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

[Giantbane]

After 12 Color transformations I'm quite confident that there is no +5/-5 relations with food. I tried different way of feeding but I never got that supposed relation. What I can say from my personal experience is that the effect of each food is loyal to its description.

Xelphatol Apple:
A bitter fruit......is known to deepen the red hues of their feathers.

Working with RGB values doesn't help, but Logic does. So if you add RED to BLUE it will change in PURPLE, as experience should suggest. No matter how far the two colors are on the RGB scale.

Examples from my experience:

1. Starting Point: Royal Blue - R:34 G:42 B:96
   Food: x1 Ciedalaes Pineapple
   Finishing Point: Gloom Purple - R:74 G:42 B:89
   ΔR = +40 ; ΔG = 0 ; ΔB = -7
2. Starting Point: Royal Blue - R:34 G:42 B:96
   Food: x2 Xelphatol Apple
   Finishing Point: Regal Purple - R:95 G:42 B:71
   ΔR = +61 ; ΔG = 0 ; ΔB = -25

Working with RGB values can still work, you just have to have a better idea of what your RGB value is.

Assuming the system *does* work with RGB values, then Royal Blue does not necessarily mean that the actual color of your chocobo is 34,42,96. It means that this is the best fit given whatever your RGB value is. It also means that when you add a single pineapple, then your RGB value hasn't really changed to 74,42, 89, but you've crossed over into the range where the color picker now picks gloom purple for you.

Actually your example all but disproves your theory, that the fruits do "what they say". Pineapple says it lightens blue. If you start with a deep blue, lighten blue once then how do you account for the fact that the system stuck you with a dark purple (gloom purple)? That doesn't make any sense unless there's something else going on under the hood.

Also, if the system works with RGB, then Royal Blue is a bad starting point for testing what effects are. This is because even though you got to Royal Blue, you don't know what your exact RGB value is.

I'm not saying that the +5/-5 RGB is a proven as exactly what they're doing. But to me, this fits what people have been reporting pretty well (as well as my own limited experiences).