[Tutorial] SFM – Recolor/Alpha for Models without texture replacement

Overview

It’s a guide for how to change the alpha/color of a model.

Before we start

Start SFM, create a session and load a model. The your screen should look like this:

Tutorial

1. The first thing we do is right click on the model and add an Overwrite Material:

2. Now we check the model in the element viewer:

3. Now we should see something like this:

4. Now we take one of the materials on the models which fits and add a attribute which is called $color2 but we gonna add a color this time:

5. Now we can color the head blue for example by changing the color:

6. We also can control the alpha by repeating step 4 with name $alpha and as float. You can enter 0.0 – 1.0. For example: 0.5

Other maybe relating tutorials

[Tutorial] SFM – Apply custom textures to models without overwriting the original texture: [link]