Kaalenarc@Antonia Bayle wrote:
Having said that - the very solution to this dilemma is the one that many of us have wanted for some time. Armor Dyes.
Unfortuntely, and inexplicably the DEVs have, time and again, steadfastly refused to implement it - which would be almost ok if they would bother to engage in a frank and open discussion of WHY they wont add it - but all they ever say is "there are no plans to include it." and thats all we get.
If its any help I can tell you that in my technical opinion armour dyes are effectively impossible to implement in a true next gen graphics engine like EQ2 which never intended to use such, without a fundamental restructure of the graphics engine. This is because of the non procedural nature of the full colour bitmap textures, and the use of extensive non procedural shaders. The costs of this kind of development would include:
Large development time.
Performance hit for players already struggling.
Poor visual end result/mismatch compared to existing graphics (this is the case with most existing dye systems in games)
Possibility of significant new instabilities and uninteded consequences.
I cant see its even plausible as an addition.