DEBLEACHED

[warped gull]

Summary

Created to "debleach" the Vanilla Uniforms, removing the extreme shine eminating from the uniform, vests and helmets and character faces. This should fix that and also adds in previously unused assets while remaining extremely lightweight.

Description

This very simple project aims to darken the uniforms, or as described, "debleach" them. By this, I worked to remove the bright shine that came from character equipment, such as uniforms, helmets and such. I personally thought it was crazy how much shine came from some of the uniforms.

While I was at it, I also added in unused assets such as helmets and vests, but I also made the character faces less shiny. Looks like the Everon Body Oil Factory for Men finally had to close its doors.

This addon was created by me, and is supported on my Discord or here. We're also currently working on a Reforger Conflict server and potentially other ventures as well once we get familiar with the necessary tools.

If you would like to modify this addon, please contact me over Discord so I can give you the necessary files.

**Please provide feedback so I can adjust darkness / brightness values further and improve upon the mod :) **
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5EB0AB05E3959B8F-Debleached

[heavy nebula]

Finally! The Brown and Green woodland camo isnt grey!

[warped gull]

Was surprisingly easy to make too. It took a few hours to make since I added a fuckton of configs and experimented a bunch with different texture variants. Also attempted doing guns but I'm holding off on that for now until I figure out the best settings.

Forgot to link it whoops - https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5EB0AB05E3959B8F-Debleached

[bold beacon]

amazing stuff

[last stag]

That looks so much more like m81

[crystal sigil]

bbcheh

[warped gull]

yeah that picture was AI Generated, but I found it funny as fuck so I kept it 😆

[crystal sigil]

😂 love it reminds me of the dayz food names

[warped gull]

for sure, the Soviets look great but the Americans look a lot better now imo

[iron brook]

that's just bleach in Russian 🤫

[tulip oak]

Since this is somewhat on the topic of making the uniforms look more darker does anyone else hate how bright the new PASGT vest on experimental is?

[warped gull]

Once it gets added to stable, I'll give it the treatment ;)

[tulip oak]

Please do that vest looks like ass now. It does not match up with the BDU at all.

[warped gull]

Has anyone tested the new uniforms so far? If you guys can share screenshots, I'd appreciate that. I still may need to adjust certain values to absolute perfection :)

[tulip oak]

Using US expanded Cold War uniforms

[warped gull]

I think I'll make them a bit brighter. Gonna improve colors a bit on these..

[tulip oak]

Eh I kinda like them darker ngl

Actually you could make them a bit brighter.

[warped gull]

Damn, your Reforger graphics are real good 💯

Gonna work on the patch now :)

[tulip oak]

Did you make the Alice webbing brighter as well?

[warped gull]

Yes! Currently working on finetuning its values.

Also enhanced a bit of the Soviet faction. Added a slight yellowing to the uniforms and changed them to better tuned values - previously I copied the same values for M88 & M81, but with better corrections they look a lot better.

[last stag]

Looks dirtier, i like that

[last stag]

@proven pulsar looks way better than the vanilla m81

[proven pulsar]

Yeah

[warped gull]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5EB0AB05E3959B8F-Debleached

New update!

Pretty happy with this one so far. I was initially a bit worried that Soviets looked very bland now compared to the Americans, they had no real depth. But with this, that problem should be avoided entirely and both factions have their unique designs that look sweet on them.

[terse zenith]

Can you make the boots not so shiny possibly

[warped gull]

Will do later!

[warped gull]

Done. New update pushed with reduced shine from shoes.

[warm tusk]

I can't seem to find the mod

[warped gull]

If you're speaking about DEBLEACHED, you can find it here: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5EB0AB05E3959B8F-Debleached

If it's US Expanded, I think it might be this one: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/5DF421CD360CD7A0-USArmyExpansion

[warm tusk]

👍

[cedar cypress]

🔥

[warped gull]

https://github.com/toedeli/NORTHCOM_Reforger/

Decided to implement an official GitHub repository. If any of you like to take the mod apart to look how it works or simply to repack / reupload with your changes, you're more than welcome to - if you publish it however, just give me a shout and credit :)

[cunning fiber]

NOOOOOOOOOOO I LIKED SEEING OILED UP BLACK MEN CARRY AROUND M60S

[signal jolt]

[next frost]

update for 1.0?

[cedar cypress]

Brother revive the mod please

[warped gull]

I forgot about this mod, but I'll get back to work once I can :)

[lyric fiber]

💀

[warped gull]

Not sure if anyone has been keeping tabs (lmao I've been dead) but I have restarted work, almost a year later lol

The next version of the mod isn't gonna be much more crazy than what I've done before, but it's gonna be more optimized.

Most textures are inherited, instead of overriden. However, prefabs had to be overriden as it'd cause way too many issues otherwise. Once done with character stuff, I'll also probably move on to some offending things such as sandbags etc.

[terse zenith]

Could we get shiny and not shiny boots this time around

[warped gull]

Could be done, I can make a "dirty" and "normal" variant

[warped gull]

Essentially done for all character related stuff. Now onto other objects, i.e. sandbags and what not

I will probably be able to release it by tomorrow, but it'll need some feedback for sure - I'm keeping everything as it "should" be per my standards, but there's obviously parts of the mod where I went over the top.

Another minor concern is conflicts with other mods: this shouldn't happen, in theory, as what I did is inherit the textures and then override the prefab uniforms / vests / etc, so they shouldn't really collide - unless a mod maker inherits from it, i.e. for a retexture. However, if they use a base, or duplicate, no problems should occur. Problems will also be immediately obvious, as the entities have the new textures manually replaced inside their files, so if your tigerstripe shirt suddenly becomes woodland, it's debleached.

Pretty happy with it so far, though. It looks good, and that's all I really wanted. I might be able to release a first build tomorrow and keep feedback open.

[hard wyvern]

looking forward to playing with this today if you can release it, will you be doing this for FIA?

[warped gull]

All factions got this, including FIA.

[hard wyvern]

So mods that change FIA uniform texture will not work with this?

[warped gull]

Normally, no, by design to avoid conflicting with other mods. However, I can create debleached "patches" for any mods since it just takes a few hours, nothing crazy.

[hard wyvern]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/629F50039BEDDE2B-SimpleFIACamoReplacement

i think its a serbian camo

[warped gull]

Could take a look at it later :)

[hard wyvern]

i’d really appreciate it boss

[warped gull]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/62A339EB6A65CDC7-RE-Debleached

@next frost@cedar cypress@lyric fiber@terse zenith@hard wyvern Debleached is back ;)

[hard wyvern]

huge ill check it out in a minute

[hard wyvern]

seems to work fine with this, looks so much better btw

[warped gull]

epic, happy to hear :)

[hard wyvern]

is it just me or is the helmet cover and the coveralls not the same exact colour?

[warped gull]

Yeah, for some reason I wasn't able to match up KLMK helmet yet.

also is that a flatgrass map LOL

[hard wyvern]

ar_flatgrass i wish someone would make the little building from gmod

[lyric fiber]

You’ve missed quite a bit

[cedar cypress]

@warped gullThank you 🙂

[hard wyvern]

i think the ushanka texture is messed up might be another mod, i’ll send screenshots later

[warped gull]

no i remember fucking it up and I probably forgot to fix it. Thanks for the feedback: will fix as soon as I get home.

[hard wyvern]

[warped gull]

fixed Ushanka and also made KLMK darker so it should be better to use for your purposes now.

[hard wyvern]

boss

[fluid pier]

Does this work with modded camos?

[hard wyvern]

I don’t think so

[fluid pier]

Tragic

[hard wyvern]

I mean it’s a retexture of base game stuff, but developer said he’d be down to make “patches” of mods like adding this effect to other items, so link the mod you’re thinking about

[warped gull]

I'm able to modify any camos that aren't included by default as patches to those mods. This was done specifically for Vanilla assets, not sure if any non-Vanilla assets have the same issue.

The reason I decided to not have the script globally override textures is to avoid odd issues - I had a mod creator report my mod darkened their helmets for some reason when I first released this mod.

[hard wyvern]

yo did u forget the m1 helmet cover?

olive U.S uniform too

[warped gull]

Possibly. Let me double check my mod files.

[warped gull]

Looks like I caught the helmet, but its texture causes this sort of "glance" - I'll have to tweak it a bit to fix it but should be no problem. found nothing with US Olive tho, seems to be OK for me

looks much better 😄

[hard wyvern]

Yea looks great now : D

[warped gull]

@hard wyvern Done and uploaded, should be good to go now!

[hard wyvern]

thanks boss

[warped gull]

🫡

[hard wyvern]

still looks weird idk man

[dapper sonnet]

I love you omg