Valve basically said that they'll never add it because people may like the current textures already, which sucks

Yeah, please they look so pale without it

i needed 30 seconds to see the diffrence

There is a texture mod used by warpaint authors to make *every warpaint in the game* use albedo tinting -- this is used primarily for generating the promotional showcases for albedo-tint warpaints that use non-albedo-tint bases. It's not great for general use in-game as it makes ALL of them albedo-tint, even the ones that aren't supposed to be. It also doesn't work in casual (unless the preloading bug still works) since casual has sv_pure turned on, though it will work in many community servers.

There is another mod that turns off the sig-locking on the proto_defs file, which combined with my altered file here can make exactly these four have albedo tint and no others. This is what I used to test my changes here and generate the shots above, however not only does this mod not work on casual, you can't take it onto ANY VAC-secured server (it messes with the game's code so connecting to a VAC-secured server will catch you a swift ban).

Genuine question, is there a mod that allows you to have the albedo shines? One that also works in casual preferably (even though I'm pretty sure texture mods do not work in casual for the most part)

Doing God’s work

i love the summer 2023 war paints but this would make me love them more

@MeatwadMeatwad I kid you not they responded to some contributor with this

Valve after fucking up the implementation of a cosmetic or war paint for the 948373th time

they absolutely butchered secretly serviced yet it's still insanely popular, imagine how much better it would be if they fixed it

Valve is just gonna say "but players may like it how it already is!". Thanks for trying at least

For clarity's sake it should be mentioned that the High Roller Rocket Launcher did get it's self-illum/tint with a community fix update, but that was a Valve made skin. I do hope Valve does fix these paints, especially Secretly Serviced/Team Serviced - albedo tint is half of that paint's appeal.

I've heard that argument too, but I don't think it holds water. Valve has changed the visuals of tf2 items people paid money for many times in the past, and sometimes it wasn't even an improvement. Heck, Valve has changed the *in-game functionality* of items people have paid big money for in the past (Strange Caber and Strange Loch used to be big money before balance changes cratered their value). I don't think such a small tweak, to fix the visual back to what was intended by the warpaint's author originally, is in any way out of line nor even close to the biggest change Valve has made to items already paid for.

I've heard the argument that valve won't change shipped warpaints because it's considered to be tampering with stuff that people have already paid for. Correct me if I'm wrong but certain skins in CS:GO have gotten tweaked before, right? Though I can't recall specific examples (besides Howl which was for legal reasons of course)

I read through the comments and couldn't tell if they were saying they asked for ori lock on texture 2 and didn't get it, or if they were saying in response to the comment suggesting ori lock on texture 2 that they'd already asked for it on texture 1 (and gotten it; it's ori locked in game) but valve wasn't even fixing the albedo tint so they wouldn't bother asking.

The screenshots don't appear to be ori locked (and that's something you can fake for purposes of screenshots) so I concluded the latter.

If the author of Sky Stallion asks me to also orientation-lock the checkerboard texture in this submission, I will do it and make a patch to the submission. Short of that; I'm not going to make speculative additions beyond what I *know for sure* they wanted

Texture 2 on sky stallion is also supposed to have orientation lock

w community fix

Please Eric, Summer 2023 is the only war paint case I use

man i WISH valve woulda honored these

SECRETLY SERVICED LOOKS SO GOOD WITH ALBEDO :(

The before and after comparisons are staggering to consider how Valve not only decide to implement the War Paints in that state in the first place, but also continued to not fix them even after requests from their creators.