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

[Shougun]

rather disappointing result after 36x of all 3 "Lightening" feeds. Oh well

Gold chocobo! Sell it as a gold Chocobo :P

Thanks for the pictures

[Renik]

hmm so this will take a while huh.
I subtracted 36 from Red 255 and Greed 255. Now it is Green 219, Red 219 Blue is still 0.
So it is safe to say.
That each fruit will increase/decrease by 1 Q_Q

Subtracted with lightening fruits? it's obvious but precision is always welcome lol.

[zandervont]

I'm starting to think that you need to do ONE color at a time. Such as, lighten the red to a certain point and then lighten or darken another color to a certain point. I don't think we can mix colors in one go?

That's judging from the results already posted. zandervont should have had the most radical change with the amount that they fed their chocobo.

according to my result, i would bet that the starting Hue is something around 250-250-36.
At least Cieldalaes Pineapples dont seem to change the plumage anymore. Doman Plums still give me the "Hojomojo's plumage will change in 6 hours." and "Hojomojo is beginning to grow new feathers!" messages.

[Fyce]

Results:
- 1 Apple: no change (Devee)
- 2 Apples: Desert Yellow (original) > Millioncorn Yellow (more reddish) (Devee)
- 36 of each "Lighten" fruits: Desert Yellow (original) > Honey Yellow (more saturated yellow) (zandervont)

Possibilities:
- There is a limitation on the number of fruits taken into account
- You cannot change more than one color "step" at a time
- You need more than one fruit to have a change

[Enjou]

Maybe the key is the message "beginning to grow new feathers" means feeding more won't help after this point.

[Hulan]

What did you expect from Grind Enix ?

In their defense, there is a good amount of precedent that getting a coloured chocobo is an achievement requiring a significant time investment. Getting the Gold Chocobo is one of the hardest things in both FFVII and FFIX in terms of overall time spent. I believe the only exception to the rule is in FFXIII-2/3, in which you can get them just by finding them.

On the topic at hand, does anyone have an actually RGB scale for the various dyes? That doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to get. If not, I will look into making one when I get off work.

Maybe the key is the message "beginning to grow new feathers" means feeding more won't help after this point.

This seems a likely supposition. Based on zandervont's results, I suspect that only the first step on a single colour applies. If all three lightening aspects had applied, the Red and Green channels would have been fully saturated and the Blue channel would have either maintained the same level of saturation, or washed it out closer to white.

[Rona]

So can we feed them one at a time until we get the message, or do you only get to feed them once and then wait 6 hours?

[zandervont]

going to feed 27x Doman Plums now, bringing the total up to 63 of those.

[Enjou]

So can we feed them one at a time until we get the message, or do you only get to feed them once and then wait 6 hours?

You can continuously feed within the 6hour period, but I think maybe the message is supposed to act as like a cap, and maybe a cap for just that fruit? Not sure though, theorycrafting :x

[Rorichan]

Guess it'd be just too darned much to ask them (SE) to tell us for sure how to do it? *sigh*

I don't mind the grind, I just want to know HOW to do it so I don't waste my time.