the way maidos typed that gave me herpes but he's right about one thing: the euro tf.tv vods are always up the same night as the cast (+/- 8 hours) while the wood pig/street hoops game from tuesday night isn't even up on youtube yet.

is there any way for people not associated with tf.tv to help upload them more quickly? or rather, can i help? i can't watch them on twitch (i literally left it buffering for 3 hours and could only watch 5 minutes on low quality before it needed to buffer again, at which point i gave up) and i know this and the street hoops/wood pig were good games.

dairy companies actually send elementary schools free food pyramid posters that have milk as an essential part, which seems a little ridiculous to me considering the aforementioned lack of evidence of real tangible benefits of milk.

^ wouldn't work unfortunately. that only works for an image panel that is an actual block of color; you can't use it for an imagepanel that references a .vtf file unfortunately.

again: if you want your background to change color depending on the team I'm pretty sure my method is the only way.

the above won't work if you want it to change color depending on which team you're on. that would just be a permanent red box. if you want it to be team-colored you're going to need to edit the image files.

• you're gonna want to get photoshop or gimp (the latter is free and, while worse than photoshop, will work fine for something as simple as this) and create your own rectangular images, one blue and one red, and edit their opacity.
  
• then either get vtfedit or the photoshop/gimp vtf plugins and convert your image to a .vtf. then write an accompanying .vmt file and place both in vgui/replay/thumbnails. more details on vtf/vmt can be found in my hud crosshairs guide here (ctrl+f for 'creating your own crosshair' for the relevant section).
  
• then when it says 'teambg2' replace it with "replay/thumbnails/ *title of your red image* ", the same for blue.

pat yourself on the back, you've just created and implemented your very own custom texture.

High/max frames is an fps config that makes the game blocky/grainy. high/max quality are configs to make the game LOOK better but won't gain you any fps. sounds like you want quality.

The rocket launcher delay is most likely your interp settings: you should set it up like this:

cl_interp 0
cl_lagcompensation 1
cl_pred_optimize "2"
cl_smooth "0"
cl_smoothtime "0.01"

play around with these settings to find optimal ones for your setup

rate 100000
cl_cmdrate 66
cl_updaterate 66
cl_interp_ratio 1/2 (if you don't want to play around with it: most people use 2 for hitscan and 1 for projectiles)

This thread has more information.
As for config: try chris' maxquality or highquality if you don't want fps improvement.

california player reporting for duty.

http://teamfortress.tv/thread/17091/hud-crosshairs

here you go friend.

Probably should have posted this in hud modifications again, but whatever.

I love it! My one piece of constructive criticism would be to make the koth team timers both white instead of team colored and add a background or a bar that's team colored. As it is now I find it a tad difficult to easily take in the difference in time between the two and aesthetically it's a bit confusing. Just my personal opinion. Several Garm3n huds have traditionally done that with the koth timers but pretty much every other major/popular hud doesn't. See the TF.Tv casting hud for an example of the bar that I think looks nice and isn't distracting. a good background one would be broesel hud.

That would just be a replay: you can't get anything the streamer 'missed' unless you have multiple cameramen doing this and can replay something from one of their POVs. With 3 cameramen and the cheat sheet I could see it being possible to not miss anything and do this, but that's a TON of resources. What BoneS was saying was that as of now you can't rewind an STV while it is live.

Also, an idea for the VTV/i52 production guys: (I'm sure you've already thought of it) If you guys have access to multiple cameramen and are separating the production and camera-manning then one other potential solution to missing big plays would be implementing a delay between the 'live' STV/ the casters and the visuals. As in, the production guy, the cameramen, and the casters are seeing the STV with the normal 90 second delay or whatever but the actual twitch stream is 10 seconds further behind so the production guy can seamlessly switch to the cameraman that actually gets the important action. No idea how it would be implemented or how difficult it would be, but it would satisfy my nerd fantasies.

i did a clean install of tf2

So I recently inherited a very old toshiba laptop from my grandparents and, after doing a custom or fresh reinstall of windows 7 ultimate 32 bit, attempted to install steam and tf2. TF2, when I open it, doesn't launch: my name in steam turns green for a sec, I see the logo on the taskbar for a second, but then it dissappears and my name goes back to blue without ever seeing any of the loading screen. I have tried:

Validating (3x)
Reinstalled TF2
Deleted everything in program files/steam except for steam.exe and steamapps
Deleted clientregistry.blob
updated graphics card drivers
ran steam as an administrator

Another weird thing is when I tried to run TF2 as an administrator it said: "Setup file 'gameinfo.txt' doesn't exist in subdirectory 'hl2', check your -game parameter or VCONFIG setting". I have tried googling and searching tf.tv for 'tf2 wont start' and for that specific error message and no fix I've tried from those threads has done anything. Is there something glaringly obvious I'm missing?

http://i.imgur.com/F21Sevm.png

hmmm

As far as VTV/TFTV 'assets' go, the one thing I think should be changed from i49 is casters. Is there any chance of cbear/bloodsire/marxist? I hope lange will be sent, if so can he cast with sean? If yuki is willing to cast when he's not playing could that happen? Maybe return of djc to cast his old r5 buddy?

Also:

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