Weapon Upgrades

[Terath]

So I'm very new to this, but just opening the brf files in resources with openbrf i applied a uniform colour to some weapons, and imo they look amazing and took a few seconds, should i upload images or something, to show what the items can look like from this?

them being very easy to do isn't the problem here. the amount of times you'd have to do that 'very easy thing' is very, very high, considering you want to add modifiers for most craftable, high tier or other items.

on top of that, color uniform isn't very reliable. it does nothing but add a color filter on to the item, and can very easily ruin a weapon's otherwise good texture. color uniform also takes the place of the model's OpenBRF shading options, making it impossible to both have a uniform color and things like ambient occlusion or tuned colors.

that, and it would fill all of the BRF's by way too much with way too many items. people seem to forget that most items have LODs (level(s) of detail), which also take up spots in the BRF.

let's say that a weapon has the base model, and 3 LOD's, like so:

Spoiler

[Image: 2ce217d2c4.png]
[Image: a2b40e4b86.png]

this is pretty much standard. now, with 3 different recolors + those LODs, those 4 just became 16 separate model variations for 1 item.

Spoiler

[Image: e8ab4b1617.png]
[Image: 935defece7.png]

edit: this is also what color uniform looks like, albiet saturated. puts a filter on the whole thing.

see the problem? to do this to that many items and have that many models in the BRF's is downright insane. you could argue that you could make the recolors of the items use the base model's LODs, but AFAIK, that isn't possible due to how OpenBRF manages things (seeing as .lod[1,2,3, etc.] is applied through the .lod attached to the model name in openbrf and not through the actual code of the mod). you could also say to lower the amount of LODs in the game, but that would be harder on older PC's and be kinda silly to remove LODs to make room for color uniformed models.

uniform color is a nice idea, but no, wouldn't work. even if you did do all of it, I doubt it'd be brought in due to how long the load times would be and unreliability of uniform color.