Experimental Pearlescent/Iridescent Paint 1.3

Experimental mod that adds paint with a pearlescent/iridescent effect.
For now, this only works on vanilla cars.



The paint can be applied by selecting one of the Pearlescent Paint skins, that have been added to all vanilla cars. The different layers of the paint are fully colorable. There is a reason I marked this as experimental, as it looks better on some cars then on others (Especially round shapes will look bad, as the paint reveals the individual faces of the model).



There are two options, Standard en Repeating. The Standard option will show the 3 colors at normal camera distance, but only one color as you get further away. The Repeating option will keep showing different colors as you get further away. The video embedded below shows the difference between the two options:



Want to make a skin using this paint? You can! Just set the colorPaletteMap to one of these files:
"/vehicles/common/pearl_colorPalette_standard.color.png" for Standard.
"/vehicles/common/pearl_colorPalette_repeating.color.png" for Repeating.
If you want to upload your skin to the repo, keep in mind that users would need to download both your skin mod and my paint mod in order for it to work (It is not allowed to include my textures directly in your mod).

How does it work?
I'm using custom mipmaps, which are basically the lower quality versions of the texture. Usually they are simply the same texture, but lower resolution, so as you get further away, a lower quality texture gets loaded.
In my case, since I made custom ones, it means a completely different texture is loaded when you get further away. I'm using this to apply the 3 different paint slots, by using the texture with customs mipmaps as a colorPaletteMap.