official Team Fortress 2

[Scirwode]

HardWare Morph

It's Valve's new facial animation system, it's meant to run on hardware (If you have a compatible ATI card), but the TF2 models don't have a larger number of flexes compared to HL2 and such (so there's barely any slowdown compared to non-hwm models)

Type "find hwm" into the console and you'll find the 2 cvars (set them both to 1)

Edit: And "cl_new_impact_effects 1" and "cl_burninggibs 1", nicer effects for bullet impacts, and if somebody gets blown up who was on fire, their gibs remain on fire.

Wish I could run it on my notebook. As it is, it'll probably blow up if I did turn it on :p .

Scirwode

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

If you can run HL2, you can use the HWM models, they aren't much more "resource intensive" than normal models (the number of flexes is about the same)

Edit: @ +rm20010: Yeah, looks like HWM is on, HWM models have wrinkles and such.

[Scirwode]

If you can run HL2, you can use the HWM models, they aren't much more "resource intensive" than normal models (the number of flexes is about the same)

Edit: @ +rm20010: Yeah, looks like HWM is on, HWM models have wrinkles and such.

Are you sure? Because if it does blow up on my face, I'm sending you the bill :p . That said, my notebook is GeForce Go 7400, would it be alright for it?

Scirwode

[Denis W. Veteran]

Edit: @ +rm20010: Yeah, looks like HWM is on, HWM models have wrinkles and such.

Nice. (Y)

For comparison purposes, here's another shot taken months ago:

Is it on in this case? If it is, then I guess HWM was always enabled for me. EDIT: I'm looking at the heavy's right face; a wrinkle is indeed missing under his lower lip.

@Scirwode: what video settings do you use for TF2? Just comparing it to my laptop; I was getting an average of 30s with medium-low settings at 1280x800. And also for XP; my laptop chokes like hell for gaming in Vista.

[Scirwode]

@Scirwode: what video settings do you use for TF2? Just comparing it to my laptop; I was getting an average of 30s with medium-low settings at 1280x800. And also for XP; my laptop chokes like hell for gaming in Vista.

800x600 medium-high settings after overclocking my graphic card to 516/822. I'm currently in the process of upgrading my graphic driver but so far no success yet. Every driver I used beside the one I'm using right now does not display MKV videos.

Scirwode

[Minimoose]

Couldn't you just add those commands to the "autoexec.cfg" file?

yeah that's what I meant by a (auto executing) script, I just forgot the name of autoexec file, haven't done it in years :) Thanks for the correction.

[theyarecomingforyou]

I played the strangest game last night. As an engineer you could simply type "build 3" to build a second sentry and "build sentry" to build a second dispenser - it was hilarious. I wish the screenshot I took actually came out because it showed a pyro taking out two of my sentries and a dispenser in one go.

[Unimatrix Xero]

so where is this autoexec.cfg file? as i cant find it

thanks

[Minimoose]

Create a txt file named it autoexec.txt in: G:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\<username>\team fortress 2\tf\cfg

Then just change the .txt to .cfg (make sure that it is actually autoexec.cfg rather than autoexec.cfg.txt)

Then you add the cvars you want to be auto executed every time TF2 starts up in the cfg file (which can just open with notepad).

I believe that each cvar must be written on a separate line, but as I said before I haven't done it in years so I'm not sure.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Are you sure? Because if it does blow up on my face, I'm sending you the bill :p . That said, my notebook is GeForce Go 7400, would it be alright for it?

Scirwode

Enabling the HWM models don't force it to run on your graphics card, they just force what would normally run on the graphics card (if you had a compatible ATI card) to run on your CPU.

They are more resource intensive than the normal models, but not by much (they're about on-par with normal HL2 EP2 models)

[Unimatrix Xero]

so the file should look like this

cl_new_impact_effects 1

cl_burninggibs 1

anything else i should add?

[Minimoose]

If you wanted the HWM models then follow what Decryptor said on the previous page and add the cvars from his instructions to the cfg file, other than that it should work, if not then you need to find someone who knows what they are talking about ;) There's no chance of it breaking your game though so don't worry.

[Unimatrix Xero]

ive got the file looking like this now

cl_new_impact_effects 1

cl_burninggibs 1

mp_usehwmmodels 1

mp_usehwmvcds 1

im guessing this is right

[Minimoose]

Hope it works (Y)

[Unimatrix Xero]

yup it did

[External HDD Veteran]

guys, on which servers do you play?

[Unimatrix Xero]

i play on my clans server which is 208.122.53.178:27015

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

TF2 beta for N64, don't tell anybody!

:shiftyninja:

[Minimoose]

TF2 beta for N64, don't tell anybody!

:shiftyninja:

lol what? Slight graphics error? :p

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

That's just a certain cvar, mat_showlowresimage 1

This is a glitch.

TF2 freezes and minimises itself, when it comes back up, stuff isn't right.

[Unimatrix Xero]

hey guys Binary Squadron has a new home, if you feel like joining us then you can join us at http://binarysquadron.co.uk/ hope to see you there :)

[Athernar]

Probably one of the most unique screenshots i've ever gotten.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Heh, interesting.

In other news, I've got the sandvich!

Been trying really hard to get the first milestone, was taking ages, then I managed to kill the right guy at the right time with the right medic healing me, and I earned a domination for him :p

Then in the next round I gained 2 more achievements without even trying >.<

[Denis W. Veteran]

^^

Took you this long to get the sandvich? :p

But then again, I don't have any Medic unlockables. :whistle:

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I didn't use the heavy for a while after the class updates, and I haven't been playing much lately.

I'm still happy I've got it though (especially with my mod so it looks like the heavy is eating a baby)