apel8 cs2

Working today on the import_module.py for my Dark Library add-on for @Substance3D. I’ve already programmed a lot of interesting features, but hey, feel free to share your feedback. It would be genuinely useful. Two heads are better than one. (demo preview)

Substance 3D Painter artists, I need your feedback. (Pls repost and share, would help to gather more data) 1. What do you love most about the Substance Painter Shelf?; 2. What frustrates you most about it? (Yes, the preview cache); 3. What features would you love/dreaming to have in the Shelf? (I'll make it happen). //A bit of background// For the past few months, I’ve been developing a plugin for @Substance3D Painter that aims to replace the built-in Assets Shelf with a completely redesigned alternative - "Dark Library". //Motivation// For years, I’ve struggled with how uncomfy, glitchy and impractical the current library can be. At some point, I decided to fix it myself. Thankfully, Substance Painter supports Python integration. //Why you make it?// My goal is to create an asset library that is faster, more practical, more customizable, and genuinely pleasant to use, and has a more atmospheric UI, designed by artist for the artists <3. //Outro// I already designed a lot of things there, but I now I need to start slowly collecting feedback, to make it even better and not to miss anything else. So tell me everything: what works, what doesn’t, and what you’ve always wished the Shelf could do. and hey, it's still early demo, so don't hit me too hard~ luv 8

@TheDanidem hella sick Dani, ur cooking as always! luv ur work all of the time

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Long time no see! Two of my stickers made it into the Armory with this update: Dragon Fruit and Agent Kucumber. Thank you @CounterStrike! You can do this with my Dragon Fruit sticker by mixing its different scrape states. Feel free to make it flow in any direction🤙

hey. thank you all for the kind words, I don't respond much, but I see every message / interaction <3 luv FAMAS :: Snake Song Skin... - sss is now a part of the CS2. Thank you @CounterStrike devs. The inspiration comes out of the song by Bring Me The Horizon - And The Snakes Start To Sing Visually, the pattern was built around S-curves, coils, and interlacing forms because they already feel like a snake in motion. That flow sits naturally inside a traditional arabesque language, then wraps around the main character illustration. In Arabian folklore, snakes are a real warning sign - danger, caution, survival. They show up again and again in local stories, and in some Islamic tradition they can brush up against the unseen spirits (jinns), where the desert’s harsh reality meets something supernatural. created ft. master @yan_m_yanin

TEC//9 :: Sultan - is now a part of the CS2. Thank you @CounterStrike devs. Inspired by Arabesque mosaic style / Persian-Islamic ornamental style. I picked the name "Sultan" in honor of my dog, who had that name when I was a kid. Big thanks to the person <3 who decided keeping same name and memorize him, he was my best friend. created ft. genius @MORRAXVIII

@ggsarzi thank you Sara

Apel made the best arabesque skin in the entire update and no one can disagree on this. 1) it’s beautiful 2) it understands the theme 3) it feels like it was just made for our game and not an afterthought These are the three criteria that I feel make me love a skin added

ak//47 :: Consequences Of The Jinn - is now a part of the CS2. Thank you @CounterStrike devs. The idea behind this design is to show that you have to be careful with your wishes, because sometimes we ask for things we don’t fully understand and don’t realize the consequences until it’s too late. created ft. genius @yan_m_yanin

Danger Zone mode-inspired charm. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi… The design uses a few interesting texturing techniques, imitating an emissive effect with a cool glitter shine layered on top. designed for @CounterStrike

Deagle :: Shelter Walls: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi… designed for @CounterStrike

LIQUIDATOR-4: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi… My first design for the DR.BOOM charm for @CounterStrike

@Concrete_Halls @natusvincere this is impressive creativity <3

The craft that started my twitter journey two years ago. Still one of my favourites. P90 ScaraB Rush, 5x Na'Vi Paris Holos

links: IG: instagram.com/apel_8/ Steam: steamcommunity.com/id/apel8 ArtStation: artstation.com/apel8 CS2 YouTube playtests: @apel8-cs2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@apel8-cs2 YouTube music page: @Apel8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@Apel8 my music on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6k8aNIT…

@millenia3d @adc_bx hah, I have the same one. I think it's the best chair so far

@adc_bx same

james bond and i have the same chair

AK-48 :: Deimos (Δεῖμος) One of my submissions for the Spy-Tech :: Call to Arms update for Counter-Strike 2 videogame. @CounterStrike ◈ in-game video test: ◈ youtu.be/Tvx8sLRaReU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I had a lot of fun creating this design because it gave me a chance to explore a new workflow and a style I haven’t worked with much before. Experimenting with new techniques and learning something new always gives me a fresh feeling while creating - whether it’s artwork, a skin, or even music. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◈ MAIN INSPIRATIONS ◈ • Alien (1979) • RoboCop • Splinter Cell • Ghost in the Shell • Watch Dogs • The Matrix ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The goal was to blend a clean tech style with a spy / stealth aesthetic - tactical, coded, functional, and cinematic, while still leaving enough room for the player’s imagination. With a few tricks, I managed to create an animated radar that fits the game’s style without distracting or distorting the player during gameplay. I wanted it to feel like a subtle illusion element - something that quietly pushes the viewer to imagine a bit more. I treated the radar almost like its own mini skin design, building it separately from a simple base and refining it as a standalone detail. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Since this tech direction sits close to sci-fi and shares a lot of the same visual language, I decided to lean into the “Deimos” concept: a counterpart to “Phobos.” Almost like a brother from the same universe - connected by theme, but intentionally different in tone, shapes, and details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As always, thank you to Valve and the CS2 dev team for giving us this opportunity and continuing to bring fresh, interesting themes for us to create around. Having a clear theme really helps guide my thoughts and gives me more motivation to learn new things along the way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #spy #spytech #scifi #cs2 #csgo #counterstrike #CounterStrike2 #CS2Workshop #SteamWorkshop #WeaponSkin #GameArt #Cyberpunk #StealthAesthetic #TacticalDesign #AnimatedSkin #Deimos