Pet Colour Choice?

[Mushroom]

On the character creation screen we have a choice of face, hair and hair colour for our character, but as far as I can see from the Pax video there's no equivalent option to select a colour for your pet.

Is it too late to give each pet two or three alternate colours to choose from so that in multiplayer you have a better chance of distinguishing between pets of the same type belonging to different players?

[Rusty]

Mushroom,

I believe we talked about this at one point, and I am fairly sure it is too late at this point to add. It is possible through modding, but obviously that requires waiting for the tools.

[hawkn]

I don't think it will be in at launch, but it should be easy to mod in.

[adoomgod]

Runic hasn't replied and they said they will be working on the game thru the day it ships, so don't count this out. No point being dismissive of a feature I think everyone would enjoy.

Could a dev please give us a time estimate for how long it took to do the coloring of TL2's pets? I imagine it must be easier then creating models and animating them, but I woudlnt know. Personally I just really really want a black bulldog.

[hawkn]

As easy as opening Photoshop and messing with some sliders. The real issue would be implementing the choices - like at creation when you choose the pet's color.

[Rusty]

Yeah. They would need some sort of in menu texture manipulator. Sounds easy, but probably is not.

[Mushroom]

Yeah. They would need some sort of in menu texture manipulator. Sounds easy, but probably is not.

No they wouldn't, not if they just gave a choice of three or four pre-set colour schemes like they do for character hair. No-one is talking about over-complicating things with full-blown texture manipulators (at least, I'm not).

They already have the code for a slider bar on the UI for hair colour for the character during that part of the character generation screen, and code to choose a texture/lighting combination for the character's hair based on that slider bar. There is also a nice space on the UI during pet selection in the same place that the slider bars go during character selection.

Obviously I haven't seen inside the code for Torchlight 2, but as a professional developer myself I'd be amazed if a UI slider to select pet colour in the same way as character hair colour would involve writing new and complex code. If the existing code is competently written (and everything we have seen so far would indicate that it is more than competently written) then the coding side of things would likely involve merely re-using existing objects and not much in the way of new code.

[Acrylik]

someone'll probs make a mod for it. how else am i going to distinguish my 8 chakawarys?

[travisbaldree]

Added. Matt T put it in today. Not sliders, but you can have different skins.

[Zidders]

lol Travis, you people spoil us, you know that, right?
OF COURSE, YOU HAD TO GO AND MAKE DOOM RIGHT. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? hehe

[Risingsun]

Added. Matt T put it in today. Not sliders, but you can have different skins.

Amazing. I know one lady whose day has just been made by this announcement. Now, nothing is going to stop her from buying this on day 1.

[adoomgod]

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASIDOASHDASNOIAOSDHFADSK>F?!

BLACK?! BULL?! DOG?!

BLAAAAAAAAACK?! BULL?!?!?!?!? DOG?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I just literally flipped a table. The next time you wonderfully nice devs give me what I want I'm going to have to top my crazy reaction.

*edit* this is what i want to see photos of for the next fri-update :].

[hawkn]

Doom doesn't need photos of them, he's already seen them in the future. We need uniques!

[adoomgod]

yeah ok i admit. I've already seen the black bull-dog. SO FREAKING DOOMY.

Uniques!

Also, on a serious note.

Runic devs: Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I REALLY wanted this. It's a really nice addition that fits well in the game. My 2 requests are black bulldog and pink chakawary. Thanks again, whether or not 1 or both make it in :].

[Arkham]

Added. Matt T put it in today. Not sliders, but you can have different skins.

<333

[Jerich]

Added. Matt T put it in today. Not sliders, but you can have different skins.

Awesome! Thanks Travis:) Thanks Tiamat:)

[Zidders]

Black bulldog, huh?

I think you just gained a few Marines

Spoiler: show

[Rusty]

Awesome!! A pet color choice. You guys are amazing!!

[Webbstre]

I want my chakawary to look like yoshi!

[Mushroom]

Added. Matt T put it in today. Not sliders, but you can have different skins.

Thank you!

Did I ever tell you that you guys are great?