When valve skybox's a skybox model...

[A Boojum Snark]

So I was going along merrily building my prop library map (don't ask, I'll post it when I'm done), dealing with tiny traincars since I'm laying out all the skybox props and all of a sudden I wonder where the model went after typing it in... no error model, I just don't see it. I close the properties window and look closer... MUCH closer...

What is that? A cockroach? I thought I was adding a flatbed car... I can't get close enough to see for sure before the camera clips through it, so I turn down the camera's FOV and I confirm my suspicions... Sure enough, someone at valve accidentally 1/16'd a model that was already at 1/16... :lol:

(train_flatcar_leveltop_skybox.mdl if you want to see for yourself)

 

[Armadillo of Doom]

LOL. Can I please post this in the steam forums? I needed a good laugh tonight.

 

[RavenStryker]

Wow, this has to be one of the funniest things I have seen that relates to TF2. But it wouldn't have been half as funny without the build up you added to it Boojum. LOL! I had to read it again...

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Nice find my friend :-D

 

[Radaka]

Hahaha, wtf

Nice find, but I'm more amazed that you didn't lose the thing in there!

 

[The Political Gamer]

I nearly died. :lol:

 

[StoneFrog]

Hah! Good find.

 

[Loc_n_lol]

Epic thread necromancy.
Funny anyway.

 

[l3eeron]

OMG! That is hilarious!

:lol:

I almost broke a rib laughing!

 

[Mar]

A skybox cockroach? LOL 101 !o!

I haven't gotten this haughty off a laugh since I watched Robin Williams perform live on Broadway.

 

[Micnax]

1/36 size? Oh you, Valve. When will your endless mistakes end? :'D

 

[Loc_n_lol]

more like 1/256th actually. Yes, it is (was ?) that small...

 

[Shadow Monkey]

lol :lol:

Valve, Valve, Valve :woot:

 

[zpqrei]

ololololololololololololol. Now, to make it 16 times smaller again! 1/4096 scale FTW!

 

[Not_Yet]

haha, great find

 

[AntonJ3000]

more like 1/256th actually. Yes, it is (was ?) that small...

It is still here

 

[Altaco]

What's with all these old threads getting dug up?

 

[pl]

Methinks people are really bored. Good find though ABS

 

[Sgt Frag]

So I was going along merrily building my prop library map (don't ask, I'll post it when I'm done), dealing with tiny traincars since I'm laying out all the skybox props and all of a sudden I wonder where the model went after typing it in... no error model, I just don't see it. I close the properties window and look closer... MUCH closer...

What is that? A cockroach? I thought I was adding a flatbed car... I can't get close enough to see for sure before the camera clips through it, so I turn down the camera's FOV and I confirm my suspicions... Sure enough, someone at valve accidentally 1/16'd a model that was already at 1/16... :lol:

(train_flatcar_leveltop_skybox.mdl if you want to see for yourself)

That was actually one of the props they were gonna use for 'giant maps', the opposite of rate maps. So when you put it in the skybox you feel really big.

That's actually quite a funny find.