Share Your Models

[Blink]

Superb thread, stickied.

[nub]

Superb thread, stickied.

Yay!


Awesome oildrum Garrador. I has downloaded.


I can start a share your textures thread, I just finished reworking my gecko textures.

[stoopdapoop]

I'm just thinking that it should become standard practice to include Jpegs of each of our models (that show up in model viewer) with a little signature or something in the lower right hand corner, because if someone goes and downloads a bunch of models from this thread over a long period of time, it might get irritating to come back to this thread and find the correct person to credit especially since image links break over time as people switch hosting and such.

[Deathmonkey]

I'm just thinking that it should become standard practice to include Jpegs of each of our models (that show up in model viewer) with a little signature or something in the lower right hand corner, because if someone goes and downloads a bunch of models from this thread over a long period of time, it might get irritating to come back to this thread and find the correct person to credit especially since image links break over time as people switch hosting and such.

Thats a great idea!!! What do I have to do so that the jpeg shows up in the modelview?

[nub]

I think you include a picture with the same name as the .mdl file, in the same location. I'm fairly sure.

But this is only useful if people use the old model browser.

[Garrador]

well, for crediting, you could always leave a watermark in the texture sheet. Ofc not over any UV's.
But you dont always have room ofc. but just enter you're name in the model?

like prop_oildrum01a_garrador, or prop_oildrum01a_gar.

You could also comment out "Made By NameHere" in the VMT.

Code: Select all

// Made by garrador
"VertexlitGeneric"
{
lotsastuff
}

There are the IF's if not creating the jpg lol, why not just create the damn jpg.
Although, it starts to heap up with preperations of shit to do before uploading a single model.
I myself, hate compiling models for source.

- Make the model,
- export smd's,
- write the QC (have a template ofc),
- export sheets as VTF,
- write the VMT,
- hit compile
--------------------------------
- get errors
- fix useless VMT errors like "VertexLitGenric"
--------------------------------
- Render JPG of model
- Open in PS
- Leave trademark


This is my "get pissed with source" schedule. SO the less I have to do to get it ingame, the happier I am

[Lord Ned]

- Make the model,
- export smd's,
- write the QC (have a template ofc),
- export sheets as VTF,
- write the VMT,
- hit compile
--------------------------------
- get errors
- get errors
- get errors
- get errors
- get errors
- get errors
- Restart steam
- Create the filepath
- Fix $cdmaterials
- Add -nop4
- Add -game
- fix useless VMT errors like "VertexLitGenric"
--------------------------------
- Get compiled but your mad at it so you give up.

Fixed.

[Jman]

well, for crediting, you could always leave a watermark in the texture sheet. Ofc not over any UV's.
But you dont always have room ofc. but just enter you're name in the model?

like prop_oildrum01a_garrador, or prop_oildrum01a_gar.

You could also comment out "Made By NameHere" in the VMT.

Code: Select all

// Made by garrador
"VertexlitGeneric"
{
lotsastuff
}

There are the IF's if not creating the jpg lol, why not just create the damn jpg.
Although, it starts to heap up with preperations of shit to do before uploading a single model.
I myself, hate compiling models for source.

- Make the model,
- export smd's,
- write the QC (have a template ofc),
- export sheets as VTF,
- write the VMT,
- hit compile
--------------------------------
- get errors
- fix useless VMT errors like "VertexLitGenric"
--------------------------------
- Render JPG of model
- Open in PS
- Leave trademark


This is my "get pissed with source" schedule. SO the less I have to do to get it ingame, the happier I am

It's much easier for me. I just take the model, export as smd, use a base qc, switch some names around, hit compile, it's done. As for materials I use the photoshop plugin and a base vmt. Takes like 2 seconds to compile. Also the new guistudiomdl doesn't have the -nop4 thing, it works fine.

Also I almost never leave a water or trademark or anything on my models, nobody needs to know imo.

[Garrador]

Well, I have templates, but multi-tasking keeps messing up sometimes And finding all directories b/c winodows wont fckn remember where I saved last time

It takes no more than 1 minute MAX, but still agitating when it wont take less than 1

[Jman]

Well, I have templates, but multi-tasking keeps messing up sometimes And finding all directories b/c winodows wont fckn remember where I saved last time

It takes no more than 1 minute MAX, but still agitating when it wont take less than 1

Have a shortcut to SteamApps on your desktop to skip half the looking.

[nub]

Well, I have templates, but multi-tasking keeps messing up sometimes And finding all directories b/c winodows wont fckn remember where I saved last time

It takes no more than 1 minute MAX, but still agitating when it wont take less than 1

Have a shortcut to SteamApps on your desktop to skip half the looking.

That's exactly what I have. It's useful. I made the shortcut icon a tree.

[mat_de_b]

Put all the shortcuts in a folder, then right click on the bar at the bottom of the screen

Toolbars->New Toolbar... -> Your folder...

This makes it come up in the bottom corner and makes navigation eeeesaaaay...

[Garrador]

Well, I have templates, but multi-tasking keeps messing up sometimes And finding all directories b/c winodows wont fckn remember where I saved last time

It takes no more than 1 minute MAX, but still agitating when it wont take less than 1

Have a shortcut to SteamApps on your desktop to skip half the looking.

And ruin my awesome workflow?
maybe Ill do that someday.

[sweaterpirate]

Very nice so far, I wish I was a bit more adept to modeling because I want to make some of the episode 2 trees fit in a bit better with tf2's art style. Would be awesome!

[marks]

Just FYI Garrador, you can also embed a digital watermark into the final texture sheet ¬_¬ it's completely invisible on the texture, it's just tagged inside the .jpg data. You can read/write them in photoshop through the filters menu.