User talk:H20verdrive

Hello, H20verdrive!

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-- WelcomeBOT (talk) 20:09, 22 March 2015 (PDT)

Welcome to image making

Hello, welcome to image creation on the Wiki. So far, the quality of your images have been pretty good (good poses, good lighting and proper anti-aliasing). I just want to let you know that you are not running high-quality settings on HLMV. Please download this pre-configured dxsupport.cfg, extract and replace the one on "...steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin". Keep in mind that everytime you verify cache files on Steam for TF2, the dxsupport.cfg will return back to default, so you'll have to replace it again. It's up to you if you wish to re-make the images you already made, but just make sure to run high-quality textures from now on. You also don't really need to do all of the classes again (if you do plan remaking them), only Heavy, Engineer and Medic has more noticeable lower quality textures (especially on their class emblems). Feel free to drop a comment on my Steam profile if you need any help. - ▪ - 19:01, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to mention. Try not exaggerate too much on the facial flexing. They look nice in majority of your pictures, but some of them are a little too much (like these two: File:LBTF2 6v6 Season 10 Medal Medic.png and File:UGC Highlander Season 8 Scout.png). - ▪ - 20:47, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Imagechievement

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Photo Bomb Continuously upload and add screenshots to articles.	Gabrielwoj	Wikichievement unlocked! Has been uploading high-quality cosmetic previews and paint variant tables for a while now. My favorite so far is probaby this one.

- ▪ - 16:31, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

You're not a real robot, ARE you, comrade?

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Credit to Team Collaborate with other users on a project.	ThatHatGuy	Wikichievement unlocked! Well done, soldier. Now these medals are finally primed for their big debut in future campaigns! Maintaining these things will be far easier in the future, thanks to you.

- ThatHatGuy (talk) 03:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Helping Hand Help other users to improve the Team Fortress Wiki with constant tips and coordination.	Yossef	Wikichievement unlocked! You've been very kind and helpful, always there clearing any questions I have. I'm very gratitude for all the guidance and for teaching me how to use HLMV! Thank you!

well deserve bro. Yossef | Talk | Contributions 11:39, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

bueno

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Photo Bomb Continuously upload and add screenshots to articles.	Gabrielwoj	Wikichievement unlocked! About time for you to have another Photo Bomb achievo. Very good paint variants and high quality infobox/class gallery pictures!

- ▪ - 01:20, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Pretty cool 3D Image, dood.

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
3D Wizard Create a 3D image for the 3D Models project.	Gabrielwoj	Wikichievement unlocked! 3D rotating Prinny Machete with the latest on-point and cutting-edge technology is looking sharp and nice, dood.

- ▪ - 00:49, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Give this man a Cap, will ye?

You made it, pal!

Thank you so much for your contributions! We appreciate it. <3

Yossef • Talk 06:48, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉Profiteer（奸商）the tryhard (talk) 06:57, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations on your shiny find!! Well deserved! BIOS 08:01, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Congrats on your Wiki Cap!
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 11:04, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..., congrats man, well deserved. Now me, you and Andrew can have the image creator Wiki Cap party (that was never scheduled prior to this in the first place, but anyway). - ▪ - 11:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Good work!
Cheddar (talk) 13:48, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Congrats Mgpt (talk) 20:01, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Sparkle, sparkle! Shiny hatte is heer – capgratulations! (੭ˊᵕˋ)੭✨✨

I've added you on Steam in order for me to invite you to the Cap Holders' Lounge. — Wookipan (talk | contribs) 21:52, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations 👏👏 — Tark 21:55, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Congrats on the Cap! Welcome to the lounge.
Andrew360 22:13, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations!👍👍 Guest 04:20, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Wow, I originally wanted to offer you a corked bottle of Château Backstab Champagne, but Spy drank most of it. Where are my manners? Felicitations! 🍾🥂
Luno 🪐🌕 Talk / Contributions / Team 02:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, everyone! I never expected I would get such a warm reception. I appreciate it sincerely, this means a lot to me. H20verdrive (talk) 08:42, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikichievement unlocked!

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Frontier Notice Create new pages for recent contents and updates, keeping the Wiki up to date.	GrampaSwood	Wikichievement unlocked! For your help in creating Summer 2024 Update pages or related content.

| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 11:41, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

How do you get textures without the black areas?

I was doing an SFM poster with a winter theme. I wanted to add The Istopic Insulator for Scout, but the areas, where the paint is used, were black! I looked for the original texture in tf2_tectures_dir.vpk file, but it was broken too! I have searched that you made the preview picture of The Isotopic Insulator. How did you managed to get the good texture? --The overdrunken one (talk) 15:27, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Im not h20 but he's not really active these days and think I can answer your question. The texture for paintable regions on cosmetics will always render as black. The texture doesn't know what the default color is. The black part is basically the area that gets painted. Its hard coded that way. The infobox images were made using hlmv or the Half Life Model Viewer. If you use hlmv it wont have any issues and should work as expected but sfm is different. I'm not really familiar with SFM and don't have a lot of experience with it but if you look up how to paint cosmetics in sfm there's some guides on Steam. You would just need to "paint" the item the default color. Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 15:44, 29 November 2025 (UTC)