STICKER CREATION GUIDE

UnWear Strength

$UnWearStrength 0.1 By default, stickers wear evenly across their surface. However some parts of the sticker are more visually important, so they need to remain recognizable even after heavy wear and tear.

To define these important areas, paint values greater than 30 (out of 255) into the alpha channel, like the example below.



You can define how strongly the wear effect is undone by adjusting $unwearstrength in the material, which defaults to 0.1, or a 10% influence of your painted value on the wear amount.

Color-Replace Stickers

$DecalStyle 2
$ColorTint color
$ColorTint2 color
$ColorTint3 color
$ColorTint4 color

Color replace stickers use a mask texture so they can be re-colorized in nearly infinite combinations. One way to think about how the tint colors are combined is to imagine the texture as a series of layers applied in order from bottom to top:



The image starts with a base color defined by $ColorTint. The first layer (RED mask channel) can change that base color into $ColorTint2. The second layer (GREEN mask channel) can change anything underneath it to $ColorTint3. The top layer (BLUE mask channel) changes anything underneath it to $ColorTint4.



All sticker styles (including color-replace stickers) support UnWearStrength in their alpha channel to preserve important areas of the sticker image.

WeaponDecal
{
    $DECALSTYLE 2 //color-replace sticker style
    $basetexture models\weapons\customization\stickers\examples\ct_logo
    $colortint "[ 12 16 19 ]"
    $colortint2 "[ 32 43 50 ]"
    $colortint3 "[ 91 114 131 ]"
    $colortint4 "[ 141 155 165 ]"
    $unwearstrength 0.2
    $envmap "env_cubemap"
    $envmaptint "[ .07 .07 .07 ]"
    $phong 1
    $phongexponent	2
    $phongfresnelranges "[ .2 .5 1 ]"
    $phongalbedotint 1.0
    $phongboost 1.0
    $phongalbedoboost 10.0	
}
                            

Holographic Stickers

$DecalStyle 3
$HoloMask texturepath
$HoloSpectrum texturepath

Holographic stickers are standard paper-backed stickers that use two additional textures to create a holographic light warping effect:


The $holomask texture defines what holographic effects are applied to certain parts of the sticker:



The $holomask RED channel masks what areas of the basetexture have holographic effects applied. Areas not included in this channel will use the basetexture color instead, as if those areas were still part of a regular paper-backed sticker.



The $holomask GREEN channel defines a warp pattern that will offset the horizonal sampling position from the HoloSpectrum texture. Note how the spectrum color distortion follows the information in this channel:



The $holomask BLUE channel defines the vertical offset read from the HoloSpectrum texture. This can be used to create custom tinting or other special spectrum-based effects. Note how the lower areas of the spectrum texture feature desaturated regions. The whiter this $holomask BLUE channel, the lower the color drawn from the spectrum. This allows some areas of the hologram to feature different colors, hues, or saturation.



The $holospectrum texture defines the color of the light warping effect at different viewing angles. You can either reference the default spectrum in a new holographic sticker material, or create a new one if you need custom color effects.

WeaponDecal
{	
    $DECALSTYLE 3 //hologram
    $basetexture models\weapons\customization\stickers\examples\bish
    $holomask models\weapons\customization\stickers\examples\bish_holomask
    $holospectrum models\weapons\customization\stickers\default\holowarp_default
    $unwearstrength 0.1
    $envmap "env_cubemap"
    $envmaptint "[ .07 .07 .07 ]"
    $phong 1
    $phongexponent	2
    $phongfresnelranges "[ .2 .5 1 ]"
    $phongalbedotint 1.0
    $phongboost 1.0
    $phongalbedoboost 10.0
}