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[MoonUnitBeta]

Please this. Please.

COMING SOMETIME IN AUGUST-ISH!

Camo/Paint and colours are something I use to take mechs out of commision (red ones), and I differentiate each mech by a different colour and camo...

I'm heavily a visual person. I learn visually, organize visually, and, as you can tell by the picture below, I like to use visuals to prove my point. Below is an image that includes a portion of my mechs and their current colours. I spent a couple hours resizing and cropping the screenshots to make this image. I left one icon to show the original.

This just would help so much if the icons display a current portrait of the mech. I don't even care if it ends up as a tick box I need to select that warns be about a reduction in performance. It'll always be checked on my computer.

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 25 June 2015 - 07:04 PM.

[Dymlos2003]

Yeah I remember Russ saying that this is coming down the line. I like the idea a lot!

[Mahnmut]

I specifically asked this questions in one of ATD's a while back and was told it was coming with UI 2.0. Too bad it wasn't in for it's launch. Who knows if they will get around to it...

[SuperBroHeroFella]

Thanks for your work OP. This would be really nice.

[Naduk]

i dont care if its portraits or full mechs
i want to see them all displayed with my paint and my designs ect
my yen-lo-wang is not red or white but the picture always is
drives me crazy and does not look cool at all
if it needs to be a static picture , then have the mechlab save one out automaticlly
if its easier to do in 3d , go with that with an option for carboard cutouts for lame pc's

[Corvus Antaka]

+1

[BillyM]

Honestly I'd prefer a text-based scroll with more information (like engine size, weapons, armor, modules, etc)

[DONTOR]

MoonUnitBeta, on 16 February 2014 - 11:53 PM, said:

Please this. Please.
Camo/Paint and colours are something I use to take mechs out of commision (red ones), and I differentiate each mech by a different colour and camo...

I'm heavily a visual person. I learn visually, organize visually, and, as you can tell by the picture below, I like to use visuals to prove my point. Below is an image that includes a portion of my mechs and their current colours. I spent a couple hours resizing and cropping the screenshots to make this image. I left one icon to show the original.

This just would help so much if the icons display a current portrait of the mech. I don't even care if it ends up as a tick box I need to select that warns be about a reduction in performance. It'll always be checked on my computer.

Do you have every color sir??

[MoonUnitBeta]

DONTOR, on 20 February 2014 - 03:17 PM, said:

Do you have every color sir??

lol no, i have a few colours. like two purple, two blue, two green, two yellows, a few reds, some browns,.

[SuperBroHeroFella]

Bump for Justice

[wickwire]

a 100 times yes!

[Myke Pantera]

Yes, oh yes!

Performance wise, this is just a single Render to Texture (RTT) Operation with a fixed camera and black background. So every time you save a mech, they would need to update the image (and store in your games user folder). From then on, they just need to use them, so no performance impact at all.

[Armament]

That looks freaking epic.

[Valten]

I vote yes with a caveat, I don't want massive portraits like you are showing, but I would like my icons to represent the equipment and colors I have on my mech.

[Chimerahawk]

Agreed, it just looks so much better in the mechlab. As-is there's no point in even having an image of the mech.

[Myke Pantera]

The Mechlab image photoshopped by MoonUnitBeta in the original post is too good to be forgotten!

Soooooooo... *bump*

Mech images that reflect the actual look of your mech, would just be fantastic. This is just cosmetic stuff i know, but for some reasons this issue is important to me.

[Kalimaster]

This is great.

[Mitsuragi]

It'd be a great help to have the camo and colors update as well as the weapon modules. I hate looking at my mechs and misidentifying them because they show a weapon that isn't really there.

[CocoaJin]

That Cicada looks like it was made from the remains of a 20th century fire truck

[Burktross]

Don't know how this got bumped, but by God it deserves it!
+All the supports