More slots for color picker custom colors

"Value" is just another word for "Hue" or the intensity of the color.

No it isn't, lol- look at the image again. 'Hue' already exists as a separate variable and is the selected colour from the spectrum. 'Value' seems to change intensity though, so you were half right- they just need to make it more obvious what it refers to.

Lol that's a durr on my part. Likely stands for Luminosity, then.

"HSV" is an industry standard: Hue Saturation Value.

However "HSB" is as well: Hue Saturation Brightness.

Keen decided on HSV.... which is less readable/understandable ... on par with them ;)

Everything is glossy or matt already depending on which artist modelled it or the texture used ( yay for inconsistency ); a slider would be interesting but that's getting a little OTT really as you can't see the texture from more than a few meters away.

Contrast on parts to make the details pop... that feels like an overall art style kind of alteration rather than something you can adjust via a slider ( like Borderlands art style for example ). I'd be surprised if that's even possible without an awful lot of work- Keen seem to be more interested in just adding plain textures that are badly implemented as they cover every inch of the block models, not just the parts that makes sense ( carbon fibre pipes... yeesh ), I doubt they'd dedicate the time to something as indepth as making certain parts of all 100+ blocks 'pop' a bit more- which wouldn't be visible from more than a meter, again...

What we've been wanting for years and would add real value to ship building are metallic colours; Gold, Silver and Copper/Bronze. Very simple, easy to implement, and would allow us to make blinged-out creations- but no, red + white stripes or blue + white stripes, that's all that Marek will allow...

Gloss/Matte can be adjusted using a texture mask effect. Really quite simple.

Same thing with Contrast. Like editing an image in photoshop.

With these filters you could make any kind of shiny metal color. Gold, Silver, Sapphire, Ruby, FireRed, LeafGreen, etc.

Make washed out drab colors for military vessels, shiny neon colors for commercial transports. It'll be perfect.

That's DLC; I and several others were asking for metallic colours / a better colour pallet for YEARS and Marek just used it as another excuse for selling DLC. Armour skins and patterns are one thing, but basic metallic colours being added to the game so we can build things to actually look like they're made of metal and not some dull grey alternative? Nope, that was too much to expect apparently- that costs extra, GG.

You are confusing "Color". Are you sure you know what you are asking for? What you describe is wanting more "texture or surface" materials... because you can already setup ANY "Color" you want right now.

However without the texture normals to give a sheen or reflection, then its just a color.

It would have been nice of them to make the "Silver" and "Gold" textures, colorable. Then you could come up with a color to apply what looks like bronze, brass, polished aluminum, and the sort.

Spare me your semantics, Frigidman, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Still, you can have any color you want. Frigidman has a point: your complaint is about the unavailability of textures. (And no, it isn't merely an issue of semantics; the difference is significant.) Textures don't affect game play, so Keen is playing by the rules that they established: DLC will only ever consist of cosmetic items.

Personally, I too would prefer armor "skins" not be locked behind DLC, because (presumably) that would mean that modders could add additional skins. But since they are DLC, we cannot. So I agree, it sucks.

Regardless, your postscript (and related discussion) is complaining that a cosmetic item is locked behind DLC. That is not a valid complaint.

The body of your original issue report, I fully agree with. It would be fantastic if there were several additional rows for colors. There is a "palette" mod out there that provides the ability to save and store different color configurations. I haven't used it yet, but it's a great idea. I'd love for Keen to implement something like that.

Nice of a Spammer to show up.

Keen still needs to add a way to 'report post'.

Yeah, I was looking for a way to do that. Or report the account. Couldn't find a way to do either. Looks like Kuame Mcguire is another spammer account.

And another spammer. Wonder when a "Report Spam" button will ever show up on this forum.

Keen literally don't give a shit about anything we say, unless it's to help the game/give them DLC ideas. They have no one keeping an eye on the site for technical issues or spammers, racist abuse, troll comments, arguments etc etc.

Only way I've managed to get any kind of reaction out of them was to send an email and even then they just shrugged their shoulders and did nothing to help when I had an issue with someone ( re: adding an option to change speed measurement units which resulted in a massive argument, for some reason ).