How do I make a custom menu background for tf2?

[crazychicken]

anyone know or got a link to a guide?

:thumbup1:

 

[DJive]

menu? the texture? the one with the pictures?

which menu?

 

[crazychicken]

just the background when you load up tf2, and maybe the laoding screen too

 

[DJive]

Use the search bud =)

typed in "menu"

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=1537

Pseudo changed the background picture and says how.

 

[Pseudo]

Create a 1024x1024 image and convert it to VTF using VTFEdit or the Photoshop plugin. The original background images are saved in DXT1 format with the following flags checked: SRGB, No Mipmap, No Level of Detail. The menu backgrounds should be named background02.vtf or background02_widescreen.vtf. The loading screens are background01.vtf and background01_widescreen.vtf. Create the directory \SteamApps\[username]\team fortress 2\tf\materials\console\ and save them there. The image that you are creating is a square, but it will be stretched to a 4:3 ratio or a 16:9 ratio (widescreen).

 

[crazychicken]

sweet thx man

ive made a few but the quality seems to dissapear, do you know how to ensure vtfedit doesnt compress it so much? I t goes froma 3mb tga file to a 682kb vtf

 

[camac567]

this thread may have died a while ago, but i tried what you said, pseudo, and i got the loading screen to display the pic (in very good quality might i add, thnx for that tip) but when it gets to the actual menu, the background is black
could you help me fix this?