Creating Illumiation map for workshop item

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  EmAr polycounter lvl 20

  Aug 2015

  You mean self illumination, right?
  
  It's a regular black and white texture if I recall correctly.
  
  You can always extract texture files from the game packages with GCFScape to see how things work. You'd need VTFEdit to convert texture files in this case.

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  ryuga_knight

  Aug 2015

  EmAr wrote: »

  You mean self illumination, right?
  
  It's a regular black and white texture if I recall correctly.
  
  You can always extract texture files from the game packages with GCFScape to see how things work. You'd need VTFEdit to convert texture files in this case.

  
  I am aware of this, the problem is the way to use and edit alpha layers and such are work and are applied diffrently in GIMP 2 then in Photoshop and every tutorial i look for just tells me how to do it in photoshop.

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  EmAr polycounter lvl 20

  Aug 2015

  Ah ok, I made a misassumption thinking you were using a shared illum mask in the VMT editor.
  
  For alpha channels, I just create the alpha channel in a new layer or another file and merge it using Channel Shuffle. It's free.
  
  I think GIMP is capable of this too but I recall it being inconvenient.

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