When @black picture first showed me this technique that he accidentally discovered a few weeks ago that you could change decal colorization, my mind was blown. I'm more than appreciative of the amount of work the team put into fleshing out the trick as much as possible but a few people can only go so far and I'm REALLY excited to see the crazy things that people come up with. I still jaw drop at some of the crazier ideas and this trick will bring a ton of maps to life. Seeing Virgil on urban maps, seeing varied graffiti, having animated signs for navigation, of course believable and functional water, I can't begin to explain how anxious I am to see this effect used by some of the top notch forgers out there.

Huge bow to the team and the work they put into this. I'm infinitely proud of them.

So you said to have the dark side of the decal face outwards, but on glacier I can't tell the difference between the sides, so my question being: "when in forge having the decal selected, one side turns completely solid yellow, which side is that? The side you want facing out or towards the block?

@Given To Fly Captain punch answered your question over here but for others that missed it, you want the yellow highlight side to face the light source. Look forward to what you do with it Given!

7:40 in he says black force & creative picture, lol!

It's very object and lighting heavy if yout trying to cover lots of ground no?

If anyone needs help please let me know!!!! Thanks @a Chunk for the post!!

@Soldat Du Chene Yeah, the decals are rather small, so you end up needing a lot of objects to cover big ground.

This makes blood splatter for infection maps really easy!!

I'm having an issue with colorizing decals. I had them working in forge, but once I go into custom games they just turn white, and oddly, once they turn white in customs, I load up forge and they are white there to. Only way I get them to work is by flipping them in a 360 motion, but then the cycle just repeats itself. Can someone help?

Which decal pieces are you using? This trick seems to only work for certain decals, and not others.

Currently I am using:
Warzone 16x16,
UNSC Star 12x16,
UNSC Skull 8x10,
Strongholds 16x16

As I said, these work in forge until I load up a custom games. Then it just turns white. I thought this was an issue with the white lights I had in front of the decals, however, even when I take them away, it's still the same, just with a very ugly pixelated light around the decals XD
PS: If the quotes don't work properly, sorry I haven't used Threads in years DX

@THE DEADNAUT deadnaut . add me on xbox live and msg me and ill take a look. GT - Black Picture

Cheers dude, appreciate it, I'll be in touch soon It's like 10 to 7 in the morning and I haven't slept yet. Pumping out a map update haha. But I'll message you when I'm free, and awake lol