Concern about the future of gear detail and dyeability

[Burmecia]

Over the last couple of years there has been a focus on making the game's gear models more "high detail"

as arr/npc_core glamour enjoyer i felt this :'D

[Toutatis]

A lot needs to be standardized but bicolour dyes would be nice too.

[hagare]

the day you can dye parts of the armor. sigh............

[Clink]

What I would personally like/love is more all classes sets to give better options for Mixing and Matching tbh. By this I mean being able to glam pieces outside of the class/job restrictions to open more freedom for glams.

[Espon]

I don't like how for some pieces it seems like the whole thing changes color. Metal armor with a gold trim and a blue cape? Now it's red armor with a pink trim and dark red cape. Just let me dye either the metal part or the cape, not the entire thing!

Then you got parts that mysteriously go metallic or leathery when they weren't originally, giving it a weird shine in one place.

[ameliaw]

the day you can dye parts of the armor. sigh............

The dream.

[Iscah]

As much as multiple dye channels would be nice, that isn't really relevant here – [edit from the future: and is now happening and is separate to this issue anyway.]

My concern in this thread is regarding what the devs are doing rather than something that would be nice for them to do, and that they are altering the direction of what gear is being put into the game in the current system, to the detriment rather than improvement of the system that currently exists.

[Rongway]

I love many things about this game. The devs have done lots of things right. The dye system is not one of those things. In a good dye system, every piece that's dyed the same color should end up looking the same color, and material effects should be just enough to read as materials without actually changing the target color. Here, you can dye all twelve equipment slots the same color and end up with twelve different colors. It's one of the things I wish they would fix, but I really don't count on them ever fixing it because I don't think they understand how broken it is, or that it's even broken at all.

[Droxybrobotnik]

I genuienly think they should take some time to revisit all the gear pieces and update the dye so that white means the same shade of white no matter what gear piece you apply it to. Would also give them an excuse to add more dyes to the game.
That and please make all gear pieces dyable.

[Raoabolic]

*makes long hair for races*
*makes ornate looking gear*
I hope you like clipping, there's gonna be a lot of it. ;A;