Shaders (Destiny)

by Beorn , <End of Failed Timeline>, Monday, July 21, 2014, 20:06 (3778 days ago) @ Hyokin

How exactly do they work?

Do you expend a shader to apply one-color to your entire set of armor or piece-by-piece? Do you keep the shader in your inventory permanently or is it expended after each coloring?

Why isn't there purple? </3

In the Alpha, you'd equip the Shader in one of your Vanity slots (same Inventory screen that shows your Ship, Sparrow, and Ghost Shell). Once you did that, any armor you were wearing that had a "Coating" on it (see pic below) would be re-colored to match whatever Shader you had equipped. Changing armor didn't affect the color (as long as it also had the Coating attribute).

The leftmost (me) and center (Biwald) characters in this pic are wearing the FWC shader in the Alpha: