TF2 - Polypack - x-quake

x-quake

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I would like to offer my thanks to everyone that has commented in my thread and helped me along the way.

Special thanks to Khthon for keeping up-to-date with mine and many others' packs and offering countless sentiments of criticism. You have been a great help to me, as have others.



The progression of my items can be seen throughout the thread.

-Job-

Love this idea.

x-quake

Progress: Added "The Marshal's Set" Misc item.

Enderstaley

Hey Quake, Thought Id let you know Valve already made a bear trap and tossed it because it broke gameplay. Dont feel bad though, your not the only one to try this idea without knowing.

x-quake

I still plan to finish it.

I will have many different things in my pack; so, if one thing is not chosen, it will be fine because of the number of backups.

Zipfinator

X-quake, just so you know if you're doing one three tiered Engineer building that's all that this entry can have. Each level of the building counts as one item according to the rules. If you want to make a hat too you'll have to think of two other items to accompany it and submit it in a separate entry or scrap the bear trap idea.

Simski

Zipfinator wrote: »

X-quake, just so you know if you're doing one three tiered Engineer building that's all that this entry can have. Each level of the building counts as one item according to the rules. If you want to make a hat too you'll have to think of two other items to accompany it and submit it in a separate entry or scrap the bear trap idea.

I'm confused, doesn't the rules state that the entry must have a 3 item minimum :O?

x-quake

Yeah, a minimum of 3 items.

In which case, my 2 items listed are essentially in 2 packs. The Bear Trap is by itself and the Misc is to be accompanied by other items. I am still working on the ones up there, though. My pack is shaping itself still.

Fragus

Great idea!

x-quake

Progress: Added New Wrench Information and Render, New Render of Marshal's Set

x-quake

Progress: Added Final Renders and Bonus Render for the Wrench. Title Still In Progress

Psyke

I'd love for this to get in just so i could walk aroun' with it

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Pipe_Wrench

bears some resemblance, isn't a bad thing it's quite awesome..

MacD11

great pipe wrench definitely will use if it makes it in game either in this pack or if the pack fails community update.

EVIL

holy shiny engineer! :P .. looks good keep it up!

Buck

Sweet work!

Rhinokey

i'm not sure if i follow the theme bear trap, sheriff star, and pipe wrench. unless the theme is a fur poaching crooked sheriff that has a leaky sink. but the stuff is lookin ok, the trap could be more unique,, maybe show the hydrolics and mechanical part better, instead of it looking like a plain trap,

BANG!

Cool stuff can't wait to see more!

Zwebbie

x-quake wrote: »

Bonus: The Original, Red texture for the Wrench (If only the weapons were team colored)

Plenty of weapons are team coloured, like the Flare Gun, Syringe Gun, Blutsauger, Medigun, Kritzkrieg, Flamethrower, Backburner and KGB. I think the red colour adds some much needed visual interest, the default colour that you have looks a lot like the Engineer's clothing and fall away a bit.

x-quake

Zwebbie wrote: »

Plenty of weapons are team coloured, like the Flare Gun, Syringe Gun, Blutsauger, Medigun, Kritzkrieg, Flamethrower, Backburner and KGB. I think the red colour adds some much needed visual interest, the default colour that you have looks a lot like the Engineer's clothing and fall away a bit.

Oh man, I completely forgot about those! Thank you, I will go make a blue texture and re-do the renders.


Also, about the theme: I have yet to split up those packs. The bear trap theme is separate from the others. Since the Bear Trap will have 3 levels, it is a theme by itself. The others theme is, as the descriptions show, mainly oriented in Texan Life. The hat I am making will finish this theme before I start work on different classes and their themes.

Also, I have not uploaded it yet, but I already added hydraulics to the trap for automation. Was gonna finish more on it before uploading more about it.

x-quake

Progress: Re-rendered the wrench with the team-colored textures.

x-quake

Progress: Scrapped the Straw Hat, Added the Bull's Horns. Still a WIP, the texture needs to be finished for part of the horns and the holster.

x-quake

Progress: Added the Final Render of the Bull's Horns

dickless

Not really feeling the horns, could do with being smaller and more on the forehead than on top of his head. Also needs some kind of strap to attach it to his head!

x-quake

I'll take another look at them later. The way horns like these are mounted is normally the two straps (or ropes) around the middle. But, it is kind of hard to do that with a hat version of it. A strap going around the top of his head might work better if I do move the horns further forwards. But, I will have to determine that when I take another look. For now, I am busy touching up the wrench's texture.

x-quake

Progress: Did some touch-ups on the wrenches. Slight changes, but they are there.

x-quake

Progress: Changed the Horns - Added a back strap, removed the front 2 straps, and shrunk it by 30%.

Note: I will make entry renders with a more "finalized" look for all of my entries. The "Final Render" tag just means the mesh-work, UV map, and texture are all applied during the render. The items are still subject to change.

x-quake

Progress: Added the deploy animation video for the level 1 Bear Trap. Quality might be low for now, it is still processing.

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x-quake

Progress: Added information and first screens of the new pistol: "The Triple Shot".

Ikimono

Btw, I don't know if you know this (or are still going with the idea) and cba to read all the comments up to this point; Valve has a bear trap still in the GCF which you can find if you dig deep enough. It was a rejected idea from the very start.

x-quake

Someone made that comment on the first page. I already said I was going to continue with my idea.

If it becomes too much of an issue, I might scrap it later on. But, for now, I am enjoying making it.

x-quake

Progress: Added a WIP Texture picture of the Pistol.

Frump

Hey x-quake. It's a good idea to update your first post with new updates, sometimes. Maybe once every few pages put the very newest shot up. How you are crafting your thread right now though is very cryptic and hard to read. Post your updates in each new post instead of all in the first post. It's easier to follow, easier to see the progression and much easier for people to comment on! You will get more people posting if you lay it out more chronogically!

Few reasons why it's easier to follow:
Showing what you changed and not just telling.
People's comments are usually following an update so you can tell which image they are referencing without having to go back a page.
Less image clutter, updates are more spread out.

Some of your models look pretty interesting, but it's hard to comment when I don't even know what's goin on, mayne.

x-quake

I'll re-structure the thread after I finish the pistol's texture, then.

Was going to start arranging them into thumbnails and sections soon, anyway. The first post is getting a little cluttered.

x-quake

Progress: Did a minor re-structure of the thread. Progress posts now post the progress and main post changed to thumbnails of the replacements. From now on, content will be in the posts (Details for the objects will be in the original post too) and links will be posted in the main post.

Once the final pictures for the replacements are posted, more pictures will be added to the main post as well.

x-quake

Progress: I completed the texture for the pistol and imported it in-game. But, after some thinking, decided against it.

So, here is the new pistol progress:

Luxy

I love that bear trap. is it possible to see it with the engineers tool box unfolding to reveal it?

x-quake

I would have to modify quite some, but it is possible. I'll think more on it once I try to finish it.

Khthon

Mm, a toolbox animation for it would be cool I agree. How are the other 2 levels of bear trap going to look?

Khthon

Maybe for the bear trap upgrades you could take inspiration from the also wrought iron/basic mechanics of vintage printing presses?

x-quake

Haha. That is a wicked good idea.

I'll consider it when I start work on the other levels.

Khthon

Thanks for considering! Can't wait for the models and animations.

x-quake

Progress: Update on the New Pistol's Texture



Might hue the barrel a bit more before calling that specific piece finished. I'll finish the rest of it tomorrow and import it, hopefully.

Khthon

Those are some classy screws.

x-quake

Progress: Finished the Pistol's texture and compiled it.

Disregard the crappy bump-map lighting on the logo in Maya, I didn't spend much time on it before the render.



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jgoodroad

the word longhorn reminds me of a level action rifle...

yrogerg

These ideas all look really good! It's about time the engineer got some weapon upgrades! The bear trap is my favorite, I can think of a few fun ways that it could affect players who run over it... like take X amount of damage and run slow for 10 seconds or something like that... but I'm wondering if it would be destructible by players of the opposite team also, because if so it might be underpowered, and if not then it would likely be overpowered.

I would also love to see the pipe wrench in the game, in fact I was planning to make one of my own but yours is probably better than what I could have made anyway... only one comment about it though which is I'd like to see a little more wear on the paint color on the handle as currently it still looks rather "new." But bravo! So far looks great!

jgoodroad

IF this is a replacement for the teleporter...then valve would want it too...you know...teleport.

x-quake

yrogerg wrote: »

These ideas all look really good! It's about time the engineer got some weapon upgrades! The bear trap is my favorite, I can think of a few fun ways that it could affect players who run over it... like take X amount of damage and run slow for 10 seconds or something like that... but I'm wondering if it would be destructible by players of the opposite team also, because if so it might be underpowered, and if not then it would likely be overpowered.

I would also love to see the pipe wrench in the game, in fact I was planning to make one of my own but yours is probably better than what I could have made anyway... only one comment about it though which is I'd like to see a little more wear on the paint color on the handle as currently it still looks rather "new." But bravo! So far looks great!

I actually completely agree. I am not too satisfied with the paint-job on it. I will probably re-do it before calling it finished. I need to make an animation to replace the idle-tap anyway.



Also, I am not supplying information for their functions or so on. That is not up to me. As such, if Valve decides to take the Bear Trap (Even though some tell me they have already tried and denied one of their own), then let them decide how to. I am merely making the artwork.


Concepts for the new dispenser will be up soon. Working on some right now.

jgoodroad

you could make the bear trap more mechanical, a few wires perhaps.

x-quake

Progress: New Dispenser Concept. (Level 1)




It is styled on an older model Fuel pump, with some changes. To make things fit suit, I have a mock, scaled oil-well drawn out for the level 3 model.

The are at the bottom, as the picture says, is translucent glass. It will hold the various metal boxes and health vials/packs in it. Along with the pump (for the pyro), I believe it makes perfect sense to be a replacement for the Dispenser.

I am, at this moment, unsure how the dispenser meter in the middle works. Because of this, I am questioning if I should change it from the default meter I have there to a flipping meter these pumps had.

Khthon

Dug up a couple refs for you -