Steam Workshop
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Steam Workshop is a Valve-made item creation gallery which focuses on the creation and consideration of custom Team Fortress 2 items.
Created by Valve and released during the Manniversary Update & Sale, Steam Workshop aims to make contributing items more open to the public. This has been done by adding a gallery in which users can submit their ideas for consideration by Valve and have their work rated by the community members. Items that can be submitted are:
Currently, items can only be submitted for use in Team Fortress 2.
Submission guidelines
To sustain the visual style of the game, the Team Fortress 2 team has established a few submission guidelines. All of the following should be used when designing and submitting your items:
- Theme
- 1950's style design.
- Maintains character personality and bio.
- Modeling techniques
- Realistic but slightly skewed proportions to add visual draw.
- Details may be over or underscaled.
- Keep it simple and clean.
- Texturing techniques
- Maintain texture quality; nothing higher or lower res than what is next to it.
- Hats are to use team specific or neutral colors.
- Textures should be simple and not a distraction.
- Technicals
- Hat models under 800 polygons.
- Weapon models under 8000 polygons.
- Textures no larger than 512x512 pixels, 256x256 being preferred.
- Steam avatars must be 184x184 pixels and saved in .JPG format.
- Source files must be included for models and materials.
- Thumbnails and in-game images must be 256x256 pixels.
- Submission page.
- Max file size permitted is 4MB (raised from the original 2MB limit).
Gallery
How the Steam Workshop hub appears on the main menu.
The Steam Workshop hub with submitted items.
The Steam Workshop submission window.
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