I Turned Emesis Blue into a Playable TF2 Map 

The spy definitely shouldn't be able to use the Spy-cycle in this map. If he had it in the movie, he just wouldn't have been burned at all.

Respawn timer set to 2 hours, and you have to sit there and wait out the whole timer to simulate going insane while trapped in a horrific state between life and death.

I feel like defenders should get pyro. Seeing that he plays a huge part of that side

In the room with the hooks, you could replace the tables with crates so players could take cover behind them. Hooks could still hang from the ceiling but just higher up so they don't disrupt gameplay.

If you plan on tackling the 'below the elevator' content, you could simply have the elevator play a sound and teleport the players to the otherwise unreachable area.

Adding the mutated scout as a boss would be crazy. Also non Euclidean stuff could be done with teleports/portals but idk if portals like in the game portal are possible in tf2

emesis blue in tf2 has always seemed like a strange case to me

HI, i like your map so far. But i have a few suggestions that could drastically improve it. First off, and this is the most important thing i'll likely say here. I noticed the map has no fog. This REALLY hurts the atmosphere you're going for. What i'd recommend is use one fog controller entity for the outside. (Tip: set the fog color to be the same as the skybox color) and then use several indoor fog controller's in particular to help with lighting contrast. If you set the fog color to something dark like say, a dark blue or red, and then set up your fog start and fog end settings so that they're a good distance apart, you'll notice that their colors will start blending and mixing with your light colors, and everything will look a lot darker and therefore contrast nicely with your lights. The second problem i noticed is with your lights, specifically which types of lights you used. In general i noticed quite a few too many regular "light" entities in your map, and while they're certainly fine for most regular tf2 maps, when you're doing something with so much contrast like emesis blue, it's generally a good idea to avoid them. For cases like the tunnels for example, what i would do is use a light_spot entity set to a really high inner and outer angle like 270, and then edit the brightness and falloff settings to make it look closer to the original. Even when you do have to use regular light entities it's best to keep them to the "quadratic" setting and try to have the smallest possible brightness value. you can actually see this in emesis blue itself. One of the problems with porting materials and models directly from SFM is that it actually supports pseudo/fake PBR materials. I don't actually know if Emesis Blue uses them but that would explain why porting over many of the models/materials doesn't work, bump mapping actually works fine in tf2, it's just not used that often by valve. Finally, i noticed there doesn't seem to be any env_cubemaps in your map at all, this really hurts it as HDR helps light sources look even brighter, as well as actually giving the water some reflections, in the topic of entities you can use. I'd recommend also getting acquainted with the color_correction entity, try playing around with it by placing it and then using the command "colorcorectionui" in-game. It'll help things along greatly as well. If you need some help with any of this just send me a DM in discord: Clarity#4239

If this turns into a map showcase channel I’ll be double subscribing. G-guys I meant I like it 🤦‍♂️

Isn't it weird how I watched Emesis Blue for the first time today, then Great Blue suddenly makes a video related to it? Almost like he's living in my walls or something...

I think the one critique I could give is that while Conagher Slaughterhouse was mostly 2fort it did have a lot more rooms like the church, freezer, and projector room, and the tunnels where the governor was to name the more notable locations. I assume these were sacrificed due to the non-euclidian geometry (and the fact it is never show where these connect) but it would be cool to see those added if you or someone else updates the map further but as is this is amazing as is.

Fortress Films inspired a lot of people with Emesis Blue and now these people are making their own tributes and references to the movie with FF actually supporting these projects (for example giving the assets) which is pretty cool!

This is SO COOL! Emesis Blue is undoubtedly the best SFM project ever, and this recreation of the map seems really faithful!

If anything this map would benefit massively from some color correction which can easily be done in game via "colorcorrectionui" command after which you can save your results and embed them onto your map via "color_correction" entity. Though you have to go for a compromise making a "one size fits all" as this a 2004 game engine and not a professional movie editor. As for the bumpmaps, the reason they don't look so bumpy in game is due to the fact a "light" entity just doesn't tend to bring out that much detail out of them than say a light_spot or a env_projectedtexture. SFM doesn't allow you to create anything more than a fancier version of env_projectedtexture and so because of that the bumpmaps just look more bumpy in there. But as a side note it also can come down to the bumpmap texture itself, some are by nature more rough and detailed and others less so.

I really think that for fun and as a strange test, the classes should spawn in their normal starting positions for the movie for each section, heavy spawning in front of the elevator, engie in the main slaughterhouse area, demo near or inside the gate enclosure, especially since you made the scanner work. probably wouldn't be balanced but I think it would be interesting if possible.

For the elevator, maybe have it teleport you to the other elevator, this avoiding the non-Euclidean clipping

Emesis blue is a masterpiece. And so is this, all your videos actually, keep it up

I would like to say maybe make it so while soldier has one rocket in his launcher, the rocket moves faster and deals more damage. Pretty much the direct hit if there was no splash damage decrease and instead a magazine decrease.

Do you know how long I’ve waited for a playable Emesis Blue map? Longer than you think.

"how did you know he wouldn't shoot you in the head" "i didn't"

Zombie Fortress would be awesome on this man, I’d love to see a modified version of it

For the models, go to their texture folders and check if their VMTs start with "VertexLitGeneric". If it says "LightmappedGeneric", then replace it. That might solve your invisible prop issue.

Honestly, more than anything, the way the map looks and plays feels a lot like the spy movies TF2 was inspired by. The chaotic and cartoony nature of TF2 kind of makes you forget it's inspired by spy media, apart from, well, the Spy class, but this map's lighting, atmosphere and method of objectives makes it feel like an alternate universe that went more into that spy direction.

The guys at fortress films straight up giving you the custom assets is real chad of them.

FINISH IT, It's been 6 months. God damn 6 months.

THIS IS AMAZING! I’m sorry that it didn’t all go as smoothly as you’d like, but that’s still so cool! And it was nice to see Fortress Films reach out to you for the custom models. I love this community so much.

2fort reskins in tf2 have always seemed like a strange case to me

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="553">9:13</a> have you considered manually changing the hue of the textures themselves to better imitate the lighting in scenes like these? Edit: Also Team Fortress 2 Classic has almost every weapon in the movie. A oneshot rocket launcher for Soldier, Dynamite is pretty close to the grenade that Cyclops uses at one point in the movie, and a shotgun for medic, although admittedly the latter is a server plugin, though TF2C custom server weapons are still way better functioning than native TF2 ones.

A way you could get the elevator to work is to move it over to the left sure it wouldn't be 100% accurate but it could avoid the clipping problem with the downstairs and sewers, If you want a more faithful 1 to 1 you could have it where when the door opens it could lead to a portal on the other side so it can take you to the deeper levels or even to the more trippy elements that appear in the Film

I wanted to be able to explore the solderhell

*Great Enemis Blue: Are You Lost Mind ? Because I'm going to make a movie like that, you'll all be sane.*

Love the work and effort you're putting into this, never thought I would see a map from an sfm movie before, but this is looking fantastic, as always, thanks!

Idk if this is how it works for map textures but tf2 stores specular maps (which are similar in purpose to bumpmaps) in the texture's alpha values, maybe you need to use that to get bumpmaps working?

The 'M' stood for map this whole time THAT'S THE M'ESIS BLUE

i love how fortress films were so chill about it and just gave you their assets

This is so impressive! I'd been hoping somone would do an accurate take on the 2fort section of the story and this is so cool I hope that later Scout's house, Dell's bar and especially the war room can be implemented even if they can't be worked into the gameplay. Especially the war room it was a beautiful set

when this is finished it NEEDS to be a Halloween map

i remember being like "I'm gonna try to watch emesis blue, just a bit, not sure if i have the attention span to finish it" before i knew it, it was over, that thing kept my flimsy attention span for 2 god damn hours

Great work! I'd like the camera system, it looks pretty fun and cool.

I really hope you add the extra rooms like the church and bar! They were definitely my favorite scenes in the film (:

imagine a great blue series where he covered best loadouts for each class and went into massive depth on how each weapon and item synergises with the others.

Nice idea with the hybrid ctf mode, haven't seen a map (other than Achievement maps) with it yet, can't wait to try it out, I think your map would be also cool as a zombie escape map too, like we see demo and soldier running through the rooms, collecting their guns in the arsenal or fighting while the survivors have to follow/defend them, or having with them together boss fights and next round it maybe go on with soldier or back with medic again or something like that idk :p

I love it! Amazing. Work. One suggestion though would be to have the medic’s path go first as in the movie the majority of his journey came first. Also it would be cool to see some of the 100% original rooms in the slaughterhouse, i.e the prison, but that’s extra

Wow, this looks amazing. Looking forward to it being playable! If it doesn't , at least thanks for sharing your effort. It was fun seeing your thoughts and ideas.

Still amazed by people's abilities to create such mind bending, awesome fan content for games and shows.

I hope tf2 vscript gets some tutorials soon, it would be interesting to see this map work with your balancing ideas

Blue you LEGEND

I love the idea of this channel being about maps

Was hoping the body storage area and the Dante's inferno basement area would be available in the map as escape routes. I realize that would take forever to recreate tho.

You could make the lighting even nicer by using color correction entities, it helps with a lot of the limitations that the regular lighting has

That looks like an amazing map! Good luck with it!

My guy I've been always interested in the slaughterhouse's layout, now you offered the opportunity to live the experience I can't wait to play this map

Emesis blue was so interesting i had to watch it again the amount of lore about the respawn is crazy tbh

i knew this was eventually gonna be made and u did a amazing job, tho id implore you to make a no gamemode version (trade map if you will) with maybe the subterranean area, im sure lots of server hosts would be glad

so i'm not the only one who had this idea in mind. great work! it is an amazing map!

bro keep up the good work this is awesome

the map should have one heavy that is on neither side and his only goal is to cause chaos as well as zombies

I feel like the underground part should also be added, after which the BLU have to escort the "civilian" and the briefcase to the outside.

This looks amazing. Really nice job.

Cool map dude 👍 adding the 'hell' section and the freezer room would be a nice touch

I wonder if you could add scout as like in the movie that was trapped by the conagher brothers, maybe make it like a hostage rescue or something? Would be pretty cool though..

I cant wait to see 40 engineers in the intel room here too

This is an ambitious-yet-ridiculous project even by Great Blue standards. I love it.

This is crazy! I’ve gotta go play this now if it’s out already.

Imagine if Valve adds this as an official map for Scream Fortress this year This would honestly be so fun to play in casual

It would be cool to see a standard 10v10 and see how much chaos that could happen

I love the map you did so well can't wait to try it in a server or something like that

I’m mad I’m 5 days late for this! Regardless! Incredible work on this

set it up so that capturing the ammo room opens the door to the intel. defenders spawn in the normal 2fort spawns at first, then move back to the basement resupply and blu takes their old spawns.

Have you used any post-processing effects? There's an entity for it, it will help with the dull red/blue a lot! Also, does your map have a navmesh? It could be that the skeletons just can't path properly

I would've said getting a person to help you to *maybe* attempt to get help off of a forum to help you insert those "bumpmaps," but either way, loved Emesis and loved the almost <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="61">1:1</a> recreation. You really killed it. Love your videos!

sick as hell dude looking forward to it coming public

pyro could also be on the defenders. though he might have to be melee/secondary restricted making him not all that useful.

I think you should add blood to the red spawn and try to add the actual black hearse instead of a white hl2 wreck or atleast replace it with a dark blue version

We appreciate ur effort and ur time to make this map on tf2, I hope valve add this In casual, and this gamemode is awesome.

This is just amazing, good job

Emegis blu

Wasn’t pyro also part of the enemy side?

Awesome work so far! While complex, I think a cool mechanic that would fit here would be bosses spawning like in halloween maps. Those bosses however, could be either the Mr X like heavy or the mangled scout. While they could be simple reskins of HHH or Merasmus, unique behavior would also be really neat. I think those monster encounters really could add to the horror and tension of the map, especially considering they target anyone.

i was hoping someone would do it, thanks for doing it

2fart is best map 10/10 ⭐ would play again

Pov Your Watching this in 2x

This is insane! I'll get back toit once I watch Emesis Blue

For the Zombies you could have spawned in the skeletons make them invisible who just extremely see through and opaque and have the zombie models just continuously copy the skeleton's current animation as well as its position making it seem as though the zombie is real and not just a skeleton with a costume on per say.

Guys, you gotta appriciate this map, because the making of it... It's longer than you think!

Once Long ago, when I played tf2 like every day, I had a dream that was an imaginary SMF film, it took place in, what was more or less, a modified version 2Fort Red side, currently held by Blue Team, and it was surpisingly cohesive, I wrote it down because I liked the concept and slowly itterated on it, adding bits and bobs, and adding an actuall plot, among other things. Its the dream I remember the clearest, like I remember this dream from like 6 years ago better than what I dreamed yesterday, and I still want to actually try to make it into an SFM animation, I tried learning SFM around when i actually had the dream, but uhh, my Laptop couldn't run it at any type of workable frame rate.

This is so unreal how is this so good you made the map look 99.98% like the movie map at the building

You should release it instead of tease us cause dawg this was 9 months ago and looks done in the vid ngl

you probably already tried this but does the map have a navmesh? if not it might be why the skeletons won't work

Im probably gonna check this map out soon!

Nice recreation here, should be something fun to play. :)

Emesis Blue is the greatest SFM film I have ever seen and this is an incredible project to see in the future. I hope and wish i could playtest it one day

honestly, i'm very hyped for this map, but one thing that would be really damn cool if the elevator was actually working and took you to the basement area (I'm not sure how you could implement this sorta thing, maybe use a teleport or something), which would have a control point, or maybe an intel, or something like that. but besides that I'm really hopeful to get my hands on this map soon and will be waiting for its realise eagerly

I gotta try this map for myself, it looks so cool!

finally got around to watching it, they should play this in cinemas

Just amazing work. The map doesnt need to be 100% accurate but if you want to add these well here are some i noticed from few diffrences between the shots you showed. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="430">7:10</a> - There should be bright lights coming from the fences lights <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="443">7:23</a> - Bright lights on the left lamp. Top left where the electric wire is there is an extra lamp pointed toward left spawn. On the bottom right there should be a sign "keep this doorway clear" and a blue arrow shouldnt be there but its fine to be there. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="458">7:38</a> - The upper light should be more center to the pipe and there should be some red signs on the left side of the scene near the sniper pipe. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="539">8:59</a> - There should be another barrel and a lantern on under the right stair case similar to left side. It might be already there, i cant see. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="544">9:04</a> - There should be a trail of blood to go in the elevator. with some body pieces, mayby snipers in the ground. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="563">9:23</a> - There should be few big blood splatters in the walls. The zombies il leave alone as you might do something with them but mayby you could add the Hazmat suit bodies as props in the map just for the added detail. Also a big blood mark where zombies would be with mayby just misalaneous body parts for the feel. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="606">10:06</a> - Il just skip this one, not everything needs to be 100% accurate and you already mentioned how stuff just didnt work so il skip this one, other wise it looks nice. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="638">10:38</a> - There seems to be a diffrent billboard on the left of the piano, with saxton hale on it. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="645">10:45</a>- i like this room and theres nothing to fix here but i would like a chair for someone to sit in and put some props to make it feel like someone has been there watching for hours. Buttons could be at the bottom and there could be like a legit screen but this is just for flavor and optional. This was just from the video you showed me. People would need to watch the original movie and play the level for more. Great job, i honestly thought this wouldnt be a possible thing to even do so what you have accomplished is just cheffs kiss. Keep up the good work

I literally though of this after watching EMESIS BLUE, glad to see its coming true!

This feels like a TF2 version of a UT assault map. Neat!

This will be fun to play I hope

I've been waiting for this for years... no, AGES! I'VE WANTED IT SOOO MUCH!