Hi again! Today I bring you a tutorial which helps you from the start of making a custom spray, install it and make it work.

All right, let's begin.

|MAKE YOUR CUSTOM SPRAY|

The first thing I want you to have is the program to convert your image file to *.wad. For example: http://www.fpsbanana.com/tools/161 -> This is my favorite.

Step 1: Install the program, it would ask you for your HL.exe. Direct it to Valve -> Counter strike 1.6 for example. Open the program and open your image file.
Step 2: You have to click the "autosize" because the pixels are limited. Only do this if you like: Click the "MAX" buttons on width or height. Then "resize".
Step 3: There 3 boxes below, tick on the "CounterStrike" and "Save it to" only.
Step 4: Click the "..." box to the right of "Save it to", direct to your "cstrike" (Valve -> CS 1.6 -> cstrike) folder to save the file.
Step 5: Hit "Make WAD".

Finished! Easy huh?


|INSTALL YOUR CUSTOM SPRAY|

Even in case you didn't make your own spray, you still have to do these following steps to install it:

Step 1: Change the file's (the spray) name to "pldecal.wad".
Step 2: Delete the "custom.hpk", "custom2.hpk" and "tempdecal.wad" (one of them may not exist) in "cstrike"
Step 3: Copy and paste the "pldecal.wad" to the "cstrike" folder (replace the old one if necessary), paste again and you got a copy called "copy of pldecal.wad". Rename the copy to "tempdecal.wad".
Step 4: Then hold your "ctrl button", click on each of them, right-click -> properties. Tick on the "read-only". Okey.

There you got it installed ;)

How to check: Open CS -> new game -> spray it on the wall.


|MAKE YOUR CUSTOM SPRAY WORK|

Some people installed them but cannot use them on the net. Why? Because the server doesn't allow and/or they turned off something.
How to fix:

Step 1: In your console, type in: "cl_allowupload 1" and "developer 1".
Step 2: If the server allows custom sprays to work, you should see something like this: (in console)

» Requesting tempdecal.wad from server
» Custom resource propagation...
» Decompressing file !MD59fb77d7d881d72aabd07760daff26c3e (2839 -> 6296)

And if not:

» Requesting tempdecal.wad from server
» Custom resource propagation...
» Error: server failed to transmit file 'customization'

Any error please PM me, thanks!
Special thanks to CSnation.net
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