Why cant i color all the parts of my warframes

[Gersolov]

i have most of the color pallets, and i like to color my warframes different colors, but there are some parts that stay the base colors even when i have changed all the available settings, i would like to control all the colors on my warframe.

[Diamser]

Out of interest which Warframes have uncolourable spots as I dont think I have noticed any

[Gersolov]

i know that and that's the problem, i want to color those parts too. there is also the parts that have some color that mixes with whatever you put there , like my Octavia, when i paint her all black some parts show up silver, i don't want them silver tha'ts why i bought black.

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[Bluemenkranz]

Originally posted by Diamser:

Out of interest which Warframes have uncolourable spots as I dont think I have noticed any

None that I can recall, but some of the older primes have very different setups colour wise, like the metallics on the Soma Prime aren't actually the accents as the norm, also a weird greenish gold

[Watermelons]

Originally posted by Diamser:

Out of interest which Warframes have uncolourable spots as I dont think I have noticed any

Sections of Ivara's default skin I think has a permanent layer of grey.

[Bluemenkranz]

Originally posted by Something Something Watermelons:

Originally posted by Diamser:

Out of interest which Warframes have uncolourable spots as I dont think I have noticed any

Sections of Ivara's default skin I think has a permanent layer of grey.

Oh yeah... The weird fading grey parts of her torso & legs. That irks me to no end but I dont play her enough to bother buying some nice tennogen

[Gersolov]

valkyr and inaros also have them, valkyrs arm things and inaros has gray parts you cant change.

[CazadorDeLobo]

If I cant change the parts I wanna change I stick an attachment on or relent and pick a matching theme. I also dont mind using bright tertiaries or accents instead of bright primaries.

Purple for loife

[Shufflecat]

Mag's arm rings stay a metallic dark grey no matter what colors I use. Excal's skin/muscle between the armor plates on the torso and legs are uncolorable as well (the shoulder area is, but below the pec area it becomes a different color zone despite appearing to be a continuation of the same tissue).

I've also noticed some frames/items have zones which are colorable, but have a heavy built in light/dark or saturation bias, making it impossible to color match with them. If you paint them orange, they look brown, paint them light blue and they look dark blue, etc. This has on at least one occasion prevented me from buying a cosmetic item I wanted, because I discovered It was impossible to make it match the frame I wanted it for.

There's also a lot of attachments & syandana that have their color zones jumbled or flipped compared to the frames, so the secondary color slot actually colors what you'd intuatively think is the main, and tertiary colors accents (REALLY noticable when the accents are metallic) and so on. Not as much of an issue on ones that are basically just capes or scarves, but on the hard-shell ones that look like they're supposed to be part of the frame (like Surator or Jattuk) it's kind of annoying. It makes "copy main colors" half useless, as you have to manually re-pick all the colors to get them in their proper places.

I could swear there was a time when weapon energy color effected the muzzle flash and projectile color, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, which is a little disappointing. I discovered that because I went to recolor my Rubico's energy when I respecced it as a radiation weapon. I wanted Cherenkov blue muzzle flashes and projectiles... but they stayed yellow.

[Gersolov]

one of hydroids colors is actually affected by 2 of the selections allowing you to blend them, i hope they do decide to revamp the customization stuff.