The image to the left is the Style guide.

Link to a Max viewport shader which matches the in game shader style of TF2:
http://blog.maginot.eu/dl.php?v=A15B01X106o16

For those of you that don't like to texture or are not confident about their skills, luckily it's not necessary for TF2, just flat colours fit the style and look good!

>Character textures are less noisy/detailed than everything else in the game. Character items/hats should match that style.

Tech Specs:
> Keep the polycount similar to what's already in the game. Try to keep hats under 800 polygons, and weapons under 8,000.

> Texture sizes should not be larger than 512x512. For hats, 256x256 is usually large enough.

>>61296
>tf2 models and textures (in.max, .tga files) so you can use to build and scale the hats on
Argh, I just finished downloading the obj versions from the other thread. :<

That said, some of these are actually ingame now, which is pretty cool.

Deleted last thread due to not having OBJs ready.

Links to character OBJs now in OP beneath the Max links.

You will need to download BOTH. As only the first link has the textures.

Now to really get a start!

>>61299
Yeah, it's cool. I was about to crack open Max to do some 3D modelling of weapons for TF2 anyway, so this will help regardless. Just need to think of some cool ideas now.

Okay here's a start on the first object I'm doing. It's clearly a book. Not going to reveal my idea because it's my "OC, DO NOT STEAL!!"

It's still looking pretty bland. I need to do some tweaks and stuff to bring it to life. Also I need to make it all one piece and rig it. Only had a bit of time to work on it tonight.

Get cracking, Anon. If today's update is any guideline, the bar is set pretty decently.
At this point, weapons and other items have higher priority than hats.
Working on an Engi weapon atm.

I made this but it wont fucking export the god damn bip_head so my compile fucks up every time

>>61357
Compiling it isn't necessary to enter, it's optional.

Aside from that, I don't know how good of an idea it is to make hats that cover the whole head. It kind of impedes head shots and seeing where the head is to aim at.

Another one for tonight, Spy knife replacement. I need to finish off the Book tomorrow and then UV/texture them both. I also have an interesting idea for a sapper replacement but I might just do a hat instead.

Planning on adding a nice engraved design to the blade or handle like on the ambassador.

I guess this thread will just be my personal WIP thread since no one else seems interested...

Just keep arranging cubes /3/, you'll be professionals one day...

>>61813
Change the handle color, do something more elegant rather than curved everywhere

>>61813
Hey 3D bro, do you have site or an email? Also looking good.

>>61359
You should also point out that they're trying to keep the TF2 style with user made content. Hats = hats, not so much heads.

I was working on a troll head model but then I figured they most likely wouldn't accept it.

>>62092
then do it as a troll-head mask. with obvious cutout eye sockets, and a headstrap holding it on.

>>62094
Yeah, that'd be easy as I've already made a vector version, but I was looking forward to spies using it, with spy masks on top of it.

I can't imagine a cardboard mask on top of a cardboard mask not looking stupid.

if you guys need any help i used to make hats for the TF2 Mod Emporium so just ask

fds

I already contributed models to TF2 but it wasn't one of the hats ;)

>Valve too lazy to even create their own updates.
Don't try to kid yourself that they'll have "official updates" which force people to download a half dozen or so of these each time Valve try to make themselves look like they're doing something.
Fuck, they've already done it with the community maps.

I thought this would work, now that the Soldier has a shovel and a pick axe.

>>62389
Next TF2 Update will bring total DMM.
Beware Demos and Soldiers and Pyros.

>>62253
I, for one, enjoy the new community items.

>>62389
Habeeb in the me that habeebs in you!

Got the knife UVs and bake done today as well as a lot of little changes to the model.

I also finished rigging the book.

Book rigged, Just have to uv and texture this tomorrow, hopefully I can get both things done.

>>62589
that cut in the blade doesn't work. i understand what you were trying to do but it doesn't work - you would be better off using smaller, longer chips along the sharp edge of the blade.

well i textured this and partly modelled it and it got me a free copy of l4d2. its for the payload, Heavy is original size so it is massive. it used to get stuck at the entrance of tunnels due to the size.

>>62689
i also helped a shit load of people with texture issues, and importing and fixing textures. also i made a stop sign bent over heavies head.

>>62689

Wait, you get stuff for your work? I thought it was just for "charity".

>>62621
I know, but for now I'm going to keep style over substance. Otherwise I will just get rid of it. Just thought it would give the knife more character.

>>62690
Cool, then if I have questions about importing and stuff I might be able to ask some here.

Anyone have an texture map of one of the official game weapons? I need a reference because I almost never do texturing

I made this for my regular server's hatmod but could never get it to change skins for the other team. I reused the spy textures to save downloads, so maybe that's why.

I might delete the eye covers and improve the mouth, if it's something that Valve would realisticlly pick.

>>63085
BLU team's cigarettes should burn blue

My contributation :3

bump

Done modeling, but I can't do textures worth a crap. Unfortunately, textures are required for submissions.

>>63085

this NEEDS to be put ingame

>>63103
awesome

>>63176

TF2 Texures are somewhat supposed to be crap. The art style focuses on simple textures without much grain and a ton of render layers to make them pop out.

>>63201

In that case, is what I've made here passable? It is textured, albeit with mostly flat colors.

>>63186
Pics on model.. (before cartoon colours)

>>63209
Add random brush strokes and an occlusion bake layer on multiply.

Are the FPS banana tutorials broken for anyone else? They all link to blank white pages. This is really frustrating considering I need to view them.

>>63221
Not sure how to do what you're suggesting. Unwrapping and texturing was never my strong suit. I get the feeling trying to explain it to me won't get far either.

>>62694
nah it was a comp on FPSB the guy brought me L4D2 cause i won it.

so, have the tools for extracting and recompiling improved?

last time i tried was probably more than a year ago so it might be a silly question...but getting stuff out to anything other than softimage was a complete assfuck.

so by constructing a model and going through the pain of unwrapping it and texturing it, what do you get in return?? it seems like the only thing they promise you is "you get credit for it"

this is bullshit.. it makes rage to think they're so lazy to get their fucking modelers cracking and instead ask "the community" to do the work for them..

review this for more info:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1585065&postcount=3

>>63310
You are looking at it totally the wrong way.

It's an honor to get recognized by Valve as being awesome enough to get into the game. Not only that, something you created is actually integrated into the game!

It could also potentially be a job opportunity if you do enough stuff that they like, because that's how Valve is.

Valve didn't do this to be lazy, they have added more than enough content to the game. They are doing this to give the community a chance to directly affect the game that they love.

>>so by constructing a model and going through the pain of unwrapping it and texturing it, what do you get in return??

Is it really that much of a hardship for you? I love doing that stuff, it's my hobby and profession. If it really pains you that much then why do you do it at all?

tl;dr cool cynicism, bro

btw, I found a workaround to the fps banana tutorials being broken. Type "cache:" before the url in Chrome to view google's cached version of the page.

>>63310
you get bragging rights to say "yeah, you see that new hat?, YEAH I MADE THAT, MOTHERFUCKER."

>>63310
>going through the pain of unwrapping it and texturing it, what do you get in return??

Have you ever model something just for fun, for your portfolio, or just to improve? There doesn't have to always be an end goal to something.
The ability to brag and show off that your stuff got in game would be awesome. Hell, it could even help you get a job. And even if it doesn't get chosen, you still can mod it into the game yourself for demonstration purposes of how you can make assets, or just use the model for something else.

P.S. Unwrapping takes less than an hour for a full blown character model depending on the tool you're using.

The engraving design and normal map were just drafts to test out how it looks. Not final in any way. I have to make a more clever and less curvy design.

I ripped the ambassador texture to get a sense for how it's painted in and took screenshots of it in the model viewer for reference. It really helped a lot in mimicking the look.

>>63369
congratz
it looks a lot like a classic tf2 model

I'm wondering if you could help me /3dcg/

I'm a /v/irgin with basically no modelling experience, as a matter of fact I downloaded 3ds max only last week
I modelled my hat in a sensible fashion, with the top as the top, the sides as the sides and the front as the front etc

to scale my hat, I imported the pyro model, but found out it was stuck on the wrong axis (the top was the front and the front was the top)

is there any command that'll let me flip it to be upright? (through a 90 degree turn)

pic related, its the pyro facefucking the floor

>>63369
I has that exact knife. Very impressive.

>>63382
>modeled a hat
>doesn't know about the rotate tool

>>63386
>implying rotate works outside of the x axis

>>63387
>0/10

>>63382
>>63382

Hope this helps.

>>63386
you are pathetic.

>>63328
>It's an honor to get recognized by Valve as being awesome
this my friend is approaching it the wrong way.. you're not honored to have Valve recognize you, Valve is honored to have your model in their game..

yes, i did stuff for fun, lots of it. But mostly for a non-for-profit projects.. if a company creates 3d art for money and asks you to do modeling for their commercial game for free, that's called being lazy.. that's called using basement-dwelling neckbeard's time for their advantage. and what do they give in return? false promises..

you guys are the cancer killing the industry with this "i am honored to have my model in your game" attitude bullshit..

>>63406

You're an idiot.

>>63406

>>63406

Wow, how jaded are you? Valve is giving fans an opportunity to be a part of the game they love so much. No one has to do anything they don't want to; it's not slave labor.
I don't think it's ever approaching something the right way to expect other people to be "honored" by whatever you're doing. People can smell that kind of attitude a mile away and it really turns them off to you.

>>63382
When you import and export models, check on "Flip y/z axis" because Max's up axis is Z. As far as I know it is the only 3d related software oriented that way... The same way it's the only one that uses an inverted green channel in normal maps...

Yes, that's a bottle opener.

Any comments/crits?

>>63427
Needs color, man.

>>63427

looks good

>>63382
here

Fixed that, but my polygon count is over the roof, how would I bring it down a bit?

Is there a tool that turns multiple polygons into one?

>>63427
looks pretty good bro

>>63439
if you are using max 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYK3MP1G910

near the end they use the graphite modeling tools to remove every other spline while conserving the model effectively reducing the poly count more or less by half.

somewhere

>>63439
Really? The polycount is >8000?
Post a wireframe and we can point out areas that you should optimize.

You should do it mostly by hand, deleting loops and collapsing rings.

>>63620
its 8000 for weapons, you only get 800 for hats

I need to smooth out and join up the surfaces, as well as texture the damn thing, but here you go, its meant to be a sugarloaf helm

I downloaded that polycruncher program, but I can't figure out where it actually is to use it

>>63636
thats not the frame I know, I just wanted to give you guys an idea of how well I'm getting along

>>63636
My bad I thought that reply was from the wrench guy.

I would suggest you add more to make the silhouette nice and smooth on the top. People break the polycount on the hats, it's not a big deal.

It looks like you could really save tris getting rid of those holes in the mask. You can do it later with alphas if it's really necessary. Or you could just have two or three larger holes instead of a bunch of small ones.

>>63645
fair enough, I can't really figure out how to replace already deleted polygons though, and I'd hate to have to redo the entire mesh

Thought I might ask again. Does anyone have a texture map for an official TF2 weapon?

Gonna model a new headset for the Scout.
Gonna try something like this. Gonna be a bitch to try to keep it under 800 polys.

>>63686
Yes, they are easy to rip and view in photoshop.

They are just basically random blotches of colour placed with hard edge square brushes. There's also an occlusion bake and some very subtle noise over the whole thing.

>>63705
Does this mean the whole gun was one object? Trigger and Cylinder included? In which case, how does that work for animation?

>>63707
It means the whole gun shared a single UV set, not that the whole gun was one object.

>>63707
You can have multiple 'objects' in one UV set Just as long as they exist in different areas on the texture/material map. You'll probably have less space to work with but it saves the computer the hassle of referencing multiple files. In some instances, I've seen entire low poly buildings modeled with everything on one large 2048 by 2048 map. It just took awhile to go back and forth finding which faces belonged to what part of the building.

You can also technically go the 'other way' by breaking up one mesh into multiple parts for separate UV maps.
I do this to high detail heads, bodies, and the clothing as separate textures/materials. The only thing to worry about in this regard is the seams that can occur.

>>63705

>armpit more detailed than the rest of the body

Ooh yeah baby.

>>63703
First of all, no fucking way you can make it in that many polygons.
Secondly, not TF2 style.

>>63789
Sure you could. Tempted to do it, just to prove you wrong, but....homework :(

Shazam.

>>63860
Looks.. Orky. Cool beans.
Are you gaiz sending these in yet or what?

>>63865
its a bit soon after the last one

that said, leave it too long and someone else will come up with the same ideas