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Discussion in 'Troubleshooting: Bugs, Questions and Support' started by msurf15, Apr 20, 2014.

  1. msurf15

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    I know how to make a car a different color and whatnot but I want to know if a matte color could be ummmmmm idk possible
     
    #1 msurf15, Apr 20, 2014
  2. IBsenoj

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    Yeah I've wondered this too. anyone gotta answer??

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    #2 IBsenoj, Apr 20, 2014
  3. RedBolide

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    While not perfect, you can make the paint look matte by disabling the cubemap in the vehicle's material file. The pictures below show the Bolide in a purple color. As you can see, the color looks a lot brighter without the cubemap. You can't really make dark matte colors like black or olive. It's much better for lighter colors.

    With cubemap enabled
    screenshot_00002.jpg

    With cubemap removed
    screenshot_00001.jpg
     
    #3 RedBolide, Apr 20, 2014
  4. Narwhal

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    cant you edit the .dds of the car and instead of having a color that is slightly transparent in the .dds, make it a solid color
    like this
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    after
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    #4 Narwhal, Apr 20, 2014
  5. gabester

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    Easiest way is to just crank up the alpha on the diffuseColor[2] (the one that controls the paint color). It's the last value of the 4 in quotes. Make it 2 or something and you won't get any reflections, just matte shine. You can edit materials.cs to do this.
     
    #5 gabester, Apr 20, 2014
  6. Nadeox1

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    It's a bit annoying having to edit the material.cs everytime. I tried setting the alpha to something over 1, but doing that using the ingame material editor doesn't work. Any chance you guys are going to look at it?
     
    #6 Nadeox1, Apr 20, 2014
  7. gabester

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    Hopefully we can hack the color selector to allow for alpha values above 1, since they clearly work when manually set in materials.cs.
     
    #7 gabester, Apr 20, 2014
  8. msurf15

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    Thanks guys. . . I made the covet rally a matte pink lol.
     
    #8 msurf15, Apr 20, 2014
  9. Leet34

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    Lowered specularity would help also.
     
    #9 Leet34, Apr 22, 2014
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