All Hair Colors for All

My petition is very simple: please update the character creator to include all hair colors for all races. This can't be that big of a heavy lift for the devs, and it would mean so much to players who want that sweet ice-blue tint that Hyur has (see below).

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Thank you.

given how this game handles character data it probably IS a heavy lift.

That said the way this game handles character data does need an overhaul. It won't be fast, it won't be easy, but it would go a long way to future proofing the character creator.

That's a good point. Also, an incentive to Square-Enix -- doing this may boost Fantasia sales, as even though hair is not Fantasia-locked, the races are, and some people may wish to play new races based on expanded hair color alone.

I wasn't even aware that different races had different hair colors.

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Originally Posted by Eien713

I wasn't even aware that different races had different hair colors.

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Color palettes are same for the most part, that light blue color seems to be the only odd one, for whatever reason.
Also Hrothgars have an independent color palette for fur (but share same palette for patterns/highlights with others).

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Originally Posted by Halivel

Color palettes are same for the most part, that light blue color seems to be the only odd one, for whatever reason.
Also Hrothgars have an independent color palette for fur (but share same palette for patterns/highlights with others).

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Ah, I see.

I would love if we could use the highlight colors as base and vice versa. Why on earth the highlights (to the left) are much richer than the base colors is beyond me.

I'd love having the deeper orange that Lalafells and Au Ra have access to.

What annoys me the most is that we can't use the more natural browns and duller colors as highlights. I wanted to make a character that had a deep red base with soft brown highlights.

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Originally Posted by Halivel

Color palettes are same for the most part, that light blue color seems to be the only odd one, for whatever reason.
Also Hrothgars have an independent color palette for fur (but share same palette for patterns/highlights with others).

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It's not just that light blue, but the dark blue too. If your race has the light blue, that means their dark blue is more greyish. An Elezen can't get my exact color of blue for their hair.

I was today years old when I learned different races had different hair colors.

I just want access to a really dark brown colour. I don't like the jet black and wanted my dark-haired character to have a tinge of brown to it; instead I had to settle for purple as the next closest not-black.

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Originally Posted by Ayuhra

given how this game handles character data it probably IS a heavy lift.

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Nah, we do actually know that hair color is stored directly as a standard RGB value. The current selections are an entirely intentional and artificial limitation. If anything, they've spent far more time and effort preventing people from breaking out of the allowed colors than it would have taken to give us numerical input or a slider and let use the look we want.

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Originally Posted by Ayuhra

given how this game handles character data it probably IS a heavy lift.

That said the way this game handles character data does need an overhaul. It won't be fast, it won't be easy, but it would go a long way to future proofing the character creator.

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There was a way people were able to hack their way to having non-standard hair colors. What I heard was that they changed the hex value during character creation and the game just went with it. I feel like it kinda throws the character data argument out the window though. If anything, SE is wasting character data if they're using six digit hex values for colors and only giving us the option to pick from a handful.

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Originally Posted by Limecat

Nah, we do actually know that hair color is stored directly as a standard RGB value. The current selections are an entirely intentional and artificial limitation.

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Stored at what level?

Everything I've seen of NPC data from browsing Garland Tools indicates that character hair colour is stored not as RGB values but as a grid reference to that palette. Change the layout and you'll presumably change existing characters' appearances as they blindly reference whatever colour is now in that slot.

Unless it's just how the website relays the information.

The grid reference would require less data, though, which might explain why they took that approach. Two numbers instead of three.

I was playing around yesterday with vieras rava and veena and they dont have the same eyecolours or haircolours either. I have this warm lavender haircolour I love on my rava, but since her skin is somewhat like that the eyebrows disappear a bit in her skin, so I thought, let me check veena, since they can be lighter in skin but....the haircolours wasnt there.....Now this would be solved if they just gave us the option to have darker eyebrows but that is another thread entirely.....