KSP 1.6 - The 'UX Rework' update

[shadowmage45]

Goals:

Clean up the user interface and fill in some of the missing features to allow for 'recoloring' to become more of a 'choose your material'. This will be accomplished through a new GUI, a new method for specifying parts to recolor, and supporting of user choice of additional per-region 'detail' textures that will be blended onto the outputs.

New Features (finished features...)

• TUPartVariant
  • Might not be able to fix icons, but if the rest works... might as well release with disclaimers.
  • Should file stock bug report
• New Recoloring UX
  • New recoloring UI - use properly built Unity GO based UI system
  • Use mouse to select part to apply colors to and/or apply colors from the GUI
• Add support for mod-specific / grouped texture set/preset color/preset material handling
  • Load data from within single mod-specific root nodes
• Preset color system reworked
  • Allow mod-specific presets. By default texture-sets will only have available the presets defined by that mod.
  • Allow multiple mod-specific groups of preset colors to be defined. Each PresetColor definition can have one (or more?) 'groupName=' and/or have specific group-definition nodes with their own name and a list of color names.
  • UI will allow for changing between the 'preset color group' currently displayed, and/or merge all available groups together for display as a single list (separators?)
  • Preset colors will also use the mod-name-prefix system if defined inside of a mod-specific root node.
• Per-recoloring-region detail map selection in UI
  • Will need multiple additional samplers for the normal maps; can use texture-arrays?
  • per-region Adjustable scaling
  • New shader keyword?

UI Details

• Create new GUI system using proper Unity UI creation (replace the immediate-mode UI)
  • Create the UI in Unity Editor, pack into asset-bundle, load into TU manually (skip stock loading), link up elements to their fields/methods.
  • Tabbed UI
  • Preset Color Selection
  • Manual Color Selection
  • Regional Detail Map Selection
  • Less of a 'per-section-list' and more of a 'set your colors, click your targets' type setup.
  • May still have a list of parts/sections on the vessel that are recolorable, but the main interface for selecting of these should be mouse-based through clicking on a part
  • e.g. while GUI is open, clicks onto the vessel will select a part.
  • Left click = select part, right click = select part + apply current colors to it?
  • Other key-cobo needed to prevent stock functions? How to play nicely with stock/other mods that use
• GUI should have 'color wheel' type selection for colors, slider for smoothness/metal values, text-input boxes for each for manual specification.

Regional Detail Map Details

• Per-recoloring-region detail map selection in UI
  • Each recoloring region (main/second/detail) can select a separate detail texture set to mix in with the existing texture
  • Will require 'detail texture masks' to determine input mixing -- alpha channel of RGB mask?
  • Will need multiple additional samplers for the normal maps; can use texture-arrays?
  • per-region Adjustable scaling? (how to pull that off?)
  • store data where?
  • Will need a full texture reference to restore the proper tex/materials, for each region
• At least normal maps
• Ideally another grayscale texture will be provided with diffuse/metal/smoothness modifications (each in one of the channels)
• Will TU ship with any of these by default? Would anyone else be able to figure out how to create them properly?

Presets System Details

• Preset Colors
  • RGB, Smoothness, Metal
• Preset Patterns
  • mostly limited to specific parts or sets of parts?
• Preset Materials?
  • Preset Color
  • Preset Detail Maps (see section above)
• Allow users to permanently save colors, patterns, material presets.
• Where to store data? Per-save, or game-wide?

UI Info

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/noesisgui-1-2-9282

[shadowmage45]

Tinting Mode

Diffuse Lum	Diff-Norm	Detail	%	User Value	Tint	GUI Correction Factor	%	%D
0.549	0.471	0.078	0.143	0.500	0.583	2.125	0.134	-0.008
0.800	0.900	-0.100	-0.125	0.500	0.500	1.250	-0.200	-0.075
0.200	0.100	0.100	0.500	0.500	0.500	5.000	0.200	-0.300
0.500	0.600	-0.100	-0.200	0.700	0.700	2.000	-0.143	0.057
0.500	0.400	0.100	0.200	0.300	0.300	2.000	0.333	0.133

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Linear Add Mode

Diffuse Lum	Diff-Norm	Detail	%	User Value	Linear Add	%	%D
0.549	0.471	0.078	0.143	0.500	0.578	0.136	-0.007
0.800	0.900	-0.100	-0.125	0.500	0.400	-0.250	-0.125
0.200	0.100	0.100	0.500	0.500	0.600	0.167	-0.333
0.500	0.600	-0.100	-0.200	0.700	0.600	-0.167	0.033
0.500	0.400	0.100	0.200	0.300	0.400	0.250	0.050

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Extract then Multiply (Current functionality)

Diffuse Lum	Diff-Norm	Detail	%	User Value	Mult Add	%	%D
0.549	0.471	0.078	0.143	0.500	0.539	0.145	0.003
0.800	0.900	-0.100	-0.125	0.500	0.450	-0.222	-0.097
0.200	0.100	0.100	0.500	0.500	0.550	0.182	-0.318
0.500	0.600	-0.100	-0.200	0.700	0.630	-0.159	0.041
0.500	0.400	0.100	0.200	0.300	0.330	0.303	0.103

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Prenormalized (proposed new functionality)

Diffuse Lum	Diff-Norm	Detail	%	User Value	Prenormalize	Detail	Total	%	%D
0.549	0.471	0.078	0.143	0.500	0.167	0.083	0.583	0.143	0.000
0.800	0.900	-0.100	-0.125	0.500	-0.111	-0.056	0.444	-0.125	0.000
0.200	0.100	0.100	0.500	0.500	1.000	0.500	1.000	0.500	0.000
0.500	0.600	-0.100	-0.200	0.700	-0.167	-0.117	0.583	-0.200	0.000
0.500	0.400	0.100	0.200	0.300	0.250	0.075	0.375	0.200	0.000

Original:

Old Recolored

Prenormalized Recolored

Old Recolored Red

Prenormalized Recolored Red

[Gordon-Dry]

Where to store data? Per-save, or game-wide?

I suggest game-wide, in a config file inside PluginData.