[QUOTE=leonthefox;31264128]I fucking hate how the muttons chop clips with the team captain, I hate clipping in general, mostly because the tf2 team never takes care of it[/QUOTE]
It clips with a BUNCH of hats, because some hats bob up and down on his head and you can see the hair...its hard to explain.
It doesn't look too bad from the front though.
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/magicemperor2000/Chops1.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=MrCasual;31264717]It clips with a BUNCH of hats, because some hats bob up and down on his head and you can see the hair...its hard to explain.
It doesn't look too bad from the front though.
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/magicemperor2000/Chops1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
It's a shame that the pipe isnt a misc on its own. I would want to equip a Pipe + Honchos + Dress Uniform if/when Valve introduces Double-Misc
[QUOTE=Barobax;31265063]It's a shame that the pipe isnt a misc on its own. I would want to equip a Pipe + Honchos + Dress Uniform if/when Valve introduces Double-Misc[/QUOTE]
Out of pure interest, why does Facepunch show the german flag under next to your post?
[QUOTE=DatWut?;31265093]Out of pure interest, why does Facepunch show the german flag under next to your post?[/QUOTE]
Vacationing in Germany at the moment. Damn Z and Y buttons are reversed here and I keep forgetting. Anyhow, I forgot the exact details how it works but FP looks at your IP and finds out what country it is in then shows the flag.
[QUOTE=Barobax;31265145]Vacationing in Germany at the moment. Damn Z and Y buttons are reversed here and I keep forgetting. Anyhow, I forgot the exact details how it works but FP looks at your IP and finds out what country it is in then shows the flag.[/QUOTE]
Alt+Shift switches between american and german keyboard binding. So if you press those 2 you can type like on an american keyboard.
A few questions.
So who made these Dr. Grordbort items?
As far as I'm aware, WETA Workshops doesn't make any video games so I could possibly assume none of their employees are familiar with 3D modeling.
In addition, this update is obviously not just a simple hat, misc item, and 2 weapons which could be feasibly submitted by some of the regular Emporium modders. For example, it's feasible that an Emporium modder could model a Conjurer's Cowl or model the entire Witcher 2 promotion item set and submit it. However this update is a lot more. New firing and reloading animations have been made for both the Cow Mangler 5000 and the The Righteous Bison. The Soldier has a new taunt when the Cow Mangler 5000 is equipped. Unused animations or taunts have even been spotted through the Source SDK model viewer.
This update is completely unlike Valve and unlike TF2's regular promotion items. It's much more polished and thorough than the regular update. Kill icons, however good/bad they are, are used. New animations were made and I was honestly expecting the Bison to reuse shotgun animations. Weapons were given unique stats and properties instead of being reskins (Nessie's Nine Iron, Postal Pummeler, Three-Rune Blade, etc). Some bugs are left to be worked out, such as potential stat balancing or performance issues with the new weapons. (Be that lack of LODs or inefficiency with particle effect processing, or whatever)
If what I think is true, why is Valve wasting their time creating advertisement promotion items for a company that (to my knowledge) doesn't create video games? Couldn't that time be better spent making in-house TF2 styled Engineer items because according to Valve's own words, no Engineer packs have passed their strict quality assurance tests. In addition, if Valve did make these items, exactly how much money are they getting paid here?
Because Dr. Grordbort's items are a promotion for a non-video game company, does that also mean that given enough money other non-video game companies can continue to use and abuse TF2 as a channel for advertisement? Could Nike, the sports shoe giant, pay Valve to create Nike tennis shoe misc items for Scout, for example?
And yes it is a promotion, although a little different from the regular pre-purchase promotion. Dr. Grordbort's logo is all over the place on TF2's site and these items serve as a direct advertisement for TF2 players to buy products from WETA workshop's site. It's no different than Conjurer's Cowl being an item to advertise TF2 players to buy Magicka and/or the Magicka Nippon DLC.
[QUOTE=Joey JoJo;31265962]A few questions.
So who made these Dr. Grordbort items?
As far as I'm aware, WETA Workshops doesn't make any video games so I could possibly assume none of their employees are familiar with 3D modeling.
In addition, this update is obviously not just a simple hat, misc item, and 2 weapons which could be feasibly submitted by some of the regular Emporium modders. For example, it's feasible that an Emporium modder could model a Conjurer's Cowl or model the entire Witcher 2 promotion item set and submit it. However this update is a lot more. New firing and reloading animations have been made for both the Cow Mangler 5000 and the The Righteous Bison. The Soldier has a new taunt when the Cow Mangler 5000 is equipped. Unused animations or taunts have even been spotted through the Source SDK model viewer.
This update is completely unlike Valve and unlike TF2's regular promotion items. It's much more polished and thorough than the regular update. Kill icons, however good/bad they are, are used. New animations were made and I was honestly expecting the Bison to reuse shotgun animations. Weapons were given unique stats and properties instead of being reskins (Nessie's Nine Iron, Postal Pummeler, Three-Rune Blade, etc). Some bugs are left to be worked out, such as potential stat balancing or performance issues with the new weapons. (Be that lack of LODs or inefficiency with particle effect processing, or whatever)
If what I think is true, why is Valve wasting their time creating advertisement promotion items for a company that (to my knowledge) doesn't create video games? Couldn't that time be better spent making in-house TF2 styled Engineer items because according to Valve's own words, no Engineer packs have passed their strict quality assurance tests. In addition, if Valve did make these items, exactly how much money are they getting paid here?
Because Dr. Grordbort's items are a promotion for a non-video game company, does that also mean that given enough money other non-video game companies can continue to use and abuse TF2 as a channel for advertisement? Could Nike, the sports shoe giant, pay Valve to create Nike tennis shoe misc items for Scout, for example?
And yes it is a promotion, although a little different from the regular pre-purchase promotion. Dr. Grordbort's logo is all over the place on TF2's site and these items serve as a direct advertisement for TF2 players to buy products from WETA workshop's site. It's no different than Conjurer's Cowl being an item to advertise TF2 players to buy Magicka and/or the Magicka Nippon DLC.[/QUOTE]
I really wouldn't worry. Valve clearly doesn't need the money from promotions, so they pick and choose what to promote (Dr. Grordbort's is a tiny company, seriously).
And I'm pretty sure the reason we haven't gotten Engie items at nearly the same rate as, say, the soldier or demo is because Engie weapons are WAY harder to balance (that's probably what they meant by "quality assurance."
Valve is raking it in hand over fist with Steam. They're not going to get greedy/desperate.
[quote]Fixed hatless hats not working correctly[/quote]
Whooray!
Good news now that I'm back from our weeks holiday, can finally put the extra white Texas Ten G to rest.
[editline]22nd July 2011[/editline]
lmao @ new solly stuff though
[QUOTE=Joey JoJo;31265962]A few questions.
So who made these Dr. Grordbort items?
As far as I'm aware, WETA Workshops doesn't make any video games so I could possibly assume none of their employees are familiar with 3D modeling.
In addition, this update is obviously not just a simple hat, misc item, and 2 weapons which could be feasibly submitted by some of the regular Emporium modders. For example, it's feasible that an Emporium modder could model a Conjurer's Cowl or model the entire Witcher 2 promotion item set and submit it. However this update is a lot more. New firing and reloading animations have been made for both the Cow Mangler 5000 and the The Righteous Bison. The Soldier has a new taunt when the Cow Mangler 5000 is equipped. Unused animations or taunts have even been spotted through the Source SDK model viewer.
This update is completely unlike Valve and unlike TF2's regular promotion items. It's much more polished and thorough than the regular update. Kill icons, however good/bad they are, are used. New animations were made and I was honestly expecting the Bison to reuse shotgun animations. Weapons were given unique stats and properties instead of being reskins (Nessie's Nine Iron, Postal Pummeler, Three-Rune Blade, etc). Some bugs are left to be worked out, such as potential stat balancing or performance issues with the new weapons. (Be that lack of LODs or inefficiency with particle effect processing, or whatever)
If what I think is true, why is Valve wasting their time creating advertisement promotion items for a company that (to my knowledge) doesn't create video games? Couldn't that time be better spent making in-house TF2 styled Engineer items because according to Valve's own words, no Engineer packs have passed their strict quality assurance tests. In addition, if Valve did make these items, exactly how much money are they getting paid here?
Because Dr. Grordbort's items are a promotion for a non-video game company, does that also mean that given enough money other non-video game companies can continue to use and abuse TF2 as a channel for advertisement? Could Nike, the sports shoe giant, pay Valve to create Nike tennis shoe misc items for Scout, for example?
And yes it is a promotion, although a little different from the regular pre-purchase promotion. Dr. Grordbort's logo is all over the place on TF2's site and these items serve as a direct advertisement for TF2 players to buy products from WETA workshop's site. It's no different than Conjurer's Cowl being an item to advertise TF2 players to buy Magicka and/or the Magicka Nippon DLC.[/QUOTE]
WETA recently signed a deal with Valve to start selling models based on their games, such as TF2. WETA had one of their smaller subsidiary companies, Dr. Grordbort's, send them some of the weapon models they have. Valve liked them and decided to incorporate them.
[img]http://www.wingedmammal.com/action_photos_2010/DSC_1309.jpg[/img]
They'd better shut their incompetent spoiled mouths because I'm modeling this as we speak
[QUOTE=Recurracy;31267324][img]http://www.wingedmammal.com/action_photos_2010/DSC_1309.jpg[/img]
They'd better shut their incompetent spoiled mouths because I'm modeling this as we speak[/QUOTE]If I had $4000 I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Cool beans, also found a pistol:
[img]http://assets.svpply.com.s3.amazonaws.com/large/598543.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=JoeSibilant;31266447]I really wouldn't worry. Valve clearly doesn't need the money from promotions, so they pick and choose what to promote (Dr. Grordbort's is a tiny company, seriously).
And I'm pretty sure the reason we haven't gotten Engie items at nearly the same rate as, say, the soldier or demo is because Engie weapons are WAY harder to balance (that's probably what they meant by "quality assurance."
Valve is raking it in hand over fist with Steam. They're not going to get greedy/desperate.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't per quote "quality assurance" that's just the gist of what I understood the post from a Valve employee to mean. From what I understand they hadn't added any Engineer weapons or building from the contribute site because they didn't like how they looked.
It struck me as odd that they would be doing stuff with WETA or Dr. Grordbort brand items and creating promotion items to help sell their stuff (ie: advertisement) when they could be using the same time used to model those weapons to model in house made Engineer stuff that is up to their own quality standards. Completely ignoring the need to create new stats, they could've made a new shotgun and pistol and added them to the game. Engineer buildings are what's tough to balance, not so much Engineer's weapons. For example, the Jag's +25% building rate doesn't seem too overly imbalanced, even though the stats might lead me to believe so.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;31266607]WETA recently signed a deal with Valve to start selling models based on their games, such as TF2. WETA had one of their smaller subsidiary companies, Dr. Grordbort's, send them some of the weapon models they have. Valve liked them and decided to incorporate them.[/QUOTE]
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here. Are you saying WETA will soon be selling Valve items, be that TF2/L4D figures or life sized replica weapons or whatever?
If this is true, then it'd make sense for mutual advertising to occur through both companies. Valve advertises Dr. Grordbort's items, WETA workshops makes TF2/L4D/HL figures, toys, and props.
WETA is capable of doing amazing shit, I've already seen that much. Knowing valve it'll be one massive surprise.
I don't even really know what WETA are.
All I've gathered is they make replica space guns?
yes, that's what they're doing.
Making low cost TF2/L4D/HL/Portal stuff
[QUOTE=ned_ballad;31267611]yes, that's what they're doing.
Making low cost TF2/L4D/HL/Portal stuff[/QUOTE]
By 'low cost' I'm sure they'll be over $300
[QUOTE=HyperTails;31267590]I don't even really know what WETA are.
All I've gathered is they make replica space guns?[/QUOTE]
WETA Workshops is just a company that makes stuff. Costume props, items of all kinds, etc. One of their specific subsidiary companies (this means they legally own them, such as how Toyota owns Lexus as their line of luxury cars) is Dr. Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators. This company makes (expensive) replica plastic space odyssey/steampunk rayguns of all kinds as costume props or for decoration.
Apparently Valve and WETA workshops are in some kind of partnership at the moment, and I'm not entirely sure what Valve is getting from this. Apparently they may be able to have WETA make Valve items, but I don't know the whole story.
Some of the Valve guys wanted a replica Portal gun and gravity gun on SUF, so it'll probably be those.
Maybe some stuff like the Eyelander and Scattergun would also be cool.
The way i see it. they could patch on friday to fix some issues and perhaps slip engineer the pistol to silence some whining.
pomson would require custom animations since it's held more like a rifle than a shotgun. Hopefully Valve would do it.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;31267772]pomson would require custom animations since it's held more like a rifle than a shotgun. Hopefully Valve would do it.[/QUOTE]Well, both the Cow Mangler and Righteous Bison have custom animations.
Removed the ability to see if a player had a weapon/hat drop in the chat.
But I want to see what hat people drop :smith:
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;31267773]Real life TF2 weapons? Give me![/QUOTE]
Going by Weta's other weapons, they'd be a grand or more a piece
[QUOTE=goluffy;31267884]Removed the ability to see if a player had a weapon/hat drop in the chat.
But I want to see what hat people drop :smith:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, why was this feature removed, but they leave the
[b]VERY ANNOYING STRANGE WEAPON NOTIFICATIONS[/b]
I really hope there's more laser weapons, preforably for the Engie. That style of weapon fits his character better anyway.
[quote]none of their employees are familiar with 3D modeling.[/quote]
Yeah they just constructed a real life giant gorilla and 3 t-rexes then filmed them fighting.
If you're wondering what Valve got from this deal, Weta made them a [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kccz1qziE]working replica level one Sentry[/url] for their lobby around 7 months ago.
[QUOTE=Randdalf;31267953]Yeah they just constructed a real life giant gorilla and 3 t-rexes then filmed them fighting.[/QUOTE]
I like how you misrepresent the quote by leaving "so I could possibly assume" out from before that. The quote you used implies that by fact that nobody in WETA would know how to do anything with 3D modeling. I wasn't sure about their talents or their expertise so I put the keywords "so I could possibly assume" before that.
I also gave the reason why I said "so I could possibly assume" even earlier in the same sentence. "As far as I'm aware, WETA Workshops doesn't make any video games." The update in general shows a superior knowledge of how to code, model, AND animate for the Source engine, which is strange even among the knowledgeable and talented people who frequently mod on the TF2 Emporium. Valve's direct expertise was clearly seen in this update.
Selective reading and quoting does not make you a better poster. It does the opposite.
bought my buddy the mutton chops yesterday, he was all sorts of happy about it. made me feel all warm and fuzzy
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