How To Make Custom Materials In S&box / Source 2

How To Make Custom Materials In S&box / Source 2

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Half-Life: Alyx
Game:
Half-Life: Alyx (2020)
Category:
Tutorial
Duration: 6:06
7,620 views
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This video covers basic materials in Source 2. This works in S&box, Dota 2, SteamVR, and Half-Life: Alyx. If you're using this outside of s&box, the addon's file location will be in content_src/ instead of addons/

This is not: How to make custom textures in Source 2.
Textures are the pictures, materials are the code which tells the game which pictures to use.


Free PBR Materials: https://ambientcg.com/
More on my website: https://www.gvar.net/tutorials

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Modding Discord: https://discord.gg/K4Jv7G3WUw
Official Discord: https://discord.gg/sbox

-- Making Your Material --
0:00 - Create Your Material
0:47 - Finding Free Textures
1:32 - Importing Textures
3:04 - Done!

-- Common Issues --
3:25 - Adjusting Texture Scale
3:38 - Inverted Normal Map
4:01 - Adjusting Texture Scale (Part 2)
4:26 - Optimization - Lowering File Size
5:09 - Other Shaders (Glass, Blend)



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