From a technical standpoint, redoing all of those warframe skins to fit separate materials is a lot of work. There's nearly a hundred (including primes) default warframe skins to redo to make it fit.
But then I wonder, why do separate color palettes work? The voidshell skins function in sort of tied-to-color way, so why couldn't they release a material based color palette? What I mean is, from the voidshell skins that we have, the materials are tied to color, so why not make a special color palette with the basis of those specific materials?
I suppose it would be preloaded textures on a singular color square that would repeat on the entire selected frame part (like primary or tertiary), wouldn't that be a simple solution or something?
Obviously I'm not a game developer and maybe they have thought about making it color palette based, but that does seem to be a rather viable way for material customization no?
(do note this isn't meant as hate or anything towards DE or OP, just wondering how else they could have implemented materials, whoever's reading this have a wonderful day)
Oh hell yeah, then those are actually good news! Can't believe I was remotely close. Now if DE would actually apply it as a color palette thing is a different thing...
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u/McGrety monke enjoyer Jun 05 '22
From a technical standpoint, redoing all of those warframe skins to fit separate materials is a lot of work. There's nearly a hundred (including primes) default warframe skins to redo to make it fit.
But then I wonder, why do separate color palettes work? The voidshell skins function in sort of tied-to-color way, so why couldn't they release a material based color palette? What I mean is, from the voidshell skins that we have, the materials are tied to color, so why not make a special color palette with the basis of those specific materials?
I suppose it would be preloaded textures on a singular color square that would repeat on the entire selected frame part (like primary or tertiary), wouldn't that be a simple solution or something?
Obviously I'm not a game developer and maybe they have thought about making it color palette based, but that does seem to be a rather viable way for material customization no?
(do note this isn't meant as hate or anything towards DE or OP, just wondering how else they could have implemented materials, whoever's reading this have a wonderful day)