this somehow reminds me zorg from 5th element

to be completely honest, this looks amazing, but i have to say i would not like to see this in-game, mainly because it looks way too detailed and far too out of tf2's more cartoony sci-fi elements. that being said, it's still an amazing looking cosmetic and to be completely fair, i would love to see this used for, i don't know, sfms and the like. who knows, someone could do this justice.

CyberTexas:2077

why does this really really look like jack black

Detroit: become texan

the tf2 classes in cyberpunk leak

Am I the only that thinks that this is a Klayton\Celldweller reference?

If Dez Fafara lived in the future

YO IS THAT A CELLDWELLER REFERENCE?!

sans in the picture Engie is looking at XD

Engi: Ready?
Sniper: You better double-check your sentry. That mechanic was an imposter
Engi: Yeah?
Sniper: Everett doesn`t know him. What did he work on?
Engi: The turret sytem... Hmmm. Now that you mention it... What a minute. This isn`t right
Sniper: What isn`t
Engi: Oh my God Snip! A sapper!
Sniper: A sapper!

Seems a bit too futuristic. Also I think there is a Scandroid reference to be made here.

doesn't look like a tf2 item

nice

CuberPank TF2 2077

Bleh it’s awful, just an eye sore.

I have mixed feelings about this cyberpunk inspired loadout.

Really nice set, can you perhaps release a mod for this and the rest of the Techno Texan parts?

QuestionablyInsane, I love you (no homo tho, buy me dinner first). I like your explanation of the porter but combined with at least considering alternatives, I am a happy guy seeing this cosmetic as it is. No disrespect to Dilly, but you would have ended up going down a rabbit hole of us talking about the alternatives. Of course SFM and TF2 have different importers, but I didn't know to what degree.

Once again, I have all the respect for both of you guys and I really liked the item. I am happy to have been enlightened a bit more thoroughly about the importer as well as considered plans for the cosmetic itself. At least I can avoid making the same useless criticism twice, thrice...f^&*, gotta count all my recommendations and critiques to find the ones that have this bullet point. Oh well!

Great item nonetheless!

hell fucking yes, gimme that cosmetic

@Velbud

But with that said... You totally have my gears grinding on clever workarounds on how to have animation on the glasses... I'm thinging along the lines of not actually having text but like bars that change in size and whatnot. Think you could do that by clever use of geometry and rigging them to bones and having them wiggle around dictated by code in the .qc file... Ive seen a friend to something similar with a pulsating bit on a cosmetic...

Anyways... Despite this... This is a hard case of "Is the juice worth the squeeze?" Stuff. Reason being that unless the player is right up in the Engineer's face... They aren't going to see the animation on the glasses... So it's all kinda wasted effort that could be put towards other cosmetics... Just gotta be frugal with my time.

@Velbud

Heyo. Chummer that actually built the cosmetic. Sorry I was off building a computer yesterday so am catching up on corispondance. So anyways Yeah what Dilly said is mostly true on the whole gold star thing. See for cosmetics the Importer is set up to be quite a bit more limited. Workshoppers have to work under TIGHT rules to keep cosmetic file sizes low. The Importer actually keeps you from uploading stuff that doesn't follow the rules. (Poly count, texture size, too many bones/ materials, ect)

But with that said... I totally agree with you Velbud. Having animated text would be very cool. And TF2 totally stuff with animated textures. The reason I put text on the glasses in the first place was that it looked kinda bland without it and I wanted to sell the idea that the glasses were Hi Tech rather than just shades...

@Velbud Again, im talking about the tf2 importer here, and the gold star feature. Animated textures are not possible unless you're willing to give up the gold star, and that is the only way to get items accepted.

"Welcome to Australia, chummer. Turn on, boot up, jack in."

Engie is not skrillex

Better to be told this sooner rather than later. I have seen TF2 props with this feature, so I assumed the importer could handle it. Similarly, unless weapons are somehow using a different importer than cosmetics (see the EOTL train cross sign weapon and its animated lights), I am rather curious that the importer would not give the same treatment to cosmetics. Similar case with lights on weapons. If that is the case, then I wasn't aware of it, and in that case, I will probably stop pestering most model makers with the animated texture stuff.

And Dilly, I haven't yet because I mostly work with SFM stuff so I work on updating and creating the effects that I feel are missing on cosmetics. However, if the model importers for cosmetics and weapons are different (curious the reason), then I will back down on that. :)

@velbud
that can't be done in the importer. Have you ever used it?

What you're asking for isn't possible with the importer. Items have to be goldstar verified.

Only recommendation is making that text on the glasses animated, either sliding down or something as complicated as actually writing itself out.