I agree, but its still awesome.

To me its not even so much the eyes or the face, its just the flame itself doesn't seem very alive. Besides not fitting the TF2's style of fire, it just seems like a tear drop that jitters and has jiggle physics. I'd still use it as a cosmestic, but it needs some serious work.

Edit: Oops, I didn't notice you changed it to try and fit the style more. While it does look closer to the style, something just looks off about it. Besides what I stated above, I'm not sure how to put it into words.

To be honest, I can't find any other way to make it closer to a sprite TF2 fire... The importer (wich makes cosmetics acceptable por the game) doesn't allow animated textures nor custom animations. All I can do is a model, jigglebone it and texture it. Even transparent textures looks off because since it's a mesh, in some spots the model "overlaps" making weird opaque edges.

Originally posted by Rapoza:

To be honest, I can't find any other way to make it closer to a sprite TF2 fire... The importer (wich makes cosmetics acceptable por the game) doesn't allow animated textures nor custom animations. All I can do is a model, jigglebone it and texture it. Even transparent textures looks off because since it's a mesh, in some spots the model "overlaps" making weird opaque edges.

Well that's retarded.

I think it's as close as you're gonna get to a tf2 styled fire. The orange-y yellow collors look fine, the jigglebones work great, and i don't see a problem with the eyes at all. It's not that they're sketch-like, but that they're distorted by the fire. V1 looked like something more out of a mario game. This is TF2 right here.

you see there's actually a seperate reason this doesn't fit into TF2 (yes I love the model) because demoknights wouldn't be able to chop the heads off of pyros with for a head

True might not fit the game. It would be good for a halloweeb event hat but it would suck to have it only as an event hat.

Then agian, many of the hats that got in the game made not by the tf2 team bearly fit the tf2 artstyle but are still in thegame.

Yeah it looks like there is a hole in the fire.

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Made the same post on the old one. This one is much better. The issue is entirely solved if you ask me. Don't see where you're coming from.

Originally posted by Rapoza:

To be honest, I can't find any other way to make it closer to a sprite TF2 fire... The importer (wich makes cosmetics acceptable por the game) doesn't allow animated textures nor custom animations. All I can do is a model, jigglebone it and texture it. Even transparent textures looks off because since it's a mesh, in some spots the model "overlaps" making weird opaque edges.

Are you using blender? Because if you are, then there is your problem.

Either way, you should make the fire have more defined eyes, along with having seperate jigglebones for the flame. eg. Make 9 different parts, 3 with base red,orange, and yellow, then 1 dark, 1 normal, 1 light for each and have jigglebones for that. You'll have to make it pretty close, but I think it will work.

Originally posted by Brother_I_hurt_People:

Then agian, many of the hats that got in the game made not by the tf2 team bearly fit the tf2 artstyle but are still in thegame.

barely*
I would like to point out that most of the hats ARE in the tf2 TEXTURE style, the execption being the cardboard pirate hat/beard.

Originally posted by octoborg:

Originally posted by Rapoza:

To be honest, I can't find any other way to make it closer to a sprite TF2 fire... The importer (wich makes cosmetics acceptable por the game) doesn't allow animated textures nor custom animations. All I can do is a model, jigglebone it and texture it. Even transparent textures looks off because since it's a mesh, in some spots the model "overlaps" making weird opaque edges.

Are you using blender? Because if you are, then there is your problem.

Either way, you should make the fire have more defined eyes, along with having seperate jigglebones for the flame. eg. Make 9 different parts, 3 with base red,orange, and yellow, then 1 dark, 1 normal, 1 light for each and have jigglebones for that. You'll have to make it pretty close, but I think it will work.

Originally posted by Brother_I_hurt_People:

Then agian, many of the hats that got in the game made not by the tf2 team bearly fit the tf2 artstyle but are still in thegame.

barely*
I would like to point out that most of the hats ARE in the tf2 TEXTURE style, the execption being the cardboard pirate hat/beard.

wait, we are talking about TEXTURE? Im talking about the ART STYLE of hats, funke expaied this very well

Originally posted by Brother_I_hurt_People:

Originally posted by octoborg:

Are you using blender? Because if you are, then there is your problem.

Either way, you should make the fire have more defined eyes, along with having seperate jigglebones for the flame. eg. Make 9 different parts, 3 with base red,orange, and yellow, then 1 dark, 1 normal, 1 light for each and have jigglebones for that. You'll have to make it pretty close, but I think it will work.




barely*
I would like to point out that most of the hats ARE in the tf2 TEXTURE style, the execption being the cardboard pirate hat/beard.

wait, we are talking about TEXTURE? Im talking about the ART STYLE of hats, funke expaied this very well

Who? If thats like a twitch or youtube thing, I dont use either frequently. I only watch LazyPurple and sometimes Soundsmith.

I personally it should be a halloween cosmetic only, but it is very nice.