How will customizing a new ship in the PU work? Can we configure every option before "checkout", like buying a customizable PC-or must we purchase a preconfigured model, and then buy/install all our parts separately?asked by Apollo
TL;DRThe plan is to buy a preconfigured ship from the dealer and then modify parts afterward, with basic paint schemes coming in the first release of the game mode and custom skins and decals possibly later.
The plan right now is to buy a preconfigured ship model from the dealer, then you can buy additional parts and modify/change it however you want. Also you'll be able to work on the paint schemes and decals, we're actually working on that tech right now which we'll be debuting. not in 13.2 but definitely in V1.0 of AC that allows a base paint tech that we'll use for that. You won't necessarily be able to create the scheme yourself at first, more like base colour/secondary colour etc, but later on there's potentially the support for you to do your own particular paint-job or skin, as well as placing decals. Not sure if we'll have the user's ability to change colour schemes in the first iteration of V1.0, but we'll have some different skins there to select. We're able to do this now using a second UV set, for the 3D artists out there.