TF2 Characters?

stoofoo

I'm interested in working out some TF2 characters. Well, not really characters, I just want to see some art ive done using their shader for characters. If I can get it in as a static mesh and still have the same rendering style, that's fine. I've looked for a while now, and not come up with anytihng but "skinning" tutorials. Boo.

Mark Dygert

Most of what you'll need to work with is in the VMT file for that particular texture. If you haven't worked with VMT its basically a text file that tells Source what shader to use in the first line. For most props they use "$VertexLitGeneric" But in your case you'll want to play around with $phong.

The Valve wiki is over due for a large phong info update, to better support TF2. As of right now its a bit heavy on theory and light on practical knowledge, but it has enough to get you rolling. http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Phong

Wej

Omfg...i am making a mod for half life 2 orange box, and this helps a lot...

For some reason, i havn't even thought about the different layors of phong textures...well, i did, but didn't think i would need any, because i want the mod to not be so realistic, but more like TF2 on the color...

But of course, me being a complete noob and this stuff, my model is going to look like crap when i put it in the game...but i hope for it to look a lot better once i actually figure out how to do this stuff...