The Poolside Polo, California Cap and the Soda Specs were all added in the Summer 2020 Pack and I'll bet (unless you already know how to do this) you won't find these items if you try to add them using the Add Team Fortress Items function in SFM like this...


So, why can I do this and you can't?

Well the secret is knowing what file needs to be copied from the TF2 Game folders and where to place it in the SFM file structure.
Also, you have to have the TF2 game cache files extracted and ported to SFM if you're looking for new items.

SFM hasn't been updated since 2015, so anything added to TF2 since then isn't included in the file we're going to replace either and we're going to fix that now.

Open a Window File Explorer session
Go to the folder where you have Team Fortress 2 installed and find the

Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\scripts\items

Folder

There you find a file named Items_game.txt.

Select it and press Ctrl+C to copy it to your Clipboard


Now go to the folder where you have SFM installed and find the

SourceFilmmaker\game\tf\scripts\items

Folder
Yes this is the TF game folder that comes with SFM and yes, we keep telling you not to mess with files in these folders, but this is an exception if you want this to work!!!

Press Ctrl+V to paste and replace the items_game.txt file found in that folder.


(If you're paranoid that this is going to break things, rename the existing/original items_game.txt to something else like I did in the picture then paste the copied version into the folder.)

NOTES:

This Item Picker may not find the newer AllClass items or the various items that have different styles when you look for them, the coding for these items are different from what SFM actually looks for and if you can't find them in the Item Picker after completing the process, they will have to be found and loaded manually the old way.

If TF2 Updates with new items, you'll have to do the process again to get those new items.

If you uninstall and reinstall SFM, or validate the SFM Local game cache files, the copied version of the Items_game.txt from TF2 is going to be overwritten by the version that ships with SFM and you're going to lose the functionality of finding the newer items.

Just follow the process again to get the newer items back.

ALSO, this process is not going to fix paintable textures that are broken when used in SFM. You're still going to have to edit the materials or texture files to fix them.

That's IT!! Open SFM, load a TF2 Character and try it out.