Contribution page
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The TF2 Official Contribution Site was designed to incorporate the creativity of the community into the gameplay of Team Fortress 2. This does not however, mean that players can choose the effects or statistics of their content. All item submissions are reviewed in order to maintain consistency and quality content, and are only incorporated by the Team Fortress 2 team so as not to cause any unbalance in the game. Avatars however, have to be flagged if not related to Team Fortress 2 by the community. Accepted contributions are Steam avatars, weapon models and hat models.
Contents
- 1 Submission guidelines
- 2 First Community Contribution Update
- 3 Second Community Contribution Update
- 4 Engineer Update
- 5 Mann-Conomy Update
- 6 Scream Fortress Update
- 7 Australian Christmas
- 8 Shogun Pack
- 9 Third Community Contribution Update
- 10 Replay Update
- 11 Über Update
- 12 Summer Camp Sale
- 13 References
Submission guidelines
To sustain the visual style of the game, the Team Fortress 2 team has established a few guidelines for submissions. 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.
First Community Contribution Update
The first package of community content was rolled out in the March 18, 2010 Patch. The following items were released at this time:
Second Community Contribution Update
The second package of community content was rolled out in the May 20, 2010 Patch. The following items were released at this time:
Engineer Update
The Engineer Update was rolled out in the July 8, 2010 Patch. Along with the normal Engineer items, a new community weapon was released:
Mann-Conomy Update
The Mann-Conomy Update added 65 brand new items. The majority of these were winning items from the Polycount Pack contest.
Scream Fortress Update
The Scream Fortress Update added 2 community-created Halloween hats.
Australian Christmas
The Australian Christmas Update added another large amount of Community contributed items.
Shogun Pack
These items were created by Rob Laro on Sega's request for Total War: SHOGUN 2 promo.
Third Community Contribution Update
The update rolled out in the April 7, 2011 Patch and added 8 new hats and 3 new miscs.
Replay Update
The Replay Update rolled out in the May 5, 2011 Patch and added 9 new hats and 1 new misc.
Über Update
The Über Update rolled out in the June 23, 2011 Patch and added another large amount of Community contributed items.
Summer Camp Sale
The Summer Camp Sale rolled out in the July 1, 2011 Patch and added 5 new community-made cosmetics and 2 new community-made weapons.
