How do you get hi-res sprays?

[Fizzarolli]

I see so many other people with crisp high resolution sprays, and yet mine look like they're hardly 100 pixels across

I know this is might be a silly thing to complain about but its just been annoying me for the longest time

[Chris!!]

Use VTFEdit (free tool to convert images into textures for Source games) and set the resolution of your spray texture to 512x512 when converting. Do be mindful not to use too many colours in your initial image, or your spray texture will be too large to be used in multiplayer.

[NB]

Originally posted by Fizzarolli:

I see so many other people with crisp high resolution sprays, and yet mine look like they're hardly 100 pixels across

I know this is might be a silly thing to complain about but its just been annoying me for the longest time

avoid using dx1 when making sprays , more details:

-dx1 - heavily compressed size but lower quality output.
-dx5 - decently compressed size - medium quality output.
-bgra888 - no compression - higher quality output.

-on sharpen filter try only using both "soft" or "medium"
-on resize filter try using "cubic" or "triangle"

also remenber using the PNG format always before importing your image into VTF , pngs atleast IMO are the best in terms of keeping quality when turned into VFTs.

[Suisho Shizuku]

Alternative VTFEdit if people don't want to install app : https://rafradek.github.io/Mishcatt/

[DimTheEnderman]

Originally posted by reincarnated civ:

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Use VTFEdit (free tool to convert images into textures for Source games) and set the resolution of your spray texture to 512x512 when converting. Do be mindful not to use too many colours in your initial image, or your spray texture will be too large to be used in multiplayer.

It didn't work for me

Then use

Originally posted by Suisho Shizuku:

Alternative VTFEdit if people don't want to install app : https://rafradek.github.io/Mishcatt/

[ihatethis]

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Use VTFEdit (free tool to convert images into textures for Source games) and set the resolution of your spray texture to 512x512 when converting. Do be mindful not to use too many colours in your initial image, or your spray texture will be too large to be used in multiplayer.

I would recommend not changing the size of the spray texture because that made it not work for me.

[DimTheEnderman]

Originally posted by reincarnated civ:

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Use VTFEdit (free tool to convert images into textures for Source games) and set the resolution of your spray texture to 512x512 when converting. Do be mindful not to use too many colours in your initial image, or your spray texture will be too large to be used in multiplayer.

I would recommend not changing the size of the spray texture because that made it not work for me.

Again just use the website Shisho posted

[Mayday]

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Use VTFEdit (free tool to convert images into textures for Source games) and set the resolution of your spray texture to 512x512 when converting.

1024x1024 also works