You forgot the mention the insufficient amount of dust and the complete absence of bowls.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Like how Badwater doesn’t have any water

@YorhaEnthusiast

4 ай бұрын

So true

@dankali735

4 ай бұрын

Maybe the real bowls were the friends me made along the way

@propangasschnuffle

4 ай бұрын

@@LEDs it's not called goodwater is it?

@TheRealNTM

4 ай бұрын

@@LEDs Badwater Basin is based off of and named after the lowest point of Death Valley, so I think it does become filled with water when it rains. I don't think it rains there often, though. And Dustbowl was named after a series of dust storms that occurred during the beginning of the Great Depression, so it could be a location that was affected by those storms.

Going the extra mile to show examples on how you could fix each problem is very commendable

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

It's only fair to offer solutions when bringing up a bunch of problems

@USA71559

4 ай бұрын

@@LEDsyou could be the second developer

@blockwearingman

11 күн бұрын

@@LEDs🐐

@manitoba-op4jx

2 күн бұрын

i bet if you uplod the fixed one to the workshopit might get added

Playing dust bowl with the item servers down actually felt pretty balanced and fun when playing on either side which I found kinda funny

@starmaker75

4 ай бұрын

Again dust bowl comes from a era of TF2 where little to no unlocks

@Vaniity_Velvet

4 ай бұрын

Hey bud, are the item servers still Down? I've not played TF2 since August of last year, but if the item servers are still down I may give it a shot. I really do want to play stock only. Phlog and Vaccinators killed my patience.

@flintycave5634

4 ай бұрын

@@Vaniity_Velvet their back up again i started playing tf2 while the item servers where down, and it felt like a pretty nice introduction to the game

@Contentdeleted99998

4 ай бұрын

Dustbowl is from an era where tf2 wasnt a thing, of course it would work better with default loadouts.

@Vaniity_Velvet

4 ай бұрын

@@flintycave5634 Fucking hell. If I was Valve I would have left it down for a while and let players know it's on purpose and they will be back up later.

Its beggining to look a lot like dustbowl

@owouwu9032

4 ай бұрын

Sentries everywhere

@Saarlaender.

4 ай бұрын

we are trapped inside our spawn

@yardenar2717

4 ай бұрын

We have Uber so move *ON*

@TeamCraftable2004

4 ай бұрын

Truly a dead workers party classic

@TeamCraftable2004

4 ай бұрын

​@@yardenar2717there are lots of snipers so beware

The grass line is due to UV wrapping and mipmap quality, when a texture lowers mips it usually ends up touching the edges of the texture and then the very top shows the bottom slightly because of interpolation (unsure if TF2 uses bilinear but thats the most common interpolation method I know of which does it) In english; Its tiling the texture when you dont want it to and the quality level bleeds over the edge.

@GeneraliskYT

4 ай бұрын

I was about to explain that myself but you beat me to it, thanks!

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@Aarmastah

4 ай бұрын

The issue can be completely resolved by ticking the box "Clamp T" in VTFEdit

@iplayminecraft2248

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking it could be some sort of texture wrapping, but I didn’t think about the mipmaps (I got no clue what those even are)

@masonbarber871

4 ай бұрын

​@@iplayminecraft2248As far as i know, mipmaps in games are prerendered lower resolution versions of textures. This is used so that far away textures look like the average of colors in a part of the texture, instead of highlights/shadows/details aligning with a pixel and making the whole pixel a different color than it shpuld be. They are precalculated with a nice blur/averaging effect that would be too costly to recalculate every frame.

Valve should just hire this guy

@Nuniixo

4 ай бұрын

Just to indirectly force him to work on valves newest vr project nobody cares about

@chxrripop

4 ай бұрын

tsk tsk tsk

@biggreen1456

4 ай бұрын

@@Nuniixothat’s not how Valve works, they let the employees choose what to work on, their problem is everyone they hire want to work on these VR things

@TwistedFireX

4 ай бұрын

@@biggreen1456 Not quite

@StationaryGamingReal

4 ай бұрын

​@@biggreen1456 You become a social outcast in Valve working on TF2. It's just not cool to do it.

If Valve just had 2 or 3 people like you, TF2 could live forever. The amount of things they neglected in this game is astonishing.

@fojisan2398

4 ай бұрын

Like the item server, lol

@MasGaskTheFirst

4 ай бұрын

@@fojisan2398 oof

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

I'm not a great mapper by any means, but I agree that as long as there's somebody who shows passion and dedication, they can help the game out a lot.

@oblivion_2852

4 ай бұрын

@LEDs you and Shounic are great for technical tf2 content

@joe____

4 ай бұрын

​@@LEDsYou sure fooled me, you seem to know your stuff

The stairs in the rock were for the ‘Meet the Heavy’ SFM It helped the Heavy walk up the rock smoothly.

I wonder if the Block Bullets brushes at 15:13 were supposed to be used as a staircase to make walking up the rock easier but they used the wrong texture.💀

@DumbArse

4 ай бұрын

Oh my god...... This is a map from 2007, how come nobody every bothered to fix these?

@shitlordflytrap1078

4 ай бұрын

​@@DumbArsethat's precisely why. It's from 2007.

@gangswagster

4 ай бұрын

Isn't this the rock the heavy walks onto in Meet the Heavy? .. yeah

The janitor an a guy who tought that this was a fast food job watching how to fix dustbolw:

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

watching this video while eating lunch after mopping the floors

@klinxium8627

7 күн бұрын

@@LEDsmopping the keyboards and accidentally typing “update sized update”

Played Dust Bowl for like 10 years. AND NOW! I realized those little things I used to call strange tf2 magic was just the map having issues. MY GOD, thanks for the enlightenment

I think a few of the unlit out of bounds areas are deliberate. They include the lamp for decoration, but they use lighting to guide the player away from there. When you light them up, they seem like a place where you could go to.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Then they can be dimly lit. Source doesn't handle dark areas well, so even a tiny amount of light would make it look better without being distracting.

Hiding stickies on the dustbowl starting wall is crazy. Never knew.

That is a really cool video, and I imagine it can be quite fun going problem hunting and finding solutions.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Most of these problems were accumulated on a list I made over the course of many months. I saw it the other day and thought, “you know, I think it’s finally time I did something with this.”

@vintagememelord8168

4 ай бұрын

This is video is the opposite of the 'Everything great about BadWater' except you tired to improve DustBowl but Casual TF2 didn't talk about how to make the map bad@@LEDs

The fact that people still care enough about this game and engine to learn all this incredibly niche stuff, and apply it for free, is something really special.

@leonardo9259

Ай бұрын

It means this game has been abandoned for 6 years, stop the cope

@Bookslayer10

Ай бұрын

@leonardo9259 I'm saying the community is really special and dedicated. Valve certainly got something right when they made TF2, but they certainly haven't been as dedicated.

you're ruining my immersion pixel by pixel

6:34 This issue is because textures get truncated, which make them repeat when the polygon used is bigger than the UV cords, and the polygon which represents this decal is a bit too big, so it starts to repeat the bottom section at the top. To fix this, enable the Clamp All flag in the VTF file to make it so the texture never gets truncated, and therefore, extends the last pixels around the edges forever. This could also be used to fix the spawn red icon, and i use in in my minecraft gmod maps for transparent effects like fire.

You should submit these fixes on the workshop, love your vids dude!

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

ive never done map editing work but the tiny fixes you're doing remind me of some of my favourite parts of 3d modelling with all the little problem/puzzle solving

Are you okay honey? You've been quiet. My brain:

God, this takes me back to when there were six maps. I miss Hydro being popular.

when i saw a musical parody about dustbowl, i open tf2 just to play this map and on the second/third round my team built a spawn camp on the blu team. i still love this map

6:16 - You can the Clamp T flag in the VTF to clamp the vertical UV coordinates, avoiding the wrapping. (this should probably be done as a new VTF and VMT to avoid breaking a potential weird existing edge case where it's actually necessary to wrap the texture vertically) 10:52 - Ignoring surface normals when lighting static props results in pretty bad lighting; it's best reserved for stuff like foliage. Really, it wouldn't be too difficult to fix the model itself (although it would certainly take a little longer). 15:09 - VBSP has a CSG process; among other things, it decides which part of any coplanar faces should be kept, as long as it's the same bmodel. Worldspawn will automatically take priority over func_detail in such situations.

I work with 3D models daily so seeing all the fixes u have for this and how many valve missed is very fascinating

I love how you fixed the map, hope to see more. 6:48 That happens because textures are blurred to avoid being pixely. But textures also tile. Stack 2 tiles of same texture on each other and blur them to understand it more.

i love to see these sort of analysis videos!!! keep it up!

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

🤙

@singleNim

2 ай бұрын

@@LEDs How about Borneo next? The gap between the wall and floor next to the third point is utterly egregious, it bothers me every time I play that map. Or Goldrush, so many little spots up on the walls where you can stand and shoot down from.

We need this man working for Valve

15:06 I think what's happening is that when Hammer compiles the geometry, brush faces are chopped if they don't touch visleaves. So maybe when you have two z-fighting surfaces, only one is considered to touching a visleaf, so the other is chopped. In cases where there's still z-fighting, it may be because one brush is a func_detail, and the other is a world brush. Both brushes that are touching need to be the same thing in order for chopping to occur.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for clearing that up

I’m a amateur game dev and 3D modeler and I know why you get that line on the grass overlay. First, let me explain some basics: The overlay seems to be made of 3D polygons that are just flattened onto the surface. These polygons will have UV coordinates that specify what part of a texture is drawn on them. UV coordinates are stored as two numbers that represent an X and a Y position on its texture. These numbers are values between 0 and 1 with (0, 0) usually representing the top left of the texture and (1, 1) representing the bottom right. These values can be negative or greater than 1 though. When they are the texture typically repeats. So if you have a surface where the top left UVs are set to (0, 0) and the bottom right are set to (2, 2) then the texture will repeat once on each axis with 4 copies of it visible total. Texture filtering is where a low resolution texture is sort of blurred or anti-aliased to make it look less block. Each pixel draws color data from neighboring pixels and creates a smooth transition between them. And now the problem: That overlay could have incorrect UVs but what I think is more likely is that it has texture filtering on and isn’t clamping it to the UV bounds. This means the pixels along the top edge are trying to anti-alias themselves by smoothing out the transition between them and their neighboring pixels including the pixels above them. There are no pixels above them since they’re at the top of the UV map but UVs wrap around so they’re smoothing themselves with the pixels on the bottom of the texture. You can fix this by either moving the texture up one pixel in photoshop, disabling texture wrapping/changing the repeat mode to clamp, or disabling texture filtering. Let me know if I need to explain anything better.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Got it, thanks

I never knew about the demoman being able to hide invisible stickies behind the Occluder brush on 3-1. I feel like thats something I would have seen everyone doing back in the day, and learned it just by observing, like the asshole sniper spot in koth_sawmill

10:52 ok, if enabling "ignore surface normals" fixes it the problem probably is that the higher detail model has flipped normals (normal is a direction that is perpendicular to the face of the surface) light shouldn't shine through face to its other side and that's why it would look dark

The problem with the grass overlay is that it's a combination of textures looping around edges and textures filtering. The game thinks that the bottom of the texture is adjacent to the upper part and filters the bottom to here, it's solved when you move it up because the game doesn't think that the upper pixels are adjacent to the bottom colored pixels and doesn't filter them as such Edit: to fix this issue press one of the "Clamp" checks in the vtf parameters(i forgot which one)

Huh, this video was far better than i thought, going into a map and fixing those issues is like doing a old thing restoration, very satisfying.

8:23 using the map leak, the model for the lower and upper door are 002 but in the model viewer you look at 001. for me 002 is still distorted in the model viewer, ingame and when ripped. but 001 and 003 are both fine, the reason why they dont use 001 is because its bigger incase anyone was wondering, Edit: the issue with the door_grate002_bottom model, is a uv issue where the UV's coords for the corner isnt stretched out as far so it causes that strange distortion

I just love seeing map videos for TF2, it's always good to re-check the basics.

i love how he points out some of the things that youd never find, even after years of playing keep up the good work!

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

❤️

I love this because it's also a tutorial for how to fix things in other maps! This is awesome dude

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

🙏

Great video! Would love to see this on the other classic maps like 2fort, Well and Gravel Pit

this is very useful for a new mapper trying to wrap their head around textures and displacements!! thank you very much for making this :D

keep it up dude! As a new TF2 mapper all this explanations are much needed! Subscribed

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

I'm almost jealous I haven't made such a video myself. I'm genuinely impressed, well done and very informative!

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I would gladly be bored by anything extra you'd have to talk about, this video was so fascinating and I loved learning about the little intricacies you've found. Any chance you'd consider breaking down more maps like this?

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

I'm happy you found this video interesting! I made it after building up a list of a bunch of problems I found over the last couple of years when working on stuff in the map. Unfortunately, there probably won't be a sequel featuring other maps, at least not anywhere near the extent as in this video

more videos like this need more recognition, great video!

Wow, this makes me appreciate the source engine more. I always thought those were just engine bugs, but actually you can fix most of them if you take an extra care. Thank you, great work.

Fun video going into detail about the jank of one of the first maps I've ever played. Regarding those no-build sections at the end, I feel like they may have been onto something because there's a section in the last round of pl_goldrush where an engi can build a sentry in a window (or there was, I don't know if it was fixed) between the first and second points of that round. It's very hard to destroy from there too, so overkill is needed for these no-builds it seems.

Please make more of these, they are so good

6:16 the UV map for the grass texture has the grass going past the defined mapping of the UV which causes it to loop to the top.

This is the kind of content we need more of. Subscribed.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

❤️

You know, I wonder... What if the minecarts moved? Like, one of Dustbowls biggest problems is it's a giant sightline with little cover. What if Blue (Or Red, I suppose. But, there aint much of a point behind it) could push the minecarts towards the points with the carts acting as mobile cover for them? Similar to how players sometimes treat the payload carts.

@c0nk2879

4 ай бұрын

That could actually be a really fun gameplay dynamic, though I feel like the only way we'd get something that new is either with new maps or with Team Fortress 3 - Source 2: Electric Boogaloo

@aur.31

4 ай бұрын

​@@c0nk2879 True, I'd love to see it

@aur.31

4 ай бұрын

@@c0nk2879 True, I'd love to see it

I think I speak for most when I say these issues make dustbowl completely unplayable.

"Cracks in the walls" Oh dear, it's Doctor Who series 5 all over again

This content is pure LOVE 💕 THANK YOU SO MUCH!

6:17 you can just disable the texture lock, and scale the overlay down so it hides the line without actually stretching the texture

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

I tried, it didn't work

For the block bullet stairs on the rock, believe it's to prevent demoknight's trimping or charging with a shield and flying like the Degroot Keep rock. Nice video btw, 17 minutes of hammer editor and mapping source engine; getting nostalgic with my mapping days.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I had this exact same line on the grass texture bug in Unity, it's probably caused by repeat-style sampling where UV 1.0 gets wrapped around to 0.0 You might think you could avoid any issues with that by just keeping one row of pixels at the bottom transparent but mip-maps ruin this again, so you need a fair amount of space at the bottom to prevent anything from bleeding trough.

Imagine your game being around so long that one of the small overlooked issues from back then can now be fixed with _AI_ Amazing vid, very interesting! I really wonder if, should the map be "fully" fixed, players would complain about the removal of clip brush gaps allowing them to stand in funny spots...

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

That's a good observation. "Fixing" the map would require some parts to be significantly altered, which could be perceived negatively. At the same time, though, some of the problems exist because of how the map was constructed, and cannot be fixed without changing the way it looks.

Honestly you should do this with more maps, like wutville

I’d love to see videos like this on other maps, idk why but this is just so interesting

1:00 ah the lawful evil style of stair clipping

6:44 you have to use in your texture flags clamp v in order for it to not repeat vertically, it's one of those 3d engine shenanigans

oh wow 2:19 I literally just saw somebody get caught on that this past week if I have seen that spot being perched upon in the last 15 years I have no memory of it occurring

I used to goof around on hammer and seeing someone really use it on tf2 maps makes me wanna get back into it you make it sound so easy XD

@LEDs

3 ай бұрын

It can be easy depending on your level of experience. There's a lotta stuff that you need to know about just to get a map to compile, let alone be optimized

The issue with the line texture is the wrap mode. I don't know how you would change the source engine equivalent of it. But in my experience with unity, you would usually set it to clamp since by default its set to repeat

1:10 these clip brushes are essential for trolldier

Guys, am I seeing things? In the middle of the video the map he's talking about began to look a lot like dustbowl. Sentries everywhere

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

you should get help, I recommend drinking the water on 2fort, that should fix you up 👍

reminds me of days making maps for these games, good times binge watching kliksphilips tutorials and learning them while going to elementary school.

8:11 oh boy i cant wait to comp the map and spend my time figuring this out

Those remnants of old exploits is interesting to see. Nice video!

I would've personally liked a longer video but eh. This is really great mapping information! I didn't even know you could sew displacements to other displacements and I've been using hammer for several years now.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

6:50 you have to set the sampling mode of the texture to clamp (at least along vertical). I'm not sure how this is done in Hammer, though, but it is a feature in most 3D engines.

this is a cool video, i used to do mapping but none of my maps ever really went beyond a playable alpha, one note though, incomplete ramp clips over stairs (1:00) can mess up explosive damage, here it's near negligible but i still think something like that really should be ironed out. its important a map should be made with these considerations in mind just so the game plays as people would expect it to visually

Now make your 78 hour long video stating everything RIGHT about Dustbowl! 👌👌👌

15:00 overlapping brushes tend to be dealt with at compile time. Might be regular and detail brushes that are z-fighting. Or func_brush like entities

Valve should offer you a job

The passion of this community is amazing. If only valve would let it run the game since they don’t seem to care anymore

6:50, the issue you are experience has more to do with UV maps, if geometyr's UVs go beyond the initial border, and you have a texture with transparency, like here, then it will loop, and since your texture has transparency, then it loops into the beginning of the texture, which is opaque. It's usually fixed by moving the uvs of mesh by Y axis upwards until it no longer clips through the UV box.

Itd be cool if you put this on the workshop so people could run community servers with the new and improved dustbowl

The grass overlay's texture probably doesn't have vertical clamping enabled.

That issue where the bottom of a texture appears at the top (or any other opposite side) happens because the textures are all looped, but this is made more apparent due to mipmaps. You will notice this effect more if you move the camera further away or view the texture from the side.

What a great video man this makes me want to get into hammer again

why do you know this

You did not bore me this video was amazing and interesting

the overlay problem can be fixed with some vtf flag (not vmt line) that makes the texture to stop tiling along one of the axis, i think it's "clamp s" or "clamp t".

Really love this video. It's like watching a dev go through bug reports to fix issues. I never knew light bleeding through walls could be fixed with an invisible entity, really fascinating!

It'd be nice if valve had trusted creators fix things like these in existing maps, so they can just import the fixes like this.

I believe the overlay error is caused by texture filtering. I've had this issue personally in 3D modelling, and if part of the UVs are too close to the edges of the texture, the texture filtering causes the bottom of the image to bleed into the top a little, creating those thin lines on the opposite side of the object, and the only fix is to keep around 2-4px at the edges of a texture clear for a decal

thanks a lot for making me notice every single little detail that valve was to lazy to fix very fun to watch though

Well done for this video. I was skeptical at the start, but by 5 mins in you won me over. I hope Valve pay you for the day's worth of work you would need to spend on it to fix this and then supply them the file.

@LEDs

4 ай бұрын

I'd be down to do that

Dustbowl is a map with zero flaws

the grass overlay issue (6:16) is related to your graphic settings the texture filtering and/or anti aliasing over samples and samples its bottom part (it asumes its a seamless texture). there are Several ways of fixing this: A) check for a parameter that allows for texture clamping (also known as extending) ((I dont think TF2 suports that)) B) moving the texture up, like you did C) the user disables texture filtering, leading to pixelated textures that not eveyone likes or anti aliasing that leads to pixelated edges on models (Tf2 supports these 2 options as a setting) In my opinion, Moving up the grass texture is the best call here, since its simple and works for everyone regardless of the setting. Fun fact: a lot of 2d game suffer this issue when running at a higher resolution than its art.

the grass texture is most likely a "texture wrapping" issue. kinda like how if you expand a texture with repeat texture enabled... either the mesh/texture_box is off set, or the image was offset during the render

LED just dropped the hardest Dustbowl edit and thought we wouldn't notice

I didn't even notice any of these, but now I definitely will. Dustbowl ruined...

Honestly, dustbowl feels like the most passionately made lazy project ever

15:14 old stuff from the sfm version of the meet the heavy video map Still downloadable with sfm today

The damn dustbowl detective Great vid btw

I have no idea if this functions like any other 3D program, but the UV mapping for that overlay at 6:48 might just be a pixel higher than it's texture area, making it repeat the lower bit. A simple fix would be to move the top of the UV map a bit lower.

@sp_epic

4 ай бұрын

This exact thing happens with custom flags in kerbal space program

New Team Fortress 2 Update: Summer Tidying. -Fixed a bunch of small errors in maps.

The grass overlay's bottom row of pixels winding up on the top probably has something to do with UV tiling.

Man your version of hammer sure is handy for all of those issues