As we saw in Captain Xavious's Ballistic Kustom. Why Not be able to color our own guns?
It won't do anything much, just make it look more Awesome.
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| Author: | SX [ Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:22 pm ] |
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As we saw in Captain Xavious's Ballistic Kustom. Why Not be able to color our own guns? It won't do anything much, just make it look more Awesome.
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| Author: | headhunter [ Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:22 pm ] |
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Yeah that would be cool. |
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| Author: | James [ Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:27 pm ] |
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you mean texture our own guns? or be able to choose from different skins? |
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| Author: | SX [ Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:12 pm ] |
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Yes James. |
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| Author: | Captain Xavious [ Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:40 pm ] |
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I wish there was an option to use different textures on a gun without having to go into code. Would definitely make things nice and simple. |
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| Author: | Bulska [ Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:59 pm ] |
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can't you make the hue of the texture change to your personal settings? That way you can give your stuff any colour, changing hue, brightness and contrast and stuff. You can already do it with the corsairs 
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| Author: | James [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:48 am ] |
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Bulska wrote: can't you make the hue of the texture change to your personal settings?
That way you can give your stuff any colour, changing hue, brightness and contrast and stuff. You can already do it with the corsairs The crosshairs aren't 3D objects that have a skin, if thats what your talking about. |
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| Author: | Captain Xavious [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:52 am ] |
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But the textured for the guns are 2D. That is more or less what I did with my textures, only I had to take it out of UEd and use a third party program to recolourize it. |
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| Author: | Bulska [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Coloring your Own Gun |
yeah thats the thing that makes this impossible sadly enough, to colorize it in extreme depths. It is possible though to choose from a variaty of colours. Although this would mean some work for the ones making this mod. |
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| Author: | Kaboodles [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:53 am ] |
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I imagine you'd need to use multiple textures on the weapons to get it to only colorize the appropriate parts. |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:01 am ] |
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That is true. The game would need some way to recognize what part to change and what part not to. This can't be easily done without multi-textures. |
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| Author: | Captain Xavious [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:16 am ] |
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I'd say the best thing to do would be to make some sort of ini or int file or whatnot, and it has a list for each weapon, that will at default list the default textures, and you can simply add more lines to expand the list of possible textures available for the gun. In game, you are given a drop down list for each texture on each weapon. The drop down list displays the textures you defined in the int file. This would be how you select the textures to use, preferably on a user defined level, so that bots can have different colours and stuff too. Random skins would be a good option too. Simply changing colours wouldn't really be enough for me. To be able to use skins that look like more beat-up weapons, or more pristine weapons, would be cool too. This idea should also carried over to the hands too. |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:23 am ] |
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I'd love a hand skin selector especially. |
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| Author: | raziel [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:41 am ] |
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Just an idea, could you make several versions of the gun, each a different color? then do it as a replace system eg a drop down box (for users) which has >normal (default) >red >blue >green >gold etc Raziel P.S as previously said I am not a modder so I do not know how hard this would be... |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:32 am ] |
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Hell no. Unless someone knows a way through code, increasing the size of the mod by dozens of MBs just for many color versions of each and every weapon skin is not a good idea. I would see the matter differently if we were talking about reskins, though. (recolor = a color overlay applied to a skin; reskin = a new skin for the same weapon made from scratch) |
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| Author: | Captain Xavious [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:49 am ] |
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Well its easy enough to recoulour the gun through image manipulation programs, making a new skin if you want it. You don't need an overlay, that wouldn't even look very good anyways. Just being able to choose new skins would give you all you want. RS guys wouldn't have to make new colours for the guns, anyone could do it within 5 five minutes and have ready to use, assuming you just simply want new colours. |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:43 am ] |
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Changing the color of a skin by hand falls under the reskin category I'd say, since the whole process isn't automatic like an overlay would be. It would look miles better doing it by hand, that is true. Humans know coolness better than software. 
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| Author: | Captain Xavious [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:53 am ] |
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By hand? What are you taling about? Just hit the Hue/Balance button and drag a slider to scale the colour. |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:37 pm ] |
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That practically has the same effect as a colored overlay would. Darker colors get less affected by the colored overlay, while brighter colors change more. In other words, the skin has it's base look while changing in color. And I don't see why anyone would want this sort of thing anyway. Like UT2004 isn't arcady enough already. |
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| Author: | Sgt. Kelly [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Coloring your Own Gun |
The original Half Life had a color system sorta like what you're suggesting. By simply moving a slider left and right, the player could retexture the multiplayer models to suit his/her needs. |
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| Author: | Captain Xavious [ Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:53 pm ] |
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I want to see a variety of textures for the guns. For example, if you are fighting in desert conditions, you'd likely have an M50 with a desert camo finish to it, as an example. And then you got those weird ones that seem to think gold plating their weapon is cool, and you could have the person whose gun was beat up badly. there's all sorts of variations besides different colours that I'd like to see. |
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| Author: | OCAdam [ Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:19 am ] |
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Have any of you actually tried to go in and change the texture around to look like camo before? it's like 4000 gradients and getting completely screwed over when that DOESN'T work (because you ran out of edit undos)! >_> |
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| Author: | Blade_{BZ} [ Sat May 31, 2008 10:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Coloring your Own Gun |
You can change the color of the BTR80v2 vehicle. http://files.filefront.com/BTR_80_v2_Fi ... einfo.html You need: http://files.filefront.com/watercraft_T ... einfo.html It might be possible to use the same coding from this mutator for the weapons. |
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