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Hello all,

I've decided to make some items for the Heavy, the theme will be 'Mexican'. "But wait," you say, "the Heavy isn't Mexican, this makes no sense." You're right, but when you think about it maybe it's the only thing that will ever make sense and everything else is just wrong.

Anyhow... The three ideas I have are (I haven't thought of any cool names yet) :

The Sombrero
Straw hat with a little bit of team colours thrown in, similar to this minus the weird looking dude:


Taco
Tasty meat filled replacement for the Sandvich:


Shotgun variant
I haven't decided exactly what I'm doing with it yet, was thinking maybe a decorated shotgun, similar to the ambassador, or an old rusty worn one.

I've already been working on the models for the Sombrero and Taco and will post the progress tomorrow.

Would suit pyro so much more!

WIP of the Sombrero:



Gave him a mustache as well, not sure if I'll keep it though.

Buck, any reason why you think it'd suit the pyro more? I thought the Sombrero would fit nicely with the heavy's ammo belt.

I vote keep the mustache for sure, it's a funny touch.

The pyro already has the Whiskered Gentleman, so I think this is fine.

Haha the moustache adds so much. And, surprisingly, that sombrero doesn't look out of place on the Heavy... which means you're on to something

Have the mustache and cigar be one thing, and the cigar be another.

more drop imo, but it works either way

WIP on the Taco:



Does anyone know if double sided mesh is ok with the source engine?

Thank you for the crits, will take into account.

You need three different varieties of item, correct?
Taco and Mexican shotgun conflict, how about a pinata stick?

Haha, or something more appropriate.

Hmm I don't know why everyone thinks you cant do 2 different weapons for the same slot.

Pick a single Team Fortress 2 class and create a minimum of three custom items for them. These items can be made up of any combination of weapons (melee, primary, secondary), Engineer buildings and/or hats.

Valve did it themselves with the Sniper vs Spy update .

Originally Posted by Monkeez

Hmm I don't know why everyone thinks you cant do 2 different weapons for the same slot.



Valve did it themselves with the Sniper vs Spy update .

Valve weren't entering a contest.

"You must create a minimum of three unique items for only one particular class (e.g. 1 x primary weapon, 1 x secondary weapon, 1 x hat - you cannot do 2 or more of the same item)"

Does that help?

Well it seems like there's a bit of a contradiction in the rules, now I'm confuzzled.

When i think of mexico i think of spicy stuff so it would fit pyro way more than a russian

Damo is right, Monkeez is wrong. What valve meant when they said any combination is you could choose primary, secondary and hat. or Building, hat and primary. not hat, hat, hat

1 item per slot!
Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by Buck

When i think of mexico i think of spicy stuff so it would fit pyro way more than a russian

yeah but visually it matches the heavy quite well, too!

I think it'd be funny if the Heavy had one of those miniature sombreros with the party hat strings and all. Just food for thought.

Well ok that sucks . What if I were to do 4 weapons and 2 were in the same slot? Do you think that'd still break the rules?

Pinata stick is a cool idea except it would need new animations, I guess I need to find an item which can be used with the punch animations he already has.

Cinco de mayo skulls!

He could bash them into his enemies with the punch animation. Don't give up on the taco though! That's shaping up to be quite the awesome item.

Forget the stick, two pinatas as gloves and when he critpunches people they blow up spreading happiness and gore everywhere.

Hahaha that's an awesome idea.

keep moustache as a misc item, add in a cigar ala photo. maybe. ;)


and while spicy may fit pyro better, the taco is clearly in the heavy's domain, and the sombrero works quite well.

Long time no updates, I've made the heavy maracas for melee weapons and I have also finished modeling the shotgun I was working on. Unfortunately I don't have access to them right now but I have the updated progress on the taco:



Texture is pretty well done bur will probably be making tweaks once I get it in game.

I'll post the shotgun and maracas tomorrow.

"Don't run, it's just taco!"
Taco is gonna be awesome!

since you can't do a second secondary, how about a primary? or if you wanted to go the easy way you could make the moustache a misc item (I believe that counts)
I don't really know how maracas would look without custom animations...since heavy uses fist.

I was going to do custom animations for the maracas, I've pretty well figured out how to get them into the game. Also animation is my primary skill and there's only a few short animations to do.