Version 2.5

HLMV Transparent

This is a program specifically designed for the Team Fortress 2 Wiki. It allows perfect transparent images to be easily and automatically created at the push of a button using the out of the box Half-Life Model Viewer program.

IF YOU NOTICE BLACK SPOTS ON THE RENDERED IMAGE, MAKE SURE YOU DISABLE FILTERING OR ANY OTHER POST-PROCESSING EFFECTS YOUR GPU IS APPLYING TO HLMV.

Download & Setup

1. Click the green "Code" button and select "Download ZIP"
2. Extract to prefered destination
3. Run either HLMV Transparent.exe or HLMV Cropper.exe depending on what editing you need done

Feel free to contact me over Discord at Lexzach#3215, and I'll be glad to help you set it up.

How to use in manual mode:

1. Take two screenshots in HLMV, one with the white background color and the other with the black background color. Use window capture, as these screenshots must be the same size.

2. Name the screenshot with the white background as w0.png and the black background b0.png. If you want to do multiple images at the same time, continue to name the images as mentioned above, but change the number from 0 to 1 then to 2, and so on. As an example, if I wanted to do 2 white images and 2 black images, I would do the following: w0.png b0.png w1.png b1.png ...and when running the program I would type in 2 pairs when prompted.

3. Put those screenshots into the folder labeled Rendering Folder.

4. Run the program titled HLMV Transparent.exe.

5. Type out the amount of pairs you want to render. (ex. if you have 1 white image and 1 black image that would be 1 pair)

How to use in automatic mode:

Make sure you change autoScreenshot to true inside config.txt

1. Run the program titled HLMV Transparent.exe.

2. Return to HLMV and press S to take a screenshot. (This will move your mouse around)

3. Press the S key to take as many screenshots as you wish.

4. Press P to finish and start rendering.

How to use Transparent Cropper script

1. Place any transparent images that need to be shrunk into the Cropping Folder folder.

2. Run the program titled HLMV Cropper.exe.

3. Press the crop button to crop the images.

Config.txt

• autoCrop - Automatically crops the transparent image down to its smallest possible size while keeping all aspects of the image intact.

• deleteTempFiles - Automatically clean up temporary files that are generated during operation.

• autoScreenshot - Assuming you have a 1920x1080 monitor, and HLMV is maximized (press the square on Windows), the program will automatically move your mouse around to take a screenshot far faster than a human could, after taking the amount of screenshots that the user wants to take, the program will then automatically render them. REMEMBER: THIS SETTING WILL CONTROL YOUR MOUSE, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT COULD BE CAUSED BY THIS!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

• screenshotSizes - Adjust the size of the screenshot area. This is already coordinated for a 1920x1080 monitor. The first two numbers are the top left corner of the screenshot, and the last two numbers are the bottom left corner of the screenshot.

• edgeSmoothing - Adjust how much the program smooths edges, 0 is off. The default is 1.3. Keep in mind that edge smoothing may make small objects such as wires look much worse in some instances.

Like this program?

Do you like this program? If so I would really appreciate it if you would stop by and post something to my talk page on the Team Fortress 2 Wiki!

wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User_talk:Lexzach

[ADVANCED] Running the pre-built version

Dependencies:

• Python 3.8.6 www.python.org/downloads/release/python-386/
• OpenCV pip install opencv-python
• Pillow pip install pillow
• Pyautogui pip install PyAutoGUI
• Keyboard pip install keyboard
• SciKit pip install scikit-image

Alternatively, you can run the command pip install -r requirements.txt to automatically install the dependencies.

How to install:

• Download Python 3.8.6 from www.python.org/downloads/release/python-386/
• Download HLMV Transparent ZIP file from this GitHub
• Extract ZIP download to your prefered destination.
• Open the Command prompt.
• Navigate to the folder that you extracted the program to.
• Click at the top of the Windows Explorer that shows the path, it should look something like This PC > Downloads > hlmv-transparent-main. Once clicked, the text should turn blue.
• Copy the text and return to the Command prompt.
• Type in cd plus a space, and then right click the Command prompt to paste the text, then press enter to run.
• Type in pip install -r requirements.txt and run it. If this displays an error saying that pip is not an identified command, please refer to this guide.
• Now your program should be setup, close the command prompt and return to the file explorer.
• Configure config.txt to adjust any settings you want.
• Double-click hlmv-transparent.py to start the program.