Hey guys,

I wanted to ask, if anybody knows, how you achieve something like a character creator which let's you pick a color to dye predefined textures as seen in many MMORPGs or singleplayer games with a character creator in it.

I wanted to create something similar for coloring your character to your needs especially for picking the eye color, the hair color, and 3 main colors for the whole body that effect the outfit of the character.

I hope someone can help me with that, because I don't even know if it's a shader operation or if it can be done with 3DGS itself. I tried to achieve something like that with diffuse or emissive colors, but the results were poor. I need to change the colors of the texture itself on runtime.

Here's an example of what i mean



Thanks for you replies in advance,

Roxas

first of all:
Your Character needs to be created out of different models

Means 1 model for hair, one for body, one for armory..etc
Now you can play with the ent.red/green/blue values, and ent_morph. That´s the easiest way.

Better way: a shader wich changes the textur hue by using ent.skillXX-ZZ as rgb values for skillAA as Skin_id

or using one big texture containing all hair textures, and shifting uv coordinates to predefined positions by ent_getvertx/ent_setvertex.

Thanks you two! Well the fact about using different models for hair, body, armory even faces was familiar to me ^^.

I'll give it a shot with the ent.red, green, blue values, but I think I might have tried that out before.. I'll just try it again.

But the better suggestion - using a shader - sounds better to me and more like that what I want to create. Do you have a simple example for something like that? or a link to a tutorial for shader programming to achieve that effect? I just searched in the forum and wiki and didn't find anything that suits this.

And thanks for your suggestion sivan, if Espers approach is getting to complicated I'll just stick to a predefined amount of hair colors and use your suggestion. that sounds about the easiest method.

Thank you for your replies. Please let me know if you find something like a tutorial for the shader mentioned by Esper.

Thanks
Roxas