New colors (and more!) v3.29

Today's update includes something I've been meaning to add for ages!!

The original default paint colors have been slowly added to one-by-one ever since the game was first released, and have never gotten a real clean-up.
For example, the choices of greens and browns have been incredibly limited, so 90% of maps all use the same shade of green. Well that's finally going to change!

This update completely re-does all of default colors, and adds tons of new useful color ranges and pallets that the game desperately needed.

But that's not all though!

This update also adds a bunch of quality-of-life changes which include:

a new "unlit transparent" material painter
"alpha cutout" material for mods
copy & paste buttons for all text input boxes
the option to copy & paste tags between mods
Ability to copy color hex-codes from any painter
Ability to clone colors from the multi-paint popup UI
an exit button to close the multi-paint popup UI
buttons to copy-paste dynamic track data from within the drawer
Small fixes for the index controls

I'll go into more detail on these new changes in this news post!

[h2]New "Unlit transparent" material painter [/h2]

Much like the other material painters (like "transparent" which makes props see-through, and "unlit" which makes them glow in the dark without shading) the new "Unlit transparent" material painter makes props both see-though and glow in the dark!

This material type can also be used in mods!
Along with a new version of transparency called "Alpha Cutout"
(this version has less depth-fighting issues and sharper edges)

[h2]New colors [/h2]

The main part of this update is the re-do of the default colors.
You can still find all the original legacy paint drawers in the "misc" category!

Here are the new 4 drawers of colors:

Some new color types to note are:

Far more green options
more autumn yellows and oranges
Wide range of browns (dirt & dry grass)
Lots of desert soil colors
Set of pastel colors
Set of metallic colors (for cars)
Lots of tans and reds for brick and building materials
Rust colors
"Solid" colors, like pure red/green/blue etc
Wider range of water shades

[h2]Lots of copy-pastes [/h2]

You can now copy-paste text from any textbox input window:

You can also copy-paste tags between mods and workshop uploads!
This means you can easily import your own comma-separated list of tags from outside the game, or save your in-game tags to a text file.

Copying track data has always been possible by pressing "Return" while hovering over track, but there is now a dedicated "copy" button inside the dynamic track generator drawer. This is useful for copying data between track types.

[h2]Cloning colors [/h2]

Much like with dynamic track, you can copy the color of any prop by pressing "Return" while hovering over it. This will spawn a painter in your hand with the corresponding color.

But this update now makes it possible to clone colors from the popup multi-paint UI by clicking on them:
(the multi-paint UI also has an exit button now!)

Doing so will also copy the color hex-code to your clipboard!
You can also now copy the hex-code of any painter in the drawers using "Q"

And whenever you have a color hex-code on the clipboard you can easily paste it into the custom color generator UI using the "Clipboard" button!

This also means that you can copy a hex-code from outside the game (like from an online color picker) and paste it into the game to make that color!

[h2]Index control fixes[/h2]

Lastly, this update fixes the controls for cloning and editing paints from within the drawers for Index controllers. This was something i overlooked during the earlier VR updates.

Anyway, that's about everything!
Lots of quality-of-life changes that make dealing with custom colors a lot easier.

These new default colors are sure to make a visual difference for maps being made beyond this point. Even though custom colors are always an option, people are far more likely to stick to the easy access of the default colors. So having more options is always great!

Enjoy!