Is it illegal to download CSS textures?

[m i t c h e l l o]

^^

[Tev]

Buy the game and then download the textures through Steam; or use Family Sharing.

Other methods are illegal.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Byte™:

^^

They are a part of the game so there are no legal sources for them except store.steampowerd.com

[m i t c h e l l o]

^But why do other people do it? I bought garrys mod today and my friend gave me a .zip file for the textures.

[DirtyFishy]

Originally posted by Byte™:

^But why do other people do it? I bought garrys mod today and my friend gave me a .zip file for the textures.

People like getting banned, that's why.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Byte™:

^But why do other people do it? I bought garrys mod today and my friend gave me a .zip file for the textures.

Your friend conducts software piracy.

[m i t c h e l l o]

I find it pretty crap that you need to pay 20 bucks more for an incomplete game,

I wasted my money then,

[Tev]

Originally posted by Byte™:

I find it pretty crap that you need to pay 20 bucks more for an incomplete game,

I wasted my money then,

Not that there's not enough information regarding this before purchasing it though.

[Azza ☠]

If the textures are licensed under VALVe Corp and the original author(s) of CS:S, the textures are to be distributed only within the licenseholders' consent. Hense you purchase the game, the textures come with it. You can't grab the textures by themselves.

Distributing in-game assets is therefore illegal. For example: You can't rip out any component of a game and redistribute it around (specially claiming as your own) or use in your own game, etc.

However, distributing custom texture packs (newly created) is legal, by the original author(s). Selected games will allow this for personal use only (not profit) and is quite commonly done.

[MajsoN skins.army csgoskins]

i think no

[m i t c h e l l o]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

If the textures are licensed under VALVe Corp and the original author(s) of CS:S, the textures are to be distributed only within the licenseholders' consent.

Distributing in-game assets is therefore illegal. For example: You can't rip out any component of a game and redistribute it around (specially as your own).

Distributing custom texture packs is legal, by the original author(s). Selected games will allow this for personal use only (not profit) and is quite commonly done.

the only thing i really want to do is play terror town with my friends, i want to use it for garrys mod.

[m i t c h e l l o]

I want to play Garrys Mod with my friends, yet they own CS Source, they refered me to a download to a zip file that allows me to download the CSS textures, I was about to only use it on Garrys Mod,

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Byte™:

I want to play Garrys Mod with my friends, yet they own CS Source, they refered me to a download to a zip file that allows me to download the CSS textures, I was about to only use it on Garrys Mod,

This is piracy.

[Azza ☠]

Trouble in Terrorist Town (often abbreviated as TTT)?
That's a user-created game mode for the sandbox physics game Garry's Mod.

It's a bit of both (custom texture pack + in-game assets). As it relies on CS:S textures - so legally need to of purchased that game to use those textures, but then it's fine to go and use. Garry's Mod use to require CS:S to play on, it was created back then and now just assumes you would still have both.

Check List:
1. You NEED to have Garry's Mod (GMod) installed on Steam.
2. You NEED Counter-Strike: Source installed.
3. In GMod, join a TTT server.

[m i t c h e l l o]

Well, Im not gonna do it, I dont want my acc being banned. I wanted to play it with my friends, but 20 bucks spending out again is just ridiculous,

[Max]

Purchasing CSS or playing without its textures are the only legal options.