Materials and tips

1Fort 2Fort

I've seen some guide out there but the problem is they are all spread out. I'm not gonna pretend to be some uber item maker, I just want a place for folks to put any good tuts, textures and help. I want this to be a good guide for some of the newer chaps, me included. I'll post some links that I found helpful to good videos as soon as I get of this blasted PS3.
Okay I'm offa the PS3 and on a regular computer, so heres some helpful links:

for basic modeling
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Blender_Modelling_Walkthrough
http://www.planetfortress.com/tf2models/tuto.htm
This is a great tutorial for hat making
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1109465
A plugin for smd on blender
http://dvondrake.com/scripts/blendersmd
A good youtube video for basic setup and suck
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RTTSACe_eI&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
Textureing
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Material_Basics
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Material_Download_Sites

(Just in case you seriously haven't seen this)
http://www.teamfortress.com/contribute/tips.php

Some nice stuff
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=773648
Jigglebones
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$jigglebone

Luxy

Thanks for the info, really helpful!

fearian

That facepunch stuff is really great.

Anybody else got some tutorials to share?

AAA_BATTERY

great tutorial on decompiling player models and weapons and importing them into maya.

http://www.fpsbanana.com/tuts/8602?vl