[mod resource] Skin and Hair Palettes

[bobbily]

Due to some issues with unintentional smurfs and orcs I recently took a deep dive into how the game processes skin/hair/eye colours.  As part of that I read through the base ethnicity files and made a map of every point on the hair and skin colour palettes that are accessed by the game code.

 

Skin:

Hair:

 

The base game is pretty bland for both of these, so I also modified the base palettes to put in some colour gradients.  They're not perfect, but I think this will allow a modder to make almost any skin/hair colour they could want.

 

Since only one palette can be in use at a time I'm putting this all here, to hopefully avoid conflicts between all our mods.  Let me know what you think, and if these gradients should be updated with any other colours.

hair_palette.dds skin_palette.dds Reserved Palatte Positions - Copy.xlsx

[bobbily]

Skin palette tweaked. 

 

I moved the gradients to the bottom left. That area has more room, and seems less likely to conflict with other mods.

skin_palette.dds

[gefga]

if i was to make this into a mod how would i go about it?

[bobbily]

You need a descriptor/.mod file and the palettes, all in their appropriate folders.  That's it.

[HD_HD]

Can you make for the eyes aswell? or teach me how to do?

[getpr0n]

On 4/16/2022 at 2:03 PM, bobbily said:

You need a descriptor/.mod file and the palettes, all in their appropriate folders.  That's it.

 

Here's a standalone mod with just the palettes if anyone else is interested in messing around with it. Thank you @bobbily, I'm surprised there aren't more mods for this.

Simple Palette Mod.zip