The Ultimate Paint and Broken Hat Textures Fix

[Egonny]

Do you care that painted hat lose much of their detail and their texture (and (some) become reflective)?

Well, care no more, because Daimao from Facepunch has been working on a new fix which improves the textures, faulty lightwarps, and more!



Edit: Don't download, Valve will be adding this fix officially next week

• Improved painting on the following all-class hats: Ghastly Gibus, Ghastlier Gibus, Spine-Chilling Skull, Voodoo Juju, Wiki Cap, Bill’s Hat.

• Improved painting on the following Scout-specific hats: Batter’s Helmet, Troublemaker’s Tossle Cap, Bonk Helmet, Ye Olde Baker Boy, Whoopee Cap, Bombing Run.

• Improved painting on the following Soldier-specific hats: Soldier’s Stash, Tyrant’s Helm, Stout Shako.

• Improved painting on the following Pyro-specific hats: Brigade Helm, Respectless Rubber Glove, Vintage Merryweather, Handyman’s Handle, Napper’s Respite.

• Improved painting on the following Demoman-specific hats: Demoman’s Fro, Glengarry Bonnet, Scotsman’s Stove Pipe, Hustler’s Hallmark, Tippler’s Tricorne, Carouser’s Capotain, Rimmed Raincatcher.

• Improved painting on the following Heavy-specific hats: Football Helmet, Officer’s Ushanka, Tough Guy’s Toque, Hound Dog, Heavy Duty Rag.

• Improved painting on the following Engineer-specific hats: Texas Ten Gallon.

• Improved painting on the following Medic-specific hats: Prussian Pickelhaube, Vintage Tyrolean, Gentleman’s Gatsby.

• Improved painting on the following Sniper-specific hats: Master’s Yellow Belt.

• Improved painting on the following Spy-specific hats: Fancy Fedora, Backbiter’s Billycock, Magistrate’s Mullet.

• Restored the Frenchman’s Beret’s color scheme and phong mask.

• Improved the Carouser’s Capotain’s original model.

• Improved the Handyman’s Handle’s original model and texture.

• Fixed issues with the Scotsman’s Skullcutter’s smoothing and the Vita-saw’s smoothing.

• Made the following items paintable: Sergeant’s Drill Hat, Pyro’s Beanie, Whiskered Gentleman, Safe’n’Sound, Trophy Belt, Frenchman’s Beret, Camera Beard, Max’s Severed Head, Alien Swarm Parasite

[FlaminSarge]

Seems to turn some of the hats white, as if painted white: Toque, Whiskered Gentleman, etc.
I have both, both look white, I didn't paint them. wut.

[Egonny]

Oh sorry, forgot to update it to v2.
Doing it right now.

[FlaminSarge]

No, that's the one I downloaded, some of my hats turned white. What...
Yes, I checked the date, and the files. The files actually HAVE the white on them, in the right places. WHAT IS THIS I DONT EVEN...

[Egonny]

OK, I think I finally have the right V2. Try it out.

Edit: It's still the same file, although I don't experience the problem you have with any of my hats.


Edit2: You can just go to C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\[your name]\team fortress 2\tf\materials\models\player\items and:
- go to the map heavy and delete all files with heavy_stocking in the name.
- go to the map pyro and delete all files with monocle_lens or monocle_whiskers in the name.

Again, sorry for the mess, this didn't happen to me, so I didn't know .

[FlaminSarge]

Nope, that V2 should fix it, I knew about the heavy_stocking files, I was just too lazy to go through all hat materials deleting those that were white.
Yay for daimao and his timely fixes! I'll check the vtf's when I get home, they should be correctly colored now in v2.
Mini tanks, egonny.

[FlaminSarge]

Ah crud, this one has white Toque too. I'll delete the white files if I can be arsed to go through them to find the white ones...

EDIT: Never mind, this seems to work o.o my moustache is no longer white.

[Egonny]

Oh btw, for the people who didn't install this yet, this community fix is gonna be officially included in the next (minor) TF2 update, which should be somewhere next week.

Edit: some hats will thanks to that be now paintable, e.g. The Whiskered Gentleman

[Egonny]

Paints got fixed, can someone close this thread?