You're welcome!

Ahh I get it now!~ Thank you kindly!!

Mostly on the size you compressed and the quality of the texture itself. Since it is, well, compressed, using 512 will reduce its size further than 1024, but also sacrificing the texture, tho if you don't care about the low res texture, then it's a good tradeoffs.

Yup, that's it, found it coincidentally though ~ Still, may I ask about the difference between choosing 512 or 1024?

I don't know what instruction you're talking about, maybe compressing guide? Either way, you're welcome.

You're so kind with that instruction! Thank you very much!!!

No problem at all

dayum, really thank you for showing me

Next to how to compress mods:
1. Install/extract all the softwares first (Crowbar doesn't need installaion, just extract the files and it's good to go);

2. Open your Crowbar and head to Download tab;

3. Find what mod you wanna to compress and copy the link to that mod, or just the ID, then paste it to the "Item ID or link" (for example, the mod you're currently seeing right now, the ID is 3240780933);

4. Once downloaded, assuming you didn't install VPKEdit, on the bottom right, select "Use in Unpack". If 1st time not working, click the button again, and it'll head you to Unpack tab;

5. In there, you wanna go to "materials -> xxx subfolders" where xxx is the textures folder, usually has .vmt and .vtf;

6. Once you're in the textures folder, copy all the .vtfs but not the .vmts, and unselect these files: phongwarp_steel, exponent, specular, etc. They usually have very small size, like below 100kb or 10kb, so you do not want to compress these;

7. Once you select all the .vtf, go to desktop and make 2 brand new folders. You can name it all you want, but I suggest to name "input" and "output" to two of these folders;

8. Once step 7 is done, just drag all the .vtfs to input folder, and now open your VTFEdit;

9. In there, select "Tools" then "Convert Folder". Once there, a new window will pop up;

10. For the Input, select Input Folder, and for the Output, select Output Folder;

11. Before you convert it to .TGA, make sure in the "To VTF" box, remove the "*.vtf" as it's basically blacklist it;


12. Once again, before you compress, select "Options" on the bottom left, and a new window will pop up. The setting that I use is as follow:
- General:
Normal Format: DXT1
Alpha Format: DXT5
Texture Type: Animated Texture

- Resize
Resize: (checkmark this box)
Resize Method: (Nearest Power Of 2)
Resize Filter: Quadratic
Sharpen Filter: None

- Clamp (checkmark this box too)
Maximum Width: 512 or 1024
Maximum Height: 512 or 1024 (make sure these two are the same. If you choose 512 for Width, then the Height must be 512 as well); You don't need to checkmark both Mipmaps and Normal Map;

13. Once that's done, you can now start convert it by clicking "Convert" button and wait;

14. When converting progress is done, it's now to change the input to Output Folder, and the output is Input Folder. And once that's done, you can start convert it again;

15. Once converting is done, select your Input Folder on Desktop and select all the compressed .vtfs and drag it to the folder we dragged the .vtfs earlier;

16. Now that we have successfully compressed the mod, all we need to do is to pack it to .VPK, which is easy. Head to steamapps -> common -> Left 4 Dead 2 -> bin folder. In here, find "vpk.exe". If you don't have it, then you need to install Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools, and once installed, the file should be in there, if not, then just login to the game, wait until all addons loaded, then quit;

17. Just make a shortcut copy of vpk.exe to the Desktop, and now what you need to do is to drag the mod folder (not materials, but entirety of the folder) to vpk.exe. The app will start converting the folder to VPK;

18. Once the folder converted to VPK, you're done.

If you're a bit confused, cus I feel like you would be confused, then I'll make the tutorial video.

The step is easy, but it'll be long. Before I explain the steps, you need 2 (3 optional) softwares:
1. Crowbar. For unpacking, downloading mod, etc.
2. VTFEdit. For compressing,
3. VPKEdit. Crowbar can do the same thing, but if you'd like to use separate software, you can use this.

You can search these softwares on Google, and they're all free. There's also noteworthy software, which is Paint.net , but since you're only want to try compressing, you do not need this.

I just want to know what are u using for compressing mods, feels like I wanna try some

ah yea thanks for the information

If you've seen my workshop, the only thing I do is compressing and HUD icons, not hexing/porting for once. Sorry

ah yeah Dokun could you port this to magnum?, it's single wield, seems great if paired with magnum

Blame the author, not me. All I did was just compress it, ask that question to the original author

can we get one without him holding it sideways