Texture

A texture is an image used to create a Material in the Source engine. Textures are generally created as TGA files, and then converted to the Valve Texture Format for reference by a material. Shaders can be applied to the texture using materials.

Note:A texture alone cannot be used: materials are what are loaded by the engine.

Valid Dimension (Pixels)

16²

32²

64²

128²

256²

512²

1024²

2048²

Utilities

• Genetica — Professional-level seamless texture editor. Creates tiling textures of all material types.
• VTFPhotoshop Plugin — VTF Photoshop Plug-in
• VTFEdit, VTFLib — Common source tool.
• VTFEdit — Used for easy conversion of TGA to VTF or VTF to TGA.

Tutorial

• Applying Textures

See also

• Material
• VTF