Hammer Editor: Dynamic/Map Background (Tutorial)

How to make a Dynamic/Map Background (Video)

So in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to make a Dynamic Background or a Menu Background Map.

A Quick note: Background maps are the 3D moving backgrounds that appear behind the menus when the game is first launched. They are compiled BSPs, just like standard game maps. Background maps are designed to be used for single player games like Half-Life 2, although any mod can use them. The background map can change as the player unlocks chapters of the game, depending on the author's preferences. - Valve

The tools which we are using in the tutorial:
Photoshop CS5 or whatever you have to edit your scteenshots/images with
Download link: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop (Trial)

VTFedit: Download link: http://www.interlopers.net/downloads/files/vtfedit124-11.exe

and of course Hammer Editor, to make the map...

Good luck!

Here is the stuff for the vmt file

"UnlitGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "console/background01"
"$vertexcolor" 1
"$vertexalpha" 1
"$ignorez" 1
"$no_fullbright" "1"
"$nolod" "1"
}

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[soldierrob909]

will it work in gmod

what is i upload it and what people have other resolution

[Remi749]

@soldierrob909 It will work in gmod, yes ;) if you followed my tutorial, which is for widescreen, you should make one for 5:4 also, normal screens, then it should work ;)

[FSMods]

Where i must the map put in?

[Remi749]

@FSMods just have it in your normal: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\*usernam­e*\counter-strike source\cstrike\maps

and it should work just fine, thanks for asking ^^

[Alfierulz94]

it's best to save your files that you're going to import into VTFEdit as tga. There's no quality loss what so ever.

[Remi749]

@Alfierulz94 I know, but I don't know if all the other photo editing softwares support saving as TGA, so I just used jpeg. but I can add it as an annotation, thanks anyways ;)

[816nnm]

@Remi749 This is cool!

[816nnm]

@DJxXxnfsu I think its Hayden Panattiere! :D

[THATBLU3GuY]

why does my game crash when i try to play my map?

[DJxXxnfsu]

I love the girl in the background :D

She's sexy

[rx3gundam]

I have a problem... It uses the info_player_start to look at the map and where it looks at. It doesn't use the point_viewcontrol. Help? please...

[OperationTK]

I use HL2 and the logic auto won't work with the background. When i use normal map the logic auto works fine.. WTF? help?

[xBrandonNWIx]

@Mavericks740 at your moms house

[Gippi100]

there we go, like so.

[chap1400]

Awesome tutorial, however my map loads fine, but the blurred image doesnt load. in its place is the default CS image, do you know why this is? ive checked all my wording in the VMF