http://huds.tf/forum/showthread.php?tid=135

Acting like TF2C hasn't always been cancer, and the admins haven't always been ignorant fucktards.

Isn't that what the ban posts are for? They ban several people in a WAVE similar to how vac does it instead of 1 x 1. It doesn't matter whether they are high-profile or not, they are ETF2L members and they are treated equally when they get caught hacking - they get banned.

All I see are 'muricans.

That thread is some top notch trolling right there.

"Valve should be so lucky as to get ahold of someone like me who knows the engine and its limitations as well as I do. The fact that I am not showered with gratuity and given instant admin abiliy globally on all Skial servers is a slap in the face to me, and now makes you my enemy, sadly. Oh well."

http://teamfortress.tv/thread/16179/no-hats-mod/?page=5#141

Skial Thundermountain EU, #Never4get

Exactly. The scene has been alive for years, what makes people think that just because Valve is now able to support CS:GO and Dota 2 that it needs to reciprocate for TF2? CS:S was a competitive community for a long time without having money injected into it by Valve, and even TF2 will never get as huge as something like LoL doesn't mean it has to.

TF2 is not dead, players at the top leave all the time, they get replaced. Supporters of the scene that leave will get replaced. The scene will only truly die when that stops being the case.

EOTL? MORE HATS? HOORAY FOR LARGE HARD DRIVES!

I honestly have no idea. I'm not sure how viable that is to achieve because if I recall correctly all the particles are stored in .pcf groups? I don't know whether it would a) be possible to viably edit the particles manually and b) get this to work with sv_pure.

Really though, I haven't got a clue and would need someone with more knowledge of the inner workings of the game to confirm, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

EDIT: And if you wanted and were willing to brainstorm it yourself, I would suggest opening a new thread in order to keep things on topic.

I... No, I don't have the patience.

Making specific edits to the no hats mod isn't actually very difficult if you know what you're looking for. For example, myself and a friend of mine have gotten really annoyed with the stupid floating items that can often get in the way of aim and be distracting. I initially posted on this thread but being a good friend of Harbis I just asked him how to do it instead.

Seeing as there has been a recent influx of specific removal requests, instead of individually creating a subset of the mod for each user, I'll just give a broad overview on how to achieve your desired effects yourself, and thankfully Jusey1, no coding is necessary.

Here goes.

First off, if you haven't already, you're going to want to have GCFScape installed. I'm not going to guide you through the installation process but it's fairly straightforward.

Next, you're going to want to download the latest version of Harbls' strand of the no hats mod. This concludes the prerequisites for creating your own sub set of the mod.

Now, open the .vpk file in GCFScape (Ctrl+O and click on the no hats mod .vpk file). Right click on "root" and click "Extract". Choose the location you would like extract this directory to. Don't worry too much about the filesize, it's super small (just like Harbls' harbls).

Now that the .vpk's contents are extracted, you can close GCFScape. Now comes the fun part - choosing which hats you would like to keep (leave in the game) and those that you wish to remove (not be able to see in the game). You might want to create a backup of this root folder before you begin because it will save time re-extracting the main .vpk if you mess up.

Here's how the process works: if you delete a folder such as "root\models\workshop\player\items\all_class\etf2l_highlander_open_participant" then the model will be VISIBLE IN GAME. Leaving the folder in the root will REMOVE IT FROM THE GAME. This is because the files in the root folder are blank model and texture files, overwriting the main game installation's version of the files when you load up the game.
If I delete "root\models\workshop\player\items\all_class\etf2l_highlander_open_participant" I will be able to see the ETF2L HLO Participant medal when my buddy bobmus wears that thing with pride.

So, what about the things I don't want to see?

Say for example, I don't want to see Ivan the Inedible? I would make sure to leave "root\models\workshop\player\items\heavy\hw2013_ivan_the_inedible\" INTACT IN THE FOLDER.

Fairly straightforward, huh?

In this case, yes, as the name of the item closely matches its filepath (as most of the new items will) but older cosmetic items don't quite follow a standardised pattern. What the hell is "root\models\player\items\heavy\hat_third.dx90.vtx" and do I want to see it ingame or not?

That is the issue with us creating specific mods to random people. You're going to have to figure out ON YOUR OWN what to leave in and what not to.

In this particular instance, this is fairly easy: Most of the Halloween cosmetics start with "hw" and then the year of the even the were released, so they're pretty simple to spot. No guarantees that they're all labelled this way though.

So once you have decided on your hat choices, what next? Why, testing it ingame of course!

First, you're going to want to package it up just like how we started - turning it into a .vpk file. Rename "root" to something a little easier to recognise (eg. "yourname_somehats") and open a Windows Explorer window. Navigate to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin" or similar, depending on where your TF2 installation is located and scroll down until you find "vpk.exe".

Drag your "yourname_somehats" over "vpk.exe" and you'll find a yourname_somehats.vpk has been created where the folder is. This is the file you'll be copying into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom" (again, change accordingly) and you're good to go!

Hope this helps.

Try downloading the latest version of HUDAS from the website: http://hudas.kinevonetwork.com/

Managed to miss out an Engineer floaty, latest release here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqy1wa0rt69mtzs/oxonofloatymod10-11-2014.vpk?dl=0

Only the floaty things are removed by my mod. I like hats, I personally just think the floaty things behind people get in the way. If you're looking to remove all hats, Harbls' version of the mod will work just fine.