Custom texture/skins for weapons

How to install your own texture/skin in game . For example i have make texture of glock in vtf format so how to install it ?

You have to place your VTF in whatever directory the VMT points to, in the case of the Glock, materials\models\weapons\v_glock. You can also create a VPK of your material in the proper directory, and place that in an addons folder mounted in the gameinfo.txt.

Also can you tell me how to make glowing textures of model without vmt file?

Can’t be done. Like pretty much all properties of a material, glowing is a parameter defined in the vmt.

You can’t do it without a vmt, because you have to make a self illum mask in the vtf and then specify that it exists in the vmt. Read more here.

And please, if you have a serious interest in modding, learn to use Google and experiment for yourself before coming on forums and asking people. You won’t get anywhere if you need to ask even the most basic of questions before you’ve even tried to solve it yourself. Of course people are always happy to help out other modders, but…self sufficiency is kind of a requirement for this kind of thing.

Have problem with glow so texture not glow here is a image of vmt file and photoshop.

For some reason hands only with mp5 glow but other not

solved
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So i add some glow on hands
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685784112
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685784021
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685617785
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685617534

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