Competitive Graphics (V1.1.1)

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CaptainRedstone

1.1.0 of this mod has been released! This update adds a ton of stuff and kinda brings it from a quick "nice to have" mod to an actual full overhaul mod, so a lot of things have been changed/polished/updated. I've updated the original post to show everything in greater detail, so reference that if you want a full list of changes.

Ultranova

CaptainRedstone I'm impressed! I remember when you were first toying around with this mod, I never thought it would go beyond the funny 1x2 armour roof. I can't wait to tear apart those shaders.

YAreyaREdAzE

CaptainRedstone To counter this, I wrote an entire shader system to detect and graphically (not actually) remove vantablack paint automatically.

~~and this is why we aren't friends~~

welp, off to break your shader

Atarlost

CaptainRedstone One problem with the mod some people have reported is that since backgrounds are pitch black, hacked pitch-black (or "vantablack") paint makes things extremely hard to see. To counter this, I wrote an entire shader system to detect and graphically (not actually) remove vantablack paint automatically. Any paint colors that are darker than should be possible will instead be rendered as as a slight gray checkerboard pattern. I originally wanted to use a missing texture texture, but it turns out black and bright magenta don't really help part visibility that much. Note: Due to the modified shader using screen-relative coordinates instead of ship-relative, the effect slightly breaks when viewing vantablack in the picture-in-picture. Nothing major, it's just stretched really far horizontally. I'm looking for a way to fix this, though no promises for the time being.

If you can replace true black paint shouldn't you be able to replace all paint? Forcing a bare egshell white paint job would maximize part clarity. It may be possible for a dazzle camouflage scheme in cyan and blue to obfuscate control rooms for both users of this mod and base game users simultaneously. Additionally, 50% luminosity maximum saturation basepaint in the blue-indigo range with max strength camo or rusted_metal1 texture is pretty good at obscuring armor. Forcing flat eggshell white paint would prevent any sort of obfuscatory paintjob.

CaptainRedstone

Atarlost You certainly could replace all paint with white, but I'm not as keen on basically deleting all paint, at least by default. Paint adds a lot to the game, and rarely retracts from it even in multiplayer, since camoflage paint is rarely if ever used (intentionally) anymore. If you want you can go open the replacement roof_colored.shader and adjust CUTOFF_THRESHOLD, LIGHT_GRAY, and DARK_GRAY to your liking. If a lot of people want it, I can add it as a new effect disabled by default (though it will crash if you try to use it and the current system simultaneously)

YAreyaREdAzE

CaptainRedstone the only "camo" paint i've ever seen in the last 6 months is when i made it myself, so you really don't need to worry about them yet (maybe in 1.0, though)

CaptainRedstone

Uploaded a hotfix that fixes multiplayer incompatibility (not sure how I didn't run into this during testing) and improves a couple other things.