A Reasonable Request for Custom Content: Proper Armor Tinting

[Rygar]

Originally Posted by Kinaki [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember when this went in on Live. It was cool for a day until you realized everyone who had worked for a unique look lost it overnight.

Kinda like 6 year old character names. So, possible.

Do you really thing the look is lost? You still have a full set of green armor or whatever. Either way, there is a built in command to turn off the proper tinting.

Dear lord... I sound like someone defending custom weapon skins on Agnarr. I feel... dirty!! Still would vote for this though, doesn't modify the base texture.

I suppose when Velious launched, if original EQ team decided, "No new expansion... crap, we almost green-lit CATS ON THE MOON! What were we thinking...? Let's quit while we're ahead, wrap up our 'to-do' list on content and leave the servers locked, can do occasional dynamic world events within the defined boundaries of Norrath", then this would have made it in (along with some other stuff no doubt).

I don't think its such a big stretch, especially seeing as how there are no controls in place to prevent the texture crew from modifying / updating textures. If they really wanted to prevent that, could probably parse certain data points when loading texture to verify nothing was modified.

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by Rygar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If they really wanted to prevent that, could probably parse certain data points when loading texture to verify nothing was modified.

That may actually be a thing at some point because there are fucking elf sim nerds who make the walls of entire zones transparent to have an advantage over their competition, among other possible exploits. Custom texture packages that are kosher wouldn't be entirely off the table, were they to patch in such a restriction, but overall it would be a very bad thing for texture nerds and it's unlikely we'd be able to update any custom textures that are allowed.

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by Kinaki [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember when this went in on Live. It was cool for a day until you realized everyone who had worked for a unique look lost it overnight.

Kinda like 6 year old character names. So, possible.

6 year old filthy illegal immersion ruining names which were judiciously deported

[Diogene]

Originally Posted by Kinaki [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember when this went in on Live. It was cool for a day until you realized everyone who had worked for a unique look lost it overnight.

Kinda like 6 year old character names. So, possible.

I second this. Tint isnt good. Not classic. And I’ll say thats probably why fashionquest right now isnt meaningless.

[Rygar]

Originally Posted by Diogene [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I second this. Tint isnt good. Not classic. And I’ll say thats probably why fashionquest right now isnt meaningless.

I think people are misunderstanding... It doesn't turn all the tinting off if you disable the function, it is just letting you overall tint or only tint in specific areas. It by no means inhibits fashionquest.

[Diogene]

Originally Posted by Rygar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think people are misunderstanding... It doesn't turn all the tinting off if you disable the function, it is just letting you overall tint or only tint in specific areas. It by no means inhibits fashionquest.

Yep yep I understand what it is, but to me color scarcity is key to classic fashionquest.
For exemple, this set of armor has a unique purple tint and is really hard to craft / get. http://wiki.project1999.com/Enchante...late_(platinum)
Now if you add tint in game, this particular set becomes less desirable. End of the story.

[Rygar]

Originally Posted by Diogene [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yep yep I understand what it is, but to me color scarcity is key to classic fashionquest.
For exemple, this set of armor has a unique purple tint and is really hard to craft / get. http://wiki.project1999.com/Enchante...late_(platinum)
Now if you add tint in game, this particular set becomes less desirable. End of the story.

It sounds like you are describing armor dyes, that is not what i am advocating for. Classic armor is all the same base color, colored sets are just given an overall RGB color value. For example, fine steel armor is a base texture, bronze is just fine plate with an RGB overlay over the entire piece. If portions of your skin showed in the armor, your skin would tint too. This would prevent that (skin would be normal color, gems in armor would retain original color), and be an optional feature (which was added 3 months into Luclin).

And to Baler, i have always been in favor of some custom content, stuff like nerfing mallets which weren't widespread meta at the time and only trivialized agro management.

In this case, it is just visual aesthetic and will not affect encounters.

Furthermore, i would not advocate for this on refresh server, as it wasn't how the experience was back in the day throughout progression. On locked server could even enable custom contents seasonally, much like a GM event, so things stay Classic there as well for at least most of the time


In the end, i don't expect this to be implement but i do hold out hope. I understand the slippery slope argument. This would be but a baby step, not some game redefining feature.

[Rygar]

A look at original troll plate. A bit more subtle but I love how the Umbral pops, even the crafted looks pretty nice.

Here are the armors shown:
Fine Plate / Bronze / Crafted
Indicolite / Paineel Steel / Rubicite
Umbral / Blood Ember / Totemic

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[Sadiki]

This should provide me with seconds, if not minutes, of additional things to do.