Have you thanked your local non-mapper lately?

[Immortal-D]

It occurs to me that while we have a huge collection of tutorials and map wips, our other submissions are quite impressive in their own right.

I'm talking about the 5 pages of models and textures that have been submitted; http://forums.tf2maps.net/forumdisplay.php?f=45 Being that custom TF2 is still quite new, a lot this stuff has gotten over-looked, and probly will be for some time.

And since we are easily the single largest group for custom TF2, we should be the ones making an effort to use this stuff. Or at the very least, download for a quick review so the creators can have some feedback. I think everyone here knows how important feedback is. Without suggestions and criticism, you probly won't feel as inclined to work on a map. Same thing goes here. So check them out when you can, I promise you'll find at least one thing that catches your eye :)

I certainly don't want to single out any one item or creator, but here's a few that I downloaded and was like 'I need to think of an excuse to use this as soon as possible'.
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=3394
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=2310
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=1610
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=278
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=3361
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=3553
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=1219
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=370
http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=1235

[Nineaxis]

Thanks for the notice. :D

[Muffin Man]

I didn't realize how few of these people I've thanked, yet how many of them whose work I've used or plan on using.

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

I'm glad you posted this. I'm aware of most of the stuff we have up here that isn't maps, and I agree with you about how there is a lot of stuff it would be nice to use (such as the ambulance, that thing is awesome). However, I've missed some stuff in the past, particularly that last set of textures, which I think will work perfectly in a map I'm working on :-)

[FaTony]

I will ofc thank them if I will plan to use that stuff. But I prefer doing everything myself...

[oxy]

Yay for people making custom content!:drool1:

[Zeewier]

When I make a model I ask for a note in the readme.

But a lot of people want to give something extra: your map in their map rotation, games, or even real money.

This is not meant as something to scare of people who want to request a model, it's your choice if you want to give something extra. I don't expect you do that (how big is the chance you get payed for you map?) This is meant as an encouragement to all people who want to (learn how to) make custom content.

[tovilovan]

Quite some bump, huh =D

More than a year after yor post, we can see that lots of the custom models and textures are accepted as official by Valve! Great job!

[Immortal-D]

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg204/Immortal-D/thread_necromancer.png

[The Political Gamer]

Nice card. :P