How to dye your armor with LoY

[Gello]

So if you dyed your arms black (like my HIE) and then sold the armor from that slot, your arms will still be black, and any new piece of armor you put into that slot, will become that color.

I'm trying desperately to get rid of the tints so that I can get items of different colors to have their own color again when I wear them. Has anyone found a way to get rid of the dyes?

I can dye the slot 255 255 255 but that will just give the default cloth/leather/chain/plate texture with no color.

I really need to get the variance back so I can tell what I'm wearing when I swap gear without right-clicking all over my inventory.

[rrimgeaper2]

cost

'Ello. I bought the supplies with apx. 150 charisma. Total cost to me was about 30pp per vial

And in case you were wondering...i went with all blue

[Verdandi]

When I pointed out to Niami and Ngreth the issues with tinting appearing to be inconsistent in whether it overlays or replaces the original color, Ngreth provided the following explanation:

Actually... it depends on the piece of armor.

What it is is, it will override any existing tint on armor.

What it will not override is colored TEXTURE on armor.

So, if the default texture is white or a light color, player tinging will override it (newbie robes, most plate and chain armor is like this)

If the default texture has a color (typically brown) the tint will go over that color, you will typically see this in cloth and leather (including most non-newbie robes...) This is where the player tinting does not work real well.

So some armor that looks colored to us is effectively silver for the purposes of dying, while other armor will maintain the original color underneath what we apply. It depends on whether the original color is just a different tint or a whole texture.

[Heggley]

I was able to change my leaf scale gloves and chains of the accussed, but Lodi boots would not tint

[Morani]

As a tool for those of us that have a hard time making the color you want, there are shareware programs like pixel spy and others that you can download and use to identify the color of ay display on any screen. Download the program and go surfing till you see the color you want; use the program to give you the numbers that you plug in for your dyes.

[Paisleygirl]

How do I remove the dye???



Please someone help me!! I desperately want to remove a dye that I've saved to one of my slots. How do I remove it? I heard someone say once that there's a "remove dye" function. All that I saw in the dye window was a "reset" function. I tried and tried to do that and it would not remove either of my dyed slots. There's got to be a way to reset your slots or maybe your ".ini" file?? I do not want to be stuck with this dyed color in my slot that I've created. Any help would SO appreciated.

~~Paisleygirl

~~~EDIT~~~
Found out from another thread on this board that if you put your saved armor dye slot back to the numbers of 255, 255, 255 that it'll put your armor piece back to the original color. You have to type in the numbers. It also works best if you take the armor piece off of the slot before you change it. Of course this takes up a vial to save it, but it will put your armor slot back to the normal colors. The tint box may be a little buggy til you change out different armor pieces or zone, but it'll clear out to the normal color eventually.

[FaerieFire]

Varied results on various items

I played with the dying on quite a few items and discovered the following:

1) Some items do have an inherent tint that may or may not have been applied over another base color (as opposed to white or light grey). For example, Haze Panther armor shows as navy blue, but when dying, the base color is essentially the standard brown leather color. Any dyes applied to it only tint the brown -- white only lightens it slightly.

2) Some items have patterns and color variations that are not visible in their basic or standard state. For example, the Froglok bonecaster's robe is a very dark green tone-on-tone (almost solid black in some light). However, "dyed" white, it becomes a medium purple with white sleeves, a gold sash and a gold-and-black design on the back. (Is this another robe design in disguise?) Using other colors tinted that basic design, with the visibility of the detailing depending on how deep the tint was. Some darker colors rendered the robe tone-on-tone again, with no other colors visible.

3) Dark items, such as black chitin leggings, various dark brown boots and gloves, and dark grey chain items, can be lightened with the "white" dye. For example, applying the white changed black chitin legs to a dark silvery grey instead of the near-black they were originally. On the other hand, dark brown gloves are nearly impossible to dye to a light shade of any color, but applying a slightly lighter version of the the desired color can lighten the tint to match a medium shade. That means when a matched set is needed but one item is inherently tinted dark (i.e. brown) while another is untinted, if a medium or dark tone is needed, the tones can be matched by applying a slightly lighter tone to the item with the darker base tint.

4) Some medium-toned items result in off-white or grey when white is applied. So, those medium brown monk-usable robes can be lightened to white or white/grey combinations. So far, nothing I've seen that wasn't already white is coming out truly solid snow-white.

5) Some accent colors appear to be inherent to the armor piece. For example, the gems in the bard lambent helm and breastplate remain deep blue even when the armor is dyed a different color. The green undertones of ivy-etched armor are difficult to get rid of unless using a really intense, dark color as a tint. Patterned pieces, such as barbarian plaid or pieces where visible shoulders are a different color from the arms, take the tint over the whole piece, which can produce a clearly "tinted" look that may not be desirable for some.

6) I've seen a few interesting results: red-haired wood elves wearing a full set of died-to-match red ivy-etched armor; rainbow-colored bards; monks in head-to-toe midnight blue; "dip-dyed" armor sets, where the color shades from one color to another (i.e. green to blue, blue to purple or yellow to red) from head to toe; ivy-etched overdyed in green to give it a deeper color; a few dressed in hot-pink or acid green.