I Turned Dustbowl Chrome

[@alien31ita]

Chads will reference that spongebob episode kids or creature will reference that fortnite season 💀

[@Faleko_Fares]

fr 💀

[@APadreFan]

💀

[@scantyer]

ah yes referencing one of the most famous episodes of one of the most famous cartoons, very chad

[@memoman_yt]

I had a stroke reading this

[@Faleko_Fares]

@@memoman_yt whene deltarune chapter 3? 💀

[@taysworld1928]

FUTURREEEEE FUTUREEEEEE

[@saddolphin3668]

Spongebob reference 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@saddolphin3668]

We're abt to make it to the future with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

everything's chrome in the future, squidward.

[@reptiliannoizezz.413]

FUCKIN BEAT ME TO IT 💀

[@notimportant3033]

*brick.mdl*

[@bosnian.gamer.2006]

Mario: "Where's my Metal cap?" Super Metal Dustbowl:

[@Whomobile]

This is what happens when soldier drinks too much of the 2fort water

[@oooeee5556]

Bottled water. Always drinks those.

[@_Catgirl_Connoisseur_]

bottled what?@@oooeee5556

[@TextualDeviant]

Ah yes, the fabled _"Soldiervision Mode"_

[@AmaroqStarwind]

He canonically has lead poisoning

[@hyperventalated]

Impossible! He's lying!! **Scout runs out and is immediately spray painted chrome** He's right!

[@coachacola3755]

Everything is chrome in the future!

[@SnrubSource]

Firefoxbros... it's so over

[@ehtresih9540]

@@SnrubSource 😞

[@InfernalNull]

chrome landscapes make me feel funny. feels like they are like a desert but only lukewarm, and the sky is blue but theres no visible sun somehow. and its like real quiet and tranquil.

[@Myiic]

Everything's chrome in the future

[@danji9485]

fuuuuutureeeeeee fuuuuutureeeeeee fuuuuutureeeeeee...

[@joshuahsonjh]

Impossible, he's lying, HIS RIGHT!!

[@TheRealFishyB]

To fix the displacement seams you have to assign the same cubemap to all of them. Not perfect since the reflection itself won't be as accurate but it's the trade off ya pay for

[@blubobbie]

one thing you might could do for the trees and grass and stuff, you might be able to lock transparency in photoshop, and make the leaves and bark all black; that might achieve the real chrome look with the lighting

[@Tscendrik]

Now make it australium

[@FrogInShorts]

Planet piss

[@sdgx0]

damn the silver surfer creamed all over dustbowl

[@DruCart]

You can actually set the envmap mask to be the alpha of the basetexture, if i remember correctly. If not with envmap parameters, with Phong parameters that incidently also affect the envmaps. Means chainlinks, tree, etc can all also be chrome if you made their textures black and then slapped their original transparency back on, and saved that image as each objects texture. Just make sure their $translucent or $alphatest parameters are still on, and mess around a little. The Source Engine wiki is a huge help for this.

[@denifnaf5874]

It's begginning to smell a lot like dustbowl Crits are everywhere!

[@LEDs]

Chrome crits

[@Gryphon1-1]

**Puts my clarinet down and lies on my back**

[@alexwasherefirst]

I like chrome way more than someone should so this video is perfect for me

[@TextualDeviant]

What everyone else sees: Chrome Dustbowl What I see: chRomevision Mode

[@ToastEater625]

FUUUTURRRREEEEE!!!! FUUUTURRRREEEEEEEE!!!! FUUUUUTTTTUUURRRREEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@VexTF2_]

GOLDEN GOLDRUSH!

[@hunterchichester5720]

Nahhhhh

[@MaxLai_0104]

TF2 if they bought a metal reserve rather than a gravel reserve:

[@andreigaming7559]

That one SpongeBob episode

[@SandmanURL]

Thank you for the subtitles 🛐

[@LEDs]

np

[@dakota6431]

my man really said "welcome to the future!"

[@tamoozbr]

You didn't have to use custom textures, you could've just set $color2 to [0 0 0] Also, for the leaves and stuff like that, you could just make an all-black texture and kept the alpha

[@JacobKinsley]

This is the sort of map they'd Release as part of some event on some random update no one cares about and all the time you're playing on it you think "I wish this was just normal dustbowl"

[@kenohere]

The crow brain inside me is pleased

[@beniciovalina6544]

Dustbowl Chrome + RTX Remix = C4 Bomb

[@kikoriklesha]

FUTUREEEEE

[@phalanxHH]

This is Dustbowl in the year 3000.

[@bruhgod123]

"Everything is chrome in the future" - Spongebob Squarepants

[@humanharddrive1]

i enjoyed the breakdown

[@1marcelfilms]

FUTUREEEEEEEEEE

[@yourdemiseishere]

In the future everyone finally catches up to us smart people and realizes dustbowl is the best map in the game, mediocre at point with some glaring problems but it's still by far the best thing ever put into the game.

[@feli-the-sunfairy]

Oooh, shiny. I love it!

[@LEDs]

✨

[@CoolSs]

FUTUREEEE

[@rolandplumer4648]

Huh, pretty neat!

[@Destical]

new zealium dust bowl

[@tonkobanjo]

squidward goin crazy fr

[@StickDudeYT]

Everything is chrome in the future

[@azlaw8554]

CHROMEBOWL TIME

[@GreyMaria]

You are a monster. Do it again.

[@mr2meows]

i love dustbowl

[@Aarmastah]

128x128 cubemaps all over the playable area? The file size must be enormous 😰😰 Still very much want to figure out how the chrome zone plays 😁

[@LEDs]

Surprisingly it's not. If I did 256x256 it would be though, which is why I did 128x128 instead

[@seanevans3840]

Valve needs to hire you, you are one of the 5 people in the world who knows how to work TF2’s code

[@fantastikboom1094]

He's working with built-in map editor, texture editors, text editors and model editors. Not code.

[@KiwifruitDev]

Oh you didn't need to use a black texture, you could set $color2 to all 0 and discard the basetexture Though this wouldn't work for most cases Also, you can set the basetexture to one that isn't named the same as the material, so you don't have to copy/paste the same texture

[@bruh_8129]

FUTURE IS NOW

[@zachredd845]

Chrome Weapon Skin Leak :

[@user-vh9cc]

Chromebowl

[@TeddyCream0]

"everything is chrome in the future!"

[@dakotaplays06]

I might actually try to make other maps chrome, using what you explained in this video

[@LEDs]

Let me know if you do!

[@dakotaplays06]

ATM I won’t be able to, as my laptop has decided to die and is now overheating with nothing open, neither of the fans turn on and running any game, even a 20yo game, causes the entire thing to freeze constantly

[@mr.m2675]

​@@dakotaplays06is sonething stuck in the fan's or is something like a controller broken, if the software if scrambled that would be anoing

[@dakotaplays06]

@@mr.m2675 it’s fixed now don’t worry

[@Rct3master44]

this is the kind of guy who painted his adder chrome with dollar sign wheels 💀

[@kalerug]

So this is what 6 years of no major updates does to us

[@seanmarkham6965]

Fuuuuuuuuture!

[@sbl_officialchannel]

everything is Chrome in the future Scout

[@damnedtosuffer666]

EVERYTHING IS CHROME IN THE FUTURE

[@GreenSwede]

biggest shocker to me when I watched this video was to see that you haven't enabled file extensions in File Explorer.

[@Bonehead_Gaming2007]

FUTUREEE!

[@lolluspingus]

My choom... it's full of chrome!

[@mirror_mania]

Idk why, but the idea of just turning everything in dustbowl chrome for no reason is hilarious to me

[@LEDs]

👍

[@eklipsed9254]

300 CUBE MAPS??!!!??

[@THGMR-ox7sd]

You found a 1/4096 Shiny Iron Bowl

[@Cavalry827]

Challenge: turn the entirety of Hightower to Australium

[@The_Mister_E]

Oh god whenever we get around to stuffing Ray Tracing into TF2/Source, this map will be GPU heater.

[@SatelliteYL]

Would like if this became official. Fuckin Chromebowl

[@LEDs]

Day one of me at Valve: Add a Dustbowl playlist filled with a bunch of Dustbowl edits

[@ethosaur]

FUUUUUTUUUUUUREEE

[@burnth4m]

This will be dustbowl in the future !!!!!!!!!

[@zombine7103]

BRO, I ALSO LOVE SHININESS OF SOURCE THANK YOU FOR THIS! DID YOU RELEASE ON WORKSHOP?

[@LEDs]

Unfortunately I haven't been able to because of issues with packing in the chrome assets.

[@zombine7103]

@@LEDs VIDE?

[@Cosmo_raptor]

Everything is Chrome in the future!

[@realBowl]

this will be dustbowl in 2025

[@doofensmirkle5843]

You should try doing this with the reflective water texture

[@LEDs]

That only works with flat surfaces along a single plane, otherwise the reflections don't work properly

[@necrotafeio]

spongebob dustbowl

[@userlaiss1409]

in france the would call this dustbowl de metal and i think it's beautifull

[@puzzlepuddles6712]

3kliksphilip when cs2:

[@samuelbi11]

he polished too much

[@sheffb]

now make a golden goldrush

[@th1v5]

FUTURE

[@level98bearhuntingarmor]

Welcome to the future

[@legendarylava8775]

nvidia making tf2 rtx be like:

[@oswaldhomolka]

Crow mindset

[@WildFyr]

I feel like it would have been nice if you kept a normal map of the existing textures to make it look like someone just put chrome on top of the existing map.

[@LEDs]

I did keep the normal maps wherever they were used. Most TF2 textures just don't use them

[@oomper]

what did you use to compile your map? ive made maps myself but have never seen that interface before

[@LEDs]

CompilePal

[@kuni2330]

LEDs really is just becoming the "dustbowl and 2fort" guy 🤣

[@LEDs]

Dustbowl is mine

[@r.g.thesecond]

Very cool! I wonder if this incurs any performance costs, but since cubemaps are pre-calculated, I guess it wouldn't be too much? Will check it out once you put up the map.

[@dabmasterars]

you're right. this is a static cubemap, not a real time eflection, it shouldn't affect performance by a lot

[@Jan-pe2rn]

I wonder how this would look with the real-time reflections used for water.

[@LEDs]

I might explore that route

[@Sage_3000]

Dustbowl-129

[@frank_calvert]

mad max fury road warboys when theyre about to die:

[@addiebuss9060]

Wouldn't you have been able to have the black squares match the trees' textures' transparency? Like, only fill black where the textures exist. I'm not sure how TF2's textures work so please correct me if I'm wrong!

[@LEDs]

I think you're on to something. I'd have to test and see

[@justhowoftendoyousleep]

That one spongebob episode

[@gordonfreeman7163]

My computer(toaster) would be like AEAEAEEAR AEAEAEEAES trying to run this

[@DaRealBruner]

new map name: "chromedome"

[@stevenn110]

CHROMEBOWL

[@ehrensto]

oh, if only source supported ray tracing lmao

[@Dementia_Springtrap]

The GPU of anyone that plays this map is gonna look like the California fire

[@k.k.9378]

Cube maps are cheap. It's nothing TF2 wasn't already doing.

[@XxguaxinimxX.]

Awesome project! But I think recursive reflections would be stunning, ngl 😅

[@LEDs]

In the current version of the map there is. I'm just having issues with packing in the custom content so it's not up on the workshop right now

[@theultimatetrashman887]

Miserable concept, cool execution

[@LEDs]

I'll take that

[@ashtmslf2315]

"▶ Link to map: SOON" Well I guess that never happened

[@LEDs]

I couldn’t pack it correctly, so it’ll probably never be available

[@AnthonyAdrianAcker]

Reminds me of Cold Ice mod 😅

[@gaminggranny1541]

This will be dustbowl in 2012

[@weabowoshi]

can you do that to your head next

[@LEDs]

twitter.com/LEDs_YT/status/1709921763876884582

[@acclipse9262]

My GPU is going to kill me for this

[@Vvix0]

Since TF2 Uses static cubemaps, those reflective surfaces are actually not much more expensive than other textures. If this game was RayTraced, you'd be fu*ked.