Pirate Captain's Hat - Roblox
Hunting Hat - Roblox
Native American Headdress - Roblox
Way back in 2007, Roblox used transparent textures to add feathers to their brand new Hats! Realistic fluff without burning the entire rendering budget of a pre-built Windows XP PC! Alas time sailed on, and by 2013 transparent textures were no longer supported by SpecialMeshes. Any transparent pixels were treated as fully opaque. The Golden Age of Pirate Captain’s Hat was over.
However, just last month Roblox released the Azure Peacock Tail Feathers! This accessory uses a SurfaceAppearance to stack layers and layers of transparent feathers, and it looks fantastic!
So why not use SurfaceAppearances to restore these old hats? There’s a little volume lost with the way transparency is handled, but I’m sure with some tweaks these hats will look as fresh as the day they released!
Here’s the .rbxm for anyone who wants to take a closer look at the example changes above. Enjoy!
ClassicHatSurfaceAppearance.rbxm (54.4 KB)