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Here's a neat trick I learned for getting transparent-background shots of weapon models for custom war paints using the ingame weapon preview. What we need to do is use layer blending modes in an image editor such as Photoshop or GIMP to create an alpha mask that can cancel out the background...

Step 1: Create 6 images for each surface of your skybox. The dimensions of each image should be powers of 2, common values and 512 x 512, however use 1024 x 1024 for a higher quality skybox. Step 2: Go here (http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=178) and download VTFEdit, once...

Step 1: Create 6 images for each surface of your skybox. The dimensions of each image should be powers of 2, common values and 512 x 512, however use 1024 x 1024 for a higher quality skybox. Step 2: Go here (http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=178) and download VTFEdit, once...

How to Use the 72 Clock in Your OBS Studio Stream Have you ever wanted to use that fancy countdown clock made by @Geit that All The Cool Streamers™ are using these days? Of course you do! This handy guide will help you set up and customize your very own stream countdown in OBS Studio. THE 2023...

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Based off the forum post located here, and thanks to Turbo Lover for finding the original thread. All credit goes to Deanykong. So the thread above is a little bit dated, and I didn't feel like necroing that thread while the OP had false information. Here is how to have highlighted syntax in...

Yeah so I actually did a lot of small things during the 72 hour Jam instead of one big thing. First, I started (what will be) a weekly drawing prompt on /r/tf2 that will be designed to teach others how to improve their artwork. Then I drew a doofy-looking Saxton Hale: after that I drew a...

After searching for a tutorial such as this one to no avail, and after finally figuring it out, I have to decided to make the tutorial myself to help anyone that wants to make a pile of bricks/rubble. The following tutorial will go over how to make rubble piles with bricks such as the ones...

I originally wrote this tutorial for the Valve Developer Community, but considering it's very much so TF2 related, I thought it may be worth it to post it here as well. The tutorial on the VDC can be found here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Team_Fortress_2_Halloween_Bosses Team...

Hello today I'm going to introduce you to teleport_vortex entity and hightower_teleport_vortex. Part 1: teleport_vortex (CTeleportVortex) But what is teleport_vortex ? It's an entity dispatched by Monoculus upon teleporting away around the map, (the purple vortex attracting you in it), upon...

Today I’m going to teach you one of the methods I used to make a custom skybox from scratch, without just changing the brightness or saturation of an existing skybox texture. In order to do this, you’ll need to know a bit of the basics about using a 3d modeling program. I use Blender, but the...

Hiya. This is a pretty simple technique but it wasn't obvious to me at all when I was starting out mapping and I couldn't find tutorials on it anywhere else so I thought I might as well make one. You know those neat wiggly roads you see on a lot of official maps? Roads like this: Here's how...

Hi, my name's Erk, and I've been addicted to making maps in Hammer. I've been doing this for around a month now, and I've made approximately zero maps I am proud of. I think I've got the basics down. I don't get leaks as much, I know how to skip (mostly), and I can utilize props correctly...

I present to you the tutorial you have always wanted and needed, even if you didn't know you needed it. By watching this tutorial, you will gain the expertise on the action of creating maps for Team Fortress 2 like a cool kid. I put a lot of time and effort into this, I hope you learn something...

Introduction After numerous requests and questions posed in the group chat (not specifically directed to me), it seems high time that someone took a hold of the situation and created a fully fledged tutorial for modelling for the source engine using Blender. Please note that this tutorial...

For the newest of mappers, here is a super quick tutorial for having some nice clipping! All pictures were taken at my school. Now sometimes, your map may have small details that protrude out of a flat wall, whether that be support beams or anything else. For this, you need to add clipping...

For the newest of mappers, here is a super quick tutorial for making sure your map scale is correct! I visited the University of Maryland (edit: just remembered this was taken at UMBC, though I did visit both) the other day, and saw these stairs, and instantly thought of this: This is now the...