Pattens Colour Mix-up

[Raldo]

P.S. How do you make Mahogany turn blue? Isn't it a reddish wood? >.>;

I think the color is actually the cloth that adorns the wood.

Good catch though.

[Umo]

I think the color is actually the cloth that adorns the wood.

That's it. It's pretty odd, though. For me, the colour displayed on the item's name should be predominant on both icon and equipped item.
On a side note, this happens aswell for other pattens like [item=8080320]Oak Pattens[/item] (i.e. [item=8080323]Oak Pattens (Black)[/item] are light brown, almost golden).

[Matsume]

That's it. It's pretty odd, though. For me, the colour displayed on the item's name should be predominant on both icon and equipped item.
On a side note, this happens aswell for other pattens like [item=8080320]Oak Pattens[/item] (i.e. [item=8080323]Oak Pattens (Black)[/item] are light brown, almost golden).

One would think it not too difficult to make the thumbnail color correspond to the actual item color >.> I can do this with Paint for the love of The Twelve...

[Mychael]

One would think it not too difficult to make the thumbnail color correspond to the actual item color >.> I can do this with Paint for the love of The Twelve...

Well, after a wee bit of looking around, I have discovered that a patten is not really a shoe, but an "overshoe" used to protect shoes/feet from the mud/dung that would cover the ground.

Some examples:



So really, it seems right that only the patten itself (basically, what's between the sole and the ground) should be made of mohagany, rather than the shoe, which holds true for these models. I happened to acquire a pair of my own recently, but got lucky while screenshotting them as I discovered two other pair right next to me. ^-^



However, I'm really more confused than when I started. Raldo was right that the color in the name is in fact that little section of felt (guessing based on materials). But that's not really a good solution because, as Umo pointed out, the color displayed in the name should generally refer to the predominant color, which is that of the boar leather, which is also affected by the dying process. Based on this, Boar leather + blue dye = white, etc. If anything, the leather's colour should be the title in the name. That brings up an even bigger problem, though--the all-purpose dye used changes the leather to a random color. o.o So the recipes are messed up too..

Could I convince a mod to move this to the Items area?