All the steps in the video should work even with Blender 2.75

Looks good as a first submission. Altought you should really make SFM pictures showing your item in better lighning. You'll only get better by doing this stuff and learning by trial and error. But like I said it looks quite nice :)

I'm making a weapon for demo and I thought that I'd do backpack images for it. I did the 512x512 large vtf. and 128x128 vtf and placed them in backpack/weapons/c_models/c_demo_sultan_sword folder. They work but the problem is that they are super inaccurate (image): http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1dee/9vofaf8vc0osqk6fg.jpg
What am I doing wrong?

I finally got time to texture my weapon and thanks to you guys I got the self illuminate effect working properly :D Thanks for your help and I hope I can submit my item to workshop someday next week!

Thanks for the replys I'll start experiment my texture today and i'll post questions here if I have something to ask.

I've been making a weapon and I'm on the texture step. What i'd like to know is: how can I make a certain part of my texture shining while the rest of it is self illuminated?

Found it! Thanks, this will make the process much faster :D

The part that takes the longest time for me is the QC. It takes a long time to go over a QC replacing all the file names. If there would be a technique to replace every file name simultaniously it would make the process much faster.

I've done a couple weapons and miscs and relased them as a mod by compiling them manually with the ingame file name. Is there any way that would make the progress of making replacement options easier?

Thanks