[Request] Exotic Weapon Shaders

[Fahr]

Like seriously.. 3 years in... no shaders for exotic weapons. We have them for exotic armors, even with ornaments, so really.. like wtf yo?
Stupidest thing is we can preview what they would look like (at least kinetic weapons) by previewing any shade5r via inventory. Som combos even look amazing... so seriously Bungie WTF you could even make money on exotic weapons just on the way some shaders look on them. I mean i cant imagine a life in D2 without Golden Trace or New Age Black Armory. You really need to finally address the shader issue with exotic weapons please.
Yes I realize I am a banned player but I rode it all out through all your changes, promoting D2 no matter what. I did cheat.. okay i admit it.. Cheaters on the steam platform angered me to a point of wanting to make them know how it feels. I am sorry i did it and wish you'd reconcider the ban. I wont do it again. But this is a serious QoL issue.

[BlueLightning]

Wrong subforum https://steamcommunity.com/app/1085660/discussions/3/

[N0REGARD4LIFE]

Exotic shaders are what we call "ornaments" unfortunately

[Ceceli Δ]

So you cheated because others cheat...? Nice reasoning, cheater.

[Fahr]

Originally posted by N0REGARD4LIFE:

Exotic shaders are what we call "ornaments" unfortunately

Wrong.. example.. Exotic Armor - Karnstein Armlets, can have ornament (from season 2) and then be shaded. While no Exotic weapons can do this..

[Fahr]

Originally posted by Ceceli:

So you cheated because others cheat...? Nice reasoning, cheater.

Yes it was dumb.. but it is what it is. I felt justified after watching others blatantly invincible for like 3 weeks straight. I felt it was payback time. But this is way off topic. The point is shading exotics, not me personally.
I made a new account and am unbroken again (legit). So its fine. Point still is... exotic weapons need shader love too.

[Uncle M]

could have been nice to have , specially with shaders being given by the shovel
by the way, i really enjoyed your project x mod

[Fahr]

Originally posted by Pontius Pilatus:

could have been nice to have , specially with shaders being given by the shovel
by the way, i really enjoyed your project x mod

Right, shades on exotic weapons just makes sense. Especially since armors can, with ornaments.
And thank you. I really tried to make Project X the best mod it could be.
(I have Project X4 now if you're interested)(Its for X4: Foundations)

[luxon001]

Originally posted by ManDaxi:

Originally posted by Pontius Pilatus:

could have been nice to have , specially with shaders being given by the shovel
by the way, i really enjoyed your project x mod

Right, shades on exotic weapons just makes sense. Especially since armors can, with ornaments.
And thank you. I really tried to make Project X the best mod it could be.
(I have Project X4 now if you're interested)(Its for X4: Foundations)

it would be nice to have that but they would probably have to retexture every exotic gun in the game for that since a lot of kinetc guns dont work perfectly with shaders and some just look stupid, arbalest per se, only the pipes change color.

A bit off topic but blast furnace becomes pitch black when you apply crucible carmine shader to it, looks like staring into a void.

[Fahr]

Originally posted by luxon001:

Originally posted by ManDaxi:

Right, shades on exotic weapons just makes sense. Especially since armors can, with ornaments.
And thank you. I really tried to make Project X the best mod it could be.
(I have Project X4 now if you're interested)(Its for X4: Foundations)

it would be nice to have that but they would probably have to retexture every exotic gun in the game for that since a lot of kinetc guns dont work perfectly with shaders and some just look stupid, arbalest per se, only the pipes change color.

A bit off topic but blast furnace becomes pitch black when you apply crucible carmine shader to it, looks like staring into a void.

Oh yeah I agree. That shader sucks for Blast Furnace.. but think about this.. Last Words shader almost goes with nothing. But.. Imagine it with Metro Shift, or Lumina with Gambit Jadestone.
So its like any other shader allowed item, gotta choose what looks good on the item.
Or hows this... New Age Black Armory on Graviton Lance? I mean some exotic weapons just have crap shaders by default, but we as players should be allowed to change that.

[luxon001]

Originally posted by ManDaxi:

Originally posted by luxon001:

it would be nice to have that but they would probably have to retexture every exotic gun in the game for that since a lot of kinetc guns dont work perfectly with shaders and some just look stupid, arbalest per se, only the pipes change color.

A bit off topic but blast furnace becomes pitch black when you apply crucible carmine shader to it, looks like staring into a void.

Oh yeah I agree. That shader sucks for Blast Furnace.. but think about this.. Last Words shader almost goes with nothing. But.. Imagine it with Metro Shift, or Lumina with Gambit Jadestone.
So its like any other shader allowed item, gotta choose what looks good on the item.
Or hows this... New Age Black Armory on Graviton Lance? I mean some exotic weapons just have crap shaders by default, but we as players should be allowed to change that.

It will take a while to retexture every exotic gun in the game, but even then its unlikely since a lot of ornaments only change the color, not even the texture of certian guns (lumina per se) and would become obselete and no one would buy them. I usually make the characters appearance to match the exotic weapon i use to compensate for it.

[Ceceli Δ]

Originally posted by ManDaxi:

Originally posted by Ceceli:

So you cheated because others cheat...? Nice reasoning, cheater.

Yes it was dumb.. but it is what it is. I felt justified after watching others blatantly invincible for like 3 weeks straight. I felt it was payback time. But this is way off topic. The point is shading exotics, not me personally.
I made a new account and am unbroken again (legit). So its fine. Point still is... exotic weapons need shader love too.

Payback? You just punished others who didn't have anything to do with you or the cheaters who wronged you. You just made the problem bigger by becoming one of them.

[Fahr]

Originally posted by luxon001:

Originally posted by ManDaxi:

Oh yeah I agree. That shader sucks for Blast Furnace.. but think about this.. Last Words shader almost goes with nothing. But.. Imagine it with Metro Shift, or Lumina with Gambit Jadestone.
So its like any other shader allowed item, gotta choose what looks good on the item.
Or hows this... New Age Black Armory on Graviton Lance? I mean some exotic weapons just have crap shaders by default, but we as players should be allowed to change that.

It will take a while to retexture every exotic gun in the game, but even then its unlikely since a lot of ornaments only change the color, not even the texture of certian guns (lumina per se) and would become obselete and no one would buy them. I usually make the characters appearance to match the exotic weapon i use to compensate for it.

Thats what I still do lol. But I've just been seeing my exotics reshaded when I preview a shader in collections. So that leads me to believe it has already been done but not given to the user via the rehade box. Like they simply haven't enabled it.
Some weapon ornaments also change the weapons primary, secondary, trim color order as well thus altering how the same shader looks because of said ornament being applied.
Idk, cause shaders are just material swaps, and from my experience with Project X you can alter the physical properties a weapon via a mod (which is what the ornament does) while still being able to apply a material swap (a skin) with no issues whasoever.
Example: Take the 10mm Pistol form FO4. You can apply a weapon skin to it in its basic form, then go to a mod station and add a silencer, all that stuff, and the skin simply applies to the newly added pieces as well. This same concept should work in D2 on weapons. You can alter the weapon all you want via ornaments, it has nothing to do with the shader in the end.

[Soundwave]

I completely agree. We are now in 2020, 3 years in and i can't believe we still haven't had the ability to reshade weapons. The skins on them aren't what makes them exotic in the first place, it is their overall design and special perks that are unique to them and we've been able to put shaders on exotic armour even with ornaments so there's no excuse. Also the fact that you can preview kinetic weapons with shaders leaves me to believe that half the work is already done and it wouldn't be impossible to implement. Already ornaments that reshade the weapons? Sell them at a reduced price before the update goes live or just get rid of them/make them free. I don't mind the ornaments that physically change the way the weapon looks and adds more stuff to it but the one's that simply change a colour shouldn't be ornaments, we should get the ability to change the colour ourselves.

There's tons of weapons that i use that don't match my armour set and it's so annoying. I can do it with my legendaries, i can do it with my exotic armour with ornaments applied but for some reason i can't make my riskrunner, sunshot or thunderlord match my armour? It's not right. I have last year's solstice of heroes warlock set in white and gold with the purple glow and i would love to make my graviton lance white to match it. It would look nice with the purple energy that flows around it. But i can't do that so i have to stick with the default skin.

This has been the elephant in the room for way too long. It's been a requested feature since launch but of all the things they have changed, we've never gotten the ability to reshade exotic weapons and they never seem to talk about it. I reckon they would actually make more money from ornaments if they had the shader system in place. There's many ornaments that physically change the look of the weapon and i think they look great but the colour doesn't match what i use. If i could actually change the colour then i would be more inclined to buy them and i think many people feel the same. I'm not willing to buy ornaments that only change the primary colour because i look at my exotic armour pieces that i can recolour even with ornaments applied and i feel like I'm being scammed by purchasing a recolour when the system to reshade should be in place for exotic weapons and should have been there years ago.

We can reshade our legendaries, we can reshade our exotic armour, we can reshade our ghost, our ship and even our sparrows. But we can't reshade the exotic weapons that we almost always have equipped and use in every activity in the game? It's about time we could.