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CS:GO Skin Pack Example

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Description
(Well this is mostly for modders)

(After ten thousand years in development, hopefully it would have been worth the wait)
Hello everyone. Well this is sort of a different type than weapons, im not great when it comes to tutorials so please bear with me on this, this is mostly to show how the skins work on the weapons by this it means that there will be no longer conflict between files and you won't stress yourself over by having to make them in the right order, as i place a couple of screenshot to show how it works i will still explain a couple of them what they meant, i also probably gonna have to redo some of the screenshot to explain better, i also included a text file which tells more about this on where the skins folders are.

1 And 2.
As it shows you, when you make your own skin first you'll have to copy these 2 files and paste them on a self made folder inside the main weapon's folder and call it skins (Empty folders can't be included as the get removed when converting them into a vpk)

3 And 4.
Once you done that, you'll open the VMT of the copied file and edit the texture call like the $baseTexture and $phongexponenttexture and point them to where the custom skin is as the part 4 of the screenshot shows then save it, you can name your skin whatever you like just as long as its name its pointed on the VMT it self to make it work.

5 And 6.
Once you done with the skin and saving its changes, you simply drag and drop the folder with the skin to the VPK file inside the L4D2 bin folder and it will be converted into a VPK, once thats done you just move the file and put it inside the addons folder to give it a test and as of part 6 the custom skin will be loaded without problems, once you upload the skin you just put the weapon thats required and it will still loads the skin with no problems.

If you have any problems please let it know on the comments, i'll try to answer them as possible.

(The credits of the skins as examples goes to their respected creators)
xDShot / Marine Marten / camillozockt / Valve / Apêl / Ender_Year / Coridium / Puffin / Dallier / ToxicSmoke

Next step is to get the stickers working.
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Twilight Sparkle  [author] 23 Oct, 2020 @ 5:50am 
@Karambit™ i explained on the description that the folders that are empty get removed if they dont have anything but you can still create one and put the custom skin inside the weapons foldera called reskins
queen of unemployment 23 Oct, 2020 @ 2:21am 
i have a question, where's the weapons folder and the skins folder because i cant seem to find them
kokoser 16 Mar, 2019 @ 5:17am 
and how to do animation for weapons?thank you if write)
Twilight Sparkle  [author] 10 Mar, 2019 @ 11:16pm 
@Rix You'll need to have the Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools installed since they are modders tools which is why they make it as a separated install.
Twilight Sparkle  [author] 10 Mar, 2019 @ 10:33pm 
@Rix Yes, most likely, you'll just need to edit the vmt to point to where the texture is, if you try to also use skins from CSGO it self it won't work because CSGO uses a new version that the texture have meaning that l4d2 will not read it, so for this you have to export those new texture and make it as a new vtf so l4d2 loads it with the correct version.
Twilight Sparkle  [author] 10 Mar, 2019 @ 10:19pm 
@Rix the only software needed is the VTFedit that lets you able to convert and edit vmt and vtf
mZ 10 Mar, 2019 @ 5:26pm 
I see.. good luck working towards it though. I've been trying to apply RNG on a specific melee weapon and I failed to do so. I can't seem to know what's causing it to fail to load the textures. Even though I provided everything I needed in the VMT and also the VTF.
Twilight Sparkle  [author] 10 Mar, 2019 @ 5:24pm 
@Zack RNG skins can be applied the same way you just need to overwrite what the skin VMT has so it loads the RNG textures, melee weapons i haven't applied the skin support yet but its coming.
mZ 10 Mar, 2019 @ 5:22pm 
This is a great skin pack example.

By the way, by any chance, do you know how to apply RNG to weapons?
..specifically, melee weapons.. but guns are okay too.
Twilight Sparkle  [author] 10 Mar, 2019 @ 4:05pm 
@Rix Yeah just the folder named skins inside the weapon's folder since i couldn't include the folder on the main weapons since they get removed automatic when you make it as a vpk.