Turning local reskins into actual in-game items?

[NiandraLades]

Apologies in advanced if this is in the wrong section or if I don't make sense.

Basically, I've been messing around reskinning Garry's Mod/CSS items on photoshop, which all appear for me, on my local PC. I run a Gmod server and was wondering how could I get these local reskins as actual things on the server, so everyone sees them, without replacing the original.

Like, for example, we have a Pointshop, and I reskinned a hat to make it different colours. How would I get that reskin as a separate item, without overwriting the original?

[CaptainBigButt]

The only way to use this as a second variant rather than a replacement variant is to either recompile the model, or to hex it.

[NiandraLades]

Ahh, okay. I assume recompiling would be easier than hexing it?

Any suggested programs?

[Conely]

[QUOTE=NiandraLades;41315593]Ahh, okay. I assume recompiling would be easier than hexing it?

Any suggested programs?[/QUOTE]

hexing would be way easier. [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=880556"]this tutorial should be sufficient[/URL]