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After getting back into Counter-Strike, I've rediscovered a new appreciation for freaking people out with sprays. Usually people post goofy smilies, pictures of weapons, boobs, more boobs, animated boobs, and boobs. I found its easier to terrify the crazies on CS:S by putting up sprays of Screwbald art.

Ohh how they squeal...

So, question to you CS:S players: what do you use for sprays, and do you have any horrible ace-up-the-sleeve sprays?

I like to spray a running kill count.
edit the spray every kill and just spray it with my name where I killed the person.

That gets people a bit freaked out when they see the kills at over 1,000,000. (I add ALL kills. Not just the ones in the server currently))

-points to his Avatar- That, minus the current rainbow background and plus how to pronounce my screen name on the bottom. "Mech-Sigh"

Mainly since the usually pronnuciation I get is "Meh-chase-e" said rather fast.

I also respond to just 'Mech

I had omne that was a terriots crouching. I spammed it on the wall and my m,te ket rtrying to shoot it with his AWP. Next thing he knew I was knifing him... silly fool muhahaha

My favorite one so far is the full version of my current avatar. :twisted:

Also, how do you get a spray so it has no square background? I'm pretty sure you have to have some specific color behind it all that the game defaults as transparent or something..

I put stoopid faces.

SO many boobs.

ALSO I PREFER TF2

It generally ignores transparency but converting your spray to the source engine's native image format can make this possible.
Here's a link

O_O Holy god, that's a lot of jargon I don't catch onto.

So... what's the color that makes it transparent, lol? On some websites I tried making it was so me fuscia color.

If you send me your picture, I can use this tutorial and make your image with a transparent background. I understand most of what is said in the tutorial. But the tutorial is about team fortress, so I don't know if it works in CS:S... We can still try ^^ *remembers all the bad jokes we did on a server on CS*

BTW, I checked some other tutorials and they all talk about photoshop and ftvt programs o.O, so I don't think a background color works.

Any spray I use in TF2 doesn't work.
HALP.

I have several, several sprays but I'll romp over to the folder and rifle one out. I'd think it'd work between TF2 and CS:S seeing as they both run through the same Steam interface and use the same physics engine... similar, no?

Basically you have to tell source (the engine) explicitly that you want transparency to be enable and you can't do that with the usual format (png).
The .vmt file is basically your image and the .vtf (you can open them with notepad) is a file with the instructions on how the engine has to interpret the .vmt. It is there that you say you want transparency.

Well, actually I have yet to try to make a transparent spray... I'll get to it tomorrow evening (hopefully) and give you a nice tutorial to work with ;)


They run on exact the same engine, so there shouldn't be any problem.


Nope :P (if it only were that easy...)


Source is the engine that runs both TF2 and CS:S and a whole bunch of other games. Steam is the distribution platform and has little to do with the game after launching it.

My ears are bleeding from all the information I just had shoved in them, lol!!

^_^ In sum, I'll be glad w/o a transparent spray if it's not possible. All this .vmt and .ptb and .omg files confuse me.

Ok, I followed the tutorial and it should work correctly, but for some weird reason, my account folder doesnt create itself, so I can't really test it. Do you want that I send you the files ? (I tried 2 different file types)

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