i wonder if it would be possible to take chromas one step further.

Critmaster Garen·Aug 30, 2016·79 votes·2,646 views

instead of having a preset of color schemes for sale for 2k ip each (or rp when youre not buying them on sale).

would it theoretically be possible to implement something like a "chroma studio" into the game, that would let players chose their own color palettes for their skins?

the idea is, that they could chose preselected parts of the skin, like hair, base colors, secondary colors... for different parts of the skin. then chose your own colors for those parts and save the preset under a custom name to be used in game.

would that be feasable? and what might speak against it?

38 Comments

Joe ManaAug 30, 201646 votes

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General Esdeath Aug 30, 201617 votes

Shit

Legacy HydralphaAug 31, 201611 votes

Teemo Rengar Evelynn Khazix Twitch : You need a chroma to hide?

crippler38Aug 31, 20166 votes

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: You need a chroma to hide?

no Shaco , triggered.

rtbf22147970Aug 31, 201617 votes

No that's brown

theArtifactsAug 31, 20163 votes

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Picks zac Match color to SR grass Camouflage Zac!

You mean kind of like his base model minus the lighting effects? [zombie-nunu-bummed]

The LovelessAug 31, 20162 votes

This is why his base skin needs underoos to cover up his junk.

FantasySniperAug 31, 201615 votes

Boy, if I didn't know better, I'd 'ave thought you were a newbie to the LoL forums.

They're never going to do this.

Critmaster GarenAug 31, 20161 votes

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Boy, if I didn't know better, I'd 'ave thought you were a newbie to the LoL forums.

They're never going to do this.

i understand that the chances that this would become a reality is low. on the other hand its not entirely unreal if they find a way to market it, as it would probably be a popular feature.

FantasySniperAug 31, 20161 votes

It would be nice if they did, but I'm just being realistic here.

CrazFight Aug 30, 201612 votes

The dream

Will prob remain a dream, dont see riot doing this any time soon :C

Joseph GladstoneAug 30, 20162 votes

sadly

i mean if you're gonna do it, go all the way, right?

Only Play DariusAug 31, 20169 votes

It's completely feasible, but you would run into problems with people picking obnoxious neon colors as well as color combinations that can make it difficult to see champions, this happens a lot in games that give players that much control

LankPantsAug 31, 20165 votes

This can be mostly fixed by giving players an 8 bit pallet, possibly with slight modifications to chose from. For reference the old Mac pallet looked like

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Mac_16colors_palette.png

If you did that it would be harder to pick particularly obnoxious colours, as well as limiting the ability to perfectly match the background.

Zero Skill TankAug 30, 20165 votes

I don't think so. That sounds like a lot of work for a feature that is at risk of being abused in unpredictable ways (premade making a team of 5 champions with almost identical colors to confuse enemies?).

ARequestOfDeathAug 30, 20161 votes

all for one?

zero356Aug 30, 20162 votes

Kinda, but with all for one you know there all the same. The abuse here would be making the ADC harder to distinguish from the tank due to color palette, or something similar.

ARequestOfDeathAug 31, 20161 votes

here's the thing. you would have to get 2 characters with similar enough models but different roles to be on the same team.

LankPantsAug 31, 20162 votes

Amumu , Poppy , Veigar , Tristana , Lulu .

Let's go.

ItsOrvalAug 31, 20162 votes

Probably wont happen. Riot cant even fix a simple bug in less than a month, never mind them making this. I only wish that there were Chromas for all champs, and you get them free when you reach mastery 7 on your champ.

SpoofghoulAug 31, 20162 votes

Yea like down of war army painter

http://www.wgpower.net/articles/dawn/army-painter-2.jpg

ParoeAug 30, 20161 votes

theres already a custom skin editor that does exactly this. id have to find it and im pretty sure it hasnt been updated since reksai, but i know it exists.

Arcus DiabolusAug 30, 20161 votes

I would love this. I would finally be able to have my "Ragna the Bloodedge" color pallet for Riven.

We should also have the ability to change the color of effects.

Critmaster GarenAug 30, 20164 votes

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I would love this. I would finally be able to have my "Ragna the Bloodedge" color pallet for Riven.

We should also have the ability to change the color of effects.

changing particle color kinda goes beyond chromas already and could potentially mess with the readability of abilities. example in question would be project ashes hawkshot and ult, which are hard to distinguish from one another and go as far as providing a compeitive advantage due to the confusion the ability can cause.

in some cases it might be leading to people changing intentionally different colored particles on the same champion to the same color, to confuse their opponents.

because of that id like to keep the discussion strictly to recolors of champion skins.

Arcus DiabolusAug 30, 20161 votes

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changing particle color kinda goes beyond chromas already and could potentially mess with the readability of abilities. example in question would be project ashes hawkshot and ult, which are hard to distinguish from one another and go as far as providing a compeitive advantage due to the confusion the ability can cause.

in some cases it might be leading to people changing intentionally different colored particles on the same champion to the same color, to confuse their opponents.

because of that id like to keep the discussion strictly to recolors of champion skins.

Thats fair. Then I should at least be able to pick a skin to edit if that skin as the effects I'd like.

redfeenixAug 30, 20161 votes

You mean like a character creation screen, but with just colors instead of textures?

Great idea but that would take years to make and probably not worth it for them financially.

Great creative idea though !

k wìxAug 30, 20161 votes

Would pay so much for this feature, hands down.

LadyRenlyAug 30, 20161 votes

i need my hot pink skins

A LiberalAug 30, 20161 votes

This is also what I originally wanted too :(

doiminat0r3600Aug 31, 20161 votes

Maybe we could change the color of our abilities. Like green morgana would have a green W or a green spell shield.

CookyPrinceAug 31, 20161 votes

There's hardly any good colors on chromas, they really don't appeal to me so this would be a great idea.

Weiner the PoohAug 31, 20162 votes

The only good scheme is the one where MF has a very Mario-esque color palate.

Cosmic WarperAug 31, 20161 votes

Visual noise speaks against it. I'd rather not want to see a champion with 4 different color schemes of red, green, blue, yellow, violet, etc. on them. It looks terrible in game. Customized skins should never be a part of a team game, especially when it revolves around competitive aspects.

EternalShredAug 31, 20161 votes

Its easily abusable , and if Riot makes the feature only with RP , it would give an advantage to people who pay ( p2w)

TheTrueQuarianAug 31, 20161 votes

How would recoloring a champ give you an advantage?

RozairAug 31, 20161 votes

Make the champion the same texture as the ground and make all spells white

EternalShredSep 10, 20161 votes

Make the champ color like the background or make it hard 2 see

LankPantsAug 31, 20161 votes

It's theoretically possible, you could map different areas on champs as different features IE clothes and hair. Whether or not League would be compatible with this sort of feature design wise is an entirely different question, based off of how skins are currently stored (as a texture file on your PC) I doubt this could work ingame.

In order to get it to work you'd probably have to duplicate every skin texture twice and alter the duplicates to have them in a form of false colour that the game uses to identify the different areas of the skin. One of the files would be a simple black/white recolour which the game can use to identify what areas it should recolour. The other is a false colour that the game uses to find the area on the skins to recolour. The game can use areas coloured in shades of Red, Blue, Green and Yellows and Oranges to divide the skin into up to 4 separate recolourable areas.

You'd also have to make changes to the client to allow players to create these skins and changes to the game to read of the 4 hexadecimal numbers for the colours and apply them in game. Every skin you wanted to do this for would also have to be manually modified to a higher degree (although not drastically) than current Chromas, although I'd imagine into the future these modifications would just be the default for new skins.

Basically this would be a metric fuckton of work, especially when you consider that if this approach was taken players would probably expect every skin to be modifiable in this way eventually which means retrofitting over 500 skins, including bases. It is the absolute best way to handle this system and in the case of the game being remade would be a great addition, but implementing it into the game at this point in time would take a staggering amount of resources.