http://youtu.be/OIsUsiBZORE

It took three months, but I had a lot of fun. :)

I don't know if this helps, but what kind of story are you telling with the shot? Is he meant to look heroic, or beaten up, or like he's dying/dead? If it's a 'sad' shot, you might want to focus on his face and the pain showing on it, closing his eyes and bracing for impact. If it's a 'heroic' shot, find out where the light sources are and focus on how he's lit. Backlit will make him seem heroic.

How is he moving? If he's flailing in mid-air he'll look a bit silly by default. If he's 'flying' with his arms and legs relatively still out behind him he might look more serious, after all slo-mo is a very brief snapshot in time and he won't move that much.
If you film him from below and follow his movement, it might be interesting, or maybe a bird's eye view. Or focus on a body part like his head/face or his back. I hope one of these ideas might prompt you!

As for realistic falls, they're hard to do but think about what happens to it once it hits the ground and how this motion conveys its weight. It won't bounce right up like a ball, but it will bounce a bit and rotate, depending on what part of it lands on the ground.

A kind person on facepunch helped me out; http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1218864 if anyone else wants a babby ammopack, go for it!

Hello! If anyone had the time, I'd be most grateful if you could resize the ammopack_medium.mdl for me to a third of its size (to hold in a tf2 model's hand); my decompiler keeps crashing on me!

I get what you mean... it'll be my second option, I think. So far I've just had two spies dissolving at the same time and swapped them over, disguised by some smoke. I think your suggestion would look better tbh, I'll give it a go if I have the time!

I ended up solving my ambient occlusion problem by using a transparency rig created by a user here at facepunch[facepunch.com]. Amazingly useful.
My next question, however... spies changing colours! Is it possible to create an animation set out of a skin, or apply a colour transformation? The only solution I can think of is to create two Spy models (a red and blue) and have them dissolve into one another. :/

Haha, I think so... I don't think they've implemented the ability to equip non-standard weapons yet (or indeed accessories). If only!

Come to think of it, while we're on the topic and talking about transparency; I'm having an ambient occlusion problem [i.imgur.com]. Is it possible to disable ambient occlusion for a single model or material? From what I've read it could be as simple as turning $ambientocclusion to 0 but I'm not sure how, exactly.

Hi everyone... I just found this group and it looks fantastic, I really hope I can get involved a little more. I hope it's not rude to start with a question; I'm trying to apply the jarate effect to a cloaked Spy (I jump right in the deep end, don't'cha know) and all I've managed to do so far is make him look as though he's peeing streams of wee.

Specifically, how do I apply the yellow 'cloak' effect, and how can I slow down the dripping effect? I imagine the cloak effect is done with a proxy material but I'm not quite sure how.

I also applied the particle peejar_drips but it's incredibly fast to the point it looks like he can't stop himself weeing his pants. I'm also wondering if there's any documentation online that shows what parts of the model the effect is applied to so I can be the most authentic, and if there are any effects I've missed in creating the 'covered in jarate' effect.

Thankyou for any help you could offer me, I'd be mighty grateful!