Change character color ..?? for the variety

[scriptowl]

Hi,

I repeated same question in two places as I dnt know from what place I'll get the correct answer. Sorry for that.

I have a character that act in my UDK game. For the re-usability I need to change the color of its shirt. That all what I need.
Can I do this in UDK. I am asking because I am not familiar with modeling stuff like 3Dmax.

Thankx

[mAlkAv!An]

Yes, you just need some kind of a texture mask for that part of your characters texture that will change it's color. In the material editor you can multiply that mask by a vector parameter that will define the color.

[scriptowl]

Yes, you just need some kind of a texture mask for that part of your characters texture that will change it's color. In the material editor you can multiply that mask by a vector parameter that will define the color.

Can you give me a reference which makes things clear of your idea?

[JessieG]

You would have to make the shirt in your main texture grayscale. Create a separate smaller black and white texture where the shirt is white and the rest of the texture is black.

In your material editor, ad a linear interpolation node (lerp) and plug the smaller black and white texture into the alpha of the lerp node. Then plug the original texture into one input slot of the lerp, and then multiply this same texture by a vector parameter node and plug the output of the multiply into the other input of the lerp node. Click on the vector parameter and in the properties on the bottom, choose a color. If the entire texture changes color except for the shirt, just switch the inputs that are in the lerp.

Now you can right click the material, make an instance of it, and in the instance change the color of the vector parameter to get the new shirt color.