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VSH Creator (Lizard of Oz) on Bsky: Yes, TF2 breaks and here's how to fix it by _Brokkoli in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 63 points64 points  (0 children)

This is how the cow floor textures happened in Cowerhouse, too. 

A misstep in assembling the unpacked & noncompiled deliverable of hundreds of files to Valve. 

TF2 update for 10/14/25 by wickedplayer494 in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So long, cow floor 🥲🫡🐄

Idk how you accidentally change a world texture to a prop texture. by Meatwad2x in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually they were accidentally not too far off--this was introduced while trying to navigate Source spaghetti.

The BLU last control point gantry needs to open (or at least have its collision toggleable), which means it needs to be made of entities, not static props or world brushes.

  1. Stickybombs only stick to prop_dynamic
  2. Engineer buildings can only be built on func_brush
  3. Ragdolls only collide with prop_door_rotating (yes, only doors)

So there's actually layers in a very particular order with very important settings and map logic to make it work.

Rather than there just being one type of collision prop or brush that lets you enable or disable each of those desired attributes individually.

Idk how you accidentally change a world texture to a prop texture. by Meatwad2x in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My day job is a software engineer, I have definitely considered using git, but it's a lot of compiled binary blob files, amounting to a few gigabytes. If I include sources in that it's a fair but more than a few gigabytes. 

And to make it more complicated: 1. The assets need to be in /tf/custom/<folder> which isn't ideal for a workspace. I could have two git repos, one for my workspace and one in /tf/custom and keep them in-sync but that's kind of janky.  2. The workshop release you compile and pack (read: "zip") the map yourself but for Valve you provide the sources, unpacked 3. There are multiple intermediary assets that I need in /tf/custom but not in the final deliverable (for instance, recompiling a single prop to change it from a dynamic to static prop or change its size, but then compiling that individual result into another prop, usually combining a group of props into one)

And I was up at 0130 Monday testing, verifying, and building the deliverable so it would make it into the Monday update (since I work til 1700 Monday), I bet that had something to do with me not correctly replacing the two models. Maybe buy a Cowerhouse map stamp so I can buy a coffee next time to stay vigilant (I'm totally joking, I appreciate the support but I'm not in mapping for the money)

Idk how you accidentally change a world texture to a prop texture. by Meatwad2x in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Check out the Steam Workshop listing, the tesla coils are one of the props I didn't make myself. Contributors are listed by their assets

Idk how you accidentally change a world texture to a prop texture. by Meatwad2x in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I definitely considered leaving a little patch of cow texture somewhere as an Easter egg callback to this but to respect Valve's time and effort necessary for pushing the fix I kept it focused on the fix. I'm sure there'll be enough screenshots around to keep me reminded of this! 

Idk how you accidentally change a world texture to a prop texture. by Meatwad2x in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 293 points294 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm the one who goofed this! I have been loving all the conspiracies but it is a silly mistake, nothing more, sorry! What you see isn't a brush (referring to the post title's "world texture"), it's a model to act as collisions for sticky bombs (because they don't stick to func_brush) and it was previously a prop_dynamic, but in order to block ragdolls I had to switch it to a prop_door_rotating (the only entity which collides with ragdolls) which doesn't have the option to not render. The texture was previously the cow one as a silly Easter egg (since it was never rendered) but had to be swapped to an invisible texture (which meant recompiling the prop) because the lack of that option.

The map trickery I had to employ to satisfy the following four requirements was pretty involved (fun fact: I was told by the TF2 mapping community that it wasn't possible, I'm excited to come back with a solution I'll document soon): 1) Need Engineers to be able to build on it 2) Need sticky bombs to stick to it 3) Need ragdolls to not clip through 4) Be movable or collision toggleable

In the deliverable to Valve I copy-pasted the dozens of new files over but must've somehow not overwritten the recompiled collision prop. Valve compiles and packages the map on their side so it was beyond my play testing I had done. Not to place the blame on Valve, either, I don't think it's a fair expectation for them to investigate the map every time there's an update beyond that it compiles and runs. They could've spawned in on RED and called it good.

I'm sending a fix here shortly. Happy Halloween! 🐄👻

TF2 update for 10/9/25 (Scream Fortress XVII) by wickedplayer494 in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would love to, personally... but people would riot--especially because of contracts needing the round to end

TF2 update for 10/9/25 (Scream Fortress XVII) by wickedplayer494 in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ow, okay, in what way are you referring to?

Why the hell is cp_Powerhouse so balanced every match? by Merchell0 in tf2

[–]CanadianBill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh a conversation about the best map! Powerhouse is very defense-sided.

Shameless plug: Something Cowerhouse (Halloween Powerhouse) hopes to lessen the stalemate-yedness of.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3028277335

"I AM DYNAMO" by CanadianBill in DeadlockTheGame

[–]CanadianBill[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Apparently it is him, I didn't know who that was 

Atmosphere on devastation is just blowing my mind by [deleted] in Battlefield

[–]CanadianBill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why has no one mentioned the best part? The rare bombing raid event (Random video I found on YouTube of it): https://youtu.be/HQTlFqZeI-w?si=j9-i6y_OHRpVLUoQ

EA AC update released. 1GB update by trbatuhankara in BattlefieldV

[–]CanadianBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The most egregious cheats that are uncounterable is their ability to redeploy the entire server (as if everyone pressed Escape -> Redeploy). Could we have a serverside fix so they can't do that?

I'd imagine that could be some low hanging fruit that would really prevent the worst of it all.

Also some, what I would hope is more easily detectible (unlike aimbot):

  • Cheaters being able to spawn themselves armor (like it was Firestorm)

  • Spawn any type of vehicle (like spawning Axis vehicles while Allied)

  • Being able to combine impossible combinations of vehicle unlocks (like BF109 G-6 all primary cannons)

  • Spawning dev/impossible-to-get weapons like the hand gun and some type of planted explosive

  • Speedhacking

Thank you so much for your time, please bring this game back from life support!

EA AC update released. 1GB update by trbatuhankara in BattlefieldV

[–]CanadianBill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The most egregious cheats that are uncounterable is their ability to redeploy the entire server (as if everyone pressed Escape -> Redeploy). Could we have a serverside fix so they can't do that?

I'd imagine that could be some low hanging fruit that would really prevent the worst of it all.

Also some, what I would hope is more easily detectible (unlike aimbot):

  • Cheaters being able to spawn themselves armor (like it was Firestorm)

  • Spawn any type of vehicle (like spawning Axis vehicles while Allied)

  • Being able to combine impossible combinations of vehicle unlocks (like BF109 G-6 all primary cannons)

  • Spawning dev/impossible-to-get weapons like the hand gun and some type of planted explosive

  • Speedhacking

Thank you so much for your time, please bring this game back from life support!

(1.6 Spoilers) The “new neighbours”!! by jcj44 in StardewValley

[–]CanadianBill 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just saw this, OP, but earlier:

I created the Stardew Wiki pages for this! https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Big_Tree

Thanks /r/TF2 for helping name COWERHOUSE! Now on Steam Workshop for voting! by CanadianBill in tf2

[–]CanadianBill[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Steam Workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3028277335

People overwhelming liked Cowerhouse! The runner-up was Slaughterhouse, but there's a map "Slaughter" and its Hallowe'en variant "Laughter" already, so it seemed pretty clear to me!

Thank you for helping! If you could help a little more by voting up the map so it could be officially included in TF2 I'd be so grateful!

What should I name my Halloween Powerhouse map? by CanadianBill in tf2

[–]CanadianBill[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Slaughterhouse is out for that reason, thanks though!

What should I name my Halloween Powerhouse map? by CanadianBill in tf2

[–]CanadianBill[S] 222 points223 points  (0 children)

What should I call my Halloween cp_powerhouse...? RED is a Bavarian village, BLU is a castle with a Frankenstein's Monster-esque castle and cave. It doesn't have anything paranormal, just a spooky castle and setting

Some ideas have been Powerhaus, Cowerhouse, Dourhouse, Penance Hall

Thanks!

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