Paint Can
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The Paint Can is a tool that allows players to change the coloring of most hats and Miscellaneous items. Paint Cans are available in 29 different colors, and can either be purchased from the Mann Co. Store, found via the item drop system, obtained by opening Mann Co. Supply Crates, using a Mann Co. Painting Set, or acquired through the Trading system.
Two types of Paint Cans exist; single-colored and team-colored. Items painted with single-color paints retain the appearance of one color regardless of the player's team, whereas a team-colored paint will switch between RED and BLU variant colors.
Paint can be removed from an item to restore it to its default color by selecting the item in the Backpack and clicking 'Restore'. However, the paint used on the item will not be returned to the player.
The Mann Co. Painting Set can be used to receive up to three single-color paints.
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Paintable item previews
The following pages display previews of items painted with Paint Cans. Hover over any image to display the name of the paint that was used.
- Note: Images may not exactly match the examples depicted here, as in-game lighting conditions may vary. For team-colored items, the RED model skin has been used, meaning that the painted item may appear differently when worn on the BLU team (with the exception of team-colored paints, in which both the RED and BLU versions are displayed).
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List of unpaintable items
The following hats and misc cannot apply painted with Paint Cans.
Colors
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| Picture | Name | Color | Availability | Picture | Name | Color | Availability |
| | A Color Similar to Slate | #2F4F4F |
| | Indubitably Green | #729E42 |
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| | A Deep Commitment to Purple | #7D4071 |
| | Mann Co. Orange | #CF7336 |
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| | A Distinctive Lack of Hue | #141414 |
| | Muskelmannbraun | #A57545 |
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| | A Mann's Mint | #BCDDB3 |
| | Noble Hatter's Violet | #51384A |
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| | After Eight | #2D2D24 |
| | Peculiarly Drab Tincture | #C5AF91 |
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| | Aged Moustache Grey | #7E7E7E |
| | Pink as Hell | #FF69B4 |
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| | An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | #E6E6E6 |
| | Radigan Conagher Brown | #694D3A |
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| | Australium Gold | #E7B53B |
| | The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | #32CD32 |
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| | Color No. 216-190-216 | #D8BED8 |
| | The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants | #F0E68C |
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| | Dark Salmon Injustice | #E9967A |
| | Ye Olde Rustic Colour | #7C6C57 |
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| | Drably Olive | #808000 |
| | Zepheniah's Greed | #424F3B |
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| Team colors | |||||||
| Picture | Name | Color | Availability | Picture | Name | Color | Availability |
| | An Air of Debonair | #654740 |
| | Team Spirit | #B8383B |
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| #28394D | #5885A2 | ||||||
| | Balaclavas Are Forever | #3B1F23 |
| | The Value of Teamwork | #803020 |
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| #18233D | #256D8D | ||||||
| | Cream Spirit | #C36C2D |
| | Waterlogged Lab Coat | #A89A8C |
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| #B88035 | #839FA3 | ||||||
| | Operator's Overalls | #483838 |
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| #384248 | |||||||
Video Demonstration
Update history
- Added paints: A Deep Commitment to Purple, Aged Moustache Grey, Australium Gold, Color No. 216-190-216, Indubitably Green, Mann Co. Orange, Muskelmannbraun, Noble Hatter's Violet, Peculiarly Drab Tincture, Radigan Conagher Brown, Ye Olde Rustic Colour, Zephaniah's Greed, An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge, and A Distinctive Lack of Hue.
- [Undocumented] Added message for DirectX 8 users on painted hats that paint will not display correctly on their system.
- Added Remove Paint features.
- Added paint: Team Spirit.
- Fixed an issue where team-colored hats were showing up improperly when previewing the Team Spirit paint on them.
- [Undocumented] Added paints: Pink as Hell, A Color Similar to Slate, Drably Olive, The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime, The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants and Dark Salmon Injustice .
April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)
- Fixed bug where DirectX 8 users could not view painted items.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- Added paints: An Air of Debonair, Balaclavas Are Forever, Cream Spirit, Operators Overalls, The Value of Teamwork, and Waterlogged Lab Coat.
- [Undocumented] Fixed painted items that stay on ragdolls losing their custom color upon their owner's death.
- Fixed a problem with team paints not being displayed properly when playing.
July 1, 2011 [Item schema update]
- Changed spelling of Zephaniah's Greed to Zepheniah's Greed.
- Fixed a display issue with team color paints.
- Fixed a problem with the application of team-colored paints.
- Fixed a bug that caused team color paints to appear to be coming out of the wrong cans for the store icons.
- Fixed paint preview not working for Mann Co. Store items.
- Fixed a bug that would cause some Team Spirit painted hats to show as black-painted in the Steam Community.
- Fixed Mann Co. Store item previews for paints.
- Updated item descriptions to contain the name of the paint used to color them.
- [Undocumented] Added paints: A Mann's Mint and After Eight.
- Fixed team paint previews not showing the colors in the backpack/store icons.
- [Undocumented] Added Mann Co. Painting Set.
- Fixed custom paint not showing in the tool tip when you mouse-over an item in your backpack.
- [Undocumented] Added A Mann's Mint and After Eight to the Mann Co. Store.
Bugs
- When using the +quickswitch command to change a user's loadout, painted items are not differentiated from regular items; this means that if a user has multiple painted variants of the same hat, all the variants are ignored (+quickswitch only shows one entry per item to prevent duplicates taking excessive space) and just one entry appears in the +quickswitch panel.
Trivia
- The "216-190-216" paint is a reference to the RGB representation of the color.
- Muskelmannbraun is the German word for "muscleman brown".
- The Über Update added several Paint Can colors that were sampled from the existing player models. "The Value of Teamwork" was sampled from the cross on the Medic's backpack, "Waterlogged Lab Coat" from the Medic's coat, "Balaclavas Are Forever" from the Spy's mask, "An Air of Debonair" from the Spy's suit, and "Operator's Overalls" from the Engineer's overalls.
- "Team Spirit" is based on the coloring of the icons of the Class badges, while "Cream Spirit" is based on the Engineer's hard hat and glove.
- "Balaclavas Are Forever" is a reference to the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever. A balaclava is the type of mask the Spy wears.
Gallery
Single color paints
Team color paints
External links
- TF2Gallery – Online gallery showing in-game pictures of painted, non-painted, and unusual items
- http://tf2stats.net/paints/ – TF2Stats Listing displaying paint statistics per item.
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