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

[AttacKat]

If you keep feeding the bird berries, it will end up at Royal Blue and will go no further (39,47,103). If we assume the RGB +5/-5 theory, then continued feeding will result in 0,0,255, even though the dye remains at Royal Blue. There's a massive difference in actual values between 39,47,103 and 0,0,255, but it's still outwardly displayed as the same color. So each color can be representative of some pretty big color ranges.

I believe what we're seeing when you feed the chocobo only berries (or any other single fruit) is that you are adjusting an exact internal RGB in a linear path. But the result of what we see is where that linear path intersects the various color regions created by the dye picker.

Lets focus on the main issue, the simulator/calculator. The guts of the problem is the calculator makes its calculations based on each fruit feed, not the kind of food feed. What you have written which I deleted supports the 2nd case, but not the first. As of now, we can all safely say when you feed deepen red, expect it to behave to make the bird more red, and when I feed deepen blue to that red bird, we surely can expect it to become purple.

What the calculator does is it leads people to believe that each unit of fruit feed has an expected value in the of the RGB scale. But the fact is we know we can feed only 1 apple and it may cause it to move from scale 1 to 2, and 20 apples to move from scale 4 to 5, while both 1-2 and 4-5 only differs by 16. So, what is the R value per unit of fruit in this case? 16, or 0.8? Now factor in the RNG bomb SE throws in, what is the exact behavior of each fruit fed? So, when we recommend someone to feed 5 apples, should we be expecting a +90R, or +3R? Then don't forget to add in the RNG (unknown).

I myself tried to duplicate the Royal Blue feeding from the old spreadsheet of 30 berries and 10 apples, and I only end up using 26 berries and 1 apple. Using my own case, should I consider each apple a +5R (10 recommended), or +50 (1 actual).

As said earlier, my best suggestion ATM, is keep making recommendations, but instead of using the calculator, use the PNG file of known color paths. In addition, instead of recommend tons of fruits to feed at once, lets feed one kind of fruit at a time, so we can start to obtain more actually color changes and their stages based on one kind of fruit. Once we reach within the desired color range, then make the necessary fine adjustments.