Looks good!

Yes, it is true, there ARE already a few effects that have traits similar to this one, such as swirling/waviness, sparkles, etc.

However, the pixellation quality on this one is very good, and the colors (especially on Lucid/Nightmare) are rich.

So here is .02$ on the matter...

The aforementioned Lucid & Nightmare definitely stand out the most, with the lightning effects and the color schemes on each fitting better to what the effect is trying to represent (blue + yellow/white, a calming color scheme befitting a nice Lucid dream, and green + purple, a chaotic and more confusing color scheme befitting of a Nightmare).

Hypnagogia/Hypopompia however, there is less to differentiate between each of these. They seem like the typical throw-in color variants to appease purple lovers and (for Hypnopompia) to give the blue a red counterpart.

Their presence here hurts the set as a whole and I think it would be better that they just be removed and have it as just the Lucid/Nightmare.

I truly understand that it was an honest mistake on your end, so I take back what I said and apologize for coming off rather harsh. Your transparency to address criticism and improve upon your work is a rare mindset that many workshop creators lack, which has surprised me away. Try and don't take offence to what we say, but many us have been fed up with the past few cases being cluttered with uncreative cosmetics, unusual effects, and war paints that feels like copypastes of already existing items, and thus have a strong desire to ensure future cases doesn't continue this downhill trend.

With that said, the coloring on this effect are indeed gorgeous as others stated, and I look forward to your future submissions with said improvements applied.

this is probably getting added for the summer case this year

I appreciate that you accepted that people feel like they are similar to other effects, I still would like some of this effects colors in the game because that blue are pink are just MMMMMMMMMMM

(continued) I had taken a large break (5 years) from unusual effect creation and was not paying attention to the effects that had been added to the game during that time, so the effects that are similar, namely “Serenus Lumen”, etc., went right over my head. Either way, I wanted to acknowledge the ignorant mistake I made and apologize for not doing better research prior. I will be sure not to make this mistake again, and I appreciate you all for letting me know. Thanks!

Hey all! Thanks for your feedback thus far. I’ve noticed several of you make comments regarding the effect’s appearance, and how it looks very similar to effects that already exist within TF2. I made these effects because I was inspired by an effect that I saw while playing a different game and thought it would work well if adapted to TF2 as a hat effect. I did a brief glance at the TF2 Wiki’s Unusual Effects page before I made it and didn’t see any effects similar enough to deter me from making it, and boy was I wrong lol. I feel like this was a massive rookie mistake on my part, as I was genuinely making something that I felt looked cool and failed to investigate all the existing effects in-depth before I continued. If I had known that it was as similar as it is to other existing effects, I would not have spent the amount of time I did making it....

Serenus Lumen + Lucidation mashed together. No effort or originality whatsoever.

Serenus Lumen 2.0

Sick of getting 2 different unusual effects in each case, with 3 or 4 variants of each one that are just different colours. I miss back when the effects actually looks unique, rather than just ‘bright swirling mass of light’.

Love the lightning in Lucid and Nightmare! And the colors! Hypnopompia is such a cool name

Nightmare's colrs are actually really good, though yeah I think this effect already exists.

marty mcfly: hey i think ive seen this one

Sure these effects look like some of the other newer ones, but the colors are fucking nice, I hope this gets in the game

pretty sure we already have this exact same effect already