Texturing woes

[3DRyan]

Okay, i'm really sorry, because I know this has been covered a million times, but I can't seem to get it to work even after looking at all the forums. I just need to use one custom texture for my map which is sooo close to being done. I have my vmt and vtf files in the following directory: tf/materialsrc/custom. (I had to make a materialsrc folder as it did not exist before, does this matter?) I used the vtf plugin for photoshop to make the vtf, and my vmt looks like this:

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
"$basetexture" "custom/intro_ctf_platform"
"$decal" 1
"$decalscale" 0.25
"$translucent" 1
"%keywords" "tf"
}

I'm not applying it to a certain model, I just want to be able to apply it to a brush surface and have it show up on the browsing list in hammer. Can anyone help on this? Thanks in advance.

[Altaco]

You need to put your materials in materials, not materialsrc. Materialsrc folders are intended for the TGA files that you then convert into vtfs.

[3DRyan]

thanks for the reply! I will try this out.

[3DRyan]

Tried it, still no luck. Just to make sure:

The files go into:
c://programfiles/valve/steam/steamapps/username/team fortress 2/tf/materials/userfolder

the file path in the VMT next to "$basetexture" is:
userfolder/filename

Is this all right?It's not working. :(

[3DRyan]

YES!!! I FIGURED IT OUT!

Sorry, it's just that i've been working on this for a while, and now it finally works. I put the vmt and vtf files in both the materialsrc and materials folders just to be safe, and it works. Thanks for the help, Altaco. I greatly appreciate it! Now let's see if I can get them to work on models....