Call of Duty fans invest hours personalizing their characters, emblems, loadouts, and now even their gun camos. Traditionally, emblem editors consist of a layers of simple shapes, laid atop one another like a sloppy scrapbook. Skilled artists discovered glitches in how certain shapes applied anti-aliasing, zooming excessively to paint beautiful gradients and textures. Whether they are simple or complex, nothing has ever stopped players from making obscene, offensive, or trademarked images though few care given the "maturity" level of the game.

With Black Ops III, both emblems and gun skins can be painted in-game like this. It looks like some options will be provided for easy material textures and gradients. But we may still be using the same awkward tools to paint these digital scrapbooks.


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Treyarch PC Support @PCdev_assist Twitter
Activision Support[support.activision.com], @ATVIAssist Twitter