Image Designer Archive

I once sold a suit of mabari to a kid. He wanted it red & black with stripes. I told him the colors were no problem but I had no way to put stripes on it. He insisted it was possible and bought the armor. Later on he sent me a tell saying he found an ID who did it for him. Not too long after this I saw this Master AS, Master ID that had VERY nice set of black & white padded with this sleak grid design on it.

Now I assumed this was an ID thing I made a suit of very low encumbrance padded for myself and asked a guy I met at the salon to do it. He said he didn't even know that ID's could do that. He was still working his way up the tree so I found a master later on and asked. The only response I got was No.

So what's the deal? Can ID's change, add patterns and colors to armor?

I tried all the color combos I could to replicate it. But it didn't come close to what I saw. Someone in the AS forum speculated that these changes (stripes, patterns, etc.) can be made through an exploit. It explains some things but I have no way of knowing if such an exploit really exists.

Message Edited by Cephme on 09-02-2004 08:30 AM

Bah. I will always stand by the "We are not tailors" Statement. I don't know even a good tailor or seamstress who can take a bright red shirt, and dye it pale green. It can not and will never ever happen in the realm of physics and color. You can bleach a thing only so far- at the detriment of the construct.

You start ou with entirely 'clean' fabric. Be it natural or bleached material. Take bleached cotton. Now. You saturate those fibers with a color. What pigments you use determine the color (Salmon, Lemon Yellow, Crimson, Indigo) and how long you let the fiber saurate controls how dark the color is, or is not. .... removing that color entirely is impossable. And combining colors creates muchy mucky evil brown. It doesn't even create black.

And it takes a professional with professional products (dye, not your wal-mart RIT dye) to add a good color to something. ... The creator of the product (the base fabric) controls that. I would say that even in the age of success and millenia of technology that SW has, the only people equipped to pull that off would be the item creator. or, for flexibility, the class.

It bugs me to all heck that I can only find black clothes and the color can't be changed, but I survive.

ALSO. I have watched Shows where a "consultant" does a "renovation" of someone's image. .... I have yet to see that person actually do lipo-suction or a face lift and nose job. At the most they can be sure not to match bad colors, or dress you like a dweeb. But they do not actually perform a hair cut. Plastic surgery etc. And I've yet to see them re-upholter a green leather couch with Red Leather ... or take someone's Black shirt and make it yellow.

S "We reform their whole image!" is not really a valid argument at all, since everything we do encompases the physical aspects of a person's appearance (Their physical Image which is what we design). If I want my jacket yellow, then I might as well swallow my pride and order one while selling the old one on the bazaar. And the creators of armor and furniture need extended (or in the furniture case any) color palletes.

.... frankly... I do not want to have to sit there and re-color or re-design an entire ward robe, thank you very much. We thought 10 minutes was bad enough? Besides, it would have to require components for re-dying, and then we are nothing more than a crafting class. ... Thank you. But no.