Overview
Customize your CSS background with any picture you ever have seen before on the internet!
1.0 Intro
My name is jenz and i play a lot ze_ maps and some cs_office
I know there are allready a lot guides out there on how you can change your css background to .vtf files which other people have created. But would it not be nicer if you just could make any picture you ever have seen before on the net to a .vtf file which you can use as your private css background? In this guide i teach you mine way to make .vtf files and how to add them as your CSS background.
(Sorry to tell but you should be aware of that graphics decrase ingame so dont use too large pictures because they end looking ugly)
Here are some exampels of css background which i have been self creating:
2.0 getting started
First of all you need a program which changes the pictures on your PC into .vtf files. I use the program called vtfedit. You can download it here: [link]
Download the installer
Install the program on your pc > I accept the agreement > select a place for the program > here you dont need to change anything > ✓ Associate with .vtf files > install > finish
Now you got a program for editing pictures into .vtf files
3.0 Editing a picture into .vtf
Go into the folder there you installed vtfedit. Now just simply drag a picture into the vtfedit program. A box with VTF Options pops up. You can edit things if you want but you don´t have to and neither do i that, just click on ok.
You should then see your picture, As next you click in the upper left corner on File > Save As. You have to name the .vtf file background01
If you name it something diffrent it won´t work. Now you edited a normal picture into an .vtf file, congratulation!
4.0 adding a .vtf file as your background
After you got your .vtf file called background01 you have to go into your steam folder. SteamApps/ Common/ Counter-strike Source/ Cstrike/ Custom. At this point simply create a folder and call it what ever you want. ( I called mine nekubackground) Inside of that folder create a new folder called materials, inside of materials create a folder called console.
Add your background01.vtf file in the console folder and your done!
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I want to give thanks to Cuniczek for helping me finding the new method after the last css update on the 16.04.2013
