Are there any plans to allow custom coloring to our ships using RGB sliders on various layers / channels of the default ship 'skins'?asked by Dimachaerus

Daniel Kamensky: So, right now we actually have our 'shears' set up so you can, theoretically, tint stuff with the diffused channel, specular channel, so we can do really big, significant material changes and colour changes, but it's yet to be implemented in programming, and a lot of the older ships that have yet to be updated with physically accurate textures still need to be brought to that system. But once it's all brought into place, you should be able to take like, the M50 for example, and make it black, or you have a Constellation, you want it blue, you should be able to do that. it's still yet to be pushed through design, but I think it's definitely a possibility.

Would you say it's a lot like buying a car? The question's a lot like buying a car, right> This person wants full control of, full RGB control, but as a manufacturer and the artist for the style guide, you'd want to limit the range. Can you talk a little bit about that, plus also the various material types? Gloss vs. Pearl and so on?

So, it's a little bit complicated with physically accurate textures, and you do want to keep design consistency throughout your game, like, it'll be a little distracting if someone flew through the Universe with a pink Retaliator that'd be weird, but what we'd probably end up doing is giving you different surfacing types, and different gloss values maybe, different colour values as little swatches you could see. Almost as if you've ever looked at car paint. They have orbs that you can see the surface on before you get your car coated, and you know, you probably will see your ship, and we'll give you a really wide range, so it's not like we're limiting you too too much, but you know, I don't want pink Retaliators in our universe.