Previewing hat paints

[JLea]

Is there anyway to do this without buying the paint first? I remember someone on the steam forum saying that they were making some weapon scripts that mimicked the function. I'd do this myself, but I don't know how.

Any website with previews?

[Campin Carl]

You get a preview when you are applying the paint, then you can choose if you want to continue.

[Sauronvoldemort]

Global Agenda has a similar feature. You right click on the dye and the preview window comes up. There, you can see how the dye looks like on your current loadout.

[Simski]

[QUOTE=Rong;25192997]Global Agenda has a similar feature. You right click on the dye and the preview window comes up. There, you can see how the dye looks like on your current loadout.[/QUOTE]

But how does that help in TF2, where it seems such a feature is not available until you buy the object?

[Sauronvoldemort]

Design it so as you can pick a hat in the preview window to see how it looks.

[JLea]

i tried looking in the model in SDK, but there's no skin feature.

how does this work :S

[Kalimando]

Maybe (as suggested) it uses a script file to change only parts of the hat's colors. Which could explain why the football helmet still has a yellow stripe when colored purple.

[Gran PC]

Material proxy. :ms:

  		"ItemTintColor"
  		{
   			"resultVar" "$colortint_tmp"
  		}
  			"SelectFirstIfNonZero"
  		{
   			"srcVar1" "$colortint_tmp"
   			"srcVar2" "$colortint_base"
   			"resultVar" "$color2"
  		}

[brie_irl]

[QUOTE=bigbadbarron;25193390]Maybe (as suggested) it uses a script file to change only parts of the hat's colors. Which could explain why the football helmet still has a yellow stripe when colored purple.[/QUOTE]

No, I checked and there's actually a different skin of each color for all the different paintable hats.