Creating Custom Skinned Weapons

[Hexogen]

Dear Facepunch community,

i wanted to create a custom skinned weapon for our RP server to add some more stuff to our RP store to increase the overall fun of the server. Now i have several question about that. I wanted to just reskin the Desert Eagle with a golden skin.

First question: is that allowed or am i voilating any copyright stuff with that? because i have seen alot of customized desert eagle weapons on garrysmod.org

Second question: just editing the vtf wont do, although i had a nice and golden desert eagle ingame. the point is that im just overriding the original texture of the desert eagle, instead of creating a new one with that skin. I was looking for good tutorials to make a custom weapon but i found none. I think i might have to make an mdl file or something but i am not sure.

So, does someone know a good tutorial (i mean, even those that do that kind of stuff had to learn it some day) or can explain me how to?

Thanks in advance,
Hexogen

[Nick99]

It is not at all illegal.

As for the second part, there's this program called VTF Edit. It allows you to convert VTF's to TGA's, which you then edit the TGA. When done convert the TGA back to the VTF. And to replace it all you have to do is follow the same file structure as in the GCF(another program is used to view GCF's.)

[editline]06:47PM[/editline]

Wait did you want to overwrite the skin or make a new one? It doesn't exactly involve mdls but if you ant to make a new one it is a technique called hexxing.

[editline]06:52PM[/editline]

Links that might help:

[url=http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=178]VTFEdit Download[/url]
[url=http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26]GFScape Download[/url]
[url=http://www.fpsbanana.com/tuts/8003]FPSBanana tutorial on hexing/generic hexing[/url]