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Hockey themed pack for the heavy (since he's Russian). Right now for ideas I've got an old 60's goalie mask (possibly a misc item, since you could still wear it with a hat), and some old hockey gloves to replace the KGB. I still need a hockey themed idea to replace the shotgun/minigun/sandvich. Got any?
I like the two-toned gloves better. I'll probably do them in team colors.
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Hockey themed pack for the heavy (since he's Russian). Right now for ideas I've got an old 60's goalie mask (possibly a misc item, since you could still wear it with a hat), and some old hockey gloves to replace the KGB. I still need a hockey themed idea to replace the shotgun/minigun/sandvich. Got any?
I like the two-toned gloves better. I'll probably do them in team colors.
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edit: Oh gosh darn plexiglass-mind
I like the dots better though. Maybe something like this would work instead:
It's from the 80's and for skateboarding but it looks like it could be from the 60's for hockey so it still fits the style.
sandvich
Right now my poly count is too high and I've still got details to add, so the mesh is going to be cut down quite a bit. This is what I've got so far.
I gave the padding a little character, but the helmet's still missing something. Maybe I just need to texture it, but I think a dent or something might be cool. I'd also really like to add some straps, but I'm already at 800 tris. (how loose are these limits? think I can make some straps?)
Anything that isn't effecting shilouette just merge. Or merge the ends on the inside of curves.
I haven't started to texture. I'm planning on normal-mapping some stitches onto it as well as the expected brush strokes and wear. I still need to unwrap.
Does anyone know how many smoothing groups I can have? I think I'm using 1 through 6 right now. Otherwise I'm gonna have to normal map some more stuff.
And also, I figure I can put a team logo on the helmet. Any clever team names?
Here are some companies already in tf2 for inspiration: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/List_of_companies
Also, I'm thinking of some kind of icy hockey puck launcher as a shotty replacement. It'll have an frosty valve coming off a nitrogen tank and hockey tape on the grips. I'll try and draw something up today.
[edit] Or maybe hockey pucks would be too much of a change and I should just stick with a cold shotgun with hockey grips.
[edit] 836!! That should be fine, right? On to unwrapping and texturing?
Probably go with the cold shotgun with normal shells. Maybe have a hockey puck incorporated somehow? One with a hole drilled through it hanging from a strap on the barrel?
Any comments would be appreciated.
That's cause I'm using a DirectX shader on the Heavy, and just standard max materials on the helmet. In my textured version, I 've used a red halfway between the red from the scout's helmet and the red on dispensers. It should look fine once I get it in the game. If not, I can always adjust it a little afterwards.
Here's an updated set of scuffs. I like these ones better, but I'm still not sure about them in general. Maybe I'll just have one, cause how many times does the puck actually hit a helmet, if ever?
I've gone over the vmt and qc files again and again. Could the problem have occurred when I exported from Max? Or is it maybe something I did in MilkShape? Can this problem even happen at that point?
probably the exporting from max, open up your smd in notepad++, or something and see which texture it references
In the smd I exported from Max it's looking for my diffuse.tga.
In the smd I exported from MilkShape it says default.bmp a lot.
Shouldn't compiling with the known location of a vtf overwrite any texture?
what happens is the engine looks for default.vmt or diffuse.vmt (depending on what it's called) so if it can't find it, it decides the texture doesn't exist.
either find/replace or export it again with the correctly named diffuse
These are my qc and vmt files. I started with the simple vmt from the tutorial, but when it didn't work, I just copied one from the game files and swapped out my the location of the vtf. Do you see any glaring errors? I've tried every combination of slashes and backslashes, nothing works.
I don't like the way the tf2 style viewport shader looks, so I'd like to get it into model viewer so I can tweak my textures.
{
{ "hockey_helmet_red" }
{ "hockey_helmet_blue" }
}
ie no tabs, no extentions or paths
$texturegroup skinfamilies { {"diffuse_red.vmt" "hockey_helmet_red.vmt" } {"diffuse_red.vmt" "hockey_helmet_blue.vmt" } } $hboxset "default" $hbox 0 "bip_head" -5.807 -23.053 -9.180 6.550 0.000 6.204 // Model uses material "diffuse_red.vmt" // Model uses material "hockey_helmet_red.vmt" // Model uses material "hockey_helmet_blue.vmt"So all I had to do was make a copy of hockey_helmet_red.vmt and rename it diffuse_red.vmt and it works!
I noticed that the SMD didn't preserve any of my smoothing groups. Is there a way to fix that?
Anyways, this is the last of the helmet. It's either the one texture or the other. I'm moving onto ZBrush for the gloves.