Steam Workshop For Newbs

Hello! Today this giude will teach all of you newbs about The Workshop! This Was Created by the Same Guy That Created Mann Vs Machine For Newbs! To learn keep reading!

Chapter 1: What Is Steam Workshop?

Steam Workshop is a feature on steam that allows people on steam to create Add-ons/Suggestions for the game! Today we will be focusing on The Team Fortress 2 Workshop. Here is how the tf2 one works: A Player Creates an item for the game. The Mods view the item in the workshop. If they accept it, The item will become part of the game!

There are some rules for these items though. Lets have a look at them.

*Rule 1: The item must fit the personality of the class your making it for.
*Rule 2: The Item must fit the color pallet of the game. There is a link to the pallet around the site.
*Rule 3: The item must have a great graphic texture.
*Rule 4: If the item is diffrent looking depending on the team, Make 2 models, one for each team.

Now your wondering, "How am I supposed to make an item that is Top Notch?" Well read on to find out!

Chapter 2: How to make a Great Item (Section 1)

The First step to making an item is to download a texture program, A few tf2 models, and a model making program. I would reccomend Adobe Photoshop for textures because it's great for editing photos. The Next step is to get the color pallet of the game to help make exact textures. The third step is to learn about each Classes personality. Continue reading to learn about them.

Scout

The Scout is a Mercanary from Boston, Mas. The Scout is a bad sport that makes fun of his enemies when he kills them. He had 7 brothers in his family. Lets take a look at his backstory: The Scout was born along with 7 brothers (like i said). He taught himself how to punch properly so that he can join in his brothers arguements. But, he had one problem. Everytime he runs after them, The fights always end before he gets there! He then taught himself to run really fast. Now, when his brothers were fighting, he could catch up to them! What's weird about the Scout is that his father is the opposing team's spy. There are many rumors about the Scout. One rumor is that he got his double jump ability from Archimedies (The Medic's Bird)being inside his chest!

Here are some Recommended items for the scout:
A Bat
Some Bonk Energy Drinks
A Baseball themed hat
Athletic Items

Soldier

The Soldier is a Steriotype War Vetran that is obsessed with combat. He is a great starter class for newbs to play as like you guys. The Soldier is famous for his rocket jump ability. This Ability allows him to reach areas that other classes cannot. Even the Scout's Double Jump Can't beat that! Here is his back story: The Soldier wanted to fight in WWII but the military won't let him. He decided to fight by himself. He bought a ticket to a boat and rode there to Europe. While there, he beat the crap out of every Nazi he encountered. He stopped fighting them when he found out that we won the war against the Nazis. He went home sad that he never joined the war of WWII. Pretty sad huh? The soldier is cruel to his team and his enemies cause he hates all opposing countries and he is a bad sport as well.


Items you should make:
Something American
Freedom Symbol Items

Pyro

The Pyro is a Mysterious Pyro-Maniac that loves fire. The thing that makes the Pyro a mystery is this question: What is behind the Pyro's Mask? People have been debating about what is this Pyro.
One Youtuber by the name of The Game Theroists say that it is a Homosexual Male. He used science to figure that out. The others look by it's poses and evidence in videos and games. It has no backstory due to it having most of it's informantion being unknown.


Some things you should make:
Something Mysterious
Something Fire-Based
Something that matches the Pyro's evidence in the game.

Demoman

The Demoman is a Demolitions Expert that loves Scrumpy/Beer. He is sometimes drunk due to drinking so much scrumpy. Like the Soldier, he has the ability to jump with explosives but not with rockets. Instead, He uses Sticky Bombs. The Demoman comes from Ullapool, Scotland. Here is his backstory: As a Child, The Demoman dreamed of a plan to kill the World Famous Loch Ness Monster. The Plan was to blow him up. This made the Parents the Demoman abandon him. He went to a school called The Crypt Spelling School for Orphans. He improved his Demolition skills but during this, He lost his Eye making him wear an eyepatch. One day, The school recieved a message from Demo's Real Parents. His training began for war.


Things that you should make:
Scotland Items
Replacement Eyes
Pirate stuff

Heavy (AKA Heavy Weapons Guy)

Now we move on to the Heavy. The Heavy is a Russian Class that loves eating Sandwiches (He calls them Sandviches). This guy is a Force to be Reckoned with. He has spent 400,000 dollars to buy Sasha (AKA The Minigun), According to The Scout. According to the TF2 Wiki, He has no backstory but he acts like a bear.

Things You Should Make For Him:
* Any sort of Mini-gun
* Any type of Plate only food

Engineer

The Engineer comes from Bee Cave, Texas and is helpful to his team. Why you may ask? Because, he biulds things to kill, heal, or transport! He has three things he can biuld: A Sentry Turret, A Dispenser, and a Teleporter. He has no backstory but was trained to get 11 Science PhDs which led him to become the merc he is!

Things you should make for the Engineer
* A Texas themed item
* A construction based item

Medic

The Medic is a Mad Doctor that was raised in Stuttgart, Germany. He is obsessed with medicine and will do anything to help his team. The Medic has a Medi-Gun that allows him to heal his team on the go and, if he has too, Protect himself and his healer by Ubercharging to make them invincible. His backstory is this: When he was born, The Medic was in the era when the Hippocratic Oath was downgraded to a suggestion option. He was obsessed to this oath, and went by it for the rest of his life.

Things You should make for the Medic:
* Medi-guns
* Anything Medicine related.

Sniper

The Sniper is a Austrailian that lives in a Camper Van. He, unlike the other classes except Spy, Is not only a mercanary but also an Assasian for Hire. He snipes the opposing team and even throws his own pee at his Enemies! He does anything he can to snipe to protect his team.

Things you should make for the Sniper:
* Austrailian items
* Sniper Rifles

Spy

Finally, The Last Class, The Spy. The Spy is also an Assasian for hire. He can back-stab people to kill them. since he is called a Spy, He can turn invisible and disguise as one of the opposing teams members. The Spy hails from France. Like i said before. He is The Opposing team's Scout's Father.

Things you could make For the Spy:
* A Knife
* Some sort of France Item

Chapter 2: How to make a Great item (Section 2)

Know that you know all about the classes, You can start! First, Open your Modeling program. Then, Start making the model. Use my suggestions and Youtube Videos for Help! Finally, Texture it, Test it, Then Post it!. It may or may not be accepted depending on the work you did.

Chapter 3: Epilouge

Well, That is all for this! i hope you enjoyed! Bye!

[[FP] Oxi]

look, its nice you tried, but this is a horrible guide. 90% of TF2 players know enough about the characters to know what to make for them, the problem tends to be HOW to model and texture