Quote - RV,

You've spoken of the issue of referencing color maps. I'm not following you. What is your question?
Are you asking if it's ok to include the name of a 3rd party color map in your shader? If so, I'm telling you that I'm sure it is ok.
If you're asking if it's ok to re-distribute said color map, (modified or not) I'm telling you that I'm sure it is not ok.

I was basing my statement that referencing original colourMaps (not re-distributing them, but just referencing them in a pz2) was going to be an issue on what I was told whilst working on some hair-colour mods for a friend of mine, Bill. I probably misunderstood her - that wouldn't surprise me much.

So if the consensus is that referencing existing colourMaps - ones that one assumes exist, but since all one is distributing is a pz2, they would never be part of the package - shouldn't be a problem, then I see no further obstacles to sharing GCed material shaders, either as pz2 files or as mt5 / mt6 files.

Sound right?

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