Metallic orange - Preview vs. Reality

Before I take this to the bug report section, I want to see what other people think. Need to make sure my eyes aren't playing tricks on me. In the preview pane for Metallic Orange Dye, it looks much darker than what it is on the actual armor to me. Anyone else?

Edit - Will update with photo when I stop sucking at internet.

https://i.imgur.com/REPR3js.png

What you want is the url of the image itself, not the page it is hosted on, my dear.

https://i.imgur.com/REPR3js.png

Indeed... Maybe this dye would see more respect, if I had known it held such brilliance.

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Originally Posted by Esmoire

What you want is the url of the image itself, not the page it is hosted on, my dear.

Indeed... Maybe this dye would see more respect, if I had known it held such brilliance.

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Sorry, I think I've posted maybe like two pictures on here before, and I don't do pictures in general anywhere else. My photo-fu is lacking.

Your eyes don't trick you, but I'm not sure if that's actually a bug or a result of light, weather and time of the day nuances. Though other colors generally seem to not have such difference between preview and reality.

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Originally Posted by Halivel

Your eyes don't trick you, but I'm not sure if that's actually a bug or a result of light, weather and time of the day nuances. Though other colors generally seem to not have such difference between preview and reality.

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I considered the same thing, and I went to a few different places to test it out. Super bright Il Mheg, darkened inn rooms, house with no lights, etc., but it all looks off.

Edit - I suppose it could be the utter lack of light in the preview pane / character screen that gives it that darker color. /shrug

I was a bit disappointed by the difference, for sure.

honestly I think Square enix has no idea how to make orange colors ... Idk why they are such failures when it comes to orange and snake creature art design wise when they do just about everything else perfectly

Wow. I always thought Metallic Orange was hot garbage because I've only seen it from the preview panel. In use it actually almost looks like a type of gold. Can you do a side-by-side comparison with Metallic Yellow too?

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Originally Posted by Alaeacus

Wow. I always thought Metallic Orange was hot garbage because I've only seen it from the preview panel. In use it actually almost looks like a type of gold. Can you do a side-by-side comparison with Metallic Yellow too?

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http://i.imgur.com/pZTD4z2.png

https://i.imgur.com/E8NOQQG.png

Ignore the bright sheen on the front, I'm pretty much directly under the light in my house. BUT, it's still about the same.

I wanted the orange in the preview, that's what I liked ;-;

I think the lighting in different areas can really change how some shiny gear looks.

This is the same gear dyed the same color inside and outside my house.

https://i.imgur.com/s9OMmWD.png
https://i.imgur.com/7bmBcO6.png

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

I think the lighting in different areas can really change how some shiny gear looks.

This is the same gear dyed the same color inside and outside my house.

https://i.imgur.com/s9OMmWD.png
https://i.imgur.com/7bmBcO6.png

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It definitely does, and in each screenshot the OP posted it does look like the gear is being heavily affected by the lighting as it matches the lit tone of the other objects in the area. (That first screenshot in the Crystarium especially, as the rest of the scene has that foggy washed out look.) Where as in the preview it's basically in a vaccum with no light sources to affect it. The darker metallic gold has the same issue, as does the metallic red. They reflect more of the light around them, which makes it seem like the color has been changed.

SE it is time for a full spectrum dye.

Tera online had this along with regular dyes.

It provided a sliding scale so the PLAYER could create ANY color they chose.
The possibilities were amazing, it was FANTASTIC!!

Please add a dye like this in game, at every ones disposal so we can actually enjoy the dyeing of gear and get the exact shade /intensity we want.
ty ♥

(PS, the game does have major issues creating intense shades of orange and red in dyes, makeup/hair color etc... please fix )

OP, that's mostly due to cloudy weather + time of the day. It happens with your character's skin tone as well. If I go to Gridania while it's foggy and day time, my character's complexion looks so much lighter it doesn't even look like the same character. For some reason cloudy and foggy weather desaturates yellows, reds and browns ingame.

I like metallic orange, I use it for the feathers in my Phoenix glamour, but yeah, it does look quite different in the preview vs out and about.

It would be great if we could have metallic dyes on chocobos though, I miss my pretty silver chocobo from FF13-2

Just don’t go to the gold saucer :D

Metallic dyes are just weird. I think it's the way they coded them to reflect light. I had the Eureka RDM outfit dyed metallic blue and depending on the lighting it varied anywhere from deep blue through mid-tone blue to magenta. And it was definitely the lighting doing it. I could stand directly in front of a light source that made my front side magenta while my back side was royal blue. I happened to like the effect, but I can totally see being frustrated by not getting the colour in the preview.

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

honestly I think Square enix has no idea how to make orange colors ... Idk why they are such failures when it comes to orange and snake creature art design wise when they do just about everything else perfectly

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What?

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20190111023904

Metallic red does it too. Honestly I just want pure white and jet black to not be rare dye anymore. I don't like having to pay 500k or RL money for a pot for basic white or black dye so that I don't have gear that looks like dirty dirty snow or a black shirt that's been washed too many times.

A lot of the metallic dyes seem to have two colours to them. Sky blue has a bit of green, metallic blue has a bit of purple, etc. you see this quite clearly in the starlight tights, where metallic sky blue starlight tights look blue fading into green

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Originally Posted by Gokuhan

Metallic red does it too. Honestly I just want pure white and jet black to not be rare dye anymore. I don't like having to pay 500k or RL money for a pot for basic white or black dye so that I don't have gear that looks like dirty dirty snow or a black shirt that's been washed too many times.

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Benefits of recruiting friends. The problem is getting said friends to stick with XIV.

I have tons of gold chocobo feathers for enough pure white to turn a small house into a winter wonderland.

One of the biggest problems with lighting in this game is that a lot of it is treated as a screen overlay instead of a source. That's definitely an easy way to handle it, but it looks really weird in some situations, or when it affects something else that itself is supposed to be an emissive.

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Originally Posted by Gula

What?

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20190111023904

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you do know in the game it doesn't look orange right thats a fanmade image in the game it looks more yellowish

Remember, orange is just bright brown.

Lighting in this game changes things drastically. In some areas my tan skin is perfect, in others I look like I am using the same makeup artist as Donald Trump.

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

you do know in the game it doesn't look orange right thats a fanmade image in the game it looks more yellowish

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Ah, I see now. You have literally no idea what you're talking about nor have any clue about anything Final Fantasy outside of XIV. No need to be (too) ashamed, everyone starts somewhere.

Boku no google Opera Omnia and FFIX. Square Enix was never only FFXIV. It might help you to know more about the company. You said SE can't make orange, that character is as orange as they come and a main character of their own game.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...characters.png

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Originally Posted by Gula

Ah, I see now. You have literally no idea what you're talking about nor have any clue about anything Final Fantasy outside of XIV. No need to be (too) ashamed, everyone starts somewhere.

Boku no google Opera Omnia and FFIX. Square Enix was never only FFXIV. It might help you to know more about the company. You said SE can't make orange, that character is as orange as they come and a main character of their own game.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...characters.png

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lol do you every cutscene in ff9 her dress was yellow not orange fan art doesnt count, Half the times outside final fantasy 1-5 the snakes are flat design (Also ffxiv is pure trash compared to all the other ffs lol)

the closet to orange being done correctly by them is on Ifirt during final fantasy 10 (outside dark ifirt that was just ugly) for the entire game , ff9 was great by princess garent/dagger dress is not orange outside select areas but thats the lighting effect every cutscene in the game the summoning of Alexander to save alexander to the death of her (fake mother) her dress was not orange lol it was yellow the only time it ever showed up as orange was the opening movie of final fantasy 9


Also in that image that dress is YELLOW NOT ORANGE


Also that might work on someone who hasn't bought the games over 5 times and beaten them more than 3 times a year lol. Seriosely the only game I've beaten more often is breath of fire and legend of dragoon.

The only final fantasy I haven't beaten is 1 (Which was really trashy) and 2 which well drains you with all the weapon training... Also you literaly trying to use the first one I beat with no guides/nohelp when I owned a playstation one against me by posting images like you never played the game I bet you don't even know Zidane brothers name or species do you?

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

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You must be color blind because that is definitely orange.

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

lol do you every cutscene in ff9 her dress was yellow not orange fan art doesnt count, Half the times outside final fantasy 1-5 the snakes are flat design (Also ffxiv is pure trash compared to all the other ffs lol)

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https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...MygAegUIARDfAQ


If you dislike the game so much...

https://media1.tenor.com/images/aef6...temid=14524498

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

As a game its good but as a final fantasy its trash.

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Calling LolitaBansheeMeru, party of one. Your table is ready.

Its the Daggers dress effect.

Orange in some models, but as soon as you get into higher resolution, it looks significantly more gold.

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Please stop talking, this is benefiting no one.

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"I contributed zero to this thread except trying to call you out, just dont respond when I do that, jeeeeeeeez"

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

lol that Wasn't saying I dislike the game but compare and contrast

Like really the game of ffxiv is fine but as a final fantasy it scales 50x worse than even final fantasy 13-2 and that one just bad. The reason is it lacks anything that really is 'final fantasy' because the dev team would rather insuult the way final fantasy works to get more people into the game because the "mmo aspect" is how I view it. As a game its good but as a final fantasy its trash.

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Please stop talking, this is benefiting no one.

What a strange and orange molehill this is.

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

the closet to orange being done correctly by them is on Ifirt during final fantasy 10 (outside dark ifirt that was just ugly) for the entire game , ff9 was great by princess garent/dagger dress is not orange outside select areas but thats the lighting effect every cutscene in the game the summoning of Alexander to save alexander to the death of her (fake mother) her dress was not orange lol it was yellow the only time it ever showed up as orange was the opening movie of final fantasy 9

Also in that image that dress is YELLOW NOT ORANGE

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What dress are you even talking about? The only dress Dagger wears it white/off-white with green accents
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n1Lgjn1zp...net-Design.jpg
Her iconic outfit is orange, and it always appears orange in every media she is in, even her original game. Like most colors orange has variants. The closest color for her would be amber, which is like a midway between pure yellow and pure orange. Don't let the name of the Amber Drought Chocobo fool you, Amber is an orange not a red. Also that "fan" artwork you mentioned is official artwork for Opera Omnia.

People do see colors differently, barring colorblindness, but maybe show us what you mean. If we all still say orange, you might be shadeblind, a muted form of colorblindnesd, but if we all see yellow, it might be something in the game that made it that way, like lighting, as has been pointed out.

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

The only final fantasy I haven't beaten is 1 (Which was really trashy)

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So I just think now you used this thread to draw out FF fans and have a go at them, because I can think of no greater way to insult FF fans than to say FF1 is trashy. I've never played it, but without FF1 there would be no FF at all..also it saved Square and made them the successful giant they are today. Honestly you need to take Meru out of your sig, you're unworthy and if the Divine Dragon itself were to come to Deningrad and found you there, it would wait for you to leave because it's not gonna waste energy blowing you away.