Neon Stripes / Textures HDR

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THE GLOW EFFECT (HDR)

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Step 1: At first you need a simple one-colored texture (it does also work with multiple colored textures but the effect won't come out that good). I am not going to explain you how to create them, as there are plenty of tutorials out here. Step 2: Now you have a VMT and VTF file. The VMT file will set the preferenecs for our texture. Open your VMT file in a normal texteditor. Step 3: Use this configuration for your texture but replace the path and name to your VTF Note: Only the name of your texture is required, not the file-ending.

"UnlitGeneric"
{
  "$basetexture" "PATH/TEXTURENAME"
  "$surfaceprop" "glass"
  "$selfillum" 1
}

Now the texture is 1) glass, 2) Unlit and 3) Glowing (selfillumming). Step 4: Save the VMT so that it replaces the old one. Be sure that you put it in the right folder fitting to the path you just set. In hammer check HDR in the compile-menu, so that the glow-effect is visible.

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TEXTURES SPAWN LIGHTING

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Step 1: Locate your "lights.rad" file. For Counterstrike:Source you will find it here: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\counter-strike source\cstrike
Step 2: Copy and paste the file to make a backup
Step 3: Now open the lights.rad file in your texteditor.
Step 4: Add (in a new line) your TEXTURE + RGB color + brightness. Example: customs = path in the 'materials' folder
pink_neon = texture name
255 0 77 = My RGB color for a pink lighting
200 = Brightness scale. 200 is fine.
Step 5: Save your new lights.rad and compile your map with this texture.