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Titanium Tank Chromatic Cardioid 2020 paint images

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Gabrielwoj (talkcontribs)

Hi. Are you sure the "Titanium Tank Chromatic Cardioid 2020" paint variants are correct? Extract the .vmt files from TF2's .gcf again, and check if the "$color2" is different than "$colortint_base". If it is, you must copy the value from "$colortint_base" and paste on "$color2". Remember, TF2 only reads "$colortint_base" in-game, never "$color2".

If the .vmt does not have a "$colortint_base" but has a "$color2", you must remove the "$color2" line entirely. TF2 doesn't read "$color2", but a material doesn't necessarily need to use "$colortint_base". Most of the time, items without "$colortint_base" are part of cosmetics that are not paintable.

I believe that the "Titanium Tank Chromatic Cardioid 2020" metal and reflection materials are "vmtname_1.vmt" and the paintable part (the heart) is "vmtname.vmt".

Seederat (talkcontribs)

I just extracted it again and both "$colortint_base" and "$color2" are 255 255 255. Am I misunderstanding something? I'm not sure what you mean by that last line. The material folder "robotarm_donator_rainbow" has only one .vmt file - "robotarm_donator_rainbow.vmt". There is no "robotarm_donator_rainbow_1.vmt".

Gabrielwoj (talkcontribs)

Hmm, I decided to investigate and noticed that the "Titanium Tank Chromatic Cardioid 2020" is in fact paintable on the items_game.txt, despite the exact model from the previous campaign/year not being paintable (Madness vs Machines Boundless Heart 2019). This is likely an error that slipped through with Ctrl+C + Ctrl+V from all other medals for Titanium Tank, because all the other ones are in fact paintable and don't look strange like Chromatic Cardioid does.

I checked the .vmts and in fact both values are the same. I changed the $color2 tint and got the same results as your paint variants. This wasn't supposed to be a paintable item. The reason why I asked you and was wondering that it was some sort of problem, is because how "poorly" the paint looks in this item. I wanted to check in-game, but it seems that medals doesn't appear on itemtest. So... I extracted the model, but was unable to load on itemtest (good ol' TF2).

Most of the time (if not all the time), unpaintable items have the value 255 255 255 on $colortint_base, which is yet another clue that shows that the item wasn't supposed to be paintable.

Well, Valve messed this one up (not surprising). I'm sorry for wasting your time on this.