It is I, Alex_D, the walking HUD icon factory. At least I used to be.

Grown tired of making these tiny addons (and not willing to update all of them with my new script formula), I decided to dump them into mass graves and only keep those I have drawn in Flash. I hope my guide thingy will help you fulfill your desires to have all your weapon skins be supplemented with their real, actual HUD icons. In the video, I talk a lot and deviate into explaining things not really important for HUD icons, but could be interesting and helpful.

If you are willing to invest an hour of your life into my video, you might as well become a good mod creator yourself. Remember, I started with just the icon making, and I still have a lot to learn here and there.


0:00 (extra) Who am I, what, and why
10:00 (extra) What are HUD icons, materials and textures, and why are scripts necessary
20:30 The actual guide part
30:00 Taking a screenshot
33:30 (extra) Some VTFEdit options
39:00 Completing our addon
40:20 (extra) What is addoninfo.txt
42:30 Packing the VPK
43:40 Making a perfectly 2D icon
52:00 Doing it fast
52:40 (extra) Rendering mode shortcuts
53:30 Continuing doing it fast
54:30 (extra) Don't forget to make a preview image!
56:00 Continuing doing it fast
57:20 (extra) You can also edit script values
58:20 (extra) Conclusion

All my non-artwork HUD icons and scripts have been moved here:

• Survivors[www.gamemaps.com]
  
• Firearms[www.gamemaps.com]
  
• Melee and items[www.gamemaps.com]

Feel free to edit and reupload them. If you want to reset one of my script mods to the default values, here are my presets:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7azv764mi0zyke/alex_d_iconpresets.zip?dl=0