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Proof of concept only. No sharing.

I just wanted to show you that the color of the Star Trek Fleet Command TOS era Starfleet female uniform dress can be changed. The bump, light, and shader maps can handle all of the wrinkles, seams, and such, which means you can use a small (4x4 pixel) regular color tile for the uniform color. Reduce those other maps down to a more reasonable 512x512 or even 256x256 - in other words reworking them Yakuza series style - and you've just saved a lot of texture mapping memory right there. Far better for XPS use (wink). I'm going to need to separate out the collar so it won't change when the dress color changes, but that's not hard to do. The division badge will have to be separated out too so it won't get overwritten by the dress color change. That will also make it easier to swap out as needed to match the color change for the different service divisions and such. Rank stripes will be a different can of worms that I'll probably have to handle Poser style or something like that.

Of course I can always make a separate complete dress texture for each rank and division and not have to change out everything, but that's a lot of separate textures to create. Working with individual parts is easier.

FYI my custom Janice is wearing dark panty hose, as do all of my STNV Starfleet ladies. That's why her legs are almost as dark as Uhura's STFC model, and have more of a sheen to them than do her's.

Still a work-in-progress ....

Description

Proof of concept only. No sharing.

I just wanted to show you that the color of the Star Trek Fleet Command TOS era Starfleet female uniform dress can be changed. The bump, light, and shader maps can handle all of the wrinkles, seams, and such, which means you can use a small (4x4 pixel) regular color tile for the uniform color. Reduce those other maps down to a more reasonable 512x512 or even 256x256 - in other words reworking them Yakuza series style - and you've just saved a lot of texture mapping memory right there. Far better for XPS use (wink). I'm going to need to separate out the collar so it won't change when the dress color changes, but that's not hard to do. The division badge will have to be separated out too so it won't get overwritten by the dress color change. That will also make it easier to swap out as needed to match the color change for the different service divisions and such. Rank stripes will be a different can of worms that I'll probably have to handle Poser style or something like that.

Of course I can always make a separate complete dress texture for each rank and division and not have to change out everything, but that's a lot of separate textures to create. Working with individual parts is easier.

FYI my custom Janice is wearing dark panty hose, as do all of my STNV Starfleet ladies. That's why her legs are almost as dark as Uhura's STFC model, and have more of a sheen to them than do her's.

Still a work-in-progress ....