TF2 Emporium X

[Populus]

[QUOTE=Communist Cake;21416434]He's just trolling.[/QUOTE]

Being sarcastic is more like it.

[Spiderfaec]

daniel, your scottish reserve seems to be not working. I went on a sv_pure 0 server and it still came up as the regular demo grenade launcher...did i do something wrong?

[AyesDyef]

Anyone know if Sparkwire fixed the ambassador hands?

[Price_]

[QUOTE=cs_bunny;21277214]Damn Royzo, new emporium looks great![/QUOTE]

Sorry for being late, But this new emporium sure does look nice. :cheers:

[SpudOfWar]

[QUOTE=AyesDyef;21417795]Anyone know if Sparkwire fixed the ambassador hands?[/QUOTE]

Not yet, I presume he will release a fix when he gets unbanned.

[Shugo]

Oh shi-

[IMG]http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/8265/hattexttest.png[/IMG]

Found out how to re-enable the level line on hats. Finally. :c00l:

Finding all sorts of cool stuff to do with this item descriptions mod. It's going to be really spiffy when I'm done. Question for everyone: on top of witty descriptions of every item like the Sam & Max items, should I append stats to the weapons as well? Like showing clip size, damage, how it works, what it does, etc. etc.?

Alternatively I can also wipe the existing stats on the yellow unlockable weapons and use the space for longer descriptions.

[Corporal Yippie]

keep that as the mining light description

[Shugo]

[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;21418070]keep that as the mining light description[/QUOTE]

That's just a placeholder I have on every item right now until I write a new one. Just wanted to make sure I had the desc line set up for all items before I started writing.

Though I have been playing the game intermittently too, so whenever I spectate I see lines like "This is the Flare Gun." :v:

[arlygoodbrownie]

[QUOTE=Shugo;21418224]That's just a placeholder I have on every item right now until I write a new one. Just wanted to make sure I had the desc line set up for all items before I started writing.

Though I have been playing the game intermittently too, so whenever I spectate I see lines like "This is the Firefly." :v:[/QUOTE]

Fix'd.

[Shugo]

[QUOTE=LegndNikko;21418347]Fix'd.[/QUOTE]

Nah, I changed it back to Flare Gun. Prevents future "Firefly"s making it into screenshots again.

[arlygoodbrownie]

[QUOTE=Shugo;21418407]Nah, I changed it back to Flare Gun. Prevents future "Firefly"s making it into screenshots again.[/QUOTE]

D=

But that you're gimmick! You have the Firefly, and Sparkwire has ports!

[xpod1]

[B]Billycock[/B]
Ahahah cock

[B]Ubersaw[/B]
HOLD STILL I JUST WANT TO SEE YOUR INSIDES

[editline]12:07AM[/editline]

Oh man this Bold is balling

[editline]12:08AM[/editline]

Oh my God and Capital I's look just like the l's
This makes my caps posts flawless

[Shugo]

[QUOTE=xpod1;21418580]Oh my God and Capital I's look just like the l's
This makes my caps posts flawless[/QUOTE]

HEY, YOU'RE RlGHT! WE CAN MAKE ALL-CAPS POSTS NOW OH SHI-.

[Eight Bit]

:frown:

[Corporal Yippie]

[QUOTE=Eight Bit;21418877]This is my first all caps post.[/QUOTE]

quoted

[editline]12:24AM[/editline]

HA

[xpod1]

It takes skill to be gullible like that

[SpudOfWar]

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG 8-BlT

[Eight Bit]

I've been here for two years and still don't know how to post in caps. :smith:

Oh, and SpudOfWar, its Eight Bit, not 8-bit. The number kills it in my opinion.

[UnnamedPlayer]

YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE CAPlTAL IS WITH LOWERSCASE LS. IT WILL LOOK DIFFERENT IN THE TEXT BOX BUT WHEN YOU POST IT THEY'LL LOOK THE SAME.

[Jamsponge]

OH MY GOD, lT ACTUALLY WORKS!

[PSI Guy]

Can we proposeo ur own item texts?

[B]Bottle[/B]
"A superbly aged 1808 cider. Please be careful when swinging it, there are only so many bottles of scrumpy left in the demoman's wine cellar."

[B]The Sandman[/B]
"A wooden baseball bat belonging to a legendary striker. The Scout bought it from an auction using his mercernary money."

[B]The Force-a-Nature[/b]
"A double-barreled shotgun made in Portugal for hunting. Famous for it's incredible firing speed and recoil, not so famous for it's 2-shot clipsize."

[b]Wrench[/b]
"An Uhlman Build-Matic Wrench that was packaged with the buildings for the engineer. It's put many builders out of work due to the fact any monkey can wrench with it."

[B]Ghastly Gibus[/B]
"Embroidered on the inside is "Z.M". Because of how it spreads among mercernaries, it is considered to be haunted by some."

[Shugo]

[QUOTE=PSI Guy;21419376]Can we proposeo ur own item texts?

[B]Bottle[/B]
"A superbly aged 1808 cider. Please be careful when swinging it, there are only so many bottles of scrumpy left in the demoman's wine cellar."

[B]The Sandman[/B]
"A wooden baseball bat belonging to a legendary striker. The Scout bought it from an auction using his mercernary money."

[B]The Force-a-Nature[/b]
"A double-barreled shotgun made in Portugal for hunting. Famous for it's incredible firing speed and recoil, not so famous for it's 2-shot clipsize."

[b]Wrench[/b]
"An Uhlman Build-Matic Wrench that was packaged with the buildings for the engineer. It's put many builders out of work due to the fact any monkey can wrench with it."

[B]Ghastly Gibus[/B]
"Embroidered on the inside is "Z.M". Because of how it spreads among mercernaries, it is considered to be haunted by some."[/QUOTE]

Sure, like I said before, I love to hear ideas and suggestions. I can only come up with so many ideas on my own! As for your own suggestions, they're fairly good!

And if any of you are holding back because you're "not clever enough" or "mine's too long" or "mine's too short", don't. Post anything you got; I can use even vague ideas to spark ideas in my writing.

As for progress, I just finished attaching the item_description tag to every single item in the game. I'm currently testing the limits of the format, and so far it looks very promising.

Keep the ideas coming!

[2pac2furious]

[QUOTE=Shugo;21418738]HEY, YOU'RE RlGHT! WE CAN MAKE ALL-CAPS POSTS NOW OH SHI-.[/QUOTE]

I downloaded the Tahoma addon that fixes this shit. Your secret is safe with me.

[Shugo]

[QUOTE=Anonymuzz;21419502]I downloaded the Tahoma addon that fixes this shit. Your secret is safe with me.[/QUOTE]

It's not really a secret. All you have to do is quote me. :v:

[PSI Guy]

Could someone replace Sniper's severed Max head with the bunny hood?

[Flyingman356]

Shotgun
Stunning simplicity, not great accuracy, and available to four different mercenaries. This one belongs to the (Heavy, Engineer, Pyro, Soldier (Since they technically count as different weapons))

[Spazi]

[QUOTE=pedroion;21416346]No way, JPG doesn't support transparency, it doesn't have an alpha channel[/QUOTE]

Once I tried to remove the alpha channel (without any photo editing tools) by saving the picture as a jpeg, but it still had transparency.

[ShockbattMatt]

Description Ideas

Sandvich
"Passed down from Russian tradition, sandvich is sure to keep your kamerade warm."

or

"Made with love and mystery meat, sandvich makes coward killing easier!'

[AlfieGroove]

This seems like the most appropriate place to ask without making a new thread.

There was this thread that had loads of useful TF2 mods like 32 player scoreboard and textures fixes, does anyone have a link? I can't remember what it was called

[Shugo]

Fucking FP went down right as I made this big post, so now I need to write it out all over again...

So anyway, my current layout concept for the item descriptions is like this:

[b]Normal (grey) Weapons:[/b] Fairly long and witty descriptions. They can be rather long, as my testing has found, but so far I've kept the ones I've done down to about three to four lines.

[b]Unique (yellow) Weapons:[/b] A one-to-two-line short, witty blurb. I'm thinking I should keep it really short because some weapons have a lot of red/blue attributes that take up space. (Lookin' at you, Scottish Resistance.)

[b]Hats:[/b] Really long and really witty descriptions. This is where I want most of the funny to come from because hats are rare and it'll cause players to hunt other players' hats down in spectator just to see their description. Also along with descriptions, I'm going to enable the level line so that you can see each hat's level, tf2items.com not needed!

The main debate here is what to do with unique weapons. Due to their existing red/blue attributes taking up space, I'm faced with two options: hide their attributes to make space for my descriptions or leave the attributes alone and make my descriptions short blurbs. The reason I'm currently leaning on the latter is because taking away the attributes would make this mod unfriendly to newbie players, and I don't want that.

What do you guys think?