Maybe there is a way to autocolour, autovariate images? In that case you have only to do the main races and then let some image-generator make variances. See pioneer, and OpenTTD for example.
We can tint images easily. I'll put together a quick example.
Edit: I've put together a bird .-) (Seems the alpha channel got lost on aijaa.com - anyway)
The coloring happens on the blue channel (pics taken in Rendermonkey)
When you take a closer look you'll see that the pic is not done properly as there's some noise on the right shoulder, but it's good enough to show the possibilities.
When you take a closer look you'll see that the pic is not done properly as there's some noise on the right shoulder, but it's good enough to show the possibilities.
Yep I see, but in a firefight you probably won't have time to search for noise in a pic.