Another Texture layer please.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Perhaps I haven't had enough coffee yet (it's not even noon yet here), but I'm still not understanding exactly what he's proposing. Any chance you could clear it up for me? From my understanding, to make multiple pattern layers work, you'd have to rework the existing patterns to incorporate transparency.

The original post kind of jumps around, so I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the suggestion is to add another pattern layer to each costume piece so we could stack patterns on top of each other.

Now, I don't believe you need to worry about transparency, as the way this has always worked wherever I've seen it is basically on a stencil principle - the top pattern just overrides the bottom pattern in any place they overlap. I don't know what it would take for our system to be able to do this, but I agree with the general statement - this would allow a LOT more creativity in the long run.

An easy example of this is Need For Speed: Underground, where you could have I believe three layers of "vinyls," which looked to be pretty much the same kind of pattern we use here. I'd usually go with one full-body pattern, then lay two different flames overtop each other for a more elaborate effect, and it would look pretty dang cool. There's a LOT of potential for even better designs here if this were possible.

Personally, though, what I'd REALLY like to see is the technology to apply one texture over another based on a given pattern. For instance, say you want to apply Tech Crey over Lizard Skin using the Tanker pattern. That way, you would have the Tech Crey texture restricted to the shape of the Tanker pattern, and everything else would be lizard skin. The effect of this would be chest armour with fleshy arms sticking out the side. I'm sure this is a massive technical challenge, however.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.