Gaben... At Valve Software dot com...

gaben is life with this material

Don't write half life with 3 (MY GOD I DID IT!)

In my opinion, this is a Must have!

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https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=480102977

I gave you credit in one of the screenshots, 'cuz you were a great help.

Solved: apparently I had to put them all in their own separate folders. Gawd,I'm such an idiot for not thinking this sooner...sorry for putting you through all this, too.

I thought that was a crosshair..

...I don't get it.

PRAISE LORD GabeN

Is your addon folder layed out properly? https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/4000/discussions/1/618458030658639029/
Look at the third reply to that thread.

Got another problem; this GMD.bat isn't letting me format the files to be published. Each one says "[Not allowed by whitelist]". http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/CNPJUwSZ/file.html What am I doing wrong now?

Your welcome. I am glad you could solve your problem.

It's alright; my friend Brewster Koopa solved it for us. It was supposed to be "VertexlitGeneric", not "LightmappedGeneric". What a great guy...and you too, of course.

Yes; the props and models got no changes...

It should work if you can see it in the material picker. Have you tried it on any other models?

Multiple times. It looks like this: http://www44.zippyshare.com/v/kXhRub4T/file.html

Have you tried restarting your game to refresh the material cache? Have you tried it with the default material tool? What does it look like in the material picker?

Well, I think I managed to get the image to show up in the VTF program and set the VMT file as: "LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "benio/Curio_Zenith_Clear"
"$translucent" 1
}

But in-game, nothing happens: http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/kq7ru3eh/file.html

I'm thinking the translucent, makes it completely invisible, but without that the material goes broken and doesn't show up in-game, anyway. What could I be doing wrong, now? /:|

Click view>mask in VTFEdit. Credit to https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=121115553 .

Transparent colors work too. I just use the erase tool.

Well that didn't work either...maybe another visual explanation is required. Okay, with paint.net , it shows up and was saved being a .tga file as this: http://www80.zippyshare.com/v/g5MWwPTo/file.html

But when I copied and pasted (and/or imported) it to be a .vtf, it showed up as this: http://www80.zippyshare.com/v/XxydB0Me/file.html

Oh, the erase tool...not filling the colors with transparent...um...color.

Yep, $translucent should do the trick. Just incase you do not know, the erase tool in paint.net is used for creating transparent places.

I used paint.net 4.0.5 in order to save the image as a .tga (like you recommended) before copying it to VTFEdit to save it as a .vtf.

What image editing program are you using?

Yeah, I think that was the problem; I have the Clear material's VTF file written as:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "benio/Curio_Zenith_Clear"
"$translucent" 1
}

That must be why it's not showing up at all; there needs to be something added in this file in order to have the white emblem show up and not the black background, right?

Thank you; I'll go look at these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyjsjoAUfs0

http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Workshop_Addon_Creation

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$translucent

I recommend saving your texture as a .tga before importing it into VTFedit. .png files tend to glitch out with transparency.

A few more questions though:

You wouldn't happen to know how to make a material with transparent parts, would you? I was trying to make the emblem with the black background cleared out and it came out wrong in the game. /:|

And...how do I turn this into an addon for everyone to share?

No problem

It...it worked!! Thank you sir!

Your addon should have its own folder inside of addons.
restructure your files like so:
garrysmod/addons/<addon_name>/lua/autorun/Curio_Zenith.lua
garrysmod/addons/<addon_name>/materials/benio/Curio_Zenith.vtf
garrysmod/addons/<addon_name>/materials/benio/Curio_Zenith.vmt

Make sure your VMT file says the $basetexture is "benio/Curio_Zenith"

Sigh...was this how I was supposed to do it? http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/wpYKkpVk/file.html

If so, then I failed because I couldn't find it in the Materials list; I had to use the Extended Spawn Menu to find them, only to see that they were textureless.

Remember, learn things bit by bit. the internet and Google are your biggest friends.

http://www.howtohaven.com/system/show-file-extensions-in-windows-explorer.shtml

After making windows show the file extension, make a new text file and change the .txt to a .lua.

...Dang it...how do I create a lua? Or rather how do I do any of that? Gad, I dumb at this...

Create "garrysmod/addons/<addonname>/lua/autorun/material.lua" and then copy/paste "list.Add( "OverrideMaterials", "<texturepath>" );" into it.

I've tried finding tutorials, but all I keep finding are videos on how to fix texture errors; nothing else. Also, where in the GarrysMod folder should I place this gmod download? I mean, even though I have a gmad extracting program, is this any different from that one?

Decompile my addon with Gmad extractor @ http://www.treesoft.dk/gmod/gmad/
Then look at the code. If you need to create the material itself, there are youtube tutorials for that.

Ugh, I'm wanting to make my own material for the Tool Gun, but I still don't know how.