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

[blueruckus]

This is right... kinda. Just like the DEEPEN'er fruits that give + to one color and - to the other two colors, the LIGHTEN'er fruit works as its polor opposite.

If you go by color values, Ink Blue is indeed deeper than Soot black in terms of values being closer to zero. To achieve Soot Black, you'd need to feed the Chocobo a number off all three Deepen'er fruits (that give + to one color, and - to the other two). That will transform your bird into the Ink Blue, which then you'd need to feed it a very few trio of the Lighten'er fruits, which will raise all the values evenly up to the values which match closer to Soot Black.

I don't think you'd need to feed it a Pineapple to go from Ink to Soot because the blue level of soot is lower than ink. I'm trying something right now and will know in about an hour.

[Ravenguard]

I don't think you'd need to feed it a Pineapple to go from Ink to Soot because the blue level of soot is lower than ink. I'm trying something right now and will know in about an hour.

The idea is to feed it a trio of all LIGHTEN'ers. Since each LIGHTEN'er gives a plus to two colors while a minus to the third, by feeding all three LIGHTEN'ers, you would effectively be giving two boosts (++) to all three colors (3 pluses and 1 minus). That would raise the values of all three evenly. The very low values of Ink Blue (22R 26G 34B) would raise slightly into the Soot Black range (37R 35G 30B).

As I reread this post, I do realize what you mean. You wouldnt want to raise the BLUE value too much, however, I assume if the values to trigger a specific color fall into a "range" (Such as 35-40R and so on) you'd be in the Soot Black value range.

[blueruckus]

As I reread this post, I do realize what you mean. You wouldnt want to raise the BLUE value too much, however, I assume if the values to trigger a specific color fall into a "range" (Such as 35-40R and so on) you'd be in the Soot Black value range.

Still Ink Blue after this last session. My bird is determined to stay this color. This go around I did the following:

Valfruit - no message
Plum - no message
Valfuit - Feather message
Plum - Feather message

So hopefully now my RGB is... R > G > B at very low values, which SHOULD be Soot Black. Will report back in 6 more hours.

[Ravenguard]

Still Ink Blue after this last session. My bird is determined to stay this color. This go around I did the following:

Valfruit - no message
Plum - no message
Valfuit - Feather message
Plum - Feather message

So hopefully now my RGB is... R > G > B at very low values, which SHOULD be Soot Black. Will report back in 6 more hours.

Best of luck! Fingers crossed!

[blueruckus]

Best of luck! Fingers crossed!

So from Ink Blue, I went to Midnight Blue with a Valfruit and Plum.
Ink Blue - 22 26 34
Midnight Blue - 20 21 49

Both those fruits should've done +red, +grn, -blu.... however, it didn't do that at all if it changed to Midnight Blue. Quite the opposite, rather. So maybe it isn't strictly based of RGB number manipulation. Maybe what's happening is that you go down a 'color path' and the deeper you are in one, the harder it is to jump to a new color path altogether? So maybe I'm so deep in to blue that the only way I can hop over to a new color is to first start making my way to a brighter blue and then get myself in to new color range (grays) as I revert closer back to starting point, and from there darken down to black? Not sure. I've seen a few people mention that they have hit grays but I figure by now they would have hit black if this theory is correct...

Current feeding:
Apple - no msg
Pear - feather message
Apple - feather message