Posted by Healsman

I think to differentiate mine a bit more from your's I'm going to add a bone to the "top jaw", not sure what to call it, and add two animations where it's clamped down and where it's set. Should make the beartrap of more use to SFM users.

My version...well I'd like to think it'd be useful for SourceMod plugins that do things like re-add scrapped grenades....or maybe Mecha the Slag could fucking unban me from his forums so I can suggest a bear-trap weapon & custom attribute to bring back the bear traps, and he can use the textures. As well, mine could be used in mapmaking. I mean, that's what I usually do with my scrapped skins.

I suck at modelling and animation, so I'm glad you're thinking of adding a snapping animation. That'd be quite a neat feature. But yeah, my upload will just be the skins with tweaked VMTs to make them look sexy, for use in SM plugins or perhaps mapmaking, as props.

Heck, I may even do a few other styles for my version, just as an added bonus to the official, made-by-Valve RED bear trap skin and my custom-made BLU version....maybe some recolors based on some of the team-colored paints like Waterlogged Lab Coat...or I could put my horrible texturing skills to use and try to make rusty versions (I cannot texture from scratch, believe it or not). The possibilities are endless!

Posted by Healsman

Eh, I used the blue from the official palette, I don't really think bright blue looks all that good. I don't think removing the shine was necessary either, but I like what you did with the BLU team's metal.

I gotta fix that HOLY-FUCK-MY-EYES blue. That came out horrible. I'll switch it over to palette blue, but with my own little touches, so as to not copy you. But the metal, I chose that style because the scrapped frag grenade skins had a difference in the green color of the grenade itself. So I figured I'd add a bit of faint blue to the metal. It just sucks that the textures aren't the FULLSIZE 512x512 textures. I'll also tweak the VMTs I made a little bit, see if I can add a bit of shine.

Maybe I should email Valve and see if they'll give me the full-sized versions....but I'm still uploading my versions of these low-quality shit skins D:

TO DO (for mine): Tone down the fucking blue on the tab. Contact Valve to get 512x512-or-higher resolution textures for the bear trap....and any other scrapped weapon textures they may have done, but never released publicly...

You bastard, I was just about to do this and upload it, mainly because I have the official made-by-Valve scrapped Frag Grenade textures, and the RED dynamite pack texture (made by Valve, blue version made by me) in my skin submissions.

Why must you steal my scrapped weapon thunder? :(

Oh well, I'm still going to upload my version. My red skin is probably going to be the same as yours, though I probably cropped mine a bit differently because of all the textures mashed up into one big texture for the upgrade shop model. But my blue bear trap is noticeable different than yours. I do have to work later today, so I'll probably upload my version tomorrow since I have Friday/Saturday off of work.

Plus, I custom-made a VMT file for both skins that I think make the bear trap look good (somewhat reduced phong, some other minor tweaks). Here's a screencap of my blue beartrap:

"fleshlight"

Do you even know what a fleshlight is?