Here are some installation instructions and tips:<br /><br />Before installation:<br />Go into your cstrike folder and delete your pldecal file(pldecal.wad), and tempdecal file(tempdecal.wad), and your custom.hpk file(and custom.hpk2 custom.hpk3 ect. If you have them , if you don&#39;t its no big deal)). Don&#39;t worry a new custom.hpk file will get reinstalled when you connect to steam. The custom.hpk is where other peoples sprays get downloaded from the server so you can see them, if the file gets too big a custom.hpk2 will be made and so on. When you connect to a server it willl start downloading other peoples sprays into a new custom.hpk if you have deleted your old one. (If you are on dial up, only delete the custom.hpk as a last resort, it stores other peoples sprays and will save you downloading time on servers where you play with people that use the same spray all the time)<br /><br /><br />Basic installation:<br />Now that you have created your own custom spray you need to know where to put the file.<br />For Steam users you will copy/paste the pldecal.wad file here: C:&#092;Program Files&#092;Steam&#092;SteamApps&#092;your@email.com&#092;counter-strike&#092;cstrike<br />Also if you do not want your spray to go back to default everytime you go into your settings menu, right click your spray go to properties and make it read-only. It&#39;s a good idea to keep a backup copy of the pldecal.wad file in another folder in case it does ever get overwritten, then you can just copy and paste it into your cstrike folder again.<br /><br /><br />Some useful tips :<br />1. Right after you install your custom spray and join a server to check it out, you will want to wait a few minutes. The reason for this is that your .wad file needs to upload to the server before it will show the image. If there are alot of people and some joined around the same time as you this could take a few minutes. So play a few rounds before you try out your new spray.<br /><br />2. There are also other ways to install custom sprays besides the one I mentioned before. If the basic method doesn&#39;t work try these methods. Rename the file PLDECAL.WAD to TEMPDECAL.WAD. Then all you need to do is place this TEMPDECAL.WAD file into your CSTRIKE folder. C:&#092;Program Files&#092;Steam&#092;steamapps&#092;your@email.com&#092;Counter-Strike&#092;cstrike. Or you can do like I do and have both a TEMPDECAL.WAD and a PLDECAL.WAD both of the same file just copied and named 2 different ways. I haven&#39;t had any problems since I started doing it this way. (all of these methods of installation are derived from posts that I read on the Steam forums, the method that works seems to change from time to time with some of the updates, the last one is how I currently install my sprays)<br /><br /><br />3. Be sure to have someone else in the server look at your spray to confirm that it is working properly. Just because you can see the spray doesn&#39;t mean other players can see it. I&#39;ve seen where someone has used the &#39;pldecal.wad only&#39; installation and the other players could see the spray but the person spraying it didn&#39;t see it. And I&#39;ve seen where someone using the &#39;tempdecal.wad only&#39; installation could see the spray but other people in the game could not. That&#39;s why I use the &#39;both tempdecal.wad and pldecal.wad&#39; installation method. <br /><br />4. Custom sprays do not work in Direct3D mode, you will want to switch to openGL. (This could change at anytime, if the Steam code makers change things)