Mega Man weapon switch effect

Support Animation and Rigging
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Wave of energy washes over him to change armor color, or just over his forearm to switch between hand and buster.

Sometimes the energy wave is pixelated.

There is a method where you set up the material to be a different color when viewed through a transparent object, but is there a simpler way to do it?

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Found a way. Could do with some polishing up, but it works.

Weapon Switch Nodes.jpg1366×705 159 KB

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Could make the set up much easier if the color ramp nodes would accept color input. Or synch different materials to use the same colors so I only have to change two.