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I'm currently working on a poster but after seeing this show up in the workshop, I was gonna go and make a banner. The problem is, it's a vmt file and I have no clue how to use a vmt file. Could someone show me how?
What I'm gonna use: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1570909131
Originally posted by Zappy:
To (correctly) use a material overlay in Source Filmmaker...
- Be in/Switch to the Clip Editor.
- Scroll down to the "Overlay" > "Effects" track at the bottom of the timeline. (Please be aware that it's possible to delete this, and also to temporarily minimize the "Overlay" group thing, so if you can't find it, it's not necessarily because that Source Filmmaker is broken.)
- Right-click the "Effects" track, and choose "Add Clip to Track". (Much like you'd do to add sounds to the sound tracks.)
- Choose "Material Overlay Effect", and click "OK" to add it to the "Effects" track.
- Right-click the new material overlay effect clip, and choose "Show in Element Viewer".
- In the Element Viewer, click on the file-browsing "three dots" symbol to the right of the empty area to the right of "material" in the list.
- Find the VMT material file that you want to use as a material overlay, select it, and click "Open".
- Optionally move the material overlay effect clip back and/or forth in the timeline and/or make it longer or shorter, if you don't want it to start at the playhead's (time cursor's) current location and end 1 second after that.
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green Nov 25, 2018 @ 1:50pm 
A .VMT file kinda like a text document. It tells SFM where the material is, and how to show it. You can open them in either VTFEdit, or a notepad of some sort.
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Zappy Nov 26, 2018 @ 6:03am 
To (correctly) use a material overlay in Source Filmmaker...
- Be in/Switch to the Clip Editor.
- Scroll down to the "Overlay" > "Effects" track at the bottom of the timeline. (Please be aware that it's possible to delete this, and also to temporarily minimize the "Overlay" group thing, so if you can't find it, it's not necessarily because that Source Filmmaker is broken.)
- Right-click the "Effects" track, and choose "Add Clip to Track". (Much like you'd do to add sounds to the sound tracks.)
- Choose "Material Overlay Effect", and click "OK" to add it to the "Effects" track.
- Right-click the new material overlay effect clip, and choose "Show in Element Viewer".
- In the Element Viewer, click on the file-browsing "three dots" symbol to the right of the empty area to the right of "material" in the list.
- Find the VMT material file that you want to use as a material overlay, select it, and click "Open".
- Optionally move the material overlay effect clip back and/or forth in the timeline and/or make it longer or shorter, if you don't want it to start at the playhead's (time cursor's) current location and end 1 second after that.
Gushers Jan 10, 2022 @ 2:39pm 
I got the Chloe Park model on the workshop and all the textures appeared wrong. the vtf files were fine, but the model still looks messed up
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Date Posted: Nov 25, 2018 @ 1:41pm
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