I made a custom player icon, and when i tested them in game, it just shows a purple and black checker board sprite where the player icons are supposed to be. Any ideas on how to fix this?

wow, 15 replies and still no answer, don't any of you know something about sprites?

Sorry, I don't know what would be causing it. It sounds like what's been happening to some of my normal maps, but I have no idea what's been causing it.

My custom icons only went the checker board effect when i used a default or Generated VMT,

I then tried without a VMT and it worked brilliantly.

are you generating a VMT file when you export your pic to VMF?

Other than that im stumped :(

Purple and black checkers are caused by a corrupt or incorrectly located VTF or a missing/incorrect VMT file.

Yeah, there's something really weird about generating a new VMT w/ a corresponding VTF.

For instence...I was working on a reskin and plugged it into DoD and apparently, w/ the VMT alongside the VTF it doesn't work...the servers I tried to join just kept pushing a consistency on me. On removal of the VMT...it worked fine.

So as of right now...it's basically a game of chance.

I actually got it to work now, i was forgeting to put the vmt in the same file as the vtf. Thanks for your help:D

I belive a recent steam update forced consistency on certain materials. Basically anything other than a normal texture and bumpmap in a VMT will give the consistency error.