animated sprays

[Chim]

hey

i haven't really looked to see if i can find it, so i figured i'd do the lazy geek thing and post it on here to see if anyone else knew already. how do you create an animated spray? you can't use gifs when you load a spray.

[Amy]

instructions:
You need to download the file below to complete the tutorial !!!

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1. choose an animated picture you want to convert.

2. convert the gif to individual frames. the way i did this with a .gif is to get Adobe ImageReady (comes with photoshop cs) and open the .gif in there, then do file > export > animation frames as files...
i saved them to jpgs, then went to photoshop, and converted them one by one to 32 bit .tgas

3. put all your .tgas in the hl2/materialsrc/animated folder and rename them to spray001.tga spray002.tga spray003.tga etc

4. edit the spray.txt file in notepad and replace the endframe value to the amount of frames you have

5. run convert.bat - your .vtf will appear at hl2/materials/animated/

5a. if your .vtf file is over 120kb, you will have to go back and edit the amount of frames you have of the size of your frames until they are under 120kb, otherwise you will not be able to use the spray.

6. put your .vtf file into counter-strike sourcecstrikematerialsVGUIlogos

7. in notepad make a new file and put in this text


Code:
"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "vguilogosgabedance"
"$decal" "1"
"$decalscale" "1"

}


then save it as spray.vmt in the same dir as you saved the .vtf

8. you're done


www.edit-strike.nl/page.php?id=7
Counter-Strike: Source (animated sprays)
Put your *.VTF and *.VMT files into your logos folder, should be here:
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\[e-mail]\counter-strike source\cstrike
\materials\VGUI\logos
To get your spray in-game just go to the options menu and scroll down the spray list to 'the name of your spray' ... it will display your first frame in the picture box. The spray won't animate in the options menu, but it will animate in the game.

counterspray.planethalflife.gamespy.com/directions.htm

I've been too lazy to convert anything. I got a couple of gifs that would make nice sprays though.

[Chim]

sweet! i knew being lazy would pay off. =oP

[Amy]

hell Chim I just googled that.

I was lazy and typed in "animated counter strike spray"

[rampage]

um... is it worth it?

[The Black Dart]

yeah! u could have a stick figure moving, or a squirrel climbing a tree, or a dog eating a piece of cake, or jesus giving the thumbs up, or a scene of a man getting a football in the groin.

[Amy]

football in the groin, football in the groin!

[rampage]

i want one of jesus beating up mike tyson...