Justyn @justynart.xyz · 30/03/2026I recently finished up my personal website! It has a portfolio page of some stuff I made awhile ago and it has a little blog where I can write about whatever. Go check it out! justynart.xyz 0369 36
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 14/03/2026I created some Portal 1 styled metal walls while practicing non stylized texturing. 1296 29
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 01/03/2026Pre-Fortress 2 Steam progress report is here! I've been working on the textures for our newest weapon, the Mac-10. I also made this render of the Mac-10 for the blog post! 2227 22
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 25/01/2026Messing around with 2D skyboxes recently and created this simple clean night sky. 0121 12
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 02/01/2026One thing I've been doing that I find incredibly useful is creating small art experiments. Having a little space to explore techniques, tools, and experiment ideas. These art experiments I made always look bad, but that's the point. It's for learning. Here's a recent example with my world materials. 1243 24
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 30/12/2025When I first played TF2 back in 2013 and saw this photo of the Bowman standing around on MVM Decoy. I somehow thought that the extremely bright rocks in the background as windows pouring light into a castle interior. I recently remembered about this, so I finally recreated what I saw back in 2013. 0193 19
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 24/12/2025Having some fun and bringing the hotspot materials outside of Source. They don't look too great since after all some of the textures are over 18 years old. 0100 10
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 22/12/2025The hotspot materials is now uploaded onto @tf2maps.net! Go check it out! tf2maps.net/downloads/ho... 33711 37
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 19/12/2025@tf2maps.net's 72 hour jam is going on. For the first day I'm making a pack of hotspot materials. Will be making more in the next 2 days. 2307 30
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 18/12/2025This post only exists because I recently touched the new SDK13 again. I don't like it... 120 2
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/12/2025Hi, I made a Community Fix for TF2 that fixes some bugs with Engineer's high five taunt. I've detailed how this bug happens and how it was fixed. Check out the workshop submission! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... 0246 24
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 11/12/2025I wonder when will Valve release that Raising The Bar reprint.. 3202 20
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 05/12/2025Fairly recently I watched Ghost In the Shell (The one from 1995). Very pretty film. imgur.com/a/background... 091 9
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 17/11/2025I had a lot of fun working on this intro! Also shout out to Blender for dealing the torturous task of dealing with so many high-res video texture files and meshes. 051 5
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 17/11/2025I had the pleasure to animate the intro for @shorktf2.bsky.social's Comic dub! Go check it out! youtu.be/pO5Swpm30SY 1206 20
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/11/2025If you were curious on how the new Steam Machine look inside... Now you know. 0120 12
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/10/2025Meaning... you could control this elevator like the Half-Life 1's rail cart if you used the game's no-vr debug mode. It controls exactly how you would expect. Using W to use one of three levels of speed when moving up and using S to move back down. 0141 14
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/10/2025While I was looking through this map. I noticed that the combine elevator that you eventually reach after defeating the Reviver is controlled by func_tracktrain. This isn't exactly interesting, however this elevator is special since Valve forgot to enable "No User Control" in the spawn flags. 1193 19
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/10/2025It's clear that this point_lightmodifier is suppose to affect this combine spotlight. However since this light is named slightly differently the brightness changes will not be applied. While this floating spot light does use the correct entity name. This produce the result you see in that video. 020 2
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/10/2025Looking though the map sources, this effect is controlled by a entity called "point_lightmodifier" and it would apply the brightness changes to a single light or multiple light sources as long it shares the same entity name. 130 3
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/10/2025In Half-Life Alyx, whenever a Reviver or it's heart gets near a light source. It would play a electrical particle effect then increase the brightness of that light. However in the 2nd Reviver encounter, this detail is incorrectly assigned to a floating light source. 1124 12
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 28/07/2025I also may or may not have been secretly reusing the Cloister's laser mesh for other projects months before the Pre-Fortress 2 update actually released... 051 5
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 27/07/2025I mostly created the mesh, textures, rigging, and VFX for the laser while the scripting and laser design was created by gamingcam2008 and the animation and sound effects was created by @farlander.bsky.social. Here's a video of the whole sequence for which ever team who lost the round. 120 2
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 27/07/2025With the release of @prefortress.com CTF Cloister, the biggest contribution I did for that map is creating the giant laser for the end of round sequence. It went through a few iterations before reaching to the final design and creating the entire sequence took around 2 months of work to complete. 1144 14
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 30/06/2025In the Distillery chapter in Half-Life Alyx. In the part where you turn this valve in the distillery's basement. You can find this sign on the winch podium which contains manufacturing information. It shows that this podium was created by Mann Co International Inc. 37611 76
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/06/2025Also here's a shitpost I made while we were teasing the project 0100 10
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 30/03/2025I finally got rid of my Twitter account. The only reason I still had it up because I was archiving posts that I liked. Now that I'm done there's no reason to keep that account up. Don't support the racist transphobic billionaire idiot that's actively destroying the country. Delete your account. 0102 10
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 25/03/2025Memory sometimes do that... Though there is a bunch of cool merch during this time for Spy and Sniper. This Spy Vs Sniper poster gotta be my favorite. 110 1
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 25/03/2025I found the shirt that you're talking about on this archived page of the Valve Store back in 2010. I'm unsure if there actual photos of this shirt out there. web.archive.org/web/20101014... 110 1
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 24/03/2025Now here a funny screenshot where I accidentally broke all of the bones and only the arm and revolver was on Heavy's head. Looks unpleasant to have on his head... 040 4
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 24/03/2025I had a wonderful time working with @shorktf2.bsky.social on turning Gary's hat concept into a real model! So if you haven't watched Shork's video yet then go watch it right now! It's great! youtu.be/_kwtBzSJNuw 2183 18
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 23/03/2025Today is Half-Life Alyx’s 5th Anniversary! What better way to celebrate is by revisiting what developers have posted throughout the years. I went through the depths of the internet to archive various media that's ranging from developer conferences, art, and interesting facts about the game! 2173 17
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 18/03/2025I just played the HL2 RTX Demo. All I'm going to say is congrats to every individual artist who contributed and got their art featured in the game. It all looks great. I'm still convinced that brute forcing real time path tracing into a game is stupid and I'm blaming NVIDIA for that 2397 39
Justyn @justynart.xyz · 12/03/2025This is one of the craziest intel grabs that I ever pulled off 1131 13
