I have been Technical Staff at TF2Maps.net for about a year as of writing this. One of the big things that bothered me when I first got onboard was how disorganized and chaotic the state of the infrastructure was. There wasn't a lot of it but it was old and fragile, and soon to be some serious hardware issues that needed to be addressed.
Okay okay, maybe that title is a bit of an overstatement, but I have very exciting news!
Among my many hobbies; one I've been doing since the beginning of the pandemic is level design, specifically for the game: Team Fortress 2.
I'm excited to share that today Valve purchased a level that I worked on (with a team of 8 others)!
I was brought on to the TF2Maps.net staff team to bring my technical expertise to help maintain and improve the state of our systems.
The first thing I did in order to get an idea of how the servers were used was to install some monitoring software.
For a while now i've been learning to use a program called Substance Designer. It allows you to procedurally and nondestructively create textures for 3D programs to use. For me i've been trying to use it to emulate the Team Fortress 2 Style.
For a while now i've been working on level design projects at TF2Maps.net, and something that has been a huge need in the community is getting models for the game tailored to certain game play needs or to fit into a theme.