I’ve recently noticed quite a few Equipment skins that have one or more Color channels that affect invisible parts of the skin.
Many Shoe and Boot skins have this problem, where I suspect the shoe sole to catch that, but also e.g. the light head skin Leystone Cowl has two invisible channels.
It feels like wasted potential or wasted resources.
Because the Game has to load channels the aren’t visible in the end. That doesn’t seem like it would do much, but for every occasion of a highly populated area where 50+ playermodels and all of their armor and color has to be loaded it adds up.
Yet on the other hand many of those skins would look amazing if you could actually use all of their channels.
My Suggestion is to either remove the excess channels for performance, or change the skins to make the extra channels visible.