
Originally Posted by
Osram
A game engine SHOULD change the colour of the skin (and I guess all since say 1995 do it). It will/should:
- Make the side towards the sun brighter
- Maybe put shadows onto objects
- Make it Time of Day / latitude / time of year dependant, for example redder in the evening.
- Make it weather dependant, for example flying in summer in the UK under a thundercloud your plane will look very different than if there is no cloud
- Make it dependant on the surroundings, for example moving over blue water or over green grass. HL2 does this for example.
- light up when guns fire
- when flying at night, light up from the nav light
etc
If the colour on screen would always be the same as the skin colour, all of that would be impossible.