color and texture question

[Bromius]

I wish they would update our color options and textures and shapes its been way too long since it was updated

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

What do you mean?
They went from the old meshes to HDR meshes in A18, that's all you'll get.

[Aesir]

Originally posted by ⚜ JOST AMMAN ⚜:

What do you mean?
They went from the old meshes to HDR meshes in A18, that's all you'll get.

I'm thinking that OP is talking about the paint options we have for colors and textures when painting. I'm also thinking that shapes refers to block shape options when building.

Assuming this is what OP is referring to... I agree that it would be very nice to have more options when painting.

[Teresa]

block shapes for building is updated in a 20 so every shape available is available in all materials.

[Aesir]

Originally posted by Teresa:

block shapes for building is updated in a 20 so every shape available is available in all materials.

That's right... I'd forgotten about that coming up in A20. Thanks for reminding me Teresa.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Oh. I get it now.

^What Teresa says^

[SylenThunder]

I'm hoping they'll expand the paintbrush texture pallet as well, but only time will tell.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

I hope the texture pallet will be made moddable before release.
Imagine the possibilities!

[Crater Creator]

A limiting factor for paintable textures is that they’re all in one big texture atlas. The whole atlas has to be loaded all the time, no matter how many textures are actually visible in the scene. So as I understand it, one can’t just add more texture options without increasing texture memory requirements.

However, I keep noticing how many of the textures we have are just tinted versions of another texture. For example, there’s a corrugated metal roof texture that comes in a beige, green, blue, and orange variant. It works well enough, but could this be implemented more efficiently? Instead of taking up the space of four textures in the atlas, I would think there could be one base version in the atlas, and then the game could apply any number of tints to it after the fact, similar to how dye mods work.

This could save the space of something like twenty textures. The artists could then use those savings to make new textures, increasing the variety available without increasing texture memory requirements. I’ve proposed this on the official forum, as it seems to me like the way to get more textures that’s actually viable.