Alrighty, I raised the rail, I doubt I'll be removing the wires though.
I also finally got this damn thing UV mapped and mostly textured. The only thing missing is the decorations from the sides, but I'll do that later on.
After that, I guess I'm finished.
In the meantime, see if you think I should tweak anything.
Well Svdl you have two other top Sniper pack competitors wishing you the best/trying to ply you with suspicious intentions...I'm sure you have a great shot! Looks like it's something Valve could have released with whatever update had Egypt.
Thanks, guys. Heh, if I had known how good the other sniper packs were going to be, I'd have picked some other class. Glad to hear I'm doing at least something right. .
Anyway, here's some decorations.
Too dark? Too messy? Too busy? Too not arabian enough?
I made the decorations really muted so they wouldn't jump out and punch you in the eyes, but on the other hand, they might be so subtle that it would be better without them.
Have you tried confining the Decorations to the stock? I think the gun looks too detailed for TF2 otherwise and the repeating pattern along the barrel doesn't look so hot anyway.
I'd recommend removing the texture from the stock and the area forward of the grip. The stuff on the grip and trigger area does add interest to the first-person view, but anything beyond that is just too much detail.
Sure, though the settings won't be very high or pretty. While I was taking the pictures above, my fps did not go over 10.
Also, here's the final(?) stuff.
The sword, or knife, whichever it is closer to.
Then hat.
And the rifle, with varying amounts of decoration.
So, there we have them. I'll go through everything once more before submitting. Maybe I'll make a video and one of those fancy fake update things, who knows.
And names! I have no idea what I'm going to name these and I'm not clever enough to think any really good ones. Any suggestions?
I have no good name suggestions, sorry. Just wanted to say that everything turned out awesome and I really hope I get to use your items in-game one of these days.
Hmm... well I came up with a few.
"The Arabian AWP" (Counter-strike source reference)
"The Dingo Dinger" (I don't know lol)
"The South African Bolt Action"
"The Bushman's Bolt Action"
"The Mann Co. Musket"
"The Melbourne Musket"
"The Hunter's Humdinger" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humdinger A humdinger is a nifty bargain that's typically found in yard sales as well):poly142:
For the hat, possibly...
"The Sweltering Saudi"
"The Creative Coronet"
"The Cut-throat's Cowl"
"The Canberra Coif"
"The Tussler's Turban":poly142:
"The Huntsman's Headdress"
"The Bushman's Bandolier"
"The Bushman's Bonnet":poly142:
"The Outback Outlander"
For the blade, maybe...
"The Sydney Scimitar":poly142:
"The Sydney Slasher"
"The Melbourne Mutilator"
"The Tasmanian Travesty"
And everything is submitted! I hope everything went well.
Huge thanks to everyone for their support, critique and suggestions, you've all been a big help!
Oh dang, Khthon, that's a great list, wish I'd seen it before I submitted. I'll be sure to add those in the first post later on just in case.
As for Hotdogbunker, bit on the wrong continent there , you did give me some ideas, though, so it's all good
And Karkasmolenklok, I sent them all to Valve, I hope they'll check them out.
I'll see if I can put together some promo image type of thing and grab a video of these. The first page's looking awfully boring without some fancy stuff on it.
I'd be honored if you used any of my names in the first post. Really great stuff you have here, and there's also a Middle Eastern Spy pack, so maybe they could do a whole other Sniper vs Spy Update with your stuff versus Chemical Alia's!
Well, that took a while. I hope I don't get too many strongly worded letters for including the pyramids while talking about arabia.
These are the names I submitted the items with.
I liked the idea that the sniper found all sorts of stuff at a bazaar.
The sword means "king of kings" and is all high and mighty and stuff.
The scarf is known as "yashmagh" and "shemagh" at some places, which apparently literally mean "tied thing" so how could I not use it?
It's not jiggled, when I got everything else done I just submitted it and went to sleep. I'm going to take advantage of the whole "send a fix afterwards" thing everyone's talking about.
And Reklas, that's why I included Khthon's list in the original post , as I said before, I kind of wished I'd seen his suggestions in time.
I really like the names you came up with, really clever stuff. Better than I could come up with LOL. I like how you made a little pun with Bazaar (instead of Bizarre). Also, the scimitar's name is extremely similar to my last name, which makes me wish this gets in game very badly. Great work, being partially Arabic, I think that this is an amazing submission.
Seeing how professional looking the winning entries were, I feel like I did at least something right when there's people considering mine to have been actual competition to them . I was absolutely sure nrek would win the moment I saw his thread, though, and I'm glad he did.
Also, I'll be making these downloadable as soon as I figure out what I'll do about the hat, currently when the sniper dies, it falls off his head and stretches all over the place. Not a pretty sight. Some hats stay on the ragdoll (like the fro or the hounddog, many others, as well) and this is what it should do.
Awesome news! I've never used a skin before but I'll definitely use this one
Seriously, this pack is just... perfect. All 3 items look stunning in both design and modelling, almost every pack has at least 1 item that's not as great, but I love all of those items and even though it's very different from the style of the other TF items it still fits the character and TF perfectly.
Extremely let down by Valve that this wasn't picked, I'm sure they're just saving a couple of good ones (this, Buck's and more) so they can provide a continuous flow of high-quality items without using up all the best ones immediately.
Good to know that you'll be given some time to refine the items now though, just don't change them too much :P
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I also finally got this damn thing UV mapped and mostly textured. The only thing missing is the decorations from the sides, but I'll do that later on.
After that, I guess I'm finished.
In the meantime, see if you think I should tweak anything.
...but my intentions may be suspect.
Anyway, here's some decorations.
Too dark? Too messy? Too busy? Too not arabian enough?
I made the decorations really muted so they wouldn't jump out and punch you in the eyes, but on the other hand, they might be so subtle that it would be better without them.
Like so.
that doesn't look tf2-ish at all. way to detailled, regular and whatnot.
don't you dare touching that beautiful wood
Also, the model viewer has fairly low quality textures so here's some ingame shots.
Oh, I forgot the thumb issue. Well, easy to fix.
Also, here's the final(?) stuff.
The sword, or knife, whichever it is closer to.
Then hat.
And the rifle, with varying amounts of decoration.
So, there we have them. I'll go through everything once more before submitting. Maybe I'll make a video and one of those fancy fake update things, who knows.
And names! I have no idea what I'm going to name these and I'm not clever enough to think any really good ones. Any suggestions?
"The Arabian AWP" (Counter-strike source reference)
"The Dingo Dinger" (I don't know lol)
"The South African Bolt Action"
"The Bushman's Bolt Action"
"The Mann Co. Musket"
"The Melbourne Musket"
"The Hunter's Humdinger" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humdinger A humdinger is a nifty bargain that's typically found in yard sales as well):poly142:
For the hat, possibly...
"The Sweltering Saudi"
"The Creative Coronet"
"The Cut-throat's Cowl"
"The Canberra Coif"
"The Tussler's Turban":poly142:
"The Huntsman's Headdress"
"The Bushman's Bandolier"
"The Bushman's Bonnet":poly142:
"The Outback Outlander"
For the blade, maybe...
"The Sydney Scimitar":poly142:
"The Sydney Slasher"
"The Melbourne Mutilator"
"The Tasmanian Travesty"
stuff turned out great Svdl, and the detail actually looks really good in-game (imo) so it's Valve's call I guess. nice work!
Nomad's Noggincover
The Mesopotamian
Saudi Suncover
Lawrence's Lament
Freelancer of Arabia
Mercenary's Mercantile
Snipe-Clan Turban
Rifle -
Stifler's Rifle
The Mideasterner
Mideast Beast
Tuskin' Raider (ref to Star Wars)
Aurora (the root of east is the Latin 'aurora')
Melee -
Saharan Scimitar
The Hurtile Crescent
Dunewalker's Doom
The Millennium Falchion (falchion is a scimitar and name is ref to the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars)
Turk's Dirk
Huge thanks to everyone for their support, critique and suggestions, you've all been a big help!
Oh dang, Khthon, that's a great list, wish I'd seen it before I submitted. I'll be sure to add those in the first post later on just in case.
As for Hotdogbunker, bit on the wrong continent there
And Karkasmolenklok, I sent them all to Valve, I hope they'll check them out.
I'll see if I can put together some promo image type of thing and grab a video of these. The first page's looking awfully boring without some fancy stuff on it.
Again, thanks to everyone!
Well, that took a while. I hope I don't get too many strongly worded letters for including the pyramids while talking about arabia.
These are the names I submitted the items with.
I liked the idea that the sniper found all sorts of stuff at a bazaar.
The sword means "king of kings" and is all high and mighty and stuff.
The scarf is known as "yashmagh" and "shemagh" at some places, which apparently literally mean "tied thing" so how could I not use it?
The names of your items don't really do them enough justice in my opinion.
And Reklas, that's why I included Khthon's list in the original post
Seeing how professional looking the winning entries were, I feel like I did at least something right when there's people considering mine to have been actual competition to them
Also, I'll be making these downloadable as soon as I figure out what I'll do about the hat, currently when the sniper dies, it falls off his head and stretches all over the place. Not a pretty sight. Some hats stay on the ragdoll (like the fro or the hounddog, many others, as well) and this is what it should do.
Awesome news! I've never used a skin before but I'll definitely use this one
Seriously, this pack is just... perfect. All 3 items look stunning in both design and modelling, almost every pack has at least 1 item that's not as great, but I love all of those items and even though it's very different from the style of the other TF items it still fits the character and TF perfectly.
Extremely let down by Valve that this wasn't picked, I'm sure they're just saving a couple of good ones (this, Buck's and more) so they can provide a continuous flow of high-quality items without using up all the best ones immediately.
Good to know that you'll be given some time to refine the items now though, just don't change them too much :P