I’ve done a ton of testing with the ‘Apply Shading’ trigger effects (see my recent post with a lot of cool examples for combinations to use: https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cool-shading-combinations-for-unit-skins-new-genres/269320?u=cadimaster).
There are tons of color combinations possible with the current 5 shading types (Bronze, Stone, Frost, Burning, and Gold). The most common colors that show up are blue, red, white, gray, black, brown, copper, and yellow.
Two colors that I’ve noticed don’t appear much though are green and purple. If possible it’d be cool if the devs could add a 6th shading type (maybe call it Jade to match with the upcoming Chinese DLC) that adds mostly green and maybe goes purple at values over 100%. This would (in theory) increase the potential new appearances for units & objects by quite a lot.
Some examples of what modders can do already with the current 5 shading effects:
100 Thor Hammers with various shading effect combinations applied to each
Unit skins!
Demo group 1
Demo group 2
