Contribution page
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The contribution page on the TF2 Official Website 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 Manno-Technology Bundle
- 14 Manniversary Update & Sale
- 15 See also
- 16 References
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).
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 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 update added 65 brand new items. The majority of these were winning items from the Polycount Pack contest.
Scream Fortress Update
This update added 2 community-created Halloween hats.
Australian Christmas
This update added another large amount of community-contributed items.
Shogun Pack
These items were created by Larolaro on Sega's request for Total War: SHOGUN 2 promo.
Third Community Contribution Update
This update rolled out in the April 7, 2011 Patch and added 8 new hats and 3 new misc. items.
Replay Update
The Replay Update rolled out in the May 5, 2011 Patch and added 9 new hats and 1 new misc. item.
Über Update
This update rolled out in the June 23, 2011 Patch and added another large amount of community-contributed items.
Summer Camp Sale
This event rolled out in the July 1, 2011 Patch and added 5 new community-made cosmetics and 2 new community-made weapons.
Manno-Technology Bundle
The Manno-Technology Bundle is a bundle of items released on August 18, 2011. The bundle contains eight items inspired by role-playing video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Four of the eight items in the bundle were created by Larolaro, the same person who also made the Shogun Pack.
Manniversary Update & Sale
To celebrate one year since the Mann-Conomy Update, over 30 new items were added.
