Could we ever get Dye Channels?

It's the sort of thing that would exponentially increase the amount of data every character is carrying around. For that alone you'll likely never see this happen.

I've been wanting this for a while... always disappointing to preview, say, a red dye on an item hoping that it dyes to red with white accents only to see that the white turns pink. Being able to dye different parts of an item separately would be fantastic. Also I wouldn't mind if they made it so that you didn't have to actually have the basic dyes in your inventory and had the option to just have it cost gil to apply a dye. Always annoying when you preview a color you like and have to go to an ARR beast tribe settlement to go buy the dye from them to use it.

I’m sure the devs will say “it looks great, but… server bandwidth limitations”.

Sometimes I wish they would fill up the backplane of the server with 100 Gbps cards.

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Originally Posted by wereotter

always disappointing to preview, say, a red dye on an item hoping that it dyes to red with white accents only to see that the white turns pink

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Since healer gear is white more often than not, this tends to be the case, and I hate it. If I wanted half the outfit to be pink I'D USE PINK

Current dye system:
Dyeing something tells the system to use a certain texture when displaying.

"new" system
Proposed "channels" item must be split into "zones" for the textures. Replacing each zoned texture per the dye, increasing the texture data amounts and information necessary for the models to be "zoned".

it's a BIG change that isn't supported by the current system and would require a rework of models and textures.

Neat but unlikely.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

This would be awesome! Many times I don't even dye my glam because it has more colors by default. :')

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Same, but then sometimes there's the problem where the default color has no matching dye. Anything I add on to undyed pieces, then don't match. :(

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Originally Posted by Kiurai

Dye channels would essentially allow someone to dye multiple or each individual section of a desired piece of gear or glamor.

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https://youtu.be/9RmSNb4QHEk?t=1840 (Japanese only) Two-year anniversary 14-hour broadcast, 2015.

The dev answer was that it's too difficult. Yoshida said it wasn't really about the memory storage, but about packet payload.

Essentially, FFXIV already maxes out the amount of info that can be used for dye info, whilst maintaining a reasonable gameplay experience.

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Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

While I support the idea, Yoshi has stated it won't happen. If I remember correctly, his view is that the art team has their vision for how the gear should look and adding dye channels to override that vision would be disrespectful of that vision.

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Is this verbatim? Becasue it sounds like an extremely bad argument, given that some gear pieces can be fully dyed - excelpt in just 01 color (washed in different parts) - and that kind of defeats that argument. This honestly sounds like mistranslation from a JP quote.