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Slimycheivment Unlocked

Slimychievement	Date	Notes
The Mann of Honor Do you like Slimy's edits? No? Then you will NOT earn this Slimychievement!	January 24th, 2024	e

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Steam 19:58, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the Wikichievement. I don't add Userchievements to my total of Wikichievements, but they will always be on the talkpages! Maybe one day I could make a section specific to Userchievements on my userpage, since I got another. - ▪ - 20:04, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks

Not gonna lie, I was honestly terrified to mess with the yellow belt image because your version is just so good. It's one of my favorites. So it means a lot that I sorta got your blessing in a way. Thank you thank you Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 00:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikichievement unlocked!

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Frivolous Fooler Make a notable contribution to an April Fools' event.	GrampaSwood	Wikichievement unlocked! For the Moustachium weapons images. A very resourceful gag using existing assets!

| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 17:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, what a surprise. I really thought it was going to be another Photo Bomb from my recent uploads, but new Wikichievos (and ones I didn't had at least one before) are nice! - ▪ - 20:23, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikichievement Unlocked!

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
The Practical Problems Address content issues for both English and other languages across the Wiki.	Mediarch	Wikichievement unlocked! You suggested this wikichievement and you deserve this wikichievement.

Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 23:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank. - ▪ - 23:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for all the help!

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Helping Hand Help other users to improve the Team Fortress Wiki with constant tips and coordination.	Mediarch	Wikichievement unlocked! For all of your help with anything HLMV related and especially for getting TFMV working after the 64bit update. You're assistance is always appreciated. Also...congrats on 30 wikichievements!

Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 21:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Many tanks, anythin' just ask. Also hooray for 30 Wikichievos - - ▪ - 22:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

This will help a a whole bunch

Mediarchievement	Awarded by	Reason
TFHLMV++ now with more bird	Mediarch May 24, 2024	Having a hybrid of the two will be incredibly useful for paint previews and will speed up the process a ton...also...you added a bird just for me and that's pretty sweet

Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 00:40, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Blue painted variants.

Hello, when I'm trying to make the full paint variants on certain cosmetics I can't seem to get the colours to work on the blue skin variants, they just stay at its standard blue skin when trying to get the paints to show, this happens on both TFMV and the MVscripts, any idea how to fix this problem?
Cheddar • Talk 17:02, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello. You can try / check the following:

• See if there any custom files on your tf/custom folder that is overriding the materials;
• See if by changing the "Skin" on HLMV back and forth fixes the issue. HLMV++ saves the material on a registry key, however, due to a visual error, it will always show as "Skin 1" on the actual program.
• For .mvscripts to work, you have to manually set the 2nd skin of the model before running it.
• To make BLU paints on TFMV, there are two ways. The way I do is by loading via TFMV (the TFMV Neo version that works with HLMV++, and not the non-Neo version). Then, click one time on the "RED" colored button, to fix the color being 255 255 255. Click on the .vmt (or navigate through "tf\custom\TFMV\materials\models\player\items\engineer" [example]), and open the _blue.vmt on Notepad. Copy all of its contents, then open _skin0 and the one without _blue or _skin0, and paste and save. Now make sure to click on that RED colored button once again.
  • Apparently there's another way where you can switch to the BLU team version (after pressing the red button at least once), then click on "Lock Skins" and begin the paint process, however, I haven't tried this myself.
• Now, you can do the paint vars. on the BLU team. Since HLMV++ saves the skin as a registry key, you can change it for the unpainted version, and it will keep. Make sure to keep the delay between screenshots for 10 seconds, or more if your computer is slow. Team-Colored paint cans take a little more time to process, and if you have the value too little, it won't refresh properly.

I know I typed this really quickly, but you can reach me out on Discord. Lately, I've been very busy and I've been spending my free time on other things. So I apologize the long wait for the response. - ▪ - 19:10, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Decorated/War Paint Icons Inquiry

Hey, I saw yesterday you were working on making item icons for decorated/war painted weapons through exporting the texture from the game and into a vtf file. Is there some way I can reach out to you to talk about this further? I'm interested in helping with making icons for them, since I tried way back in 2014 and ended up giving up. I did some experimenting on my own and was able to (I think) replicate the process you're using. -- Rea - (Talk) 23:32, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikichievement unlocked, and good luck!

Hey there, I noticed your updated break template, and wanted to leave a message here since I haven't seen anyone else leave one.

You've done some phenomenal work here on the Wiki, especially your imagery work with painted cosmetics and your occasional trivia/unused content edit in-between. You've also overall been a good sport (from what I see), and even though our interaction count is basically zero to none, you seem like a cool guy both on the Wiki and off the Wiki.

Whether your departure from editing (actively) is permanent or simply until the next major update drops in 2050 (campaigning for Jungle Inferno 2 but about Bigfoot in a blizzard), and whatever it is you choose to do from here, I hope you find something less chaotic to maintain than the Team Fortress Wiki. (a joke, of course, the Wiki isn't that chaotic)

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Jack of All Trades Contribute many quality edits over many different sections of the Wiki.	JupiterSphere	Wikichievement unlocked! For basically everything you've done on the Wiki, and especially your image work, even though you already have one, it doesn't hurt to have two crowns.

Thank you for being a part of the Team Fortress Wiki, and good luck in life! ♡ JupiterSphere ♡ ( ◡‿◡ *) ⊱✿⊰ Talk To Me! ⊱✿⊰ 01:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey there, thank you! In the past, there were times I mentioned I would stop editing but I ended up returning. However, I do feel like this time around it's for real, unless the War Paint Project Item icons don't go the way as planned. I have a lot of IRL things to focus and do now. For a long while, I ended up doing new things on this Wiki because I didn't want to fix all those blurry images I had, but now, these are finally done. The only edits I may do are related to my Loadouts table and that's it. Outside of important life stuff, I'd like to do other things outside of this Wiki. Prolly not going to edit any other Wiki anytime soon, but a couple things like making Youtube videos and maybe even Streaming during my break times, as well playing some games on Steam that isn't only TF2. Oh there's also a few other things I'd like to put on my HLMV Guide page and yeah, that would be it. I really appreciate the Wikichievo. - ▪ - 01:24, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

All fair, and your reasoning for leaving is understandable since this kind of stuff can get overwhelming or stale at some point in time, plus focusing on your own needs/wants is good, especially the YouTubing/streaming, that could be fun. You're welcome for the Wikichievement ♡ JupiterSphere ♡ ( ◡‿◡ *) ⊱✿⊰ Talk To Me! ⊱✿⊰ 01:28, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Slimychievment Unlocked!

Slimychievement	Date	Notes
I Know Everything! Complete Slimy's Ultamite TF2 Quiz.	October 6th, 2024	Slimychievement unlocked! pass time is the right time

Talk Contribs Steam 14:41, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for acknowledging my knowledge of everything. - ▪ - 23:22, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

huh

How do you create those Shugo-style icons? Is there a guide I'm missing?
Talk Contribs Steam 20:30, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

There's currently no guide for it, for modern HLMV or whatevs. However, I have long time ago referred to this guide, written by Shugo himself. It's a good start-up to know how to make them, but a little outdated in some aspects. My "View uploads by Category" images page also have some information regarding the values, on the Shugo style icons section. - ▪ - 20:25, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

hi gabriel

small question, did you help spriters resource with ripping sprites from Mario Kart DS? i was just looking around on it and noticed that you were credited with it. just curious, was kinda surprised seeing your name somewhere that isn't TF2 related — jestie. Talk 23:37, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes I did. I actually have my name attached in a lot of other places (other Wikis, art websites, "boorus", game modding, unused content websites, asset extraction, and so on). You can always look up my linktr.ee to see basically everywhere I am. I am a very old member of Spriters, Textures and Sounds-Resource. Back then, very little people would extract stuff from games and upload in a website like those, nowadays, it's much common now. If you look up the Smash Melee audio clips on Sounds-Resource, you'll see it was all (or mostly) uploaded by me. - ▪ - 23:52, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

that's really cool actually!!! big thank you for helping the earlier internet be able to access those sorts of assets back then!!! — jestie. Talk 01:53, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Sure thing! I still do extract some game assets from time to time, mostly to listen to VGM music. I also forgot, but I do upload video game music extensions on my Youtube channel, mostly custom loops, improved loops, or from more obscure titles.

However, I have been a little resistant on uploading sprites, textures or sounds them to sites like VG-Resource (Sprites, Textures and Sounds Resource) nowadays, unused content research and uploading, or Music extensions on Youtube, as I feel a little bad in extracting game content without permission, especially for indie titles. Another worry of mine ending up spoiler-ing some stuff that potential players could find by themselves. There's a game I really really like, but it's bundled with secrets, and I feel like providing them to sites like those would ruin the fun, for Video Game Music extensions, I've been avoiding as well, as it's common for games (indie or not), to have OSTs for purchase. But, I also know there's another side to the coin that it would be sorta like a free advertising (for either asset extraction, unused content documentation or video game music extension), I guess. I also don't normally extend an entire OST of a game, only a handful songs I like, though.

I try to be respectful in these regards. I do understand that here on the TF2Wiki, I do extract some assets, but there's a couple things to consider. One that it's a free game, and the other that there's official tools to get these files extracted (I think...? Though they are mostly command-line only and people use alternatives like VTFEdit and GCFScape). That's also the reason I have stopped using artwork made by fan-artists across many (if not all) websites, only relying to use official artwork, media screenshots, or when the artist has no problem with others using it (or asks for credit if used). I know there's a lot of people who simply doesn't really care about these things, but I personally don't think that when there's a majority who does it, that it automatically means I can do it as well. - ▪ - 00:04, 8 February 2025 (UTC)