Steam Workshop

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Steam Workshop
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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 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

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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).

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