We can't dye our Shields?

bertenburnyb16_ESO

how about more types of shields first???

Maverick827

Zenimax, please get this in as soon as possible. For any character with a shield, this almost makes the entire dye system pointless.

A limited system for weapon dying would be nice as well. Weapon blades should be able to be dyed various shades of steel-like colors.

S1L3NTKiLLaH

The easy answer, bound the color choice from the curiass to the shield. Sometimes I wonder with you guys...

soupdragon10

The level of advanced muppetry that would even begin to imagine that players wouldn't want to dye the shields is quite staggering.
Fair takes yer breath away!

Disappearingone

Yeah, I think that just making your shield match you chest piece is a elegant solution.

Mordhar

Here some of my thoughts about dye system. And how to counter current “crazy colors” problem while allowing color change of any item at the same time.
Sorry for my English and “wall of text”.

Now it works by mixing “base” texture with applied color, and “opacity” (I do not know better term for that) of dye color wary for different armors. This is good idea. However, implementation has some problems.

Cloth armors are all right mostly. But leather and metal have too high/too low “opacity” settings.
For example if you trying to change color of leather armor (which is brown) to grey, you receive different shade of brown. You need to use blue dye instead so yellow tint of armor and blue color of dye cancel each other resulting in grey.
For a heavy armor it opposite thing. You can dye metal in almost any color. However, it will completely override “metal effect” on armor making it solid plastic-like color.

To make dye system work in way that both give good customization choice and still not break “realism” there should be some changes/tweaks to textures of armor and weapons. Because current textures were made before implementation of dyes and not optimized for color changes.
What I think as good choice is set of neutral “base” textures for every piece of equipment (including weapons) combined with tweaked “opacity” of tint colors.
For “cloth” material it is grey with variation from shades of tan to bluish-white for top-grade materials. And very high tint “opacity” 70-90%, lower for low-grade materials to make them less bright, higher for top-grade to give them nice solid color.
For “leather” material base texture should be very light brown or tan (non-dyed leather) and “opacity” slightly lower than for cloth. So it can be made almost any color, but not as bright and saturated as cloth.
And for “metal” there should be VERY little dye “opacity”. So you can make your armor/weapon darker or brighter by applying black/grey/white dyes or add some slight tint. But never can make your cuirass metal acid-green with red trims as it often happens now. It will make dye system much more “safe” in case of metal armor and weapons and remove main concern from allowing us to recolor weapons.

MrGorv

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Greetings, all. Ever since the dye system went live on PTS, we've seen several threads with players requesting the ability to dye their shields. We are looking into adding the ability to dye shields in a future update.

Be sure to keep providing us with your feedback!

Sorry for being bothersome, but more than half a year has passed already. Is there any work being done in this direction?

Divinius

MrGorv wrote: »

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Greetings, all. Ever since the dye system went live on PTS, we've seen several threads with players requesting the ability to dye their shields. We are looking into adding the ability to dye shields in a future update.

Be sure to keep providing us with your feedback!

Sorry for being bothersome, but more than half a year has passed already. Is there any work being done in this direction?

This is likely one of the many things that got dropped due to the switch to B2P.

Don't worry, they may still implement shield dying... My prediction?

Shields will use special new dyes that will only be available on the Crown store.

Gidorick

MrGorv wrote: »

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Greetings, all. Ever since the dye system went live on PTS, we've seen several threads with players requesting the ability to dye their shields. We are looking into adding the ability to dye shields in a future update.

Be sure to keep providing us with your feedback!

Sorry for being bothersome, but more than half a year has passed already. Is there any work being done in this direction?

It's been 3/4 year. Shields are much more complicated I guess.

Davadin

If I can dye a civilian clothings, I should be able to dye my shield n sword-hilts....

JWKe

I want to dye my swords Pink.

Davadin

Ke Jun Wen wrote: »

I want to dye my swords Pink.

I hope we would never be able to dye METAL.....

but everything else? sure.

ie. not sword blade, but the hilt. not the axe head, but the stick. etc...

BBSooner

Maverick827 wrote: »

Zenimax, please get this in as soon as possible. For any character with a shield, this almost makes the entire dye system pointless.

A limited system for weapon dying would be nice as well. Weapon blades should be able to be dyed various shades of steel-like colors.

Just like previous TES titles, we should have available bright/neon colored weapons:



Since this is an MMO, and we naturally have more freedom, we should be able to use colors of any gem - not just malachite.

BBSooner

Davadin wrote: »

Ke Jun Wen wrote: »

I want to dye my swords Pink.

I hope we would never be able to dye METAL.....

but everything else? sure.

ie. not sword blade, but the hilt. not the axe head, but the stick. etc...

We currently dye metal, why would weapons be any different?

Davadin

BBSooner wrote: »

Davadin wrote: »

Ke Jun Wen wrote: »

I want to dye my swords Pink.

I hope we would never be able to dye METAL.....

but everything else? sure.

ie. not sword blade, but the hilt. not the axe head, but the stick. etc...

We currently dye metal, why would weapons be any different?

coz *personally* i don't want people running around with pink blades. having pink armor is... bad enough.

beside, just enchant ur weapon n it'll glow enough.... do we need to turn this into FF14?

BBSooner

Davadin wrote: »

BBSooner wrote: »

Davadin wrote: »

Ke Jun Wen wrote: »

I want to dye my swords Pink.

I hope we would never be able to dye METAL.....

but everything else? sure.

ie. not sword blade, but the hilt. not the axe head, but the stick. etc...

We currently dye metal, why would weapons be any different?

coz *personally* i don't want people running around with pink blades. having pink armor is... bad enough.

beside, just enchant ur weapon n it'll glow enough.... do we need to turn this into FF14?

Because a pink dagger is worse than a 7-piece set of pink armor? At least ZOS could remain consistent and give us the freedom of what color we choose for ourselves. Additionally, non-metal weapons have precedent within the series already.

hmr13.76preeb18_ESO

Style Scrolls and the world on their basis with the developers to please the kids and people never played Morrowind and Oblivion, will gradually become like one big circus....orange knights with pink swords and it is not the action of skooma.

Islyn

Also why the top level gold improved staffs are purply? Why not as cool as the icons in their tooltips? This makes me so .... especially in the case of Ancient Elf and Dwemer staves. :-(

Davadin

BBSooner wrote: »

Davadin wrote: »

BBSooner wrote: »

Davadin wrote: »

Ke Jun Wen wrote: »

I want to dye my swords Pink.

I hope we would never be able to dye METAL.....

but everything else? sure.

ie. not sword blade, but the hilt. not the axe head, but the stick. etc...

We currently dye metal, why would weapons be any different?

coz *personally* i don't want people running around with pink blades. having pink armor is... bad enough.

beside, just enchant ur weapon n it'll glow enough.... do we need to turn this into FF14?

Because a pink dagger is worse than a 7-piece set of pink armor? At least ZOS could remain consistent and give us the freedom of what color we choose for ourselves. Additionally, non-metal weapons have precedent within the series already.

because we already have 7-piece pink armor. at least it still kinda makes sense.

how exactly, would one dye the blade of a sharp weapon? smithing it with pink components? so it's a blacksmith thing.

i dunno, i just can't wrap it around my head that u can dye a weapon's blade..... armor is armor.

Gidorick

We have orcs and nord men dungeon delving in wedding dresses, people running around on fire horse and more of these types of shenanigans to come.

Pink Swords are of no concern to me. We've already gone past that line.

BBSooner

Gidorick wrote: »

We have orcs and nord men dungeon delving in wedding dresses, people running around on fire horse and more of these types of shenanigans to come.

Pink Swords are of no concern to me. We've already gone past that line.

Agreed. I'd love to have my quicksilver/blue topaz inspired glass weapons (which would likely color close to the glass weapons in skyrim), a dark red and black for my daedric inspired weaponry, white and pale pink for moonstone/opal khajiit themed weapons. I don't understand why people try to impose a weapon color guideline that none of the prior TES games enforced - and infact directly contradicted.

nimander99

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Greetings, all. Ever since the dye system went live on PTS, we've seen several threads with players requesting the ability to dye their shields. We are looking into adding the ability to dye shields in a future update.

Be sure to keep providing us with your feedback!

Any update @ZOS_JasonLeavey that was last August 2014... did you look into it and it wasn't feasible? Is it being actively worked on, or....

After Console(TM)?

LegacyDM

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Greetings, all. Ever since the dye system went live on PTS, we've seen several threads with players requesting the ability to dye their shields. We are looking into adding the ability to dye shields in a future update.

Be sure to keep providing us with your feedback!

How about being able to dye costumes? I want to buy from crown store but the stock colors are terrible.

Alphashado

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Greetings, all. Ever since the dye system went live on PTS, we've seen several threads with players requesting the ability to dye their shields. We are looking into adding the ability to dye shields in a future update.

Be sure to keep providing us with your feedback!

This was 9 months ago. Guess they are still looking into it.

rynth

As they have stated many times everything is pretty much on hold due to console release

Elridge

There is hope though, this is a pic from the Devs, goofing around making it look like the Avengers. The shield here is was dyed I believe, sooo they are still tinkering with it?

Gidorick

Elridge wrote: »

There is hope though, this is a pic from the Devs, goofing around making it look like the Avengers. The shield here is was dyed I believe, sooo they are still tinkering with it?

that's awesome! Id love to see more characters inspired by other properties.

KanedaSyndrome

Beating the dead horse I couldn't agree more, I want dyable shields, I know it's planned for a future release. I want it sooner than now

ZOS_JasonLeavey

nimander99 wrote: »

Any update @ZOS_JasonLeavey that was last August 2014... did you look into it and it wasn't feasible? Is it being actively worked on, or....

After Console(TM)?

Hey, @nimander99. We are certainly still working on getting shield dyeing into the game. It's still on our short-term backlog, but we'll keep you posted once we have more details.

Interesting, @Elridge.

nastuug

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

nimander99 wrote: »

Any update @ZOS_JasonLeavey that was last August 2014... did you look into it and it wasn't feasible? Is it being actively worked on, or....

After Console(TM)?

Hey, @nimander99. We are certainly still working on getting shield dyeing into the game. It's still on our short-term backlog, but we'll keep you posted once we have more details.

Interesting, @Elridge.

@ZOS_JasonLeavey How about weapon dyes/tinctures? May as well throw that out there if you're working on it.