Left 4 Dead 2: How to Make a Custom Flashlight Addon [2 Ways] and Upload to Steam Workshop (Updated)

READ DESCRIPTION FOR USEFUL INFORMATION

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

Link to download VTFEdit 1.3.3: https://web.archive.org/web/20191003092237/http://www.nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=238#p238

Link to download VTFEdit 1.2.5: https://web.archive.org/web/20191003092226/http://www.nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=178#p178

Link to download GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Link to download GCFScape 1.8.6 (download version 1.3.1 if you are a non-Windows user, and if 1.8.6 won't run for you): https://web.archive.org/web/20191003064603/http://www.nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26

Individual Microsoft Visual C++ Package and Microsoft .NET Framework Links:

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Packages

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

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

Microsoft .NET Installers:

|---Microsoft .NET Framework/Core (non-Windows)---| (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 for Addon Creation
1:55 Editing Custom Flashlight in GIMP
8:52 addoninfo.txt Explanation
10:22 addonimage.jpg Explanation
16:57 Testing Custom Flashlight In-Game
18:57 Uploading Addon to Steam Workshop
22:29 Previewing Uploaded Addon
26:05 Disclaimer for Base Flashlight Editing Tutorial
26:52 Setting Up for Addon Creation (Base Flashlight Editing)
29:14 Editing Base Flashlight in GIMP
36:50 Testing Edited Base Flashlight In-Game

For anyone struggling with this Custom Flashlight Tutorial video and who thinks they might find it easier to follow a text version of this tutorial, here is a link to a text-only Custom Flashlight Tutorial that I made last year: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2808527073