Paint Can
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Paint Cans are tool items that allow players to change the color scheme of hats. Not all hats are initially paintable, but are often made paintable some time after their release. Paint is available in 21 different colors, however only 13 colors are available though the Mann Co. Store. The rest of the colors may only be found via the Item Drop System or by opening various Crates. When buying hats from the Mann Co. Store, buyers may look at painted variants of the hats they wish to buy.
Hats can have their paint removed, restoring them to their original color. This can be done in the Backpack by clicking on the item in question and then clicking the Restore button. In doing so however, the Paint Can will not be returned to the player.
Valve has stated via the Steam forums that there are plans to implement painting with weapons, but current development priority rests on increased player interest. [1]
The "Team Spirit" Paint changes the painted item's color depending on the player's team. The listed price for "Team Spirit" is currently . It cannot be obtained via random drops, however it is found in Crate series #7 and #15.
The "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" Paint Cans can be found in Crate series #9. Additionally, "Pink as Hell" and "A Color Similar to Slate" can be found in series #13, "Drably Olive" and "The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime" in series #14, and "The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants" and "Dark Salmon Injustice" in series #15 Crates.
The June 23, 2011 Patch introduced 6 new "Team Spirit" style paint cans submitted by community members, in addition to making all paint cans purchasable.
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. Popular tendencies for hat coloring can also be viewed at tf2stats.net.
- 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 Spirit paint, in which both the RED and BLU versions are displayed).
A gallery of in-game pictures of hats - non-painted, painted or unusual, can be found at TF2Gallery.
Colors
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Image | Name | Color | Availability | Image | Name | Color | Availability |
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A Color Similar to Slate | #2F4F4F |
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Mann Co. Orange | #CF7336 |
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A Deep Commitment to Purple | #7D4071 |
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Muskelmannbraun | #A57545 |
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A Distinctive Lack of Hue | #141414 |
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Noble Hatter's Violet | #51384A |
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Aged Moustache Grey | #7E7E7E |
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Peculiarly Drab Tincture | #C5AF91 |
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An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | #E6E6E6 |
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Pink as Hell | #FF69B4 |
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Australium Gold | #E7B53B |
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Radigan Conagher Brown | #694D3A |
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Color No. 216-190-216 | #D8BED8 |
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The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | #32CD32 |
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Dark Salmon Injustice | #E9967A |
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The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants | #F0E68C |
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Drably Olive | #808000 |
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Ye Olde Rustic Colour | #7C6C57 |
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Indubitably Green | #729E42 |
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Zephaniah's Greed | #424F3B |
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Image | Name | Color | Availability | Image | Name | Color | Availability |
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An Air of Debonair | #654740 |
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80px | Team Spirit | #B8383B |
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#28394D | #5885A2 | ||||||
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Balaclavas are Forever | #3B1F23 |
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The Value of Teamwork | #803020 |
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#18233D | #256D8D | ||||||
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Cream Spirit | #C36C2D |
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Waterlogged Lab Coat | #A89A8C |
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#B88035 | #839FA3 | ||||||
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Operator's Overall | #483838 |
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- Notes: The availability column shows the standard conditions. Any special, time-limited promotions that may be occurring in the Mann Co. Store are not and should not be included.
Update history
- Added paint cans.
- "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" were added to the game.
- [Undocumented] Added message for DirectX 8 users on painted hats that paint will not display correctly on their system.
- Hats can now have their paint removed.
- Added Team Spirit paint.
- Fixed an issue where team-colored hats were showing up improperly when previewing the Team Spirit paint on them.
- Many hats have had their appearance while painted improved. Paintable hats should now appear less like solid blobs of color and retain more of the character and texture of the hat.
- Made the following items paintable: Sergeant's Drill Hat, Pyro's Beanie, Dangeresque, Too?, Whiskered Gentleman, Safe'n'Sound, Trophy Belt, Frenchman's Beret, Camera Beard, Max's Severed Head, Alien Swarm Parasite, Ellis' Cap, and the Horrific Headsplitter.
- [Undocumented] Added 6 new Paint colors. ("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").
- Fixed the new Shogun hats not being grayed out when paint is being used.
- Made the Blighted Beak paintable.
- Potato Hat was made paintable.
April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)
- Fixed bug where DirectX 8 users could not view painted items.
May 3, 2011 [Item schema update]
- The Hetman's Headpiece was made paintable.
- The Janissary Ketche was made paintable.
- The Conjurer's Cowl was made paintable.
- The Superfan, Essential Accessories, and Hero's Hachimaki were made paintable.
- "An Air of Debonair", "Balaclavas Are Forever", "Cream Spirit", "Operators Overalls", "The Value of Teamwork", and "Waterlogged Labcoat" were added to the game.
- [Undocumented] Fixed painted items that stay on ragdolls losing their custom color upon their owner's death.
Bugs
- Zephaniah's Greed is misspelled; it should instead say "Zepheniah's Greed".
- When using the +quickswitch command to change a users load-out, 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 (they're treated as duplicates) and just one entry appears in the +quickswitch panel.
- The preview does not allow the player to rotate the item's model.
- Some hats will return to their unpainted colors on a player's death.
- A hat painted with Team Spirit will sometimes turn RED upon falling off the player's head at death, even while on BLU team.
- Currently all hats painted with a team-colored paint will only show the RED version of the color.
- All Paint Cans added in June 23, 2011 Patch have mixed up cans on their icons: BLU paint in RED can and vice versa.
Trivia
- The "216-190-216" in the name of Color No. 216-190-216 is the RGB representation of the color.
- Muskelmannbraun is German for "Muscleman brown".
- The Über Update added several paint cans colours that were sampled off of the existing player models. The Value of Teamwork was sampled from the Medic's backpack, Water Logged Lab Coat is from the Medic's coat, Balaclavas Are Forever from the Spy's mask, An Air of Debonair sampled from the Spy's Suit, Operator's Overall was picked from the Engineer's overalls and Cream Spirit from the Engineer's hard hat.
References
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