thanks @pior i just making it up as i go along. you are right, at this stage having an actual palette texture isn't needed, i just just figured it would be the simplest thing to start with. But there is a lot of good ideas I can look at in your post too, it's a good idea to have some gradients there in the texture as well,…
Well it's a single texture for the entire game. I do have to use material instances for anything that wants something unique beyond the texture. Like for example, I have an EnemiesCommon material instance, and a lot of enemies can just use that, but if I want to tweak the tint or add an overlay or whatever on some enemy,…
I don't know if this method is good or not performance-wise; I'm assuming one gradient texture is more performant though and complex materials less so. Have you thought of assigning material instances to individual mesh components, and just using a colour vector parameter? This will allow you to change colours on the fly,…
solved - easy way in affinity photo is to open the swatches panel, then in the options you can import a palette from an image, and you can set up to a 256 color palette. So you can composite a few images together that have the colors you desire. Then just set the display size of the palette to large and screenshot the…
That's a pretty cool idea indeed, and could be a handy compromise. If anything one great side effect of this technique (as a whole) is that changing things down the line later if needed is really easy. I recently had to revamp some of my source textures in order to unify a bunch of assets (completely changing the location…
pior's examples of gradients and universal palette inspired me. Here is what I've come up with for now, it might actually just be what I stick with. Since the motivation for this isn't to fit the game onto a floppy disk, but rather just for workflow simplication, here is a texture that works pretty well and gives you most…
Well when bringing in a reference image you could for instance create little dabs where you want to extract the colors from. Overall what I am trying to get at is that going for a "real" palette directly can prevent this kind of flexibility. But that said it seems to clearly work well for you, so my point is moot really :D…
Like this for example: The only way I can see to make something like this is manually by making a lot of boxes and filling each one. There has to be a quicker way, right? There are some palette generators online but they only produce a handful at a time and seem geared towards home decor. I'd like to be able to designate a…
@pior i thought about using images directly but the only thing is that then i have to scale a uv shell down to a single pixel, otherwise I think it can pick up multiple colors? I know that I've seen you mention a workflow like this before, just wanted to explain what I am doing completely for the sake of clarification and…
@pior it's for making a texture to use for game assets. For example a 256x256 image that has X amount of unique color swatches. If you are familair with the popular Synty asset packs, I believe they do a similar thing. For a flat color art style, uv shells are just scaled way down and placed over a color swatch. If it was…