I can't thank you enough for your suggestion of disabling mipmaps, I'm not sure how this fixed the problem but it has. However, this has introduced a new problem though small. Without generating mipmaps, the textures have visual artifacts when viewed from a distance. Additionally the thumbnails for the textures in the texture browser look (for lack of a better term) glitchy. Here's a link to an imgur album which contains screenshots and more information: Either way, disabling mipmaps has proved to be an excellent temporary solution, but I would like to allow my textures to use mipmaps. Do you know of any ways that I could manipulate or add mipmaps to existing vtf textures or any other potential solutions to the original problem?

I was told I would get $60 if I posted on the forum Posts: 3 Joined: May 20, 2017. Use mipmaps only in this case: a texture with small details (as thin lines) -> the only other tool i know which can create mipmaps is: Nvidia plugin for adobe photoshop I gave up on using mipmaps, so i can't help you more with this i think Btw, i'm against mipmaps because itt literally destroys the quality of your texture, especially seen from close, and your Portal2 test is not supposed to be huge enough to have noticeable artifacts I've the glitch thing too, but who cares Good luck for your project Defective Turret Posts: 40 Joined: Sep 9, 2015 Location: France.

Just wanted to quickly update you and anyone else reading this. I've had people on the discord server helping me and Taz used the Paint.net VTF plugin to save the textures. I've been using it since then and it has worked wonderfully. I personally prefer to have the mipmaps since I don't care for the artifacts, but to each their own. Something is still wrong with VTFEdit, possibly a setting I've changed for the import process, but that's just speculation. Battle cats treasure hack. All I know is I can create custom content again.

Thanks for taking the time to help me out.