Quick question

[Carl Silvio]

This may be a foolish question, but where exactly can one fine the actual rules for outfitting a ship with chameleo-skin?

 

[CosmicGamer]

What version of Traveller?

 

[warwizard]

Well the rules that come to mind for me is T4's Fire Fusion and steel.
Civilian hull coatings are discussed as having the ability to display advertising or a wide array of patterns and colors.
A simple camera system could be used to image the environment and a computer program then actively controls the surface of the hull to display on the other side of the hull what would be seen if the hull was not there.
More common is the black, military black, and military ultra black coatings that simply seek to eliminate as much of the reflectivity as possible. Any of these coatings systems are able to create a chameleo-skin effect.

Default hull coating is the civilian level with no added mass or cost.
Bare hull could be specified saving Cr 50 per ton (mass, not volume) of the hull.
Page 65 para. 7 of T4's FF&S (check errata the prices listed have changed)
7. Hull Coatings
A normal starship hull at TL10+ is equipped (at no extra cost)
with a color-changing coating.
for advertising purposes, in combat this is
set to moderate (99%) black to reduce ...

 

[BlackBat242]

CT had no such rules.

 

[aramis]

MT had them in one of the MegaTraveller Journals. (one which shows a GDW copyright...)

 

[whartung]

7. Hull Coatings
A normal starship hull at TL10+ is equipped (at no extra cost)
with a color-changing coating.
for advertising purposes, in combat this is
set to moderate (99%) black to reduce ...

To what end? In combat?? Maybe (big maybe) terrestrial combat. But space combat? No.