Particle effects

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Particle effects are used frequently in Team Fortress 2 to serve as decoration or visual cues for various in-game events.

A detailed explanation of particle effects in general can be found on Template:W. Documentation for the Source engine's implementation can be found here.

It is important to note that an item does not have to have a particular quality for a particle effect to be attached to it.

Holy Glow

Attached to the Cheater's Lament

Community Sparkle

Attached to Community or Self-Made items.

Treasure Hat

There is no known localized name for the Treasure Hat's effect, it is attached as a new particle system defined as "coin_spin". The particles from this effect are influenced by the movement of the wearer.

Map Stamps

Attached to the World Traveler's Hat. These render similarly to the purple and green Unusual confetti effects but use stamp sprites instead.

Flying Bits

Intended to be used for rendering flames on gibs, this effect is also attached to certain Developer weapons.

Unusual effects

Unusual particle effects are particles attached to Unusual quality items.

There are 1288 possible combinations between hats and Unusual item particle effects (14 effects × 92 [current] possible unusual hats). The different particle effects are viewable in this animation, and here as they appear in-game; as well as in this video.

Currently, 25 out of 98 different hats cannot possess any of the 14 possible Unusual effects. These hats include:

Dealer's Visor Cheater's Lament Ghastly Gibus Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask Foster's Facade
Bill's Hat Max's Severed Head Alien Swarm Parasite Mann Co. Cap Treasure Hat
Ellis' Cap Wiki Cap Ghastlier Gibus Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head
Horrific Headsplitter Cadaver's Cranium Spine-Chilling Skull Voodoo Juju
Halloween Masks Saxton Hale Mask Lumbricus Lid Baseball Bill's Sports Shine
Ritzy Rick's Hair Fixative Texas Slim's Dome Shine Bounty Hat Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect

Examples