Radier Reform Update
I found out how to make color tattoos using LooksMenu.
An unexpected side effect is that they glow in the dark!
It does pose some problems though. Designs that work perfectly well as B&W images fuzz right up. I assume because the glow messes things up.
But then others are just fine.
And sometimes, honestly, it just seems to depend on the mood the game is in. I've seen this design render much better that this without changing a pixel in the texture.
For example:
Same tat, nothing changed, but a world of difference in readability. Not sure what the difference is. Logically I must have changed something.
I had intended to show off the color designs, but it hadn't fully sunk in how rubbish these screenshots actually were. I need to do some more work there, I think.
Just so this isn't a total waste of space, here's the out of game designs:
Prisoner: ass and mons tats. The color is a work in progress and not the one in the screenies. More muted shades tend work better, probably because they glow less. I'd sooner have them readable and non-glowing.
The breeder ones haven't really changed from the first attempt:
Laborer: The frosty effect around the text was an unexpected side effect of setting an outline color for the font. It looks nicely dramatic, but I'm not sure something with more gravitas wouldn't work better. Also, all that noise probably doesn't help with the glow overwhelming the message.
The mons brand looks good on paper, works in B&W, but the lettering gets lost in color. Maybe black text and a white outline. With a slightly chunkier font.
Next one. The glow particularly tends to overwhelm the mons detail, once again.
The Whore design seems to work fairly well still. The "Ten Caps" on the mons probably needs to be black text. Maybe with the other text in white.
Security went through a few different versions. My pretty much happy with the text now, and the design works better than most in-game. Only issue is I couldn't do camp pattern when I'm limited to one color, so I went for olive drab instead. It seems to work.
Slave is still a work in progress.
But I'm reasonably happy with it.
Is anyone actually finding this interesting? It's useful for me as a note-keeping exercise, and I'll probably keep on doing it but if no-one else is reading, I'll stop worrying so much about making it understandable to others. On the other hand, if folks are reading, I'd welcome feedback on the designs.
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