HL2Tex

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Half-Life: 2 - Texture Tool

What is it?

The Half-Life: 2 - Texture Tool, or HL2Tex is a tool I created to assist people in creating graphics for the Source engine, developed by --Daedalus 07:58, 9 Jan 2007 (PST)

It simplifies the transformation of TARGA images to VTF files, creates the .TXT configuration file for VTEX, and creates the .VMT file that Hammer uses.

It has a number of options availible in the dialogs.

How do I use it?

• Start the application
• Navigate to your materialsrc folder
• Select the file you wish to convert to VTF (only .tga files are displayed)
• Set your options in the bottom two dialogs
• Click Run VTEX. This also creates the .txt setting file (if desired) and the .vmt file (if desired)

Screenshots

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  The main dialog - click to enlarge

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  .NET version of HL2Tex - click to enlarge