TF2 General Chat & Speculation Station V17 - Ms. Pauling Won't Stop Calling Me

[Curly Bill]

does anyone know how to make cosmetics or weapons transparent like items like the bubble pipe helmet?

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/231968/00f85961-e4bb-4a10-a7af-4a9bd5019645/image.png

im working in blender and am wanting to make a transparent part of the model, but not sure if its do able to be able to see in models inside the transparency

[Racist Gamer Man]

Pretty sure they are canonically two different characters, on account of the whole "the tfc mercs (including the engineer) in the comic are trying to kill the tf2 mercs" thing

[Dragadur]

I just woke up from a dream where I won a free cheesecake from Apex Legends and the Engineer received a new sentry gun that could heal enemy buildings.
It was called the Cosmopolitan and it looked like a regular sentry the only difference being that it had a large crane attached to the center of it. It was huge and clunky and nobody could destroy it because everyone couldn't stop laughing at it.

[Ghostlier]

The Bubble Pipe utilizes two materials but only 1 texture. The texture looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/7Dgj5br.png

The glass portion is that large gray circle near the top-left. I won't include proxies like the cloaking and stuff, but the main meat of it includes this for the glass:

    "$baseTexture" "models/player/items/pyro/drg_pyro_bubbleHelmet"
    "$additive" 1

    "$envmap" "env_cubemap"
    "$envmaptint" "[.3 .3 .2]"

    "$phong" "1"
    "$phongexponent" "65"
    "$phongboost" "6"
    "$phongfresnelranges" "[1 2 4]"
    "$lightwarptexture" "models/lightwarps/jarate_lightwarp"

    "$rimlight" "1"                        
    "$rimlightexponent" "20"                
    "$rimlightboost" "2"

Here's this for the rest of the model:
    "$baseTexture" "models/player/items/pyro/drg_pyro_bubbleHelmet"
    "$basemapalphaphongmask" "1"    

    "$phong" "1"
    "$phongexponent" "10"
    "$phongboost" "10"    
    "$lightwarptexture" "models/lightwarps/weapon_lightwarp"
    "$phongfresnelranges"    "[.25 .5 1]"

    "$detail" "effects/tiledfire/fireLayeredSlowTiled512.vtf"    
    "$detailscale" "5"
    "$detailblendfactor" .01
    "$detailblendmode" 6

    "$rimlight" "0.5"
    "$rimlightexponent" "2"    
    "$rimlightboost" "0.25"

For the glass, $additive is the main thing to make note of here. If you're familiar with Photoshop a blend type of "add" will give a similar effect. $envmap and $envmaptint create the reflection of the area's surroundings, $phong to give more localized shininess, and $rimlight to make it have a glow around the edges to make it stand out from the environment. I'm not sure what the effect of the $lightwarptexture is as the texture for it itself seems to be a full-alpha black texture. Possibly unused?

The rest of the model has pretty standard lightwarp/detail/rimlight parameters that don't need explanation. For creating glass it seems to be best to utilize $envmap, $phong, and $rimlight along with the material having $additive.

[Solokiller]

I was playing Mann vs Machine and i got voted out because i pointed out that the engineer had put a teleporter next to the grinder on Mannhattan. I'm getting really tired of the low quality of players in TF2 boot camp.

[¢αηηαвιѕ]

Someone best make the next TF2 General Chat thread before I get to it otherwise the new thread name I've come up with for v18 is gonna turn some heads.

[Solokiller]

Sure.