Paint Can
| Paint Can | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Released: | September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update) |
| Availability: | Drop, Purchase or Uncrate (bonus) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | No |
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Paint Can |
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| “ | See? Red! Oh, wait... that's blood.
Click to listen
— The Soldier on paint misunderstanding
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The Paint Can is a tool item that allows players to change the coloring of most cosmetic 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 certain Mann Co. Supply Crates, using a Mann Co. Painting Set, received as a bonus item when opening cases, or acquired through either the Trading or Steam Community Market systems.
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 switches 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 is not returned to the player.
Certain community medals have custom paint colors that are automatically applied through the item schema, which display a colored splat when viewed in the backpack and loadout screens, identical to the ones that appear when using a Paint Can. These medals can still be painted with Paint Cans, if the option is supported. Restoring a re-painted medal will revert it back to its originally applied custom paint colors, removing only the applied Paint Can's colors; the custom colors applied through the item schema cannot be removed.
The Mann Co. Painting Set can be used to receive up to three single-color paints.
Contents
Demonstration
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).
List of unpaintable items
The following cosmetic items cannot have paint applied to them using Paint Cans. Template:Unpaintable items list
Colors
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| Picture | Name | Color | Availability | Picture | Name | Color | Availability |
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A Color Similar to Slate | HEX #2F4F4F
RGB 47 79 79 |
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Indubitably Green | HEX #729E42
RGB 114 158 66 |
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A Deep Commitment to Purple | HEX #7D4071
RGB 125 64 113 |
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Mann Co. Orange | HEX #CF7336
RGB 207 115 54 |
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A Distinctive Lack of Hue | HEX #141414
RGB 20 20 20 |
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Muskelmannbraun | HEX #A57545
RGB 165 117 69 |
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A Mann's Mint | HEX #BCDDB3
RGB 188 221 179 |
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Noble Hatter's Violet | HEX #51384A
RGB 81 56 74 |
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After Eight | HEX #2D2D24
RGB 45 45 36 |
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Peculiarly Drab Tincture | HEX #C5AF91
RGB 197 175 145 |
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Aged Moustache Grey | HEX #7E7E7E
RGB 126 126 126 |
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Pink as Hell | HEX #FF69B4
RGB 255 105 180 |
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An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | HEX #E6E6E6
RGB 230 230 230 |
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Radigan Conagher Brown | HEX #694D3A
RGB 105 77 58 |
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Australium Gold | HEX #E7B53B
RGB 231 181 59 |
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The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | HEX #32CD32
RGB 50 205 50 |
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Color No. 216-190-216 | HEX #D8BED8
RGB 216 190 216 |
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The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants | HEX #F0E68C
RGB 240 230 140 |
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Dark Salmon Injustice | HEX #E9967A
RGB 233 150 122 |
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Ye Olde Rustic Colour | HEX #7C6C57
RGB 124 108 87 |
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Drably Olive | HEX #808000
RGB 128 128 0 |
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Zepheniah's Greed | HEX #424F3B
RGB 66 79 59 |
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| Team colors | |||||||
| Picture | Name | Color | Availability | Picture | Name | Color | Availability |
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An Air of Debonair | HEX #654740
RGB 101 71 64 |
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Team Spirit | HEX #B8383B
RGB 184 56 59 |
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| HEX #28394D
RGB 40 57 77 |
HEX #5885A2
RGB 88 133 162 | ||||||
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Balaclavas Are Forever | HEX #3B1F23
RGB 59 31 35 |
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The Value of Teamwork | HEX #803020
RGB 128 48 32 |
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| HEX #18233D
RGB 24 35 61 |
HEX #256D8D
RGB 37 109 141 | ||||||
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Cream Spirit | HEX #C36C2D
RGB 195 108 45 |
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Waterlogged Lab Coat | HEX #A89A8C
RGB 168 154 140 |
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| HEX #B88035
RGB 184 128 53 |
HEX #839FA3
RGB 131 159 163 | ||||||
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Operator's Overalls | HEX #483838
RGB 72 56 56 |
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RGB 56 66 72 | |||||||
Drop
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 feature.
- 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 not being able to see the correct colors for painted hats when running with DX8.
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.
- Fixed paint can icons not showing the Red/Blue colors correctly.
- Fixed confirm dialog showing the error model for some items when using paint cans.
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 cosmetic, 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
- In late 2010, Valve had entertained the idea of extending the Paint Can feature to weapons.[1]
- The "216-190-216" paint is a reference to the RGB representation of the hue.
- 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 team-colored parts of the class icons, while "Cream Spirit" is based on the orange and yellow coloring on the class icons.
- "Balaclavas Are Forever" is a reference to the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever. A balaclava is the type of mask the Spy wears.
- The backpack image for the brown paint can (which can be seen on Mann Co. Catalog) is a screenshot of a brown paint can model. The model was not distributed in the VPK, yet the textures are present.
- The paint Zepheniah's Greed is referencing the rich Zepheniah Mann, father of Redmond and Blutarch, the owners of teams RED and BLU, respectively.
- The paint After Eight is based on the brand of after dinner mint-fondant-filled chocolate-thins called After Eight. The paint hue is identical to the hue of the wrappers for these chocolates. After Eight chocolates were designed for eating after dinner, hence the After Eight (P.M.) name.
- A Mann's Mint is presumably also based on After Eight Chocolates.
Gallery
Single color paints
In-game paint display for An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge
In-game paint display for Color No. 216-190-216
In-game paint display for Peculiarly Drab Tincture
In-game paint display for Aged Moustache Grey
In-game paint display for A Distinctive Lack of Hue
In-game paint display for After Eight
In-game paint display for Radigan Conagher Brown
In-game paint display for Ye Olde Rustic Colour
In-game paint display for Muskelmannbraun
In-game paint display for Mann Co. Orange
In-game paint display for Australium Gold
In-game paint display for The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
In-game paint display for Dark Salmon Injustice
In-game paint display for Pink as Hell
In-game paint display for A Deep Commitment to Purple
In-game paint display for Noble Hatter's Violet
In-game paint display for A Color Similar to Slate
In-game paint display for Zepheniah's Greed
In-game paint display for Drably Olive
In-game paint display for Indubitably Green
In-game paint display for The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime
In-game paint display for A Mann's Mint
Team color paints
In-game paint display for An Air of Debonair
In-game paint display for Balaclavas Are Forever
In-game paint display for Cream Spirit
In-game paint display for Operator's Overalls
In-game paint display for Team Spirit
In-game paint display for The Value of Teamwork
In-game paint display for Waterlogged Lab Coat
Community medal custom colors
In-game paint display used for the Titanium Tank Gilded Giver 2020
In-game paint display used for the Starched Silliness Curious Carbon 2021
In-game paint display used for the Hexadecimal Horrors Moonlit Magnate 2021
In-game paint display used for the Binary Blackout Juvenile's Jade 2021
In-game paint display used for the Binary Blackout Marvellous Moonstone 2021
In-game paint display used for the Peculiar Pandemonium Tungsten Robot of Leaded Lunacy
In-game paint display used for the Peculiar Pandemonium Luxurious Lepidolite
In-game paint display used for the Peculiar Pandemonium Mesmerizing Morganite
In-game paint display used for the Peculiar Pandemonium Pink Diamond
In-game paint display for donor medals used in Operation Rewired Rampage
In-game paint display used for the Rewired Rampage Reverse-Engineered Ruby
In-game paint display used for the Anniversary Annihilation Soul-Binding Star 2022
In-game paint display used for the Anniversary Annihilation Caregiving Corundum 2022
In-game paint display used for the Anniversary Annihilation Heroistic Heart 2022
In-game paint display used for the Anniversary Annihilation Dastardly Diamond 2022
In-game paint display used for the Holographic Harvest Haunted Scrap Canteen 2022
In-game paint display used for the Holographic Harvest Carbon Compassion 2022
In-game paint display used for the Holographic Harvest Zebra Zirconia 2022
In-game paint display used for the Holographic Harvest Lahsuniya Ratna 2022
In-game paint display used for the Last Laugh Copper Chicanery 2023
In-game paint display used for the Last Laugh Happy Spud 2023
In-game paint display used for the Last Laugh Bruised Johnstone 2023
In-game paint display used for the Last Laugh Alluring Artifact 2023
Other
Paint Can texture found in the game's files.
See also
- Color themes:
References
- ↑ "Email From Robin - Painting Weapons in the Future (Provided That We Want It)", Steam Users' Forums post by Pebr, October 1, 2010.
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