Augmented Lunar Envoy's Thighboots of Aiming visual error in dark areas when dyed

Date & Time: Jan 29 approx 2:30pm EST, but has been occurring since 6.2x patches
Frequency: Always
World name: Ultros
Character name: Esja Helvig @ Ultros
Retainer name: None
NPC name: None
Monster name: None
Class/Level: DNC lv90
Party or solo: Solo
In-game time: Midnight ET in example, but occurs at other times as well
Area and coordinates: All zones. Examples provided are: Island Sanctuary, New Gridania, Ishgard.
Housing: None

Steps:
1. Dye Augmented Lunar Envoy's Thighboots of Aiming a dark color (i.e. Jet Black).
2. Appearance appears as expected in UI as well as light or daytime areas.
3. When going to a dark/shadowed/nighttime area, the appearance of the dyable portion of the boots becomes significantly lighter. This is not a client-side graphical issue and can be seen by other players.

Example images:
https://i.imgur.com/nx9Ip1n.png
^ Appearance of boots dyed Jet Black in character preview menu. This is how they should appear. Compare the shade of black on the boots to the shade of black in the pants (Asphodelos Hose of Aiming, also dyed Jet Black) and note that they closely match.

https://i.imgur.com/DVtgJll.png
^Appearance of same boots in login screen. This is a dark environment, and the boots appear as they should, matching the shade of the pants.

https://i.imgur.com/ock28nd.png
^ Island Sanctuary, approx. noon ET, fair skies. Boots appear as expected.

https://i.imgur.com/ELprwNH.png
^ Island Sanctuary, approx. midnight ET, fair skies. Character position/facing has not changed (aside from idle pose). Boots appear significantly lighter.

https://i.imgur.com/OQ6weSC.png
^ New Gridania, approx. noon ET, clouds. Boots appear as expected.

https://i.imgur.com/CtbdRZb.png
^ New Gridania, approx. midnight ET, clouds. Character position/facing has not changed (aside from idle pose). Boots appear significantly lighter.

https://i.imgur.com/xadyzea.png
^ East Shroud, Sylphlands. Time unknown. Due to persistent dark lighting in area, boots will appear lighter even in daytime. Issue occurs in other perpetually dark zones, such as Ishgard, etc.


This issue occurs even when dyed dark colors other than Jet Black.

https://i.imgur.com/csFAv6h.png
^ Island Sanctuary, noon ET. Dark Green Dye.

https://i.imgur.com/BFCNpUL.png
^ Island Sanctuary, midnight ET. Dark Green Dye.


I assume this issue applies to the other boots sharing this model, but I have not checked them myself.



Connection Specs
- Type of internet connection/provider: Ethernet connection. ISP: TekSavvy Solutions Inc.
- Modem maker/model number: Hitron. Model #: CODA-45

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I'm not the one who needs to be convinced by your report, but I'm not seeing the problem personally. It looks to me like they just stand out differently because the background is darker, or perhaps it's how the moonlight reflects off the leather, particularly in contrast with the very dark skirt behind it. The lighting doesn't look incorrect to me.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I'm not the one who needs to be convinced by your report, but I'm not seeing the problem personally. It looks to me like they just stand out differently because the background is darker, or perhaps it's how the moonlight reflects off the leather, particularly in contrast with the very dark skirt behind it. The lighting doesn't look incorrect to me.

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Respectfully, I disagree. Genuinely, you may be unable to see the difference due to your screen; my primary monitor is 4K UHD and I can see the color disparity in all dark environments, but on my side monitors (which are cheaper and have much worse color display) there are some environments where it looks just fine [but the issue is visible on my primary].

Regardless. I don't see a good reason why the boots should go from appearing black in daytime, and matching the other dark clothing, to appearing a drastically lighter tone in comparison to the other dark clothing (which don't interact with dark environments the same way) at nighttime. To me it seems like there is some issue with how the material/texturing(?) reflects light or a lack thereof. I'm no graphics expert so I can't really diagnose the issue, though.


At the end of the day I acknowledge that this might be too nitpicky to get fixed, though it does suck. I will probably just have to change the boots I use because they clash so badly in a lot of darker duty/raiding zones, which is unfortunate especially since that's a current tier augment wasted, rip lmao.