CaS improvement suggestions by Klimat (Part 1):
1). CaS item coloring systems can use a revision to make sure every item can be fully recolored. Currently most items can be fully recolored, but there are some exceptions to this rule where parts of items are either stuck with an unchangeable color, either with an unchangeable detailed texture.
1-A). A good example of an item impossible to fully recolor is 2B’s dress. Here it is fully recolored white by me:
(despite the full recoloring on my part, I’m still stuck with black/gray stockings, laces and boot soles. Possible solutions to allow full recoloring would be to either add more recoloring slots on top of maximum of 4 that we have right now, either to group unrecolorable areas of the item together with one of the recoloreble areas (like grouping stockings, laces and boot soles all together with sleeve feathers on 2B’s dress).
CaS improvement suggestions by Klimat (Part 2):
1-B). Good examples of items with unchangeable detailed textures are most of Mi-na’s clothes like Seong Shawl right here fully recolored white by me:
(despite the full recoloring on my part, I’m still stuck with gold ornaments and red/pink/green flowers, which significantly limits the usefulness of the item for custom characters). My proposed solution for such cases is to have two versions of the same item: one with pre-built textures and one that is the same model, but with flat untextured surfaces instead.
CaS improvement suggestions by Klimat (Part 3):
2). Another area to improve is the ability to apply patterns to parts of items. It is a great powerful feature, but currently there are some artificial limitations on it that I would like to see removed. For example, it is possible to recolor hair and hair gear (hair ribbons and such), but for some reason it is impossible to apply patterns to both (not being able to texture hair ribbons hurts me the most). The most self-contradictive example is Angel Wigs. If you create a Lost Soul (Winged) character that comes with Angel Wings by default, those wings will be recolorable, but impossible to apply patterns to. On the other hand, if you create a regular human and add the very same Angel Wings manually from the items menu, suddenly you can apply patterns to them no problem. My proposed solution: if something can be recolored, just allow to add patterns to it no exceptions. Get rid of all (or at least most of) the artificial limits.
Bug report:
1). Groh’s “Let order seep into your soul” win pose has no lip animation, Groh just speaks with his mouth shut.
2). Some CaS poses are broken when it comes to characters interacting with their weapons: CaS characters with Nightmare’s style can’t hold their weapons properly during one of the win animations (the one where they hold a weapon right in front), CaS characters with Kilik’s style can’t hold their weapons properly on a loading screen before a battle.
