Beta Hydro Screenshot and Early TF2 Screenshots found on my old PC

[Lain]

No idea why I have these, they were found in my broken PC's hdd.


An Alpha version of a Hydro point, showing our good friend brick/wall028 coupled with an interesting mix of textures.

...compared to the artpass version in current TF2

An early version of the flamethrower particle.

Early version of the map textures in the 2fort basement contrasted against the current versions.

An IGN preview photo showing a very highly detailed Teleporter

An early version of the CTF Hud

An.. escalator from Badlands? To me this looks like something from the 2nd point, with the tall building being the spire and the area closest to the camera being valley, with what looks like a dropdown coming from house? Interesting.

A wooden board showing some of the older weapons, an oversized SMG, what looks to be the TFC flamethrower and assortments of Pistols, most notably Deagles and Colt M1911's.

A fucking laser spycar.. what?

A gravel truck from props_badlands

props_badlands/laser, once again.. what?

Random items of not much interest

A firing range showing early versions of the tr_target cutouts.

Cutouts again on their own.

Some lockers in a different artstyle.

And a spytech phone and TV.

 

[Hyperion]

Actually I have edited ctf HUD myself to look little bit like that. And I have never seen that before!

 

[Muddy]

Thanks for showing us this! I love seeing early iterations of official maps.

 

[Vel0city]

Aaaaah, Hydro. Still one of the most beautiful maps in the game. It's 3d skybox though... Like, it starts in places you'd never ever expect a 3d skybox to start (like right above a vent entrance into BLU's base).

oh look 1000 posts woohoo

 

[Crowbar]

TF2 was first planned as a mostly realistic game; btw, are all of the props shown in game library? I'd use some, though they are at risk of being deleted then.

 

[hutty]

So, the wooden scaffolding model from badlands.

looks like it matches the one in the upper left from this screenshot

image is from from the portfolio of an environment artist who worked at valve.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/894384/Valve-Software-Sr-Environment-Artist-2005-2011

 

[henke37]

I take it that you don't have the actual models and only the screenshots? Still interesting.

 

[Mikroscopic]

So, the wooden scaffolding model from badlands.

looks like it matches the one in the upper left from this screenshot

image is from from the portfolio of an environment artist who worked at valve.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/894384/Valve-Software-Sr-Environment-Artist-2005-2011

This layout looks extremely familiar... I swear I've played a test of a map that was just like this.

 

[hutty]

well, it is badlands

 

[nickybakes]

This layout looks extremely familiar... I swear I've played a test of a map that was just like this.

There was cp_scrapped, which the author was trying to recreate ideas from beta badlands into a working map. It was kinda cool, but not the best map. I haven't seen it updated in like a month. I felt the exact same way you did when I saw that screenshot.

 

[Pocket]

Wasn't Badlands still a CTF map when that was taken? It looks like the spire was an out-of-bounds spot at the time, so that seems like a logical conclusion unless the forward points were somewhere different.

 

[MegapiemanPHD]

Wonder if those props are floating around anywhere.

 

[hutty]

some of the badlands ones are still in tf2
I was wrong

 

[Pocket]

What I want to know is whether all those rock walls are just displacements covered in that ugly rock texture that everyone hates — because it doesn't look half bad here — or if it's really a model, as the uneven top edge would suggest.

 

[LadyRaee]

What I want to know is whether all those rock walls are just displacements covered in that ugly rock texture that everyone hates — because it doesn't look half bad here — or if it's really a model, as the uneven top edge would suggest.

You can "uneven top edge" with displacements. Spire on there is obviously modeled but everything else looks displaced

 

[LadyRaee]

Also, why "everyone" "hates" that texture. Honestly if it had harsher bumpmaps to it, it'd look awesome.

 

[Lain]

Found this, showing a paintover of the hydro screenshot. @CGSociety.org

 

[hutty]

The screenshots/paintings of hydro are from this valve presentation.

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2008/GDC2008_StylizationWithAPurpose_TF2.pdf

page 65

Valve has quite a few of these presentations, they are always long and always awesome.

 

[Skullio]

What I want to know is whether all those rock walls are just displacements covered in that ugly rock texture that everyone hates — because it doesn't look half bad here — or if it's really a model, as the uneven top edge would suggest.

You mean one that is in the prop library part B called

models/props_mining/quarry_rock02.mdl

and theres no quarry_rock01 or any others like that but the name suggests there were more, maybe 01 is in the picture?

 

[chrytin]

There was cp_scrapped, which the author was trying to recreate ideas from beta badlands into a working map. It was kinda cool, but not the best map. I haven't seen it updated in like a month. I felt the exact same way you did when I saw that screenshot.

I've thrown scrapped out completely and am now making an actual replica of those screenshots with the ctf badlands layout.
Thus far some progress is being made
https://imgur.com/a/ntfhF