Tinting textures in Wolvenkit

How to colour your clothing item without adding extra textures

Summary

Created: Jul 18 2025 by mana vortex Last documented update: Jul 18 2025 by mana vortex

This page will show you how to create colour variants of textured materials without recolouring textures.

The problem

Who doesn't know it? You have a textured shirt, and you want to create multiple colour variants.

Most game engines "solve" this by including a different-coloured texture. This leads to huge mod files and bad performance and thus, we do not like it.

Fortunately, Cyberpunk materials are smarter than this.

The solution

Many shaders offer a parameter to tint textures on-the-fly by setting a material property:

As you can see, both materials are using the same textures — the tinting happens via BaseColorScale parameter. You can use that to avoid texture duplication.

See Supporting materials for a list.

How to add the parameter

1. Select the material's values array

2. In the panel on the right, click the yellow + button

3. In the "Select Existing Type" popup, select Vector or Color

1. If your parameter is a vector, change its name to BaseColorScale or HSV_Mod, then re-select the node in Wolvenkit to see the colour editor

Supporting materials

Paramter: BaseColorScale

Material	Parameter type
cyberware_animation	Color
device_diode	Color
devide_diode_multi_state	Color
metal_base_alpha_animated	Vector
metal_base_atlas_animation	Color
metal_base_glitter	Color
blackwall_blendable_metal_base	Vector
3d_map_cubes	Color
3d_map_terrain	Color
cable	Vector
cloth_mov	Vector
cloth_tarps_pbr	Color
cloth_tarps_pbr_no_vat	Color
cloth_wind_proxy	Vector
decal_forward	Color
decal_terrain_projected	Vector
earth_globe	Color
emissive_control	Color
glass_cracked_edge	Vector
ice_ver_mov_translucent	Color
lights_interactive	Vector
metal_base_bink	Color
metal_base_det	Vector
metal_base_det_dithered	Vector
metal_base_dithered	Vector
metal_base_gradientmap_recolor	Vector
metal_:base_parallax	Vector
metal_base_trafficlight_proxy	Vector
neon_parallax	Vector
presimulated_particles	Color
proxy_ad	Color
q116_mikoshi_floor	Color
q202_lake_surface	Color
road_debug_grid	Color
speedtree_3d_v8_onesided_gradient_recolor	Vector
spline_deformed_metal_base	Color
vehicle_lights	Vector
ver_mov	Color
ver_skinned_mov	Color
ver_skinned_mov_parade	Color
windows_parallax_interior_proxy_buiffer	Color
window_very_long_distance	Color
worldspace_grid	Color

Parameter: HSV_Mod

Material name	Parameter type
metal_base_blackbody	Vector
parallaxscreen	Vector
fx_mesh_decal__blackbody	Vector