Steam Workshop

Steam Workshop
Website Info
URL:	http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse

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 doe 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:

• Weapons
• Hats
• Miscellaneous Items

Currently, items can only be submitted for use in Team Fortress 2.

Submission guidelines

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Color swatch to follow when creating hats.

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).

Links

• Steam Workshop
• Workshop Instructions for TF2