Nice

Was hoping the first skins for CS:GO would be better than quick overlay jobs so people can claim their skins were the earliest :/

Anyway. Yeah, the low rating is due to the fact that this skin is little more than colour changes and some grunge brush here and there. The shader edits were positive, however, except for your decision to boost albedo tinting. That subdued the phong way too much for the metal parts.

As for the people complaining about the difficulty in modding CS:GO: there's a reason behind that. Chet has stated in the past that CS:GO will be just as moddable as previous games. The reason it's so difficult right now is likely because Valve doesn't want people making skins right now. They want people to be testing the default content (what's going to be shipped in the final game). It IS a beta afterall.

They'll likely add easier skin/addon support later on.

Posted by Adam.

Posted by CombustableLemonz

why is the newer source games using this vpk format? i miss the convienience of simply pasting MODELS, and MATERIALS into game folder

i am aware its the new GCF, but i dont like how i have to mess with the vpk just to get a skin to work, same thing with gamemodes.txt when it comes to maps

Same here! Valve is making things harder for us. :/

i've read the valve developer wiki, and they state the VPK format is to make addons more convienient (basically it was made for games like l4d), but considering Counterstrike ISNT a game that uses (or needs) a addon system, hexxing is now a bigger bitch to handle all because of this new format; if only valve could pre-develop a episode 3 engine and make csgo based off of that, then much of the problems (or disconforts) of the community(s) would've never existed, theoretically

why is the newer source games using this vpk format? i miss the convienience of simply pasting MODELS, and MATERIALS into game folder

i am aware its the new GCF, but i dont like how i have to mess with the vpk just to get a skin to work, same thing with gamemodes.txt when it comes to maps

• Agree x 1

I see you finally got a beta key, congrats:) . btw awesome skin :D

• Thanks x 1

Pros:

• Pure
• Dark
• Awesome

Posted by Adam.

CSGO uses the L4D1 system. All the core files are inside a package file, so you cannot paste the edited textures over the core textures, unless you want to repack the whole VPK. CSGO does not have addon support(yet) as well.

I'm gonna release an update that will require less pak editing anyway.

thanks adam - i suspected it was something to do with the new achitecture from L4D & onwards but now i know - it will also mean my days of css texture editing won't have gone to waste

Pros:

• looks awesome

Notes:

• being dense but is there any requirement why all CSGO skins require an edit of the base pak file ? surely just a straight copy paste of the new texture over the old texture location would be easier (it was back in the old CSS/ TF2 days)