AV - Structures vs Living things

UncleCrunch

Hi,

I which for an Alien Vision that has 2 different colors :

-1 for structures (Electric Blue or Cobalt)
-1 for marines but not Exo as it is a metal structure after all (Orange or red)

The logic behind is:
-Walls are cold
-Structures are a little warm as they are active
-Marines are hot (especially female) as they run all over the map.

In a base full of structure is it sometimes hard to make the difference between marines and structures. That would be a improvement IMO to be able to clearly see the difference.

If possible let alien structure stay warm as these are living things after all. That would add a little level of difficulty for alien as a counter.
That would make a balance like this:
-Alien see better in Marine base.
-Marine can hide better in hives.

The change (on the balance perimeter) would be of a little magnitude as :
-Marine aren't Ninja-ing in hives all the time.
-Skulks aren't rushing base all the time either. And everybody still can distinguish 2 different shapes like Crag-vs-Marine

BeigeAlert

The way the game works now I don't think this is possible. See what the shader is given to distinguish between environment and buildings/players/etc is one value. Environment is 0, everything else is 1. Until that changes, there's no way for the shader to distinguish between these different types.

UncleCrunch

0, 1, ok... It's a variable
value = 2; can't be a big headache.

SamusDroid

It's actually really easy to do but it would require that you modify materials of pretty much every material file for Alien and Marine model to have a certain highlight amount for what you want the highlight to be and then modifying AV to highlight depending on what the depth would be. highlight is a material parameter between 0 and 1. Just be careful because setting highlight to anything below 0.5 will cause decals to be projected onto it.