Now this is a banging winter skin

GAH DAMN

Now whilst already being dope, this is much needed improvement - great stuff.

Skin updated, mostly fixing issues with the secondary color and sticker being used.

Updating the skin later to fix some issues with the skin

I find it a bit weird that the sticker used is the demoman specific one

Wow, looks great. Would love to see it in the christmas case.

I don’t mind what I see, but I can’t tell much without in-game screenshots.

Put more brown on the stock of the grenade launcher liked you did with the shotguns and i can called it good

The main texture is not orientation locked, given the warpaint base being used

Is the main texture orientation-locked? If not that's the main thing I would change since I think you could end up with some pretty fugly patterns otherwise. The sticker looks a bit too detailed on the smaller weapons but is generally passable. Other than that, nice work!

I put a comment below on how I made the texture, no it is not just saccharine stripe

Is this just saccharine striped?

It's a little bit dark, especially with the Battle Scared variant. maybe just make it a little bit brighter, other than that it's a decent warpaint.

Oh, that's fine. I don't expect anything I make to get in to begin with.I just do this for fun. It's just basically a hobby of mine.

Appreciated - and don't think I don't return the favor
Do expect me to hold your future work in higher standards however, not that I'd be immediately disappointed if you re-use textures as well.

Not a sin to include em, but you for sure are able to make gorgeous paints yourself as well.


(Also, layering and layer setting multiply and overlay are your best friends)

Yeah, I've liked a few of your skins, really like the arctic one. Hope you get one one!

Ngl., those skins are dope and you should feel proud about that - really nice texture work too.

Mann-Co Manndates main red/blue textures are something I created on my own and Pauling Polished is almost all self made textures, from what I remember if those are to be compared to what I do now.

Honestly, I see you're putting in a creative process in there, and I cannot deny still that this stuff looks objectively good.

Though I do anticipate you being decent at making your own textures as well - perhaps it is my own bias in this.

Still, good work regardless. Confusing as my feedback is.

The main way I use valve textures is similar to a paint tool, I usually put them through photoshop to make patterns with. So with this skin the main textures composed from editing cig textures layered together to make the main texture. The wood texture is from using a fiber filter and then overlaying it over some wood texture to mix both of them.

I did not rip off saccharine stripped texture and the wood is not from wood grain.

Hey, whatever floats your boat - just keep in mind, you've got a good eye for making great compositions. Don't squander that potential alright? Could make it big and whatnot.

Just don't feel these belong necessarily in the game, not to immediately make any complements moot, as the *actual* garbage from the workshop tends to discourage a lot of potential creators already.

So because we have 4-6 warpaints with stock photos and more of awful clip art this means the warpaint is acceptable? Btw i took a look at the textures via Vtf, you ripped some textures completely like the wood (from the high rollers wood) or took some with color edits like the stripe (saccharine stripped), and in the end just ripped the coffin nail sticker. Thats as little work as someone that uses clipart or edited stock photos since its quite literaly the same amount of effort.

Fair enough. I can understand why people might take issues and I think it’s a fair critique. I mostly just do these for fun tbh.

Not a great mentality my guy, you can do much better.

Yes the sticker is from coffin nail, and no not every texture is just straight up ripped from a valve texture. I did use them as a base and modified them to fit the skin. I don’t see how that is an issue when there are skins in the game that literally copy clipart or edit stock photos.

actually turns out every single texture and sticker was taken from valve lol, how fucking lazy

Hmmmm, the sticker seems familiar...

Quick question on the sticker - is that a slightly modified version of the coffin nail sticky's sticker with it's pipe and sticky removed? Doesn't feel that good seeing that sitting on an overall really decent looking skin.

sticker could be thicker in outlines.