Ship Camouflage mods?

[VaLKyrieR1D3r]

Any mods out there for USN and IJN camouflage? IJN never really seemed to use it as often. They could possibly be added as well.

Some good resources for this......

(IJN) https://wetherhorn.wordpress.com/home/about/about-ship-camouflage/ship-camouflage-in-ww-ii-2/japanese-ww-ii-camouflage/

(USN) https://www.shipcamouflage.com/camouflage_database.htm

Obvious problem I see is you cannot select if an individual ship can have camouflage or not, it would have to be a pack on it's own like for example "USN camo pack 1943." Hopefully Killerfish makes camouflage selection an option at some point. Would be pretty interesting.

[SeZuldaCZ]

i think, so many ships by modders can have camouflage, but if i am right(maybe not), we dont want add camouflage now (other modders who adding ships and me), maybe later

[Gooddog15]

Honestly I love to make some paint scheme mods, however there are few issues that need to be overcome:

1.) Details need to be separated into a another layer/texture
Look at the texture for the Kingfisher, [imgur.com] what do you see? Not only is there the paint scheme itself, but there are tons of tiny details all over the place. Details like rivet heads, panel lines, fake shadows, scuffs, rust, and soot bring the simple plain 3D model to life.

The issue with details? They're integrated into the same texture as the paint scheme! So if you want to make a new paint scheme or even recolor a specific part of the texture, you would have to remake all of those rivets, shadows, and soot. It's definitely possible, but it's way too time consuming, especially considering all of the ships/planes in stock WOTS.

The solutions would be either to have the details as a separate texture layered on top of the paint scheme or have KFG release the original texture files with the details contained on several layers (though the texture may have always had the details and paint scheme combined to begin with). Either solution would make the process soooooo much easier.

2.)Ability to switch/have different textures
Currently, WOTS does not support texture switching or even the capability to have alternate textures.

In order to put in a new texture into the game, you would have to replace the original texture asset bundle containing the stock texture. The obvious solutions would be to either implement support for multiple alternative textures within WOTS asset bundles (you currently can add them but the game won't do anything with it) or to support having textures as separate files (i.e .pngs outside the main texture asset bundle).

Even if we can have alternate texture files, we can't switch between them. A new button would have to be added to the ship identification and new air dialog's, allowing us to cycle between various paint schemes.

A nice additional feature I could see with texture switching though would be the ability to set specific textures for single ships and paint schemes for aircraft on specific ships/locations. That way we could represent unique differences between ships and the various squadrons that participated in operation watchtower.

[YorT]

Originally posted by Gooddog15:

Honestly I love to make some paint scheme mods, however there are few issues that need to be overcome:

1.) Details need to be separated into a another layer/texture
Look at the texture for the Kingfisher, [imgur.com] what do you see? Not only is there the paint scheme itself, but there are tons of tiny details all over the place. Details like rivet heads, panel lines, fake shadows, scuffs, rust, and soot bring the simple plain 3D model to life.

The issue with details? They're integrated into the same texture as the paint scheme! So if you want to make a new paint scheme or even recolor a specific part of the texture, you would have to remake all of those rivets, shadows, and soot. It's definitely possible, but it's way too time consuming, especially considering all of the ships/planes in stock WOTS.

The solutions would be either to have the details as a separate texture layered on top of the paint scheme or have KFG release the original texture files with the details contained on several layers (though the texture may have always had the details and paint scheme combined to begin with). Either solution would make the process soooooo much easier.

2.)Ability to switch/have different textures
Currently, WOTS does not support texture switching or even the capability to have alternate textures.

In order to put in a new texture into the game, you would have to replace the original texture asset bundle containing the stock texture. The obvious solutions would be to either implement support for multiple alternative textures within WOTS asset bundles (you currently can add them but the game won't do anything with it) or to support having textures as separate files (i.e .pngs outside the main texture asset bundle).

Even if we can have alternate texture files, we can't switch between them. A new button would have to be added to the ship identification and new air dialog's, allowing us to cycle between various paint schemes.

A nice additional feature I could see with texture switching though would be the ability to set specific textures for single ships and paint schemes for aircraft on specific ships/locations. That way we could represent unique differences between ships and the various squadrons that participated in operation watchtower.

How did you get access to the textures? And how do you re-pack it back again?

[Gooddog15]

Originally posted by YorT:

How did you get access to the textures? And how do you re-pack it back again?

I used programs like UABE [github.com] and Asset Studio [github.com] to open the Unity Asset Bundles (UAB's) that contain files like textures and 3D models. I made a guide last year detailing the process.

[YorT]

@Gooddog15 Thank You