Multicolor Texture setup.

Incomitatum

I am trying to wrap my head around this. I want to create a texture that contains come details and colors, highlights, and shading, but if a programmer changes the underlying object color then large portions of the texture will change color but retain their shading.

Think of a game where you can dye portions of your armor. I think this means I need to create an overlay of some kind, but I am not sure how to make it work? Do I identify the portions that can have custom colors on an alpha map?

Any help conceptualizing this is appreciated.

((Side note , but not worth a whole thread))

Does anyone know off the cuff what the average tri count is on an animal crossing character?

Steve Schulze

Could you use vertex colouring? That would seem to be the easiest solution.

Rick Stirling

You can use multiplacative mode colouring in code.

Take a base texture, and use the alpha channel to mask areas that you want recoloured - white=100% colour, black=0$. That way you can not only mark the areas you want to change, but have fade in/out.

Incomitatum

Thank you for that, I will pass it on to our XNA coder guy. The first real application of this is going to be letting the player choose from 5 different skin tones, rather than have another texture for each one, we would like to set that on the model, and have the texture handle highlights, and baked shadows. We'll have to play with it some, but you have given me (us) a start.

Thank you again.

Mark Dygert

Yup. I think that's how they handled custom armor in Dawn of War also.