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CS:GO Custom Weapon Skins In SFM

By Pte Jack

So you've found the Weapon Customization Skin folder buried deep in the CSGO Materials folders but can't figure how to get them into SFM!!!

No Problem, it's just like reskinning a model for SFM.

Open the VMT for the Original Skin and the VMT for the customized model.

Comment out the original $baseTexture command for the original skin in the origianl VMT then copy and paste in the commands from the customized VMT...

(Aww, this see the picture below.) lol

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Tags: Counter-Strike, Weapon, Material

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29 Aug, 2014 @ 12:13pm

15 Dec, 2014 @ 12:30pm

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Editting the Original VMT to Bring in the Customized Skin

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Editting the Original VMT to Bring in the Customized Skin

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Strike this Note. I did not know how to do this until now!! NOTE: The original Skin and Custom Skin picture was created by using both the W (custom) and V (original) type weapons. You will not be able to have both original and custom skins of the same type of weapon in the same session using this method.

Here are the 5 AWP skins displayed on the w_snip_awp in the same session at the same time and all are totally useable.

Once you have the VMT edited you can add multiple skins to the weapon in the same session by using Override Materials on other instances of the weapon.

The process is pretty much the same as this

http://youtu.be/MK3OD8U2yrI

Here is the process I used for the picture above...

add an Override Materials to the model
Send the model to the Element Viewer
Expand the Materials Element and find the material you need to replace (This case the awp material)
Right click on the material and select Add Attribute
Select a String Attribute
Name this new attribute $basetexture, press enter and the skin will turn Black and Purple Checkerboarded
Next to the new $basetexture attribute add the path (starting at models off the materials folder) and the filename of the new VTF you want to use.

For the Dragon AWP this would be
that is exactly how I would enter it in the new $basetexture text box.
Press enter and the weapon should take on the new skin.

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Kajojo 30 May, 2023 @ 11:26am

How to do this with the knives

boom1kk 26 Dec, 2020 @ 12:54pm

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Pte Jack [author] 2 Oct, 2018 @ 8:04pm

Then extract the VPK into a folder you create, call it CSGO and BOOM you've got a CSGO folder. Don't forget to turn the folder on using the SFM SDK.

Ginebra San Miguel 2 Oct, 2018 @ 6:20pm

I have CSGO

Pte Jack [author] 2 Oct, 2018 @ 9:01am

If you didn't buy CS:GO and port the game files for the VPKs to SFM, you won't have a CS:GO folder

Ginebra San Miguel 2 Oct, 2018 @ 5:10am

help, it didnt work for me, i dont have the CSGO folder in my SFM folder

ror 18 Aug, 2016 @ 4:43pm

Also, could you point where the original VMT files are? Thanks a lot for the help!

ror 18 Aug, 2016 @ 4:19pm

Omfg, I'm so sorry for the trouble ahahahah

Pte Jack [author] 18 Aug, 2016 @ 4:14pm

The path and filename don't automatically appear, you have to enter them in the space beside the $basetexture label

ror 18 Aug, 2016 @ 3:49pm

Only options to put it in are ''name'' and ''mtlName''

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