what happened to hex bros, midnight chord, and everything else?

you are my idol

Nice Bonk

Hey The Freakin Scouts A Spy, I really respect your decision! Have a medkit.

Sorry

Perhaps I need to say it more clearly:

Those hexes were not my original work and most of them were touched without permission. I stole from other creators. They were not mine .

Regardless of legalities, credits, whatever; it's common courtesy to, you know, not steal someone else's work , and the only reason why I did it to begin with was because I was a stupid kid that thought it was commonplace. I could easily get in trouble with the original creators if they wanted to DMCA me and I wouldn't blame them at all, but it's not about that; it's about respecting someone else's work.

Once again, my Workshop was nothing but theft. I don't care about getting in trouble, it's about doing what's right. I want my Workshop to be my own creations, and if I happen to find any of my hexes reuploaded anywhere, I will file DMCAs if they don't respect my decision.

Whats the worse that can happen you get sued?

Some have, which those had already been removed prior, but also most of them had no idea their items were even hexed to begin with. Regardless of credit, things taken without permission is still theft, and I didn't want that to be my Workshop anymore.

Did the people who made them complain about you hexing them?

Perhaps, but none of it was rightfully mine. You can read more about it at the bottom of my info box in the "Workshop" section.

why did you take them down? A lot of them were good

Not to the Workshop. I've been meaning to look into something to host the GMA files, but then work got busy due to holidays and now I'm sick, so the idea is currently on the back burner.

Will you reuploud the stuff you took down?

I don't mind at all, truth is I'm resetting up all my GMod addons anyway, which will probably take a while itself. Good luck on your end though, hope whatever you do works out well.

@aishaclanclan13

Oh I'm bad with addon hoarding myself, I'll see something and be like "Oooh, this could be totally helpful later" and then I never do the idea I was thinking at the time.

Though now that I think about it, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to make an archive of all these hexes for people to download themselves. Think the only reason I haven't done that yet is because a lot tend to be very grabby-handsy and reupload things without asking. I actually just got something taken down off SFMLab for being uploaded without my notice, hah.

But yeah, I'll probably look into something like that soon if you don't mind waiting until like tomorrow.

So through no fault but my own, I only just recently found out about your cleaning out your workshop(scared the ♥♥♥♥♥ out myself when I loaded up a save after being away or a while and was assaulted by ERRORs lol), but since I see that you both still have copies of everything and are willing to share them, I thought I'd ask for...well, everything? I have a bad habit of collecting addons I know...

Hello I'm looking for the Rocket Wrist and I can't find it anywhere in Gmod.

Thank's for the Bonk! I was hoping to get the other Bonks too, but this is fine. Keep up the good work! - M

I don't like doing those kinds of things, and i don't have any experience with the Steam workshop other than downloading addons. I would appreciate if you could send them to me. Thanks again.

@M

Bonk for life.

You're correct, I did hex the Halloween Bonk collection, and despite clearing my workshop, I still have every single addon I've ever made. As long as you don't reupload it, I can send it to you.

Hello. A few hours ago before writing this comment, I was looking for some of your Bonk Hexes specifically your Halloween one. (I'm pretty sure you hexed that one) I know about the Workshop Cleaning situation and i wasn't planning on using it for anything other than Posing and whatnot. I never downloaded the addon before or i might have uninstalled it for some reason so i don't have the GMA i can easily extract. Is there some sort of archive i can get them all at? Many thanks.

P.S. Nice Bonk collection.

hey i love a tf2 color models and i like'em all

The Freakin' Spy's A Scout!

It is sad that this had to happen. Hopefully, I managed to save tons of stuff. Thank you for your work pal.
I hope that you won't up and dissapear like most others.

i love the potral one

Hello, this is my very first time to comment your user account.

@Magmapyro98
My Workshop has been cleaned. You can read every detail in my bio above in the "Workshop" section.

Dear T.F.S.A.S. , what happened to the austrailium pyro skin? I was using it as my avatar but it suddenly disappeared. Please let me know?

I almost forgot these two :
-Sessy hair hex
-LED Construction PDA & Sentry

Thanks for the reply. If you could find those addons I will be happy

For my projects, I mostly need:
-Trailer Themed Team Gray Hex
-Gray Romevision Robots Hex

Also I could need these:
-No Glasses for Sniper Hex
-Green Robots Hex
-Australium Robots Hex

About the fact that I need so much MvM hexes: Of course, I could use the colourable robots (which is a nice addon) for my projects but the fact is that there is no colourable tanks and carriers (which can be a nice hex project). The gray tanks and the gray Carrier are essential for my movies :)

@Cryptonium90
Thank you for the apology.

To answer your first question, it's yes and no. Hexing typically comes from taking mods or skins normally used for TF2, such as something on GameBanana for example. The way those mods work when installed is by overwriting the game's original files, so if they were to be installed in GMod or SFM, the same thing would apply. Hexing it, however, makes it its own unique item so your default game items aren't touched.

In short, I did the hexing work to keep default game files untouched, however the mods themselves didn't specifically belong to me, they were made by other people. Because I never reached out to the creators I committed theft, and that's why I made the decision to clean out my Workshop.

As for your projects, if you can remember which hexes were used, I'm pretty sure I still have the original files somewhere on my older laptop that I can send you.

Also, sorry for the "approach" I made a few weeks ago. I feel so guilty. When I saw the SOON TO BE REMOVED thing (Because I saw it), instead of looking your profile, I went into the addon information. There was nothing changed. I saw the note on your profile the day I realized the addons were gone. Yes, this is all my damn fault, I haven't checked at the good place. SO, to make those movies that I can't make because you removed your stuff, I got two options. Option 1: I can ask you: Do you still have the materials of your MvM hexes or a link that brings me to them ?
Option 2: Make the materials myself...

Small question for you about your removed stuff; It was made by other people, right ? Then, why can't I find them in the GMOD Workshop ?

https://tf2maps.net/downloads/office-stool.641/
https://gamebanana.com/mods/4246

hey, me again. the office stool prop was also used i just found out. you got the source for a tf2 office stool prop you hexed a while back? and also the selection menu tv.

Side Note 4: ! - i deadass just spent an hour, looking for a f ##king stool

@General Tundra
Goggleless Engineer can be found here: gamebanana.com/mods/193916
The HD Beta skins are here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/198857

And I wouldn't call that weird at all since even though their Workshops aren't up anymore, I still did their hexes, hah. Thank you for double-checking with me on where to give credit, that's always an ideal thing to do.

oh, also i used the beta skins but theirs another tf2 beta addon so imma just credit that one, its nearly identical

I'm back! So in the animation I'm working on, 3 models used were deleted (I saved them for personal use). These being Lumberjack Sniper, Goggleless Engineer, and Burgundy Engineer. Being a starting animator, i probably have to give credit to the assets used, but I cant for these 3, because their no longer here. Lumberjack and Burgundy have at least mods on game banana that i can credit, but for some reason, I've got nothing for Goggleless Engie. So i have 1 question, who do i give as a credit for the Goggleless Engineer model?

Side note 3: the third one - is it weird that I'm crediting you for hexes, and you no longer hex?

My apologies, dude.

@Cryptonium90
I apologize that you've only seen what's happened after the fact, but I hope it's understandable that attempting to inform every single one of my subscribers is impossible and I did the best I could with the tag warnings I left on my addons for the past week.

However, I don't appreciate the accusatory tone that I personally "owned" you and that I specifically went out of my way to cancel your projects, and thus I owe you what I got rid of. Whether you meant that or not, that's the exact vibe your wording gives off. My Workshop wasn't mine . Every single item I published belonged to someone else and over half of it I did it without asking permission because I didn't know any better back then. That's not what I want to do anymore nor is it what I want to continue holding on to.

Side note: Going into someone's comments to tell them you're not satisfied with them, and then asking for things, normally isn't the best approach.

Update to my commentary down there after I saw the Update 3 closely...
WELL, Colorable mercs and bots can be an alternative. BUT, what about the MvM tanks and carriers ? Still need these... OR you can make an addon called "Colorable MvM tank and Carrier" :)

I am extremely sad. I've seen the Workshop section only today. Sadly, I haven't copied anything. Now the 3/4 of my TF2/MvM projects are cancelled. Yes, I got OWNED. No, I can't find an alternative. SO, I write this to say in a polite manner that I am not satisfied of what you have done and I would like to have the materials of what you removed if possible.

Thanks for the heads up..

You know, I think I'm guilty towards you in that I reworked at least one of your GMod Models (twice actually, once as a fixed port so it would work in SFM and second I threw a HWM head at it) and ported it for use in SFM but I can't remember if I asked your permission to do that or not.

Concept Aperture Scout
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=249973376 and https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=279637257

Did these when I was first starting out and didn't know better.

However, if you want me to remove them from my workshop I have no problem doing so. It might tick off the 2000+ users that have subbed each of them if they disappear, but I'm always harping on the would-be modelers that I tutor that it is always proper to seek permission before reworking anyone else's work.

Anyway, I apologize if I didn't ask permission and wait to hear if you want them to be gone.

Regards,
PteJack

All of that information can be found in my bio above.

@Undead Prince of Chaos, they want to focus on stuff they actually enjoy making

Question, why did you delete a huge number of your Gmod add-ons? Some of them were actually pretty cool!

It was just me, and in the early days I had two testers to make sure hexes were working properly. If I happened to find a skin creator on Steam and they were interested, then they were added as well.

If I may ask who were the aother creatiors of the addons?

Thank you very much.
I actually plan on releasing something soon, and I've a backlog of other projects I'm wanting to work on.

Welp, I guess this is it. The end of an era. It's never easy saying goodbye, but I look forward to seeing your future content :3