[quote]Am I the only person who thinks that weapons like the Ahab Char—that refuse to take a shader without looking like paint is missing in several places—looks like garbage or is this way more popular than I realize and I’m in the minority? Why do they make weapons like this!?[/quote] It's about time someone sid something about the shaders. With both armour and weapons most shaders just dont look good. It's too hard to tell by the shaders thumbnail what its gonna look like, there's no way to know without scrolling through and trying each shader, until you start to memorise them. Secondly, you'll put a shader on your armour or gun and it doesn't work for some of it. You'll get a great looking chest but the helmet is using a completely different colour from the shader, and different from the chest. Why do bungie hate us customising our armour? Why don't they like helmets? What's so wrong with having our entire guardian looking like all of our gear matches? They're fun sponges thats why. Any little single way they can annoy you into doing something that they want, they'll do it. They don't want a matching helmet to your set, because they want you to spend more time playing their game jumping through pointless hoops so you'll find a helmet that does match. From another set. Also, helmet sizes. Why are some so damn big? I spoke about helmets too much didn't I? My bad. It's a personal hatred of mine that they've done for years.

That's due to the edge wear mask texture the rifle model uses. Some shaders ignore the edge wear, while others don't.

Primer should work if you just want to clean it up. Not ideal usually if you aren’t a huge fan of the look. The tier 5 one looks decent tho. Kinda does give it the look of something that got launched through time.

have you tried jacarina shader?