Here are a few tips to get better-looking posters:
1 - don't tilt the camera
2 - sunshine does work, you didn't even try to import it from tf2 :P
3 - to easily add items, right click on say soldier.mdl and click Add Team Fortress Item
4 - an easier way to paint items is
- - Right click on the hat/misc and click Add Override Materials
- - Right click again, Show in Element Viewer -> Model
- - Scroll to the bottom and find 2 boxes of colors, one white and the other one should be the current color of your hat/misc
- - Click the 2nd one, you should now see a RGB Color Picker aswell as some boxes which let you set custom RGB values
- - To get the exact color of a certain paint go here and get the HEX Value of the paint you want, next go here. Now copy/paste the paint that you want to use. Then type the Red, Green and Blue values in SFM (they are in that order)
- - There is no need of any addons/plugins/scripts or whatever for this to work.
- - If you can't seem to paint a certain item, go here and download the fixed texture for the item you wan't to paint then copy paste it in the folder which is said in the post.
- - P.S the tf2 wiki is down, so you might have to wait a bit :/
5 - to fix lighting bugs, like the Kringle one, go here and find the item that you want to fix. (cba to explain how to fix it, pretty sure Jimmer Lins has a tutorial on how to fix the items)
6 - if you want to use cp_badlands, use an earlier BETA of SFM, right click om SFM, properties, BETAS and choose version 0.9.5.17 (thanks AMS :)
P.S. - the feautre I said up there (Add Team Fortress Item) isn't in this beta, so you will have to lock miscs/items like you used to before.
P.S.S go here to find the file names of every item
7 - use HWM models for the classes
8 - use a zoomed FOV, as it looks better
9 - to remove the sweater of that Medic's misc, right click on the misc in the Animation Set Editor and click Bodygroups
Here you can disable/enable certain bodygroups of mics or models in general
10 - watch Jimmer Lins' "Tip Of The Day" :)
11 - to use product, copy paste koth_viaduct_pro from your tf2 -> downloadlist folder and in your SFM Folder -> usermod -> create a folder called maps and paste it here.
If you don't have that I can upload it to some site if you want to
12 - you have done this one a few times but
Use the Rule Of Thirds!