Chocobo dyeing R&D Thread - Post your results here!

Can we feed the fruits also to other players chocobos?

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Originally Posted by Felis

Can we feed the fruits also to other players chocobos?

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No, and glad about it

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Originally Posted by Cuervo78

No, and glad about it

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Could have been fun, FC mate isn't playing for a week, discover that his white chocobo became black !
mwahahahaahah !

Almost 7 hours ago I fed my chocobo a xelphatol apple (deepen red) and there was absolutely no change to this point. Maybe you have to feed several of the food at a time?

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Almost 7 hours ago I fed my chocobo a xelphatol apple (deepen red) and there was absolutely no change to this point. Maybe you have to feed several of the food at a time?

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That means it's RGB light based, so it's red value is already at max, you will have to lighten green to have a red chocobo.

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Originally Posted by Renik

That means it's RGB light based, so it's red value is already at max, you will have to lighten green to have a red chocobo.

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I want an ink blue chocobo. I had assumed "deepen" meant to decrease the colour values. So in order to get ink blue you had to decrease red and green to 0.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Almost 7 hours ago I fed my chocobo a xelphatol apple (deepen red) and there was absolutely no change to this point. Maybe you have to feed several of the food at a time?

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Can you make a screenshot with a normal colored chocobo next to it?

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Originally Posted by MikefriedSpes

I don't see how it is gil sinking when all you need to do is buy soil and be able to garden. Also #colorstoohard

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And have a free company. And a house. And not compete with other members to grow crops in a very limited space.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Can you make a screenshot with a normal colored chocobo next to it?

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No need for this. The name of the color of the chocobo should change in the appearance menu.

Starting color is "Desert Yellow", so any change whatever so ever should produce a new dye name.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Can you make a screenshot with a normal colored chocobo next to it?

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I can assure you there is absolutely 0 difference and the colour in the profile is still "Desert Yellow".

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Originally Posted by Rjain

I want an ink blue chocobo. I had assumed "deepen" meant to decrease the colour values. So in order to get ink blue you had to decrease red and green to 0.

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i think you'll need to lighten red then, but we are still trying to figure out, if after feeding a red deepen you have no result i assume you'll have to lighten it to reduce red value.

Theorycrafting... fun.

I tried feeding it a "deepen blue" fruit. This time I got a "your chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours" message. I do not believe I received that message before maintenance with the apple.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Almost 7 hours ago I fed my chocobo a xelphatol apple (deepen red) and there was absolutely no change to this point. Maybe you have to feed several of the food at a time?

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I can confirm that my chocobo also had no change after 1 apple feeding. I'm doing one more just to make sure the changes aren't crazy minimal. Getting 36 from 1 yield has me worried that it will take many feedings to get any sort of change.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

I tried feeding it a "deepen blue" fruit. This time I got a "your chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours" message. I do not believe I received that message before maintenance with the apple.

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I definitely got the message before maintenance, also.

Damn if this true that means our Chocobo starts off at both red and green are at max (255) and blue is at 0.

I want a purple chocobo that means I have to do the following: Green 0, Red 102 and Blue 153.

http://www.calculatorcat.com/free_ca...r_slider.phtml

i have been referring to this chart myself....

http://www.mangatutorials.net/renaigames/dev/hue.gif

It's SE style. I bet we have to feed 765 fruits and wait 6h each time to get a black chocobo.

Do we really need hundreds of different color intensities for our chocobos?

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Originally Posted by zandervont

Fed my chocobo 36x of all 3 "Lightening" feeds so gonna see how it turns out in a while, about 3-4 hours.

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You sir are awesome. hope fully it really isn't really one fruit every 6 hours. I hope it is feed as much as you want the effect wont happen after 6 hours.

That means you chocobo should be one of the following colors. Black or hovering around any of the greens

I just fed my chocobo 5 of each of the 'lightening' hues in an effort to push it towards a 'white' path. An interesting thing to note: Every time you feed the chocobo, the time of the change is actually scaled to the first feeding. This hopefully means the effects can stack!

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

I just fed my chocobo 5 of each of the 'lightening' hues in an effort to push it towards a 'white' path. An interesting thing to note: Every time you feed the chocobo, the time of the change is actually scaled to the first feeding. This hopefully means the effects can stack!

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It tells you it will still change? Someone else who did that said there will be no more change.

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Originally Posted by zandervont

Fed my chocobo 36x of all 3 "Lightening" feeds so gonna see how it turns out in a while, about 3-4 hours.

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1h 18 mins left, getting the screenshots ready to go. this is like waitin for a new patch, cant wait for it!

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Originally Posted by Rjain

It tells you it will still change? Someone else who did that said there will be no more change.

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[10:09]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:09]Sage's plumage will change in 6 hours.
[10:09]Of the 3 parties currently recruiting, all match your search conditions.
[10:09]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:09]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:09]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:09]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
[10:10]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:10]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
[10:10]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:10]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
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[10:10]Sage devours the valfruit.
[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:10]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 58 minutes.
[10:10]Sage devours the valfruit.
[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:10]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 58 minutes.
[10:10]Sage devours the valfruit.
[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:10]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 58 minutes.
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[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
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[10:11]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:11]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 58 minutes.
[10:11]Sage devours the Doman plum.
[10:11]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:11]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 57 minutes.
[10:12][FC]<A'rytiss Edar> Anyone around?
[10:12]Sage devours the Doman plum.
[10:12]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
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[10:12]Sage devours the Doman plum.
[10:12]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:12]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 56 minutes.

[10:12]Sage devours the Doman plum.
[10:12]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:12]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 56 minutes.
[10:12]Sage devours the Doman plum.
[10:12]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:12]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 56 minutes.
[10:12]Sage devours the Doman plum.
[10:12]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:12]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 56 minutes.
[10:13]Sage devours the Doman plum.
[10:13]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:13]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 56 minutes.
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Originally Posted by dcdistro

i have been referring to this chart myself....

http://www.mangatutorials.net/renaigames/dev/hue.gif

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This is also good
http://www.colorspire.com/rgb-color-wheel/

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

I just fed my chocobo 5 of each of the 'lightening' hues in an effort to push it towards a 'white' path. An interesting thing to note: Every time you feed the chocobo, the time of the change is actually scaled to the first feeding. This hopefully means the effects can stack!

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It can be that 'lightening' hues mean that the specific color aspect get reduced. So it would go more into the black direction instead to the white direction.

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Originally Posted by Felis

It can be that 'lightening' hues mean that the specific color aspect get reduced. So it would go more into the black direction instead to the white direction.

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ah damns it. :P Ah well, I'l just deal with whatever I get and we'll see what happens.

Okay so Desert Yellow (default chocobo colour) appears to be 255 R 255 G 50ish B. You cannot deepen R or G any further and you can only lighten them. I tried feeding fruit in bulk to the chocobo and got results for everything but deepening those two values. It now tells me my chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers. So, within 6 hours, you can bulk feed a colour combination you desire I believe.

This is a rather interesting thing to keep up with, just so you all know.

I'm rather excited to see which direction things will go in regards to how to get the right values towards colors.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Okay so Desert Yellow (default chocobo colour) appears to be 255 R 255 G 50ish B. You cannot deepen R or G any further and you can only lighten them. I tried feeding fruit in bulk to the chocobo and got results for everything but deepening those two values. It now tells me my chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers. So, within 6 hours, you can bulk feed a colour combination you desire I believe.

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Actually, default chocobo color is: R 219 / G 180 / B 87. So you can still further deepen any color, if you desire.

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Originally Posted by Blaon

Actually, default chocobo color is: R 219 / G 180 / B 87. So you can still further deepen any color, if you desire.

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We have three people experimenting right now with around 100 combined food. One person is not receiving the message that their chocobo will gain new feathers when trying to deepen red or green. I started receiving the message after using several lighten reds/greens and deepened the blue.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

We have three people experimenting right now with around 100 combined food. One person is not receiving the message that their chocobo will gain new feathers when trying to deepen red or green. I started receiving the message after using several lighten reds/greens and deepened the blue.

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Oh... thanks for telling us. I guess I will need more fruits than I thought then...
Well, depending on how much they change their respective color, that is... ><

I'm eagerly awaiting the first screenshot! :D
Also... guess my dark red fruit will be donated to the FC. :/

To the people who said they had no change six hours after feeding, I'd just like to confirm, you left them in the stables the entire time after feeding, yes? Patch notes say you have to stable, feed, and leave in the stables for six hours to see the change - fetching negates the feed and cancels the timer.

if there is 0 change in the appearance and name then that would mean each fruit gives +/- 5 points(explains the large yields). and that color names have thresholds of probably +/- 10-15.

if the stacking method works we will see results soon, if it don't i would say no more than 16 hours we will see different colors / color names popping up.

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Originally Posted by Blaon

Oh... thanks for telling us. I guess I will need more fruits than I thought then...
Well, depending on how much they change their respective color, that is... ><

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There's a chance that the person who is having a problem with red and green is glitched as now he's not receiving any updates for any food he gives his chocobo.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

There's a chance that the person who is having a problem with red and green is glitched as now he's not receiving any updates for any food he gives his chocobo.

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or that "desert yellow" is just normal yellow (equal parts red and green) and both are already capped at 255 (255,255,0)

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Originally Posted by Pterois

or the yellow (equal parts red and green) is already capped at 255 (255,255,0)

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Any food. He cannot deepen or lighten red/blue/green at all now.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Any food. He cannot deepen or lighten red/blue/green at all now.

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hmmm >.< glitches already, sure hope not

The game only gives me the message when i feed lighten blue.

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

[10:09]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:09]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:09]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
[10:10]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:10]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
[10:10]Sage devours the Cieldalaes pineapple.
[10:10]Sage is beginning to grow new feathers!
[10:10]Sage's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
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Keep in mind that the feature is new and there might be some bugs and/or error regarding the system message display.
While it "should" means that, since the timer is not reseted after each fruit, they are cumulative, it may not be intended.

Unless you are doing it FOR SCIENCE, keeping some spare fruit seems to be a good idea.

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Originally Posted by Blaon

Actually, default chocobo color is: R 219 / G 180 / B 87. So you can still further deepen any color, if you desire.

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Originally Posted by Blaon

Oh... thanks for telling us. I guess I will need more fruits than I thought then...
Well, depending on how much they change their respective color, that is... ><

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We don't know exactly how the values used for the RGB system works in the game, nor do we know how many "points" the fruits will add/remove.
So, actually, these values are of no use until we know how it works, comparing the changes with the number of fruits used (if multiple uses are not a bug).

However, there is a very high chance that the numbers are rounded, making it, for example, a 0/0/0 to 10/10/10 ratio.
This tend to be confirmed by Rjain, who tested with some fruits with no change at all while some R values are not maxed regarding the exact actual RGB value of the color.

So, yep, we need the first sample of data to be able to understand it better.

The thing I'm still wondering about is the number of fruit produced, which is really high. It can mean one of two things: SE wants them to be super cheap with a high availability, or, the system is more like 50/50/50 (or even higher numbers) so you need *a lot* of fruits to change the colors (implying that a fruit change a value by 1).
The only thing I know is that, in FFXIV ARR, Chocobo related content is very time consuming. It would not surprise me if SE made this process really long... ie: you won't be able to fully change the color of your chocobo in a day.

Which filter is that? I've fed my chocobo 6 times total (red and blue lightening) and haven't seen that message. But when I "Examine chocobo" it says I'll see the change in 2 more hours.

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Originally Posted by Fyce

It would not surprise me if SE made this process really long... ie: you won't be able to fully change the color of your chocobo in a day.

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how long did it take for the first novus to pop up?

http://i.imgur.com/zNnLImN.png
After being fed 2 apples