Topic: Meet the Soldier - Team Fortress 2

[Sir_Stabbalot]

There's a new "Meet the  ____" video out, this one about the engineer. He's much more relaxed then the others classes seen so far, and the humor in this is more subtle.

Youtube Link

Soldier post:

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Youtube Link - Be aware, he's rather violent...

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Though he wanted desperately to fight in World War 2, the Soldier was rejected from every branch of the U.S. military. Undaunted, he bought his own ticket to Europe. After arriving and finally locating Poland, the Soldier taught himself how to load and fire a variety of weapons before embarking on a Nazi killing spree for which he was awarded several medals that he designed and made himself. His rampage ended immediately upon hearing about the end of the war in 1949.

He's very much a Patton-like figure. And I hope that Valve does one of these "Meet the ____" for every class.

Also, you can pre-buy the Orange Box on Steam and get $5 off and a copy of an Orange-Box themed version of the game Peggle.

[Caliban]

Ah, another hilarious video, watching it in HD is even better because this game is gorgeous, and it will be a shame that I won't be able to play this game because I don't have either 360 or PS3 nor can I afford one at the time being.
These classes reek of personality by the way, every single action has them do something that relates to them, unlike other online multiplayer shooting games where they are barren of any personality whatsoever.

[vudu]

You're not going to create a new thread like this every time a new character gets introduced, are you?

[ryancoke]

Very cool! can't wait for this game!  I got halfway though HL Episode 1 on PC before I stopped playing. Looking forward to playing through it again along with team fortress and portal

[Smoke39]

Lol at the pyro shaking his flamethrower above his head while laughing like a maniac at the beginning.  Make a "Meet the Pyro" video already, Valve!

[Dirk Temporo]

UNLESS IT'S A FARM

[that Baby guy]

I say it's worth a new thread!

[Sir_Stabbalot]

Updated with Engineer.

[BranDonk Kong]

The Orange Box will be one of the greatest "collections" of all time.

[Sir_Stabbalot]

I would like to point out that several people have been trying to port Team Fortress 2 models they've pre-loaded into current Source games. So far no one's gotten a fully successful port, but some have gotten really close.

Or not. That's the same model after an attempt to facepose. It's really a bit of new territory. For example, the Source engine uses .vmt files to store the directories of textures and if they need a normal map or sum such. Most of Half-Life 2's .vmts are very short, like five lines max. Team Fortress 2, however:

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"VertexLitGeneric"
{
   "$basetexture"   "models/player/hvyweapon/hvyweapon_blue_invun"
   <dx90
   {
          "$bumpmap" "water/dx80_tfwater001_normal"
   }
   "$bumpmap" "water/tfwater001_normal"
   "$envmap" "effects/cubemapper"
   "$surfaceprop" "metal"
   "$halflambert" "1"

   "$selfillum" "1"
   "$selfIllumFresnel" "1"
   "$selfIllumFresnelMinMaxExp" "[0 18 13]" // 0.0 1.0 1.0 is the default

   "$invulnlevel" "0"
   "$invulnexponent" "1"
   "$invulnfmax" "18"
   "$invulnscale" "0"
   "$invulnphong" "1"

   "$half" "0.5"

   "$invulnphongfading" "0"
   "$invulnphongfull" "1"
   "$invulnphongoutput" "1"

   "$invulnexponentfading" "1"
   "$invulnexponentfull" "13"
   "$invulnexponentoutput" "1"
   
   "$invulnfmaxfading" "-31"
   "$invulnfmaxfull" "18"
   "$invulnfmaxoutput" "1"

   "$phong" "1"
   "$phongexponent"  "35"
   "$phongboost" "1"   
   "$lightwarptexture" "models/player/pyro/pyro_lightwarp"
   "$phongfresnelranges"   "[11 1 8]"
   
   // Rim lighting parameters
   "$rimlight" "1"      
   "$rimlightexponent" "11"
   "$rimlightboost" "5"   
   
   "Proxies"
   {
      "AnimatedTexture"
      {
         "animatedtexturevar" "$bumpmap"
         "animatedtextureframenumvar" "$bumpframe"
         "animatedtextureframerate" 70
      }
      "InvulnLevel"
      {
         "resultVar" "$invulnlevel"
      }
      "LessOrEqual"
      {
         "srcVar1"   "$invulnlevel"
         "srcVar2"   "$half"
         "lessEqualVar"   "$invulnphongfading"
         "greaterVar"   "$invulnphongfull"
         "resultVar"   "$invulnphongoutput"
      }
      "LessOrEqual"
      {
         "srcVar1"   "$invulnlevel"
         "srcVar2"   "$half"
         "lessEqualVar"   "$invulnfmaxfading"
         "greaterVar"   "$invulnfmaxfull"
         "resultVar"   "$invulnfmaxoutput"
      }
      "LessOrEqual"
      {
         "srcVar1"   "$invulnlevel"
         "srcVar2"   "$half"
         "lessEqualVar"   "$invulnexponentfading"
         "greaterVar"   "$invulnexponentfull"
         "resultVar"   "$invulnexponentoutput"
      }
      "Sine"
      {
         "resultVar" "$invulnfmax"
         "sineperiod" ".3"
         "sinemin" "$invulnfmaxoutput"
         "sinemax" "18"
      }
      "Sine"
      {
         "resultVar" "$invulnphong"
         "sineperiod" ".3"
         "sinemin" "$invulnphongoutput"
         "sinemax" "1"
      }
      "Sine"
      {
         "resultVar" "$invulnexponent"
         "sineperiod" ".3"
         "sinemin" "$invulnexponentoutput"
         "sinemax" "13"
      }

      "Equals"
      {
         "srcVar1" "$invulnexponent"
         "resultVar" "$selfillumfresnelminmaxexp[2]"
      }
      "Equals"
      {
         "srcVar1" "$invulnfmax"
         "resultVar" "$selfillumfresnelminmaxexp[1]"
      }
      "Equals"
      {
         "srcVar1" "$invulnphong"
         "resultVar" "$phongboost"
      }



   }
}

Like a blasted C++ program.

[Dirk Temporo]

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Originally posted by: Caliban
I won't be able to play this game because I don't have either 360 or PS3 nor can I afford one at the time being.

You have a PC.