Riiya932's CritDots

Little energy orbs that replace the Crit-bolt effect

Heeya! I've always somehow disliked the crit lightning bolts, because they're clipping so horribly with the guns and don't really go with anything from the game. To my suprise, I couldn't find even ONE single skin on Gamebanana that modifies the crits!

So I made my own version. Please test it out ingame and then rate/comment because then you'd make me a very happy person! \o/

EDIT: Thank you all for voting me as the Spriter of the Month, July 2012! <3

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    Posted 10 months ago

    Looks really nice! :D If you need uber or critical effets, use these:

    http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Cheats#addcond

    If you have sv_cheats 1 on, they allow you to preview the effect without weapons or anything.

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    I don't want Fop God-Dammit!
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    Posted 10 months ago

    Posted by JPMaxx

    Yea, I actually tried to do that and it was my original intention and basic idea of how it should look like. I don't think it's possible to do that, though. Also see my comment I made right before you posted yours.

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    JPMaxx
    Posted 10 months ago

    Pros:

    • Miniscule but noticable due to mass of dots
    • More fitting that the original crit-bolts
    • Doesn't jack up my aim

    Cons:

    • Nitpicking would be different speeds

    Improvements:

    • Variable Speed (If even possible)

    Notes:

    • Replaces All other bolt effect e.g. sappers on buildings (Looks better anyways Imo)
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    Posted 10 months ago

    Posted by corruptPaladin

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    Posted by corruptPaladin

    I really like this. Helps clean up the mess crit particles can make.. Only flaw is it's a little harder to see that readied uber from a distance. Oh well I'll learn <3

    I'm sorry for it to be harder to see, but I don't really know how you could make it less annoying / nicer to the eye and at the same time equally easy to see. :c

    Encourages you to KILL ALL THE MEDICS, though! \o/

    It's ok that it's harder to see, thats the whole point of the mod anyways so thats unavoidable. Regardless of that one unavoidable thing it's still really wonderful

    Well, my original intention was to make it prettier, as I thiiink I've seen some horrible compression artefacts on the original one. I thought little dots slowly floating around would look cool, but I can't animate how fast they're moving around so it looks like that. People seem to really like it, though, and I'm cool with that as I'm fine with the skin as well. The dots flying around on a charged medic in first person look perfect imo. As in, exactly how I'd want them to look like. For crits maybe a bit faster, but now they're how they are and at least I can quite easily live with that.

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    Posted 10 months ago

    Posted by Riiya932

    Posted by corruptPaladin

    I really like this. Helps clean up the mess crit particles can make.. Only flaw is it's a little harder to see that readied uber from a distance. Oh well I'll learn <3

    I'm sorry for it to be harder to see, but I don't really know how you could make it less annoying / nicer to the eye and at the same time equally easy to see. :c

    Encourages you to KILL ALL THE MEDICS, though! \o/

    It's ok that it's harder to see, thats the whole point of the mod anyways so thats unavoidable. Regardless of that one unavoidable thing it's still really wonderful

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    Posted 10 months ago

    Posted by corruptPaladin

    I really like this. Helps clean up the mess crit particles can make.. Only flaw is it's a little harder to see that readied uber from a distance. Oh well I'll learn <3

    I'm sorry for it to be harder to see, but I don't really know how you could make it less annoying / nicer to the eye and at the same time equally easy to see. :c

    Encourages you to KILL ALL THE MEDICS, though! \o/

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    Posted 10 months ago

    I really like this. Helps clean up the mess crit particles can make.. Only flaw is it's a little harder to see that readied uber from a distance. Oh well I'll learn <3

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    Posted 10 months ago

    Posted by Piper5by5

    This is the best thing I have ever downloaded from this site. Thank you for getting rid of that horrid crit lightning getting in my way of aiming.

    People seem to like this skin. - I'm okay with that.

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    Posted 10 months ago

    This is the best thing I have ever downloaded from this site. Thank you for getting rid of that horrid crit lightning getting in my way of aiming.

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    Posted 10 months ago

    Posted by Prof Gadd

    This is really nice, but I can't help but think it will be difficult to distinguish from the teleporter particle effect... Perhaps a video of the particle would help?

    I tried making one, but so far I've only tried to do it via replay, and I appear to be a not-too-clever man as I haven't really managed to show it off so far - but after trying I got the idea that I could use the Scout's bonk to show the effect (instead of the kritzkrieg, while theoretically that one would be better as any other way of testing it as ubercharged mediguns have a crit-effect as well (which looks really good with the CritDots imo) ).

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Used: Paint.NET

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Fun-fact: The original "energy orb" I made has a resolution of 512x512, only to then shrink it down to ~30x30. What a waste of precious pixels!

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