#Portal 2 custom skins how to#
#Portal 2 custom skins install#

Then back in VTFEdit, go file->import, select your 'bubble.jpg' again. Have fun, but just don't change the widthheightetc TGA (targa) then obviously you'll need something other than mspaint.Дraw all over your file. PNG you may encounter an alpha bug even with 'Mask' setting. BMP (bitmap) photoshop can't read the file, open it in MSPaint and re-save. Go file->export and save your file, for example ' bubble.jpg'

Open your patched v_portalgun.vtf with VTFEdit VTFEdit is probably more noobie friendly and supports animations, while the photoshop plugin is awesome if you're used to photoshop. If you see ' 0+1' records out, then something went wrong.Д«ut assuming you didn't skip this bit, you'll realise I included a patched copy of v_portalgun in the. If you see ' 1+0' records out, then it worked. You've not tired to skip a few steps and open it) and drag your v_portalgun.vtf file onto patcher.bat Make sure nothing has your texture open (i.e. rar file and extract it somewhere or other. If we manually change the version number however, everything will be fine.Дownload the stuff in that. Since Portal 2 is much newer than these, they will throw a version error saying the file is too new. Now, there are a few programs available to edit the texture, but they generally use the same copy of 'VMTLib' - the code that does the actual conversion. Make a copy, call it v_portalgun_original.vtf or something. models/materials/weapons/v_models/v_portalgun/v_portalgun.vtfДЄnd drag it out into the last folder you created earlier, you should now have:Д¬:Program FilesSteamsteamappscommonportal 2. Inside, follow the folder structure we created earlier:

#Portal 2 custom skins install#

(If it doesn't run install the f**king runtimes like the forum post suggests.)Д¬:Program FilesSteamsteamappscommonportal 2portal2pak01_dir.vpk -Part 2: Extracting the original texture. It'll look like this, and is clearly designed to mess with dyslexics.Д¬:Program FilesSteamsteamappscommonportal 2portal2_dlc3pak01_dirmaterialsmodelsweaponsv_models So:Д¬:program filessteamsteamappscommonportal 2portal2_dlc3 Chances are if you're on 64bit windows, it's the (x86) folder.Д¬:program filessteamsteamappscommonportal 2 folder and create a new folder called ' portal2_dlc3' (without the quotes). In previous games, you could just dump extracted loose files into whatever folder and the game would read it. I will personally slay anyone who skips Part 1.

#Portal 2 custom skins how to#

I get asked how to do this about once a week at least but generally can't be assed explaining things properly, so here we go a full on guide. Quote from sicklebrick on December 2, 2012, 11:12 pm