Figure out an objective way to judge if a clip is good enough to use. Quality > Quantity

I usually gather clips that are okay for my standard, then make a notepad in which I describe the clips in short (kills, map, extra info like airshots/1v1s/not having heals/etc). Then you can rank them to find the ones you like most and filter out scraps.

Having a notepad like that also helps you orden clips in the video.
For example I make sure to mix scout, sniper and soldier clips equally so you don't watch 2 minutes of soldier frags, then 2 minutes of scout frags. Same goes for maps. This is just a thing I prefer though. Many people probably don't care about this.

You can keep scraps and use these for editing practise. It's up to you if you upload those as a scrap montage or just delete the project afterwards. These are just for learning things like transitions/smoothing/etc so your serious videos will turn out better. No need to spend hours on a scrap montage. Just throwing some clips together, figuring out transitions and maybe making a single smooth every now and then can help

Don't use minimal viewmodels in videos. A lot of people don't like the look of it. Regular viewmodels with viewmodel_fov between 70 and 90 are fine

http://puu.sh/sALGA/65db43678e.png

http://puu.sh/sALOw/9cd4dd0cea.png

steam profile pic size

This works for me on windows 8.1. basically for some backwards reason you don't get scaling options unless you use a 4:3 monitor res but you can just change it to 4:3, turn on scaling, go back to the native screen res and it will still enable scaling for any 4:3 game like TF2

Go here

http://puu.sh/sAKe1/1598b1acf5.png

change to 1024x768 or whatever 4:3 option the slider will give you. You'll now have a monitor res that's 4:3. Select Keep Changes if a window pops up

http://puu.sh/sAKhx/eda846de4d.png

Click the Advanced Settings and change the scaling to Scale Full Screen. Now your monitor will scale the 4:3 res so you should already see the scaling happening if you did things correctly up to this point

http://puu.sh/sAKkd/649c76ee25.png

Now close Advanced Settings and change back to your native resolution

http://puu.sh/sAKtJ/b3bfdbc77b.png

Now you can enjoy scaling in videogames. If you want to disable it again you'll have to go through the same steps (change monitor res to a 4:3 res, open advanced options, disable/enable scaling, change monitor res back to original res)

http://puu.sh/sAK2h/14c6499958.png

Couldn't get the white going around the hood the way i wanted it but here it is anyway. Should still look fine if it's a profile pic

http://puu.sh/sALsh/04a361c2b3.png

http://puu.sh/sAGXC/fb8f3747c3.png

http://puu.sh/sAHkZ/352bc569bd.png

I can also make a second version similar to the one I made for BarytaQ posted above if you want

http://puu.sh/sAFRi/3c6dd9036a.png

http://puu.sh/sAG3h/7d56299949.png

http://puu.sh/sAGci/7c0cd9e462.png

http://puu.sh/sAEXl/4f470d8c06.png

http://puu.sh/sAFJ6/6d6ac9b2d9.png

http://puu.sh/szupi/119dc022ca.png

http://puu.sh/szuzN/cfe9e2c6d3.png

I even added a shitty blur effect for authenticity on 80x80 spy

http://puu.sh/szubN/a58a66d542.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5vpb46zrdh2usaz/weaponscripts.zip?dl=0

Should be all of them

I don't see the flags you should check when saving a VTF. Should include those in case they're not in this guide. I might just be dumb and have read over them though :)

I'd also like to add that there is a VTF plug-in for both paint.net and gimp.
I used to use gimp for making VTFs but after installing the plug-in I switched to paint.net.
Haven't tested it on gimp but I'm assuming it works the same way.
It allows you to make VTF files without the need for VTFedit and you can open VTF files directly into paint/gimp

If you save something as a VTF a window pops up: http://puu.sh/ss3z9/2952eedf25.png
I always made the template Generic (Default). Leaving it empty made it very blurry if I recall correctly.
Then go to Flags and make sure these are checked: http://puu.sh/ss3Ee/af6ea5eab2.png
I always check Point Sample as well if the crosshair only has straight lines. Point sample is the first flag in the list. It prevents them from looking a tiny bit blurry (best way to test this is by making the crosshair scale very big and compare between the 2 flags).
I don't use point sample for crosshairs with curves (like wings) because it makes them slightly less pixelated on low resolutions and I prefer playing TF2 with 640x480 because I'm a disgusting individual. It's mostly preference with Point Sample but that's how I decide.

credit to dolphin rider for the flags

There's no best way to make VTF crosshairs though so use VTFedit if you don't feel like installing the plug-in. In the end if all flags are checked correctly you should have the same end product with VTFedit or the plug-in

though not an fps I've been having a lot of fun playing Path of Exile for a month or 2 now. First time I've played a game like it and it's definitely a lot of fun to jump into.
Path of exile works with leagues that go on for a couple of months. A new one is starting in December. Everyone will then make new characters in this league so that'll be a good time to join in on the fun. There's a lot of varying beginner friendly character builds that you can build without any prior experience in PoE

Ah didn't even know they did that already. I left the discord and am quite disconnected from everything TF2 related atm. My bad :)

Once they enter open beta they'll be organizing daily again like they did during closed beta.
These cups have a prize pool of faceit points which you can then spend in the shop.

Atm there's no TF2 things in there yet but they were asking in discord which unusuals and other TF2 items people would want to be in the shop. I'm assuming this will happen once open beta gets an active community or after the official launch. For now you can buy other items like merch and cs:go skins
dream big

Yes. Just make sure to do it right after starting TF2. if you join a pub server, then disconnect, then attempt to preload it won't preload properly.

Yttrium's competitive viewmodels config also uses preloading. It goes a step further and puts a small map in your custom files and makes it automatically load when you start TF2 so you don't waste a couple of minutes loading and exiting a big map. The map also kicks you right after joining so you don't even have to disconnect manually.

If you want something similar:
In your autoexec.cfg put "map_background [map name]" where map name can be anything.
You can use Yttrium's preload_room map. it's a small file and kicks you automatically so it doesn't take up a lot of time to prelaod every time you restart TF2.

I usually do it manually by joining and disconnecting from tr_arena_rc2 with the command "map tr_arena_rc2" but any small map will do.

You can drop map files in tf > custom > maps (This should work. Haven't used this pathway in a while though so I might've missed a folder. probably is correct though)
I usually put them in tf > download > maps because then Lawena's recording tool doesn't complain about the size of my custom folder when i try to record things. There's no real difference between the 2 unless you use Lawena a lot