We have, at CS-MAPS had a lot of requests about, how do you make spray logos, PLDECAL.wads. (here is a free bit of advertising for us, lol a CS-MAPS PLDECAL.wad)  well to make your own it is very simple, and we will tell you how.

• First, you need the SDK (download it from from our map packs page, yes we know it is not a map pack, but still.)

• You need an Image (more about this below)

• You need to read this.

Important:

This needs to be an 8 bit  windows bitmap (*.bmp) file (In layman's terms 256 colors).

Windows paintbrush will bugger it up so do not use that. Ideally use paint shop pro, any flavor of which will do, although PSP7 is sweet.

Here is a PSP7 palette if you are unable to sort that.  And here is a template (more on how to make your own in a bit).

Standard spray paint logos are monochrome and 64 x 64 pixels because that's the way Half-Life/Valve makes them.

If you create your own, then they can be whichever size & image you want. There are constraints attached, the total size/resolution (amount of pixels x amount of pixels) has to be BELOW 12288 pixels in total, so 96 x 96 is cool, as is 128 x 80, whatever makes you happy really, play around till you get one your happy with.  If you downloaded the template you may have noticed it is pure blue, there is a reason for this, at least one pixel must be that color blue RGB 0 0 255 or #0000FF, if it is not then your picture will be grayscale, I use a full border in that color, this color is transparent when you actually use your logo in game.  Then insert, cut & paste or draw your image, then save this picture as: {LOGO.BMP.  IMPORTANT: the { in the {LOGO.BMP, this tells the SDK that the image has blue(transparant) pixels in it. If you forget this, the logo's will be monochrome.

Unzip the SDK into a folder of your choice, then within this create a folder called /MyDecal, save your {LOGO.BMP in this directory.  You will now have to adjust the bat file Makewad.bat (As below).

Makewad.bat  

DEFINITION: Makewad.bat is a simple batch file that should compile the sample texture folder into a sample WAD file, suitable for WorldCraft.  It shows you what to do when running the utilities, and can of course be duplicated and renamed, rewritten to make different Wads from different directories of textures, etc.

What it should have in it:

makels MyDecal <The folder you {logo.bmp is in*> pldecal <name it will be*> pldecal.ls
qlumpy pldecal.ls

*Do not reproduce the <italics>.

Compile your image with the SDK, by running the bat file Makewad.bat this will then compile the image into a PLDECAL.wad (compiled image file). This PLDECAL.wad  is the file that will be uploaded to the game, and then subsequently downloaded by all players so that they may see your logo as well, often if you look in the console just as you start a game it says requesting PLDECAL.wads from server, then show a small bar in the screen.  That's what it's all about.

You now have a PLDECAL.wad  file to use as you may in any valve/Half-Life variant, to be used you cannot pick it in the custom logos section, you need to put it in the root directory for the game/Mod as below:

C:\SIERRA\HALF-LIFE\VALVE\  

C:\SIERRA\HALF-LIFE\CSTRIKE\  

C:\SIERRA\HALF-LIFE\TFC\

Happy Fragging

Since I wrote this tutorial there has been much in the way of development on the web about logos in Counter-Strike, the foremost of these is HLC the Half life logo creator, you cn goto their site and download or just download from here