[Tutorial] Making a Poster Overlay

[Benvox2]

I think i figured it out to an extent, I used VTFedit instead of the valve program but when I put my overlay on a wall, in hammer it flickers about similar to when two textures are on eachother and i cant figure out why? Nah its ok, just dont use VTFEdit for this

 

[Reeftrigger]

Right I've done this but in Photoshop how do I make the rectangle an exact size?
How do I do this in Photoshop? Lost me.

for the first one go to the rectangular marquee tool and at the top there is an dropdown menu with default option "normal" switch that for "exact size" and type in how big you want it.

on the second its called the pen tool. takes a while tho...




I also have a question...
how the heck do you get it to show up in hammer...
I did everything the same and it still won't show...

 

[Sikyanakotik]

So why did you go with darkened "tears" and not transparent?

 

[Ida]

...when I put my overlay on a wall, in hammer it flickers about similar to when two textures are on eachother and i cant figure out why?

That's supposed to happen, so don't worry about that.

...At least it happens to me, but my overlays still work perfectly.

 

[Nineaxis]

I guess I'll go ahead and say this:

I can't help you navigate Photoshop.
I don't have it, unfortunately. This tutorial was more on the art direction of making a good overlay poster (and how to get it into hammer!), not how to use any specific program.

Sorry.

 

[Reeftrigger]

I guess I'll go ahead and say this:

I can't help you navigate Photoshop.
I don't have it, unfortunately. This tutorial was more on the art direction of making a good overlay poster (and how to get it into hammer!), not how to use any specific program.

Sorry.

I however can (a little) so you can shoot meh of a pm if you really need help...
(not to take away any of the awesomeness of this awesome tutorial.)
or you could go on one of the many dedicated photoshop help sites/forums.

 

[Vander]

You rock Nine! Thanks.

btw, I had to use VTFEdit to get the TGA converted to VTF. I couldn't get vtex to work.

 

[Reeftrigger]

Im having a problem with getting my custom thing to show up in hammer...
I put in in a vtf make a vmf for it and stick both into the "mysteamname"\team fortress\tf\materials\signs folder and no dice in hammer.... did I miss anything?

 

[Nineaxis]

Does it show up as purple checkers? Make sure your VMT's basetexture value is correct.

 

[Vander]

Gave another crack at it for the pig sign, you like this one better?

 

[YM]

Gave another crack at it for the pig sign, you like this one better?

Less noise, make the noise monochromatic and then yes.

 

[laghlagh]

Great tutorial! Oh, and in PS filters, film grain > noise

 

[Nightshde]

Great tutorial, really helped me with vmt issues I have been having. Still need to find a good tutorial on using vtfedit because the image looks all weird in the browser on the side of hammer but looks fine when i put it in the world so I'm guessing its something to do with my vtf.

 

[Username00]

Thanks! great tutorial, i had to figure out everything in GIMP though (along the way i discovered the magic of alpha channels, fun stuff), but i made this out of severe lack of an idea for what to do.

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

If I had a jpg/png of the map(an overhead view) of my map - do I use this same process so that I can add it into my map?

Clear as mud right? Let me explain - the old days used wally for cs 1.6 - made a custom wad texture then made a brush - then applied it to the brush so it was seen in map.

Hope that helped.

Great tutorial too!! will be using it for sure!

 

[Spike]

Very good tutorial but I would delete the gray dirt on it and make some alpha channel so it's like broken.

 

[dendster]

Here's my two attempts. If anyone can suggest some better fonts for BLU, I'd be very grateful.

Blu -

Red -

 

[Vigilante212]

The last one should say. Come in first every time. The blue one needs a texture seperation like the red one with a dark red light red BG.

 

[Nineaxis]

Update, I tried a new style of poster I think much better matches VALVe's:

Comment?

 

[NovaSilisko]

Nahh...It looks too realistic. Compare it to the valve posters.