Material Colorsets (Dawntrail)
A general understanding of UV Maps and Exporting/Importing with Penumbra is assumed for this page.
Disclaimer: I still don't quite understand the duel colorsets in dawntrail. So this guide is mainly making the colorsets work the way they did pre-dawntrail.
The Basics
Colorset information is stored on the red and green channel of the _id texture for a given gear item.
To assign different parts of the UV map to different colorset rows, those areas should be colored with different shades of gray.
See the following page for a breakdown of how these colors work.
Adding Colorset Information
Start by exporting the _id texture or just creating a new 1024x1024 texture in a photo editing tool like Photoshop or Photopea.
Next we need to figure out what areas of the texture control different parts of our gear item. For this example I'm going to use a hoodie pack I made with the following texture mapping setup.
Next we need to understand a little about how the color we are using relates to the colorset channels. Remember that a color hex value is 6 digits where the first two are red and the second two are green, we will always be setting the last two to 00 for this guide.
Here is what hex values control which rows in the colorset. So for example if we change the value in the red channel, values 00 to 77 will control colorsets 1 to 8 and 88 to FF will control colorsets 9 to 16. For the green channel, 00 will tell the material to use row B and FF will tell the material to use row A.
| Row | Hex Value |
|---|---|
| 1 | 00 |
| 2 | 11 |
| 3 | 22 |
| 4 | 33 |
| 5 | 44 |
| 6 | 55 |
| 7 | 66 |
| 8 | 77 |
| 9 | 88 |
| 10 | 99 |
| 11 | AA |
| 12 | BB |
| 13 | CC |
| 14 | DD |
| 15 | EE |
| 16 | FF |
For example if we set the color to #770000 this would make whatever area of the texture we paint be controlled by colorset row 8B in the material. Whereas if we used the color #77FF00 it would make that area be controlled by 8A.
At the time of writing this. I don't actually understand how colorset rows 9-16 work as they seem to blend the colors different than the first 8 rows.
Lets start with a texture colored completely with #770000. This will make the whole gear item change color with colorset 8B.
Now using this knowledge we can color different parts of this texture we will end up with the following setup.
And in game that will do this. (reference the UV map above to see how these divisions were determined)
