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Custom Sprays Now Available (and Free)! How-to Guide Inside.

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Thanks to ctark and myself, customizable sprays are now available on ZE, JB, MG, Surf and War3!

 

CSGO uses .vtf files for sprays. VTF files are basically TGA files, but different enough that they aren't interchangeable.
 
All sprays must have width and height that are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, or 512. They don't have to be square, but most sprays tend to be. They must also be less than 100kB. DXT1 will have a smaller file size and be lower quality, DXT5 will have a larger file size and be higher quality. If your spray has curves or transparency, I recommend DXT5. DXT3 is in between, supporting transparency but without interpolation.
 
The easiest way to make a VTF is to upload your image to TFSprays (http://tfsprays.com/Create/Static) and use the VTF it gives you. Make sure the vtf it produces is under 100kB! Don't put an animated gif in as we don't (yet) support animated custom sprays, so you'll just end up with the first frame of your gif.
 
I highly recommend you use TFSprays, but if you really want to create the vtf yourself, here are four other ways to make a VTF:

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Once you are happy with your image and have saved it as a vtf, and have linked your STEAMID to your forum account, go here, upload your file and click submit. Bingo, your spray will be on ZE, JB, MG, Surf and War3 when the map changes. Select it by choosing My Custom Spray, which should now be the first choice in the /sprays list.

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updating link for upload

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inb4 all dick sprays all day

From the MOTD:

If you feel the need to spray a pornographic logo, it must be soft-core pornography - no genitalia allowed.This is not up for discussion in the server.

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From the MOTD:

If you feel the need to spray a pornographic logo, it must be soft-core pornography - no genitalia allowed.This is not up for discussion in the server.

Can you find out who sprayed what? I'm sure you can. But great work thorgot. Thanks again!

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If you look at a spray, it will say who sprayed it. Also, admins have an sm_spraytrace command to also see their SteamID if they've disconnected.

 

Note: there's a minor bug with new sprays at the moment, they may take two maps to show up instead of one in some cases. This will only occur if you join a server before the map has changed right after uploading a new spray.

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Please let thorgot or myself (ctark) know if there are any issues.

 

A lot of time has been put into these, I hope you all enjoy the custom sprays!

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Man, that 100kb upload limit sucks. Cropped, deleted every 2nd frame... 64x64. It took a while. It's still good, however! I'd much rather go through what I went through than not having custom sprays in the first place.

 

Oh derp, animated sprays not yet supported

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I recall hearing about something like this but it was only a local spray only to you.

Right when CSGO came out people discovered you could reenable sprays with fairly minimal effort, but Valve patched it out. This is a different approach.

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For images under 100kb, export as a jpg and use 256x256 sizing, then convert to VTF. Ive made a few sprays and it works everytime.

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Man, that 100kb upload limit sucks. Cropped, deleted every 2nd frame... 64x64. It took a while. It's still good, however! I'd much rather go through what I went through than not having custom sprays in the first place.

 

Oh derp, animated sprays not yet supported

 

They will be in the future, but may not be completly free.....  Stay tuned!

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trying to upload a .VTF, it is 256x256 and 46KB. Keeps saying failed to upload. I'm going to try again tomorrow to see if the issue persists.

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16 hours ago, 20pizzas said:

trying to upload a .VTF, it is 256x256 and 46KB. Keeps saying failed to upload. I'm going to try again tomorrow to see if the issue persists.

 

Try now, sorry about that

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On May 30, 2016 at 10:08 PM, thorgot said:

TFSprays is shutting down in a monthFeelsBadMan

 

Hopefully someone will take the source code, which he's planning on release as open source, and put up a clone.

I use VTFEdit and it works great, easy program to use too, also helps to convert files for mapping texture purposes

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i can't upload my spray.

 

Sorry, there is a problem

Something went wrong. Please try again.

Error code: EX2

 

That comes up as the next page when i try to upload my spray. is like 42.8kb 256x300something

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The problem is that custom sprays right now wont work when submitted if they are more than 200x200 in size, I dont know why this occurs, but I was testing out my own spray and it didnt seem to work with a 250X250 dimension size. Also I recommend everyone to use JPEG before converting it into a VTF as it saves more space, I believe about 5% more space than a PNG.

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