How to Create Custom Billboards

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You should be able to basically open up a stock billboard .mat file with notepad and see for yourself whats inside it. Look at the filetypes frictional used, look at the settings they used in material editor and use your brains to figure it all out.

1. create image with program of choice(powers of 2 don't actually matter if you don't use .dds)
2. export as .dds (dxt1 if you dont have color or alpha, dxt5 if you have) or just png
3. open material editor
4. create new, set the material to translucent and look up settings from frictionals .mat files
5. save the image and .mat into same folder and you should be set