(OLD) Left 4 Dead 2: How to Make a Custom Skin Addon

Updated Custom Skin Addon Tutorial (2023): https://youtu.be/c1LAdXmAsbg

READ DESCRIPTION FOR USEFUL INFORMATION

addoninfo file template: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qeI2u86Tfj9tKsSr1PtIlmzqmL65ueyL

Link to download GIMP (Completely Free Image Editing Software): https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Link to download GCFScape (Archived): https://web.archive.org/web/20191003064603/http://www.nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26
Alternate GCFScape download link: https://gamebanana.com/tools/download/26

Link to download VTFEdit (Archived): https://web.archive.org/web/20191003092226/http://www.nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=178#p178
(Alternate VTFEdit link removed as gamebanana has identified the tool as "trash" and taken it down.)

(the main GCFScape and VTFEdit website is having problems so these are the new links for the foreseeable future. Also any version of VTFEdit and GCFScape that you download from my provided links should work fine with this addon creation process)

If you are unable to open GCFScape or are having other issues with it, you may be experiencing these problems because you do not have the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package(s)" or the "Microsoft .NET Framework" installed. Use these links to download them depending on your operating system:

|---86 Bit Package---| (32-bit OS)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190707185506/https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=8328

|---64 Bit Package---| (64-bit OS)
https://web.archive.org/web/20191109093216/http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=13523

|---Microsoft .NET Framework---| (ver. 4.8 Windows Users, ver. 2.2 Non-Windows Users)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190827033838/https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

0:00 Setting Up Folder Path
2:54 Getting Files Ready For Editing
6:58 Editing the Skin (Imperfect Edit - Effect on Eyeball Doesn't Show)
12:48 In-Game Test of Imperfectly Edited Skin

13:14 Editing the Skin (Proper Edit - Effect on Eyeball Shows)
16:48 In-Game Test of Properly Edited Skin
17:21 Extreme Skin Editing Over Most of Face with Colors
20:30 In-Game Test of Extreme Skin Editing
20:54 How to Upload Addon to Workshop