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

[JakzChurchill]

In case anyones interested I created an artist interpretation of every possible coloured chocobo. Might be of use to anyone on the fence of what colour to aim for. www.superslothdesign.com/chocobo/

[Madoka_kaname]

spent 22 apples and 3 berries to get Sunset Orange

[Crankysorc]

spent 22 apples and 3 berries to get Sunset Orange

That blends so well with the beak and with the dark tips looking red it reminds me of a phoenix.

[Anonymoose]

I think a huge issue here is that the "lighten/deepen" red/green/blue implies different color mechanics based on how you read it (granted, it implies you'll know which way to read it). For instance, look at the person who used doman plums to go from desert yellow to celeste green. English says doman plum lightens red, other languages say it adds light blue. Isn't that the same thing, if you read correctly? Lift red from yellow in RGB and where do you go? Towards green. Technically it means the same thing, but the wording here is terrible. Replace "lightens" with "lifts" and getting black or white really could be as easy as darkening or lifting the RGB values to move around this chart. I just don't understand if the RGB uses additive or subtractive principles...how do you get to black or white?

[Black91CRX]

So how do you get black? Lighten all hues or darken?

[Kaelah]

So how do you get black? Lighten all hues or darken?

I'd assume darken, and lighten all is white.

[Lilymoon]

I'd assume darken, and lighten all is white.

In theory other way around. Black is the absense of colour and would be completely zeroed out on RGB scale. This is based around light rather then actual artistic colour theory. The gobbiebag brown colour came from lower the original RG value and increasing the B value to a point where they were closer to even.

[Fyce]

I'd assume darken, and lighten all is white.

It's actually not that. The correct wording is "deepen", not "darken".
It changes everything around.

The use of "lighten" and "deepen" respectively means "less" and "more" or the chosen color.
(The justification is: if you make something "lighter", you're reducing its mass. "Deepen" it can mean that you make it more 'strong', increasing its mass. At least, this is how I see it.)

So, in order to get a dark/black chocobo, you need to reduce the amount of red and green first, meaning that you would need a combination of a few Doman Plum (lighten red) and some Valfruit Seeds (lighten green).

I can't give any amount nor I can guarantee what I'm saying because the numbers seems to be all over the place. But I would go something like 4 Doman Plum and 3 Valfruit Seeds.

It won't be pure black, but it should get the values of red and green closer to the blue.

[Desidious]

I'd assume darken, and lighten all is white.

Are there going to be more choices of black than Soot Black? I'd not like for my bird to look like he fell down a chimney.

[Kaelah]

Are there going to be more choices of black than Soot Black? I'd not like for my bird to look like he fell down a chimney.

In theory yes, it seems that all the current dyes are the colours chocobos can be.