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How to make a custom spray art in L4D2 & TF2

By Patrex

In this guide im gonna show you how you can make a custom image as a spray in left 4 dead 2 with the simplest way.
(Note, this guide also applies to team fortress 2)

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Category: Achievements, Characters, Classes, Co-op, Crafting, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Maps or Levels, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Secrets, Story or Lore, Trading, Walkthroughs, Weapons, Workshop

Languages: English

Enemies: Boomer, Charger, Hunter, Infected, Jockey, Smoker, Spitter, Tank, Witch

Game Modes: Campaigns, Mutations, Survival, Versus

Modding: Maps, Models, Mutations/Scripts

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Guide Index

Overview

1- Transforming your artwork to VTF file

2- Selecting the spray in game.

3- Trying the spray in game

Thanks For Sticking Till The End <3

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1- Transforming your artwork to VTF file

First we need a VTF Spray Converter [rafradek.github.io]
click on it and the site is should appear like this :

Now click on "Choose File" to upload your image.

select your image, i'm going to use this one

After selecting your image here you can see the settings, but i prefer to leave as default it works fine
you can miss around with the settings as you wish to find your preference.

After uploading your image click on "Save as VTF"

And then save file in this location :
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\materials\vgui\logos"

2- Selecting the spray in game.

After doing the following steps you should be ready now.
now open the game and click on options then multiplayer as shown :

Then click on "import spray" as shown here :

Now the game should take you the the path where you saved the spray file, if it didn't just navigate to where you saved the file, in our case we saved it in :
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\materials\vgui\logos"

After selecting the file click open then done to finish.

3- Trying the spray in game

Now all done and ready to go, boot up the game and lets try the spray.
after joining a game press "T" on your keyboard to apply the spray, and here we go congrats you've made a custom spray.

Preview 1 :

Preview 2 :

Preview 3 :

Note: this method works with animated pictures (Gifs), and applies to team fortress 2

Thanks For Sticking Till The End <3

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Also check out my other guides :

How To Enable Addons In Versus.

Third person without mods in Left 4 Dead 2.

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Two3Delta 29 Oct, 2024 @ 10:53pm

I'm going to keep it real; we need the sauce for the spray.

[I2P]amnesia 20 Apr, 2024 @ 7:25pm

If you are on Linux playing L4D(2?) and you are experiencing issues with vtex.dll
You can use
] cl_logofile /spraypath/sprayname.vtf
and once your game loads after setting the spray it will set it to that spray you select via the command.
This command works for any file really, but it may not display it since it should only work for .vtf from what I understand. So you can forcefully make everyone in a lobby download a .zip .exe or .batch file contents. And whatever are in these contents will be checked by Windows anti virus once you attempt to spray with it. Funny way to trigger a bulldog notification which ask the Windows user to reboot their system lmao. Uncertain if it could be exploited in any other way similar. hf ♥