# Modded Portal-Gun

**URL:** <https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/modded-portal-gun/2498>\
**Category:** Portal\
**Created:** [October 16, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/modded-portal-gun/2498 "2014-10-16T16:26:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Michael94](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Michael94](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Michael94)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/modded-portal-gun/2498/1 "2014-10-16T16:26:51Z")

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So I have been seeing people with modded portalguns, but im a noob modder so I dont really know to do this. I tried but, my console just got flooded with “Material (portalgun stuff) does not support vertex format used by the mesh (maybe missing fields or mismatched vertex compression?), mesh will not be rendered, Grab a programmer!” what am i supposed to do?

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**Author:** ![YaLTeR](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/yalter/32/553_2.png) [@YaLTeR](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/YaLTeR)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/modded-portal-gun/2498/2 "2014-10-16T16:29:26Z")

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Grab portal\materials\models\weapons\v\_models\v\_portalgun\v\_portalgun.vtf, VTFEdit it into a .tga, edit that in an editor of your choice, VTFEdit that back into .vtf (don’t change any settings) and put it back there, restart the game.

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**Author:** ![Michael94](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Michael94](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Michael94)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/modded-portal-gun/2498/3 "2014-10-16T16:31:51Z")

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Thanks for the ultra fast reply, and also it worked, Thank you 😛

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**Author:** ![mike](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/modded-portal-gun/2498/4 "2014-10-16T17:17:20Z")

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I love how it says “Grab a programmer!” 8)  
Presumably that was some message to staff at Valve doing art work in case they didn’t understand the material format ;D