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Creating Custom Sprays for CS:S

1. Sprays within CS:S can be made from many formats and sizes however, CS:S only produces them in one size so they look crap. Now first thing to notice about the sprays is that all of them are square, so your canvas to work on must be square otherwise it will resize it and look shit.
2. Second of all is the size it is painted to which looks to be 512x512 pixels (not sure haven't counted all of 'em). So any bigger and you'll notice no increase in quality, now you can go smaller but remember to go down or up by power of 2. 64x64, 128x128, 256x256, 512x512 are common sizes.
3. Transparency can be done with GIMP or Photoshop easily, animaiton on the other hand requires some more fiddling. Animation is multiple single pictures sequenced then put together. Transparency can be on all frames and frames can contain whatever you want, however the more colours and fine detail the larger the file will be. I personally design in 512x512 then shrink to 256x256 for single sprays or128x128 for animated sprays. Shrinking from such a size allows the quality is maintained everyone can see it because bandwidth limitations do not apply.At 128x128 i can get 5 frames with a lot of detail, so the sprays look good.
4. VTEX is the only reliable way to animate sprays at this moment in time (sprayR is vtex shell). Now for this to work you must first download and install Source SDK. So go into Steam, Click Tools (top left corner), Click Source SDK and Install. Once done you can use the VTEX tutorial i have made (it has the app, tutorial, samples and the photoshop plugin)

Here is two new pages trying to help you that little bit more in becoming a veteran of tagging and a sheer wiz with a digital paintbrush. I have done all these tutorials of my own back and followed then throuhg to completion on many comoputers so i know they work when followed exactly. However, if your machine is going a bit nutty and won't do any of this drop me an xfire and i'll add you so i can help then i'll delete you so you can go about your tagging.

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Recently i have recieved praise for this page of my site for clear and concise instructions well i have been making movies of my tag making for you to download and view at your leisure and see how this wonderful customisation is done. Just give me a few more days to finish up (27/01//2006)