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 Re: Another Vtex prob
Posted by $loth on Thu Jan 20th at 8:57pm 2005

I read the vtex tut but vtex doesn't seem to output my material. I get this:

input file: C:/Valve/Steam/SteamApps/1337tramp/counter-strike source/cstrike/mat
erials/customtex/rock076
Problem figuring out outputdir for C:/Valve/Steam/SteamApps/1337tramp/counter-st
rike source/cstrike/materials/customtex/rock076
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Is the oupput directory wrong?
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Posted by RaPtoR on Thu Jan 20th at 9:42pm 2005

Vtex works with two directories, "/materials/<folder>/<file>.vtx" and "/materialsrc/<folder>/<file>.tga" and it can't creat the <folder> sub directory automaticly. You'll have to do it yourself and that's probably why you get this error.
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Posted by $loth on Thu Jan 20th at 9:45pm 2005

Do you mean the customtex folder?

I've got a folder called customtex, with the 32 bit tga in. it's location is:
C:ValveSteamSteamAppsusernamecounter-strike sourcecstrikematerialscustomtex
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Posted by RaPtoR on Fri Jan 21st at 4:34pm 2005

Well, you can call the folder anything. Just make sure you have a custom folder with the same name in both .../materials/ and .../materialsrc/.

Materialsrc is short for "Material Sources". You should keep all your .tga files in "materialsrc/customtex" directory instead. The "/materials/customtex" directory is where VTex will put your .vtf files.
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Posted by Leperous on Fri Jan 21st at 5:06pm 2005

... which, to summarise, means no the output directory isn't wrong but the input directory is- your source files MUST be in a materialsrc/ subdirectory (i.e. materialsrccustomtex)





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Posted by otto_FRAGGER on Wed Dec 13th at 5:45am 2006

hay, im new at this whole thing and i have no idea what i am doing so i was wondering if any one could help me. i used GCF scape and VTF Explorer to get a .tgatof the skins of my players. now all i think i need to do is get them back to a .VTF to put them back to were i got them and have the skins of my players change, but im not sure. when i try converting the .tga to a .vtf using the vtf.exe i found in the bin it says "Can't load C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamApps(username)sourcesdkbinfilesystem_steam.dll. Can't load C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamApps(username)sourcesdkbinfilesystem_steam.dll.
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so all i want to know is how to get my tga's to vtf's or if i even have to or not.
or if i am totaly doing this rong, could i send the tga's and you could send them back as vtf's or give me other things i could do

thx alot for all your help <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">




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