I've discovered that for the material mask texture, the R channel is used for metallic parts of the weapon, while the G and B channels are used to overwrite the default textures of the weapon so that your custom skin and the default skin don't overlap
So you mean that if I only change the R channel I can change the metallic value of areas that have the default texture? Quite interesting. But this is more relevant to the Patina style since in the Gunsmith style the skin overrides the entire texture of the weapon. Thank you for the info. Will play around with it and see for myself!
@viperskins I made a gunsmith skin for the glock. I ended up finding out the default ambient occlusion texture was still showing the old handle grip grooves when I didn't have any on my skin. For the R channel, you can paint the whole weapon metallic if you wanted to, I found the info by hovering my mouse over the material mask checkbox area. Btw great job on the tutorial series, definitely helped me a bunch, when making my skins
12:32 in this part i have little lines of blue on black parts if i change the black color of albedo to little more grey will those parts stop turning blue?
Hello Viper your tutorials are the best, but I have a problem like you said in 11:49 I did an unforgiveable mistake, ConVar shows me blue colours in some parts in my skin, what should I do now ? I am a beginner at these things
@@viperskins I created my skin in blender and used black colour on some parts, Now these parts are shown as blue in ConVar, I can remake it if that's the only way and don't use black color. (Sorry for long reply, I was ill in past few days)
@@FlixerisYT No worries, I hope you're feeling better :) I suggest that you simply change the colors in Blender and rebake. Another way to fix this would be to open the albedo map in GIMP, select the black colors and replace them with what you want. Both ways (Blender or GIMP) are perfectly fine. But yes, you do need to change the Albedo map, but it's not supposed to be too much work. The hard part is behind you already :)
the albedo option on the console is really useful, didnt know it existed, I only found a way to access it via command but by activating with just 2 clicks is amazing
If you're talking about the mat_fullbright command then it's exactly the same. In fact if you click on the Albedo option in the ConVar tool you'll see in the console that it runs the same command. But as you said, through the UI is much easier :)
@@viperskinsSorry, I think I was too hasty. To make a skin for the first time. It looks like every step is difficult. I try hard to find what part is error.😅
@@g.n.r.5082 haha no worries! Yes I totally understand what you're saying. First time it's hard, but with each new skin the process will become easier. Just keep at it and eventually it will become better and better
nice work man,this was a true perfect series with all details,thanks for helping us creating our skins,altho i have a request,if you may make another tutorial on how to make a cs2 map,if possible.
Thank you very much for all your nice comments! It means a lot to me to get such a great feedback :) As for maps quite frankly I haven't tried my luck with them at all (YET!). I'm currently working on a new sticker tutorial but some events in my life interrupted my work. I will resume working on the tutorial very soon.
When I want to inspect the skin in the workshop editor after I selected the UV map it loads up a window thats says: Resource Compile Items: Failed. (Error: -1073741819) . What do Ido in this case?
I have the same ass problem and i cant even open the workshop item tool it is loading after that it doesnt show up i can everytime start it but it doesnt show up
Great video! You have my sub! "But Viper my good man" I'm having an issue when putting the normal map onto the weapon (Glock) in the cs2 workshop. Looks like it is showing parts of the mesh in the map and has other strange artifacts like on the back of the handle (square bump) Keep the videos up man, really good teacher!
Thank you very much for the nice words and for your subscription. It is a tremendous support to me ❤️ Regarding your question, I believe you're using a Blender version greater than or equal to V4.0. If that's the case then this video will help you: ua-cam.com/users/shortsJpGvl0yA09o?feature=share
@@viperskins Viper you are a beautiful, beautiful man! I spent days trying to find out what's going on. Absolute champ, normal map looks great now! I'm not out of the woods yet, doing a weird shiny chessboard finish on the gun now. trying to find info online how to fix. Thanks again X
Hey! The textures simply don't show up in editor for me. I have added the albedo map, but when I inspect the skin, it shows a pink-black patterned texture.
Thank you so much for this Short wonderful series.. i am applying it to make it muscle memory.. 1. How to resolve ConVar blue error? It will be great if you make one video on it including 2. Text on Guns and various techniques and effects with Text to achieve great art.. 3. Last how to Full Screen while inspecting or previewing our skin?..... Keep posting new videos and share your wisdom with us. Thanks in advance Viper
Thank you so much for your continuous support. Your kind words mean a lot to me and I truly appreciate the nice comments :D Regarding your questions: 1. Many are asking me the same question so I guess I'll make a video about it. But the answer is quite simple: You need to change the colors of the albedo map. No way around it. You can either change the colors you chose in Blender and then rebake, or simply select the dark/bright colors in GIMP and replace the colors with something brighter/darker according to your need. 2. When I write text on the gun i usually use a stencil with the text as image (As I did in the Part 2 of the tutorial). And sometimes when i want the text to look sloppy like it was carved with a knife I either use my mouse or my drawing tablet and write whatever I want by hand. 3. For Full Screen view simply go to the settings of the game, go to Video and select the resolution to be 1920x1080
Hello Mr Viper, watched your series a lot of times and I'm slowly understanding all the steps. There are a few questions. 1st: The metallic look of some parts (which I turned off in blender) isnt there, even after tweaking and uploading the material mask 2nd: not all parts of the weapon got the finish which i showed up in blender (of course I have marked all before baking)
Officially there is no way. However I think there is some sort of a workaround for such a thing, similar to how we used to check our skins in-game in the CSGO days. If that's true then I still don't know how it's done. I'll do a research and update the channel if i learn anything
@@viperskins Yeah Im struggling to find anything that isn't for CG:GO, I don't mind having to "hack" the texture for offline checking just to see how it looks in certain maps. Please do share if you do find anything.
For some reason when i apply the maps to the model in game the maps make the gun look lower poly in the back towards the stock. Did I do something wrong in the baking stage?
Lower poly or does the weapon look a bit jagged? If it's the latter then it might be that the normal map bake also contains the geometry of the weapon's mesh (open the normal map image and see if it contains anything besides what you drew). This can happen if you're using Blender 4 or a newer version. To fix it check out this shorts video: ua-cam.com/users/shortsJpGvl0yA09o?feature=share
In the 3rd part I talk briefly about the alpha channel. If you want a specific pattern for your wear then you need to apply this pattern in the alpha channel as well. Also, you need to use a style that supports the use of alpha channel. The ones that are relevant to patterns are the Hydrographic and Anodized Multicolor styles (If you use Spray-paint or Anodized Airbrush it won't work)
Having issues with texture placement. I've tried to play around with the offsets but it doesn't work. Also, just my moving 0.01 with x/y offset, the textures moves a lot making it hard to understand how much I need to adjust to make it fit. I have cs2 skins and first I tried to just put all offsets at 0 but it doesn't work. Any idea?
1. Check that you're using the CS2 models and not the old CSGO ones 2. Make sure that the Texture Scale is set to 1 3. Make sure the ignore_weapon_size is checked
Amazing job ! Realy amazing ! Have one question - any posibility to use a skin I created without need to be aproved and wait for votes. Just for me, not interested for sell, trade, etc.
Thank you very much :) Regarding your question, unfortunately no. Until your skin is officially accepted you cannot use it outside the Inspect and Preview options of the Workshop Item Editor
Hello Viper, my good man! First of all! Awesome work! All of the videos are great. After a bit of struggle I used the combined series with the texture custom art video to finally create an own skin as complete newbie. But I ran into a little problem and I hope you can help me. My colours are for some reason too bright and too dark, but I dont get why, cause they are actually not bright and not dark... Can I control that somehow? The texture of the metal is too bright, while looking a bit dark for my opinion and the wood is actually too bright for my opinion, but still not accepted by the tool... I am totally confused, there are far brighter and also darker skins in the shop and also in the game... Edit: I could brighten the wood, now this is fine, but it says the metal is still too bright, even while parts of it, are purely black lol, is it because of the metallic thing?
Thank you very much for your nice words. In my opinion the best way to check for your albedo values is to open the albedo image in GIMP, use the color picker to get the color and see if the values fall in the range specified by Valve (Make sure to view the 0-255 values and not the 0-100 in the Color Dialog). But you say even when you put pure black your metal blinks pink? This sounds wrong. What skin style are you using? Gunsmith? Patina? One of the Anodized styles?
@@viperskins Well thanks for the response, Viper my good man! (Sorry can't stop, I don't know why but your accent - I actually can't tell which - is awesome and I really like the comedy elements, like the moment you turned of the music while inspecting the gun) Anyway :D So as explanation, I used two photos I took from real life textures and scaled them up, while preserving the quality as good as possible. Then I used the "art on your weapon" tutorial from you to apply it and got all other information out of your skin making series. Thanks again! :) One texture was wood and some areas were a bit dark and got blue at the end in the convars. I could fix that a bit with lighting it up in gimp. The third texture was just pure black. As I tried to get some metal parts just black. I could switch that to greyish colours if needed. The second texture was a photo of reflecting materials (in real life) and all really bright reflecting areas turned out pretty white in the texture. These areas were rather small while the other areas were pretty dark and had a wide spectrum of colours. They were actually that dark that I could barely see the contrast in game (besides the small white areas). Now comes the weird part. The black parts (a bit roughness and full metallic in blender) and the reflecting texture (0 roughness, full metallic in blender) were all pink (except the white highlited areas of the material). So actually the brightest parts were fine. I did actually set the metallic values to zero before baking as mentioned. But because of the weird outcome, I have the feeling the reason is not the colour itself but the combination with light and metallic or roughness. Maybe you have an idea now? I can't send photos here. Soo that's a bit difficult. Last point: what value do I have to check in gimp? RGB accumulated? Then Ill reach the limit very easily... Or is it the H value? I'm not sure overall. Sorry for the long text and thanks already for your help! Edit: Yeah it's a Gunsmith skin. I just saw a comment about RGB and metallic look, but your comment down below said, Gunsmith overwrites entire texture, so that is no solution, I guess.
yo how long does it take for the workshop tools to inspect when clicked on inspect button? I legit waited for 10 minutes and its just showing loading icon. I have rtx 3050 so i dont think its the system wither. Thanks for the guide too
@@viperskins i tried all those, it still persists. Ill try to check a few other places for help. if i figure something out, ill let people know here. Btw, when the workshop tools are launched, CS2 is also launched in the background right, is it in fullscreen or window? for me its windowed but i saw that for a few others its fullscreen. Theres no option for me to fullscreen it, might be the issue, idk. Thanks
@@wolfheart5408 You can set CS2 to be fullscreen in the game settings when you launch the workshop tools. Set it to 1920x1080 (Or whatever your monitor resolution is) and it will become full screen for you as well. And yes if you manage to figure out your issue please update us :)
Turns out many people are facing the issue, especially if you have windows 11. Many people say it's because of a new update. I'm yet to find a solution, if I do, I'll post a comment
When i apply wear and inspect the nova ingame the wooden parts also wear off. (Its grey underneath) Another problem i have is that the game is crashing when I try to preview the skin ingame. (Inspecting works just fine btw.) Thanks for any help.
Regarding the wear, did you add an alpha channel? Regarding the crashing, I have no idea. Are you running any heavy software in the background alongside CS2? If so that can cause crashes
Thank you so much for your tutorials. With your help I've made my first skin. But the Albedo test shows me, that my color for the wood is too dark. Can you tell me, how I can change them to the wright RGB range? 😊
You're most welcome :) Regarding your wood being too dark, just raise the brightness of the colors in Blender (Or whatever tool you used). If you're using Blender, if you created the wood the way I did then click on the colors of the Color Ramp node and raise the pointer of the black-to-white bar a little bit for both colors. I hope that helps
Thank you very much for great tutorial Viper. I have a question. Do i have to use 4k resolution setup while making skins? I have 1080p setup. Does it effect the outcome? I can use Nvidia DSR if that is the case
My pleasure man :) High resolution setups are good for taking screenshots and capturing videos of your skins. Obviously the higher the resolution the better, but it does not affect the quality of your skins, just the screenshots and videos. Also, I use 1080p as well, and it's ok, it does the job!
I don't know the meaning of their error codes. You need to read the rest of the error. But from what I've seen in the past, one of the things that can cause errors is having the resolution of the UV maps not to the power of 2, meaning that they're NOT 1024x1024, 2048x2048, 4096x4096 etc.... Check that your maps have proper resolutions. Another thing that might help is simply to try again. I once got a compilation error and i simply tried again and it worked
@@viperskins i've done texture work in the past therefore it definetly wasn't the power of 2 problem, i digged into it and turns out that the paint kit files were in the wrong folder, so i just had to move them to the previous directory contrary to the one they were in.
Hi, a very cool tutorial, but I have a problem, when transferring maps to the workshop, the colors are dark, unlike what I see in the blender, please tell me what my mistake is?
Thank you! Does your skin has a metallic texture in it? If so, when you baked did you set the metallic value to 0? If not then your texture will appear black. Watch the 3rd video of the tutorial to learn more about how to bake: ua-cam.com/video/Eq-KxkTfpds/v-deo.html
Fantastic series, thank you so much 😁 but Alpha my good man, I need your advice! I'm debugging my skin using convar. I can't seem to iron out why the outline of my Nova's metallic parts have a very thin blue outline that increases with wear. Just the outline, not the rest of the metal. Tinkering and trying to work out how to remedy. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated 😀 thanks for all the hard work!
Thank you so much! Regarding the convar issue.... Maybe try and set brighter colors for the Patina wear, base metal and grime? Try it maybe it will solve the issue. Also if the blue line is very thin then it might not be a big issue. But just to be on the safe side try the solution I suggested above. And please let me know if it helps (Or not!)
Definitely helped a little, just now trying to edit the shading to remove random convar blues in the wood! Can't wait for the new video. So pumped to submit my first skin - until then, I'll be digesting every video on Blender I can find! @@viperskins
@Viper Skins hey first of all i want to ask you how you doing dude your last video is round about 8 months ago im just waiting for new content i learned so much from your videos keep doing bro i think we all would be happy if you bring us more we could learn from you love your work 💪🏼💪🏼 second i wanted to ask you is about the resource compile file error message i get from preview or inspecting my skin i made and im not sure what the problem is and i cant find any solution maybe you something about this i would appreciate this alot 😊
Hello! I'm fine thank you for asking! I'm painfully aware of how long it's been since I uploaded anything. I've had some crazy times in my personal life lately but I am currently working on some stuff. So stay tuned :) As for your question, you haven't specified what the error message says exactly, but either way you're in luck! Yesterday I accidentally stumbled upon this Reddit post that might be helpful to you. Check it out and hopefully it will be relevant and useful: www.reddit.com/r/csworkshop/comments/1fzn2an/a_potential_solution_for_those_with_amd_gpus/
It means that the colors you chose for the wood are a bit too dark. Try to change the colors into something brighter (RGB range for non-metallic textures should not be below 55 as the guide says)
@@pangtundure I think it would be better to do it in Blender but it's also possible to do it in GIMP. Another thing that you can do is to limit the maximum wear of the skin to around 0.7 if that's where it starts causing issues. But i think it's preferable to change the color to something brighter
Things that might make your skin look dark in the game: 1. You're using a Roughness Texture and the colors are too bright (Skin is too rough). 2. You're using an AO map with dark colors. 3. Your skin style is Gunsmith/Patina and the Patina tint color is dark. Set it to Fully white. For now let's try those and let me know if fixing any of these points fix your problem
Help pls. Help!! I do everything as you mention in the video, but when applying the texture, it shows me the weapon with the disorganized UV. I have compared my UV with the original UV, and it is perfect. I have all the parameters just as you have them. What do you think could be the problem?
You might have downloaded the wrong models. In the Counter-Strike site, under the resources section you can find the old and the new models. In order to make CS2 skins you have to use the new models. If you use the old models then your skin will look messed up. If you're 100% sure that you used the new models then check the parameters in the Workshop Item Editor again
Your windows file explorer doesn't look like mine? Or the Workshop Editor's image dialog is different? Also what do you mean by "can't put in my item"? Do you get an error? what exactly happens?
@@viperskinswhen i try to do the thing you do at 3:40. You say to take upp file explorer and then you get one small and one big page, i only get one small and it doesnt look like yours
@@viperskinswhen i copy and paste at the file explorer I get a name of like a file but you get like a paper and then you add the roughness and that stuff.
@@viperskins can I maybe get your discord and I can maybe share screan or something. The thing is I did a glock so I skipped some of the steps like everything on gimp so instead I made a tga directly
@@Sneakyoxez My man!! At the mentioned timestamp those are 2 file explorers! It's not something related to the game itself! Just copy the tga files to the path where you save your skin, that sums up everything.
I don't know if I just forgot to send it, or if my response was deleted because of an imgur link, but here is what I forced out of the task manager: Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_render_volume.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found) Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_shading_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found) Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_processing_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found) Do you have any idea how could I solve this? I did check the integrity of the game files and it found no problems. I am writing an other comment, because now it won't let me reply to my own for some reason.
maybe try downloading the workshop item editor again.... Go to Steam -> Library -> CS2 -> Manage -> DLC, uncheck the Workshop Tools and then check it again
I tried it, and it didn't work. Well, thanks for trying. I'll reply to this comment if I find out anything. Also, I watched the CS:GO series and now I am watching the CS2 as well on how to make skins, and I can say that your video making skills have improved a lot. It's cool. Also the fact that you are referring to problems from the old video's comment sections. Good job.@@viperskins
Hello! Great tutorials. I have my first skin. For some reason, though I run into a problem where the workshop just keeps loading when I press inspect or preview. Do you have any idea why that could be?
I mean, when I click "inspect" in the workshop, it will just start loading for infinity. But it never actually loads in. It worked yesterday, but today it just doesn't. I have the same UV map, I restarted my PC, ran the workshop as admin, reinstalled CS:GO, so at this point I don't know what's the problem. In fact, it doesn't load any other model either.@@viperskins
I don't know if I just forgot to send it, or if my response was deleted because of an imgur link, but here is what I forced out of the task manager: Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_render_volume.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found) Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_shading_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found) Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_processing_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found) Do you have any idea how could I solve this? I did check the integrity of the game files and it found no problems. @@viperskins
@@fd04mcred @viperskins i have the same problem.. i try to inspect an example paintkit which originally is in workshop tools. Even this dont load. Were you able to solve your problem ?
@@viperskins Is there a way to color a 3D model using the "Texture paint" function so that it feels like "gradient"? I painted directly on the 3D model, but the colors are unnaturally harmonized.
@@viperskins Do you happen to know how to solve the texture paint not working properly when the parts of the weapon are separated into several pieces? I divided the weapons into muzzles and magazines and then specified texture paint for each, but the result was that only muzzles were colored or only magazines were colored.
Totally agree about the skin import process. Its really stupid and it needs to be changed asap. Its also really annoying that the settings defaults to pattern based skins. Valve fix!
I've never seen a system where you can load files from your computer but only if you put them in a certain folder! Such things are usually done when you want to trick/hack a system that doesn't receive files as input and you feed it the file as a workaround. I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by this! Also true about the settings defaulting to pattern based skins. The offsets limits should default to zeroes
I've discovered that for the material mask texture, the R channel is used for metallic parts of the weapon, while the G and B channels are used to overwrite the default textures of the weapon so that your custom skin and the default skin don't overlap
So you mean that if I only change the R channel I can change the metallic value of areas that have the default texture? Quite interesting. But this is more relevant to the Patina style since in the Gunsmith style the skin overrides the entire texture of the weapon.
Thank you for the info. Will play around with it and see for myself!
@viperskins I made a gunsmith skin for the glock. I ended up finding out the default ambient occlusion texture was still showing the old handle grip grooves when I didn't have any on my skin. For the R channel, you can paint the whole weapon metallic if you wanted to, I found the info by hovering my mouse over the material mask checkbox area.
Btw great job on the tutorial series, definitely helped me a bunch, when making my skins
@@tonyh9102 Any idea how to remove or prevent unwanted artifacts/pixelation?
Super helpful! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
big ups man this series helped me so much if i do ever get skin added i will put a little easter egg in for you
12:32 in this part i have little lines of blue on black parts if i change the black color of albedo to little more grey will those parts stop turning blue?
Hello Viper your tutorials are the best, but I have a problem like you said in 11:49 I did an unforgiveable mistake, ConVar shows me blue colours in some parts in my skin, what should I do now ? I am a beginner at these things
Thank you for your nice words :)
Regarding the colors, can't you simply change the colors? How did you create the skin? In Blender?
@@viperskins I created my skin in blender and used black colour on some parts, Now these parts are shown as blue in ConVar, I can remake it if that's the only way and don't use black color. (Sorry for long reply, I was ill in past few days)
@@FlixerisYT No worries, I hope you're feeling better :)
I suggest that you simply change the colors in Blender and rebake. Another way to fix this would be to open the albedo map in GIMP, select the black colors and replace them with what you want.
Both ways (Blender or GIMP) are perfectly fine. But yes, you do need to change the Albedo map, but it's not supposed to be too much work. The hard part is behind you already :)
the albedo option on the console is really useful, didnt know it existed, I only found a way to access it via command but by activating with just 2 clicks is amazing
If you're talking about the mat_fullbright command then it's exactly the same. In fact if you click on the Albedo option in the ConVar tool you'll see in the console that it runs the same command.
But as you said, through the UI is much easier :)
12:28
What happens if the skin flashes blue? This is because I don't see a big problem from the outside.
It's what I say exactly at the timestamp you mention!
@@viperskinsSorry, I think I was too hasty. To make a skin for the first time. It looks like every step is difficult. I try hard to find what part is error.😅
@@g.n.r.5082 haha no worries! Yes I totally understand what you're saying. First time it's hard, but with each new skin the process will become easier. Just keep at it and eventually it will become better and better
nice work man,this was a true perfect series with all details,thanks for helping us creating our skins,altho i have a request,if you may make another tutorial on how to make a cs2 map,if possible.
Thank you very much for all your nice comments! It means a lot to me to get such a great feedback :)
As for maps quite frankly I haven't tried my luck with them at all (YET!). I'm currently working on a new sticker tutorial but some events in my life interrupted my work. I will resume working on the tutorial very soon.
Great video! Will you be making a new updated series for making stickers for CS2?
Yes! The plan is to create a new tutorial for stickers after i'm done with skins :)
When I want to inspect the skin in the workshop editor after I selected the UV map it loads up a window thats says:
Resource Compile Items: Failed. (Error: -1073741819) . What do Ido in this case?
I have the same ass problem and i cant even open the workshop item tool it is loading after that it doesnt show up i can everytime start it but it doesnt show up
Another amazing video!
Thank you very much :)
Any idea why a black metal material is flashing pink in convar-albedo?
I believe that means the color of your metal is somewhere between 90-180, which is the range that Valve MIGHT find acceptable
Thank you so much for tutorial!!! Very nice and helpful
Hi Viper, im having problems with the offsets of the skins i made even if a put all to 0, can you help me or give some advise??
what do i do if my colors are too bright and it turns pink
thank you for these videos. really appreciate it
My pleasure :)
Is there any quick way to convert your albedo map so it can be mettalic values without losing skin visibility?
Great video! You have my sub!
"But Viper my good man"
I'm having an issue when putting the normal map onto the weapon (Glock) in the cs2 workshop. Looks like it is showing parts of the mesh in the map and has other strange artifacts like on the back of the handle (square bump)
Keep the videos up man, really good teacher!
Thank you very much for the nice words and for your subscription. It is a tremendous support to me ❤️
Regarding your question, I believe you're using a Blender version greater than or equal to V4.0. If that's the case then this video will help you:
ua-cam.com/users/shortsJpGvl0yA09o?feature=share
@@viperskins Viper you are a beautiful, beautiful man!
I spent days trying to find out what's going on. Absolute champ, normal map looks great now!
I'm not out of the woods yet, doing a weird shiny chessboard finish on the gun now. trying to find info online how to fix.
Thanks again X
Hey! The textures simply don't show up in editor for me. I have added the albedo map, but when I inspect the skin, it shows a pink-black patterned texture.
Are you sure that its in .tga format?
Thank you so much for this Short wonderful series.. i am applying it to make it muscle memory.. 1. How to resolve ConVar blue error? It will be great if you make one video on it including 2. Text on Guns and various techniques and effects with Text to achieve great art.. 3. Last how to Full Screen while inspecting or previewing our skin?..... Keep posting new videos and share your wisdom with us. Thanks in advance Viper
Thank you so much for your continuous support. Your kind words mean a lot to me and I truly appreciate the nice comments :D
Regarding your questions:
1. Many are asking me the same question so I guess I'll make a video about it. But the answer is quite simple: You need to change the colors of the albedo map. No way around it. You can either change the colors you chose in Blender and then rebake, or simply select the dark/bright colors in GIMP and replace the colors with something brighter/darker according to your need.
2. When I write text on the gun i usually use a stencil with the text as image (As I did in the Part 2 of the tutorial). And sometimes when i want the text to look sloppy like it was carved with a knife I either use my mouse or my drawing tablet and write whatever I want by hand.
3. For Full Screen view simply go to the settings of the game, go to Video and select the resolution to be 1920x1080
Very nice and deep exlanation, u have really best mentor skills bro, thank u for ur geate job. ❤
Thank you so much for your nice words!
Hello Mr Viper, watched your series a lot of times and I'm slowly understanding all the steps. There are a few questions.
1st: The metallic look of some parts (which I turned off in blender) isnt there, even after tweaking and uploading the material mask
2nd: not all parts of the weapon got the finish which i showed up in blender (of course I have marked all before baking)
nice new part I hope that you have a succesful channel in the future (1mil subscribers)
Haha thank you so much my friend :)
Is there a way in CS2 to play like a bot game in a full map with the skin made in the workshop, rather than the 3 preview maps from the editor?
Officially there is no way. However I think there is some sort of a workaround for such a thing, similar to how we used to check our skins in-game in the CSGO days. If that's true then I still don't know how it's done. I'll do a research and update the channel if i learn anything
@@viperskins Yeah Im struggling to find anything that isn't for CG:GO, I don't mind having to "hack" the texture for offline checking just to see how it looks in certain maps. Please do share if you do find anything.
when i load all 3 tga files to folder where .ecoitem is saved, my tga files dont appear when i search for them in workshop item editor
I followed the tutorial but the uvs dont line up properly, I even fixed the offset and rotation with no luck.
Are you using the CS2 models or the CSGO ones?
@@viperskins same problem, used CS2 models
For some reason when i apply the maps to the model in game the maps make the gun look lower poly in the back towards the stock. Did I do something wrong in the baking stage?
Lower poly or does the weapon look a bit jagged? If it's the latter then it might be that the normal map bake also contains the geometry of the weapon's mesh (open the normal map image and see if it contains anything besides what you drew). This can happen if you're using Blender 4 or a newer version.
To fix it check out this shorts video: ua-cam.com/users/shortsJpGvl0yA09o?feature=share
Thank you for your service… will you go over how to make custom wear patterns?
In the 3rd part I talk briefly about the alpha channel. If you want a specific pattern for your wear then you need to apply this pattern in the alpha channel as well. Also, you need to use a style that supports the use of alpha channel. The ones that are relevant to patterns are the Hydrographic and Anodized Multicolor styles (If you use Spray-paint or Anodized Airbrush it won't work)
Having issues with texture placement. I've tried to play around with the offsets but it doesn't work. Also, just my moving 0.01 with x/y offset, the textures moves a lot making it hard to understand how much I need to adjust to make it fit. I have cs2 skins and first I tried to just put all offsets at 0 but it doesn't work. Any idea?
1. Check that you're using the CS2 models and not the old CSGO ones
2. Make sure that the Texture Scale is set to 1
3. Make sure the ignore_weapon_size is checked
@@viperskins Yes, I downloaded both resource folders from the link and accidentally took the objs from the wrong folder. Thnx
@@besprutad Delete the old folder you won't need it (At least not for CS2 skins)
Amazing job ! Realy amazing ! Have one question - any posibility to use a skin I created without need to be aproved and wait for votes. Just for me, not interested for sell, trade, etc.
Thank you very much :)
Regarding your question, unfortunately no. Until your skin is officially accepted you cannot use it outside the Inspect and Preview options of the Workshop Item Editor
Hello Viper, my good man! First of all! Awesome work! All of the videos are great. After a bit of struggle I used the combined series with the texture custom art video to finally create an own skin as complete newbie.
But I ran into a little problem and I hope you can help me.
My colours are for some reason too bright and too dark, but I dont get why, cause they are actually not bright and not dark... Can I control that somehow?
The texture of the metal is too bright, while looking a bit dark for my opinion and the wood is actually too bright for my opinion, but still not accepted by the tool... I am totally confused, there are far brighter and also darker skins in the shop and also in the game...
Edit: I could brighten the wood, now this is fine, but it says the metal is still too bright, even while parts of it, are purely black lol, is it because of the metallic thing?
Thank you very much for your nice words.
In my opinion the best way to check for your albedo values is to open the albedo image in GIMP, use the color picker to get the color and see if the values fall in the range specified by Valve (Make sure to view the 0-255 values and not the 0-100 in the Color Dialog).
But you say even when you put pure black your metal blinks pink? This sounds wrong. What skin style are you using? Gunsmith? Patina? One of the Anodized styles?
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Well thanks for the response, Viper my good man! (Sorry can't stop, I don't know why but your accent - I actually can't tell which - is awesome and I really like the comedy elements, like the moment you turned of the music while inspecting the gun) Anyway :D
So as explanation, I used two photos I took from real life textures and scaled them up, while preserving the quality as good as possible.
Then I used the "art on your weapon" tutorial from you to apply it and got all other information out of your skin making series.
Thanks again! :)
One texture was wood and some areas were a bit dark and got blue at the end in the convars. I could fix that a bit with lighting it up in gimp.
The third texture was just pure black. As I tried to get some metal parts just black. I could switch that to greyish colours if needed.
The second texture was a photo of reflecting materials (in real life) and all really bright reflecting areas turned out pretty white in the texture. These areas were rather small while the other areas were pretty dark and had a wide spectrum of colours. They were actually that dark that I could barely see the contrast in game (besides the small white areas).
Now comes the weird part.
The black parts (a bit roughness and full metallic in blender) and the reflecting texture (0 roughness, full metallic in blender) were all pink (except the white highlited areas of the material). So actually the brightest parts were fine.
I did actually set the metallic values to zero before baking as mentioned.
But because of the weird outcome, I have the feeling the reason is not the colour itself but the combination with light and metallic or roughness.
Maybe you have an idea now? I can't send photos here. Soo that's a bit difficult.
Last point: what value do I have to check in gimp? RGB accumulated? Then Ill reach the limit very easily... Or is it the H value? I'm not sure overall.
Sorry for the long text and thanks already for your help!
Edit: Yeah it's a Gunsmith skin. I just saw a comment about RGB and metallic look, but your comment down below said, Gunsmith overwrites entire texture, so that is no solution, I guess.
i spend 10H to made my skin , i do what u do step by step and when i inspect my skin in workshop editor e appears Grey , all skin color grey 😢
Can you do a video that explain how to create and load cs2 stickers??? Please
Yes. It's on my TODO list. Stay tuned :)
yo how long does it take for the workshop tools to inspect when clicked on inspect button? I legit waited for 10 minutes and its just showing loading icon. I have rtx 3050 so i dont think its the system wither. Thanks for the guide too
It should be a few seconds not more. Maybe reboot your computer, or make sure no other heavy processes are running simultaneously.
You're welcome ;)
@@viperskins i tried all those, it still persists. Ill try to check a few other places for help. if i figure something out, ill let people know here. Btw, when the workshop tools are launched, CS2 is also launched in the background right, is it in fullscreen or window? for me its windowed but i saw that for a few others its fullscreen. Theres no option for me to fullscreen it, might be the issue, idk. Thanks
@@wolfheart5408 You can set CS2 to be fullscreen in the game settings when you launch the workshop tools. Set it to 1920x1080 (Or whatever your monitor resolution is) and it will become full screen for you as well.
And yes if you manage to figure out your issue please update us :)
Turns out many people are facing the issue, especially if you have windows 11. Many people say it's because of a new update. I'm yet to find a solution, if I do, I'll post a comment
@@wolfheart5408 Oh interesting! I'm actually still on Windows 10 so maybe that's why I don't face the issue
When i apply wear and inspect the nova ingame the wooden parts also wear off. (Its grey underneath)
Another problem i have is that the game is crashing when I try to preview the skin ingame. (Inspecting works just fine btw.)
Thanks for any help.
Regarding the wear, did you add an alpha channel?
Regarding the crashing, I have no idea. Are you running any heavy software in the background alongside CS2? If so that can cause crashes
I understood correctly that it is not necessary to use vteditor for cs 2?
You understood correctly. No need for the VTFEditor to create CS2 skins
Thank you so much for your tutorials. With your help I've made my first skin. But the Albedo test shows me, that my color for the wood is too dark. Can you tell me, how I can change them to the wright RGB range? 😊
You're most welcome :)
Regarding your wood being too dark, just raise the brightness of the colors in Blender (Or whatever tool you used). If you're using Blender, if you created the wood the way I did then click on the colors of the Color Ramp node and raise the pointer of the black-to-white bar a little bit for both colors.
I hope that helps
Thank you very much for great tutorial Viper.
I have a question. Do i have to use 4k resolution setup while making skins? I have 1080p setup. Does it effect the outcome?
I can use Nvidia DSR if that is the case
My pleasure man :)
High resolution setups are good for taking screenshots and capturing videos of your skins. Obviously the higher the resolution the better, but it does not affect the quality of your skins, just the screenshots and videos.
Also, I use 1080p as well, and it's ok, it does the job!
i finnally fixed it. and the skins are on place but yeah the colors and blue and pink on convar. Any advice on how should I attempt to fix it?
Simply change the colors
i keep getting "error code 1" when i try to preview my skin. any help?
I don't know the meaning of their error codes. You need to read the rest of the error.
But from what I've seen in the past, one of the things that can cause errors is having the resolution of the UV maps not to the power of 2, meaning that they're NOT 1024x1024, 2048x2048, 4096x4096 etc.... Check that your maps have proper resolutions.
Another thing that might help is simply to try again. I once got a compilation error and i simply tried again and it worked
@@viperskins i've done texture work in the past therefore it definetly wasn't the power of 2 problem, i digged into it and turns out that the paint kit files were in the wrong folder, so i just had to move them to the previous directory contrary to the one they were in.
Oh ok, good to know. Thank you for the update, I'll keep that in mind in case someone asks about it
Hi, a very cool tutorial, but I have a problem, when transferring maps to the workshop, the colors are dark, unlike what I see in the blender, please tell me what my mistake is?
Thank you!
Does your skin has a metallic texture in it? If so, when you baked did you set the metallic value to 0? If not then your texture will appear black.
Watch the 3rd video of the tutorial to learn more about how to bake: ua-cam.com/video/Eq-KxkTfpds/v-deo.html
Fantastic series, thank you so much 😁 but Alpha my good man, I need your advice! I'm debugging my skin using convar. I can't seem to iron out why the outline of my Nova's metallic parts have a very thin blue outline that increases with wear. Just the outline, not the rest of the metal. Tinkering and trying to work out how to remedy. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated 😀 thanks for all the hard work!
Thank you so much!
Regarding the convar issue.... Maybe try and set brighter colors for the Patina wear, base metal and grime? Try it maybe it will solve the issue.
Also if the blue line is very thin then it might not be a big issue. But just to be on the safe side try the solution I suggested above. And please let me know if it helps (Or not!)
Definitely helped a little, just now trying to edit the shading to remove random convar blues in the wood! Can't wait for the new video. So pumped to submit my first skin - until then, I'll be digesting every video on Blender I can find! @@viperskins
When i press inspect i get "asset (name of my shit) missing content path. what do i do?
Have you moved the location of your shit? Maybe to a different folder in your file system?
@Viper Skins hey first of all i want to ask you how you doing dude your last video is round about 8 months ago im just waiting for new content i learned so much from your videos keep doing bro i think we all would be happy if you bring us more we could learn from you love your work 💪🏼💪🏼
second i wanted to ask you is about the resource compile file error message i get from preview or inspecting my skin i made and im not sure what the problem is and i cant find any solution maybe you something about this i would appreciate this alot 😊
Hello! I'm fine thank you for asking! I'm painfully aware of how long it's been since I uploaded anything. I've had some crazy times in my personal life lately but I am currently working on some stuff. So stay tuned :)
As for your question, you haven't specified what the error message says exactly, but either way you're in luck! Yesterday I accidentally stumbled upon this Reddit post that might be helpful to you. Check it out and hopefully it will be relevant and useful: www.reddit.com/r/csworkshop/comments/1fzn2an/a_potential_solution_for_those_with_amd_gpus/
Hello Viper, I've been following your tutorial and have the Blue flashing issue in my wood texture how do i solve that ??
It means that the colors you chose for the wood are a bit too dark. Try to change the colors into something brighter (RGB range for non-metallic textures should not be below 55 as the guide says)
@@viperskins it's like some part of the wood 🪵 like stripes which looks okay on FN but at 0.7 ish it's gets a bit overflowing
@@viperskins could i be able to fo that on the UV map from Gimp or do i need to change the color from my blender where I've setup the color ramp ??
@@pangtundure I think it would be better to do it in Blender but it's also possible to do it in GIMP.
Another thing that you can do is to limit the maximum wear of the skin to around 0.7 if that's where it starts causing issues. But i think it's preferable to change the color to something brighter
@@viperskins I'm making fixing it and hopefully it'll get fixed soon. I'm also working on the awp and stuff.
hi viper
my skin looks so dark in CS2 but its so good in blender
can you help me out ?
Things that might make your skin look dark in the game:
1. You're using a Roughness Texture and the colors are too bright (Skin is too rough).
2. You're using an AO map with dark colors.
3. Your skin style is Gunsmith/Patina and the Patina tint color is dark. Set it to Fully white.
For now let's try those and let me know if fixing any of these points fix your problem
Yeah Thnx And the Problem Was that i havent disabled metallic before i bake the albedo ! @@viperskins
Help pls. Help!!
I do everything as you mention in the video, but when applying the texture, it shows me the weapon with the disorganized UV. I have compared my UV with the original UV, and it is perfect. I have all the parameters just as you have them. What do you think could be the problem?
You might have downloaded the wrong models. In the Counter-Strike site, under the resources section you can find the old and the new models. In order to make CS2 skins you have to use the new models. If you use the old models then your skin will look messed up.
If you're 100% sure that you used the new models then check the parameters in the Workshop Item Editor again
I cant put in my item to the workshop. My file explorer doesnt look like yours
Your windows file explorer doesn't look like mine? Or the Workshop Editor's image dialog is different? Also what do you mean by "can't put in my item"? Do you get an error? what exactly happens?
@@viperskinswhen i try to do the thing you do at 3:40. You say to take upp file explorer and then you get one small and one big page, i only get one small and it doesnt look like yours
@@viperskinswhen i copy and paste at the file explorer I get a name of like a file but you get like a paper and then you add the roughness and that stuff.
@@viperskins can I maybe get your discord and I can maybe share screan or something. The thing is I did a glock so I skipped some of the steps like everything on gimp so instead I made a tga directly
@@Sneakyoxez My man!! At the mentioned timestamp those are 2 file explorers! It's not something related to the game itself! Just copy the tga files to the path where you save your skin, that sums up everything.
I don't know if I just forgot to send it, or if my response was deleted because of an imgur link, but here is what I forced out of the task manager:
Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_render_volume.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found)
Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_shading_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found)
Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_processing_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found)
Do you have any idea how could I solve this? I did check the integrity of the game files and it found no problems.
I am writing an other comment, because now it won't let me reply to my own for some reason.
maybe try downloading the workshop item editor again.... Go to Steam -> Library -> CS2 -> Manage -> DLC, uncheck the Workshop Tools and then check it again
I tried it, and it didn't work. Well, thanks for trying. I'll reply to this comment if I find out anything. Also, I watched the CS:GO series and now I am watching the CS2 as well on how to make skins, and I can say that your video making skills have improved a lot. It's cool. Also the fact that you are referring to problems from the old video's comment sections. Good job.@@viperskins
@@fd04mcred Thank you very much for the nice comment
Hello! Great tutorials. I have my first skin. For some reason, though I run into a problem where the workshop just keeps loading when I press inspect or preview. Do you have any idea why that could be?
If you make changes then the workshop will load..... Or did i misunderstand your issue?
I mean, when I click "inspect" in the workshop, it will just start loading for infinity. But it never actually loads in. It worked yesterday, but today it just doesn't. I have the same UV map, I restarted my PC, ran the workshop as admin, reinstalled CS:GO, so at this point I don't know what's the problem. In fact, it doesn't load any other model either.@@viperskins
@@fd04mcred Never saw this TBH and it sounds very weird. I doubt it has to do with your item. It might be worth contacting the CS support
I don't know if I just forgot to send it, or if my response was deleted because of an imgur link, but here is what I forced out of the task manager:
Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_render_volume.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found)
Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_shading_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found)
Failed loading resource: "materials/dev/hair_processing_cs.vmat_c" (ERROR_FILEOPEN: file not found)
Do you have any idea how could I solve this? I did check the integrity of the game files and it found no problems.
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@@fd04mcred @viperskins i have the same problem.. i try to inspect an example paintkit which originally is in workshop tools. Even this dont load. Were you able to solve your problem ?
In Workshop map, can I play with bot?
I've just tried and it seems that you CANNOT add bots
@@viperskins Is there a way to color a 3D model using the "Texture paint" function so that it feels like "gradient"?
I painted directly on the 3D model, but the colors are unnaturally harmonized.
@@viperskins Do you happen to know how to solve the texture paint not working properly when the parts of the weapon are separated into several pieces?
I divided the weapons into muzzles and magazines and then specified texture paint for each, but the result was that only muzzles were colored or only magazines were colored.
Is the custom mask file necessary?
It depends on what you want. If you're happy with the default division of Patina/Regular parts of the gunsmith/patina styles then you can ignore it
@@viperskins If you try to drag and bake every part at once, only a part of the weapon comes out as a bake. How do I solve it?
I find the way. Use a same image texture in the shading. My problem's reason is I use different image texture.
@@RESPECT8_fps good that you found it! Yes use the same image. There's no need to use more than 1 image
@@viperskins If I delete cs2, will all the files stored in cs2 workshop tools be deleted?
That rly helped❤
Yo Viper, greet video my dude! hope you're doing good
Amazinggg🎉🎉
Totally agree about the skin import process. Its really stupid and it needs to be changed asap. Its also really annoying that the settings defaults to pattern based skins. Valve fix!
I've never seen a system where you can load files from your computer but only if you put them in a certain folder! Such things are usually done when you want to trick/hack a system that doesn't receive files as input and you feed it the file as a workaround. I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by this!
Also true about the settings defaulting to pattern based skins. The offsets limits should default to zeroes
Nice
a lot of err on workshop
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The pattern I put out every time slips and doesn't match. I can't make the adjustment, can you help?