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

[RakaMaimhov]

This would be correct if that's all the fruits were doing. But it seems that what they actually do is lower one and raise the other two. Plums raise cyan (blue and green), valfruit raise magenta (red and blue) and pineapples raise yellow (green and red). White is still coming from raising all of the values as high as possible.

The "deepen" fruit raise one and lower the other two.

I have not personally observed this effect at all. I have only seen them take away color, not add it. I am coming up on another 6 hour period being finished, so perhaps I will be proven wrong if the chocobo comes out a color other than what is predicted.

By your own reasoning, this would make it impossible to get white, btw.

There are already verified snow white chocobos.

It is an unnecessary complication to believe that the fruits that "lighten" colors actually secretly darken others.

[Tashigi]

Would be nice if the OP updated his first post to reflect the findings...
Oh well.

[Syrehn]

I have not personally observed this effect at all. I have only seen them take away color, not add it. I am coming up on another 6 hour period being finished, so perhaps I will be proven wrong if the chocobo comes out a color other than what is predicted.

By your own reasoning, this would make it impossible to get white, btw.

There are already verified snow white chocobos.

No, I used that reasoning to obtain my Snow White chocobo. When you use a fruit to deepen or lighten a colour it's increasing/decreasing the other 2 colour hues behind the scenes.

[SevenHeavens]

10 Ogo and 8 Dom in one sitting = SKY BLUE

I'm so happy *tears*

[Kaelah]

Ok to recap mine. Stable Good. Rank 7.

Desert Yellow.
5 plums.
1st > Your chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours.
2nd > Devoured.
3rd > Devoured.
4th > Your chocobo is growing new feathers.
5th > Your chocobo is growing new feathers.
Result: Sylph green.

Sylph Green.
2 Pineapples.
1st > Your chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours.
2nd > Your chocobo is growing new feathers.
Result: Cream Yellow.

Cream Yellow.
9 pears. 3 plums.
1st pear > Your chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours.
2nd > Devoured.
3rd > Devoured.
4th > Devoured.
5th > Devoured.
6th > Devoured.
7th > Devoured.
8th > Devoured.
9th > Devoured.
1st plum > Your chocobo is growing new feathers.
2nd plum > Your chocobo is growing new feathers.
3rd plum > Your chocobo is growing new feathers.
Result: Apple green.

[RakaMaimhov]

No, I used that reasoning to obtain my Snow White chocobo. When you use a fruit to deepen or lighten a colour it's increasing/decreasing the other 2 colour hues behind the scenes.

That still doesn't make any sense though as you would not be able to obtain perfect white this way. Please explain your reasoning, because I'm afraid I just don't see it.

[MomomiMomi]

That still doesn't make any sense though as you would not be able to obtain perfect white this way. Please explain your reasoning, because I'm afraid I just don't see it.

You don't need perfect white. You simply need to get all three values high enough for the game to accept it as "Snow White".

[RakaMaimhov]

You don't need perfect white. You simply need to get all three values high enough for the game to accept it as "Snow White".

I can understand that (especially considering how we don't have pure white or black as dye colors in the game anyway).

I still think white is at the lower end of the scale (being less saturated) and black at the higher end of the scale (being more saturated)

Also: If the "lightening" foods add as well as take away color, why hasn't anyone suggested the darkening do the same? (for example, add red might also subtract a little green and blue)

[Syrehn]

I can understand that.

I still think white is at the lower end of the scale (being less saturated) and black at the higher end of the scale (being more saturated)

Also: If the "lightening" foods add as well as take away color, why hasn't anyone suggested the darkening do the same? (for example, add red might also subtract a little green and blue)

I believe it has been mentioned for both lightening and darkening foods back several pages; I don't think the increase/decrease is huge.

[Psychosamm]

I think you guys are over thinking it... The fruits say they lighten a particular color. The fact that the other two colors become more prominent is because you are REMOVING one color, i seriously doubt the fruit secretly adds the other two colors, its just allowing the other two to been expressed more. I believe this because i had a Coral Pink Chocobo, and was able to turn it into a Rose Pink one using the Doman plums. It simply took away the red, making it more pale, thus creating Rose Pink. It didnt turn my choco blueish green, it made it a lighter shade of pink. If you don't believe me here are pictures.
Coral Pink


To Rose Pink


I also believe it isn't using the RGB scale everyone is going off of. Simply because you use the lightening fruits to get white, if it was by RGB logic would dictate if you reached 0, or close to it, you would get black, but you don't. It seems like the game goes off subtractive color rules AKA CMYK, which would make sense since its the color, or ink in the fruits that cause it to change color. RGB uses Additive color which is based off the mixing of light, not dye or ink.