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.

Valid dimensions (in pixels)

16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048

External links

• Genetica - A commercial seamless texture editor. Creates tiling textures of all material types.
• VTF Plug-in for Photoshop - adds VTF format support to Photoshop (6.0+).

See also

• Applying Textures