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

[mesterjester]

so i had given up trying for morbol green based on how alinah's color chart shows to get there, since everything i tried sent me in a loop between othard blue and storm blue.

then i found this color calculator: FFXIV Chocobo Colour Calculator

i used the 8th rgb scale the 2 times i tried. doing what was suggested from othard blue to morbol green sent me back to storm blue. doing what was suggested from storm blue to morbol green sent me to void blue.

i'm out of fruit again and don't want to buy anymore so i'm sticking with this for now. maybe i'll try again once i've grown some more fruit.

fwiw, void blue is closer to morbol green from an rgb perspective, so this was a better result than getting othard or storm blue again. i'm guessing morbol green is just one of those harder colors to get.

here's a pic if anyone is curious.

[AttacKat]

so i had given up trying for morbol green based on how alinah's color chart shows to get there, since everything i tried sent me in a loop between othard blue and storm blue.
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i used the 8th rgb scale the 2 times i tried. doing what was suggested from othard blue to morbol green sent me back to storm blue. doing what was suggested from storm blue to morbol green sent me to void blue.

Go check out the FAQ section in microfeeding. I updated it with how to handle this issue.

[mesterjester]

Go check out the FAQ section in microfeeding. I updated it with how to handle this issue.

i had done the previous feeding 1 fruit at a time, and alternating fruits, so as not to push a single rgb value too far in any direction, but i didn't do the math to see which order was best for feedings.

i've looked at the color calculator spreadsheet before but for some reason, this is the first time it actually worked for me. previously none of the values would change regardless of what i typed into the fruits column. i'll give it another go soon here and see what happens. oddly, typing the values straight into the spreadsheet from the calculator shows a morbol green result with no microfeedings necessary. maybe it will work this time.

thanks for pointing out the faq/microfeeding stuff.

[Kaelah]

Using the Chocobo colour calculator I finally got Cactuar green! Thankoo so much.
I had been looping Celeste > Apple > Celeste > Apple for ages, wasted so much fruit. From Apple it said to use 8 apples, 9 pears and 11 berries. I used 4 apples, 4 pears, 5 berries, 4 apples, 4 pears, 6 berries. (I forgot to use the 9th pear.) Got quite a few feather messages along the way but just fed the lot anyway. I'll post a pic later.

[AttacKat]

Dye UI and a dropper.

And IME, I can tell you any single pixel dropper will be wrong. Even with direct capture of the Dye UI, the game still does some form of color shading and this is especially noticeable with the lighter colors such as the pinks and the light blue/greens. Just zoom up to 500%+ and see for yourself.

[snowybell]

I wanted the chocobo from Dalamud red, into a nice ink blue. According to the ffxivchocobo, i needed "1 × Plums, 8 × Pears, 9 × Berries",
And it turned Regal Purple, imagine the shock i had D:

So now i'm trying to get it back to another colour.

It's very weird to me, Purple uses none of those fruits as i checked in the site.

[Lucke]

I still don't understand something. If I'm at color A and let's say I wanna get to color D, can I get there in a single feeding, or do I have to wait for each "feathers" message"?

In other words, Can I skip steps or do I have to feed till one message, wait, feed till 2nd message, wait, etc?

I've heard food fed after the first feathers message is a waste, but I also heard it will count. As in you can go from yellow to white/black in a single 6 hour feeding.

[Kaelah]

I still don't understand something. If I'm at color A and let's say I wanna get to color D, can I get there in a single feeding, or do I have to wait for each "feathers" message"?

In other words, Can I skip steps or do I have to feed till one message, wait, feed till 2nd message, wait, etc?

I've heard food fed after the first feathers message is a waste, but I also heard it will count. As in you can go from yellow to white/black in a single 6 hour feeding.

Well for mine I was told to use 8 apples, 9 pears and 11 berries. I used 4 apples, 4 pears, 5 berries, 4 apples, 4 pears and finally 6 berries in one feeding. (I missed a pear.) I paid no attention to the feathers message until the last few fruits. I did notice it alot though after the 5th fruit. Every fruit you feed will alter the RGB values, even if it doesn't give the message, the feathers message is just confirmation that you have gone into another colour from your current.

[dinantes]

Suddenly I'm very glad I didn't go for Soot Black...Seems pretty generic now = ( I went instead for a dark green and found a perfect one. I can't recall what it is, but it ain't Hunter. It's a bit more natural looking. Anyway, it's frigging perfect and fairly unique. Fed it half the amount of red for every blue and green....maybe a touch more than half.

[snowybell]

Suddenly I'm very glad I didn't go for Soot Black...Seems pretty generic now = ( I went instead for a dark green and found a perfect one. I can't recall what it is, but it ain't Hunter. It's a bit more natural looking. Anyway, it's frigging perfect and fairly unique. Fed it half the amount of red for every blue and green....maybe a touch more than half.

I kinda agree with the black, everyone around Tonberry had a black chocobo at first, but i think the novelty is wearing off (i had dalamud red, storm blue, regal purple), and there are tons of colors now that everyone gets sick of it.
SOoooooooooooo i'm going for black now :P