High Resolution Gates

Hey folks,

This is the very first skin I've ever released. I've done everything I can think of to make this as high a quality skin as possible but I'm still learning, so input is appreciated.

So what is this? It's a reskin for the starting gates in TF2. They're most notable for holding back the BLU team on CP and PL mapes, but they can be found all over the place. Valve for some reason left these very low resolution, which I think was a HUGE over sight considering that many players would be pressing their faces right up against the gate in order to see the enemy's movements outside, making the crappy texture pretty obvious.

So you have two versions to choose from, the Expanded Metal version and the Reinforced Glass version. The Expanded Metal version is Valves original texture, blown up to 16x it's original size and then cleaned up quite a bit. I've also made the metal slightly thinner so it's easier to see what's going on outside, and added a normal map so it shines in the light.

The Reinforced Glass version is the texture found in the 2fort respawn room (and elsewhere.) This is probably the more realistic choice as I sincerely doubt expanded metal stops bullets very well at all.

I left the guts of the gate untouched because I felt Valve did I a good job with them and needed no changing.

Thanks for looking!