Freighter colour issue

[Gurith]

Hello,

I am still quite new to the game but I have seen video indicating you could change the freigher colour. So I decided to not waster hours finding the exact model shape and colour I wanted but just focus on shape.
No I have unlocked the color and applied it but the "head/cockpit" still keeps the old colour patern that makes it uggly.

Is there any way to fully change the color?

[Knottypine]

I don't think you can change those colours around the bridge area, as I believe that colour is based on the home seed of a freighter and is not changed when customizing, at least from my experience. AFAIK.

Also, changing colours can be finicky. I had found the perfect style of freighter for myself after some searching. Later on when it came time to customize once I unlocked all the colours, only 1 out of the 3 colour areas worked. Number 1 appeared to only change the stripes and cargo pods. Number 2 and 3 appeared to make no changes to my freighter, so the main hull was forever black.

I decided to cheat it a bit and found another seed of my exact freighter and swapped it out. I was then able to change the main hull colour on that one which made it odd my first one couldn't change. Colours 1 and 2 appeared to work as intended, while number 3 still makes unnoticeable changes.

[Knottypine]

Originally posted by JJ Idaho:

FYI if you get a freighter/capital ship that's main body part is black, the color will never be changeable.

Black freighters are bugged. most black freighters aren't even supposed to be that color, but for some reason 60% of all freighters are 'bugged to black'. And if you get really close, you see glitchy green patches all mixed in with the black, that's how you know it's bugged black and not real black.

Good to know. That's how my original freighter looked. It had those glitchy green patterns you mentioned. Thankfully I found a seed that matched my exact freighter, only it had different default colours and allowed me to change the main colour. I just updated the seed with the save editor.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

The freighter color deal is pretty bad. Depending on the choices you pick it can be almost undetectable that you changed anything. Go for garish reds and golds if you want to see a change.

The bottom line is even if you change the color you will end up in systems with unique color filters which will negate your choices and what was red may now look purple or black until you leave that system.