So if I understand you correctly, you have an animal with multiple colors/hues and multiple patterns, however for one of the patterns you don't want to have color variants?

This isn't currently possible in the framework.

It is possible to just have different patterns and no color variation (see angelfish for example). It's a little laborious but you could just make all your color variants into their own pattern. There's no limit to the number of patterns, you could have 20 different ones.

Right now that is your best option.

I suppose in a perfect world, you would want something like a color/hue array for each pattern?:

{
"0":[0,0.1,0.3], // pattern 0 has 3 hues
"1":[0,0.1,0.3], // pattern 1 has 3 hues
"2":[0], // pattern 2 has no hues
}

This is something I can look into in the future, but it's unfortunately not possible right now. I hope that answers your question. :)

Hehe, in a perfect world I would be able to assign more than one base color as well :D

More something like:

{
"0":{"Base":["fish_basestyle1"]; "hues":[0,0.1,0.3]; "patterns":["fish_pat_1","fish_pat_2"]},
"1":{"Base":["fish_basestyle2"]; "hues":[0,0.5,0.7]; "patterns":["fish_pat_1","fish_pat_2"]},
"2":{"Base":["fish_basestyle3"]; "hues":[null]; "patterns":[null]}
}

That would actually solve the naming too. Since the third style would use no patterns.

I understand that some "revamp" like that is going to be low priority for now.

Thank you for the suggestion and your understanding about the low priority thing. I've added it to the list! :)

It would be really nice if we could at least get a vibrancy scale on the hues as well, sometimes you have a fish that looks great bright orange but you also want it to have a black or light yellow variant for example and can't because the hues all have to be the same vibrancy.

Originally posted by Flishster:

It would be really nice if we could at least get a vibrancy scale on the hues as well, sometimes you have a fish that looks great bright orange but you also want it to have a black or light yellow variant for example and can't because the hues all have to be the same vibrancy.

You could achieve this with multiple patterns I think? Like have a high vibrancy pattern and a low vibrancy pattern, then the same hue looks different depending on the pattern.

Yeah I can do that with patterns, however for example with my recent Amur Carp mod it's not possible for me to make a pure white or black carp because otherwise I'd have to give up hues entirely to prevent there being four visually identical variants of carp that all appear solid white or black.

Yes good point. I've made a note and I'll see if it's something that can be added down the line. :)

Thanks as always Tim!