A Visual Guide to Gear Flairs (WIP)

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Hi folks! So you might have heard, there’s this new neat little cosmetic feature in the game called Gear Flairs! Thanks to recent advancements in my 3D model projects I can now export and load up these static models for taking screenshots. Interestingly the coloring on them is 100% vertex colors (no textures) so I need to write a shader before i will be able to render them with proper coloring etc.

What I do have though is a complete list of all the possible combinations you can get. There are 21 unique Flair models in the game. A few of them also have different color variations making up 31 different Flair variations available.

PSA: This list is based on the mesh files, some of which may not even actually be in used (ie the low poly horns look like copies of Horn 003). I would recommend using this as a guide to pair up with the ones you find in-game and then repost with actual screenshots.

  • Chef’s Hat
  • Crown 001
  • Crown 002
  • Crown 003 (+Founder’s Crown)
  • Crown 004 (+Wooden Crown)
  • Ears 001 (+Black, +White)
  • Ears 002 (+Black, +Blue, +Green, +Yellow)
  • Ears 003
  • Ears 004 (+Black, +Blue)
  • Ears 005
  • Ears 006
  • Horn 001
  • Horn 002
  • Horn 003
  • Horn 004
  • Horn 005
  • Horn 006
  • Horn 007
  • Horn 008
  • Horn 009
  • Nurse Hat

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#2

I am mourning the absence of a fedora.

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#3

Wish WINGS were a flair item. Poor Toby and Ernest will now never know the feel of having majestic wings.

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#4

I’m sure the devs would be keen to know what other Gear Flairs you’d like to see get added to the game! :wink:

#5

I want a backflip full cap and sneakers ^^ How cool Deande or Benedict would look like ^^

#6

FLAIR… IN… ACTION…

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#7

Nurse Benedict, healing you from high in the sky!

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#8

Unfortunately, because the flair items are on Berg and not Toby (at least the hats are, i don’t know about the ears), he STILL wouldn’t get to fly… :expressionless:

#9

Ok so here are all the Gear Flair models (which are internally referred to as “Wearables” with vertex colors enabled. Think of these as color masks that get replaced with a proper color as per the material being applied to it, which is how you can have both the normal Crown 3 and the Founder’s Crown while only having one model and zero textures!! Hopefully I can get a shader going that renders the proper colors and lighting and then I can start taking pics with different characters wearing them!!

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#10

Ah, I was wondering what they all looked like. Thanks for always working so hard to peek under the hood, lowlines.

The horns are really… similar. I think the chef hat and the last crown are the standouts. With the vertex colors applied to that crown, I was immediately reminded of this:

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#11

21 pieces. would be cool if there were 37 total. Do you want me to wear more?

#12

Trying to get these looking like they do in-game is challenging because I actually have to interact with GLSL code to apply the vertex colors onto the meshes. Below is every single material being rendered out using the base colors.

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If you compare the Founder’s Crown to what it looks like in-game, it still looks pretty different and that comes down to a bunch of custom shader code applied to the meshes that I only have a basic understanding of at this point in time. Textured models are easier because the majority of the visuals are pre-baked into the texture files, whereas stuff like this that is rendered on the fly makes it way more apparent how bad I currently am at 3d rendering!

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My end goal with this was to generate my own 3d icons for this guide that I wanted to look even remotely as good as the Founder’s Crown does from the Founder’s Pack FAQ, but at this point in time, I feel like that is beyond my capabilities. What I can do is provide a list of names for all the flairs so you can at least use this as reference fro interpreting the text found on the gear cards.

  • Hat Flair
  • Chef Hat
  • Imperial Crown (Crown 001)
  • Pointed Crown (Crown 002)
  • Rounded Crown (Crown 003)
  • Founder’s Crown: The Shard of Solus (Crown 003 + Founder)
  • Spiked Crown (Crown 004)
  • Wooden Spiked Crown (Crown 004 + Wood)
  • Nurse Hat
  • Ears Flair
  • Grey Tall Cat Ears (Ears 001)
  • Black Tall Cat Ears (Ears 001 + Black)
  • White Tall Cat Ears (Ears 001 + White)
  • Pink High-Tech Ears (Ears 002)
  • Black High-Tech Ears (Ears 002 + Black)
  • Blue High-Tech Ears (Ears 002 + Blue)
  • Green High-Tech Ears (Ears 002 + Green)
  • Yellow High-Tech Ears (Ears 002 + Yellow)
  • Silver Tipped Ears (Ears 003)
  • Silver and Red Audio Ears (Ears 004)
  • Silver and Black Audio Ears (Ears 004 + Black)
  • Silver and Blue Audio Ears (Ears 004 + Blue)
  • Silver Curved Cat Ears (Ears 005)
  • Grey Soft Ears (Ears 006)
  • Horns Flair
  • Metal Spike Horns (Horn 001)
  • Metal Stub Horns (Horn 002)
  • Metal Curved Horns (Horn 003)
  • Evil Horns (Horn 004)
  • Long Horns (Horn 005)
  • Crystal Curved Horns (Horn 006)
  • Curved Horns (Horn 007)
  • Metal Viking Horns (Horn 008)
  • Ram Horns (Horn 009)
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