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

http://i.imgur.com/JFmYNNH.jpg

Any idea how to turn this to sky blue?
Based on a color slider it seems that my peacock blue needs an increase in all 3 values, but i can't be too sure.

UPDATE: I am trying to get to soot black. After getting plum purple and then mole brown, I fed my chocobo 3 Mamook Pears, 2 Xelphatol Apples, and 2 O'Ghomoro Berries. I got the color change msg on the second apple and the second berry, no message on the pears. That got him to charcoal gray!

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6117cc23.png

What do you guys think I should do to get black? Just try to get a feather message for each darkening fruit?

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Originally Posted by Ravenguard

This is right... kinda. Just like the DEEPEN'er fruits that give + to one color and - to the other two colors, the LIGHTEN'er fruit works as its polor opposite.

If you go by color values, Ink Blue is indeed deeper than Soot black in terms of values being closer to zero. To achieve Soot Black, you'd need to feed the Chocobo a number off all three Deepen'er fruits (that give + to one color, and - to the other two). That will transform your bird into the Ink Blue, which then you'd need to feed it a very few trio of the Lighten'er fruits, which will raise all the values evenly up to the values which match closer to Soot Black.

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I don't think you'd need to feed it a Pineapple to go from Ink to Soot because the blue level of soot is lower than ink. I'm trying something right now and will know in about an hour.

I fed my Chocobo 21 berries (darken blue) and got 19 feather messages. I got Lavender Purple.

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Originally Posted by blueruckus

I don't think you'd need to feed it a Pineapple to go from Ink to Soot because the blue level of soot is lower than ink. I'm trying something right now and will know in about an hour.

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The idea is to feed it a trio of all LIGHTEN'ers. Since each LIGHTEN'er gives a plus to two colors while a minus to the third, by feeding all three LIGHTEN'ers, you would effectively be giving two boosts (++) to all three colors (3 pluses and 1 minus). That would raise the values of all three evenly. The very low values of Ink Blue (22R 26G 34B) would raise slightly into the Soot Black range (37R 35G 30B).

As I reread this post, I do realize what you mean. You wouldnt want to raise the BLUE value too much, however, I assume if the values to trigger a specific color fall into a "range" (Such as 35-40R and so on) you'd be in the Soot Black value range.

Midnight Blue -> Kobold Brown -> Midnight Blue

welll I found the reverse method to go back a step at least.. lol

still no soot black unfortunately.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/7d04a08f1...b7lo1_1280.png

(Sorry night time I know. I don't have time to sit around till morning to get a better picture)

From bone white, it was a handful of valfruit, plums, and pineapples in no particular order or amount to reach snow white. I probably overshot the mark by a few fruit. If these fruits added pigment as well as subtracting as you all seem to believe, I should not have gotten white, but some other color.

I AM STILL CONVINCED that many of you are laboring under a false assumption that these foods +one color while - two other colors.

I really think it is much more simple than that.

To get soot black you should only need to balance out the three colors at the fullest saturation point you can reach. Logic dictates that you do the same process to get black as you do white only reversed. For white it is removing color, for black, adding it.

You should never need to use valfruit, pineapples, or plums to get black. In theory.

The problem is, it doesn't work in practice how it should work in theory, correct? I think we're all missing something important here, but I don't think it's something complex.

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Originally Posted by Resolute

UPDATE: I am trying to get to soot black. After getting plum purple and then mole brown, I fed my chocobo 3 Mamook Pears, 2 Xelphatol Apples, and 2 O'Ghomoro Berries. I got the color change msg on the second apple and the second berry, no message on the pears. That got him to charcoal gray!

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6117cc23.png

What do you guys think I should do to get black? Just try to get a feather message for each darkening fruit?

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I just got to PLUM PURPLE while attempting to get to Charcoal Grey

If I may ask Resolute, what fruits did you apply to get to Mole Brown. I guess I could then do the same as you did adding the 3 Mamook Pears, 2 Xelphatol Apples, and 2 O'Ghomoro Berries to get to Charcoal Grey

Ok so I did the google doc thing that said Dalamud red and got Sunset Orange. Then I fed it 10 more apples till the message said it was growing new feathers, then it turned Blood Red. Now if I wanted to go for Dalamud red what seems like the best way to go from Blood Red to Dalamud Red?

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Originally Posted by Resolute

UPDATE: I am trying to get to soot black. After getting plum purple and then mole brown, I fed my chocobo 3 Mamook Pears, 2 Xelphatol Apples, and 2 O'Ghomoro Berries. I got the color change msg on the second apple and the second berry, no message on the pears. That got him to charcoal gray!

http://i1374.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6117cc23.png

What do you guys think I should do to get black? Just try to get a feather message for each darkening fruit?

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One of each fruit should do it, isn't charcoal grey right under soot black?

PS: That bird already looks awesome.