Weapon Dyes

bowmanz607

Zensonar wrote: »

bowmanz607 wrote: »

It is immersive if the natural color of the metal or style is that color. For instance,rubedite naturally comes in red from the ground. It is immersive to be red because it is the natural color in TS lore. Same as how gold or silver have a natural color. This is objectively immersive because it is natural to TES lore like gold or silver would be to us.

That's not really what immersive means, imo. Immersion typically means you are engrossed in a fictional world and there is nothing that jolts you out of it back into the real world. Bright and garish coloured metals might be a thing in the lore of TES. But when you're immersed in a visual representation of a fantasy world that, for the most part, seems visually consistent with realistic medieval aesthetics we know and understand, then out comes a bright green sword, it looks out of place and breaks the spell, imo.

If G.R.R. Martin decides there is gonna be giant pink panda people in his world, that might then be officially and objectively part of the lore of that world now, but it doesn't make it any less silly and immersion-breaking for the reader who was, up to that point, engrossed in that world.

Immersive means being part of the world that has been created. Not dexciting how that creation should take place. Green swords for instance have been around TEs games for awhile. It would not be immersive for insrance for a glass sword in eso to become clear. That would make it immersion breaking because it is not lore friendly.

Zensonar

Well, if by immersive, one just means it is written in lore, then green swords are presumably immersive by that definition.
If by immersive one means it is conductive to immersion of a person's consciousness in a fantasy world, then whether green swords are immersive depends whether or not the person finds them conductive to that end.

ADarklore

bowmanz607 wrote: »

cjthibs wrote: »

bowmanz607 wrote: »

Last mention of this by Zos to the best of my knowledge is that they do no want to do it because it breaks immerssion. They dont want people running around with ink words and what not.

Then why do 90% of us already run around with bright red swords?
I suspect there is something technically different with weapons.

because that is the color of the style/material you use which is immersive.

So then PLEASE explain to me how HEAVY armor, which is made of the SAME EXACT metal CAN be dyed, but the weapons, made from the SAME EXACT material as heavy armor, cannot?!? It defies logic. If you cannot dye weapons, then you should also not be able to dye the METAL of heavy armor.

bowmanz607

ADarklore wrote: »

bowmanz607 wrote: »

cjthibs wrote: »

bowmanz607 wrote: »

Last mention of this by Zos to the best of my knowledge is that they do no want to do it because it breaks immerssion. They dont want people running around with ink words and what not.

Then why do 90% of us already run around with bright red swords?
I suspect there is something technically different with weapons.

because that is the color of the style/material you use which is immersive.

So then PLEASE explain to me how HEAVY armor, which is made of the SAME EXACT metal CAN be dyed, but the weapons, made from the SAME EXACT material as heavy armor, cannot?!? It defies logic. If you cannot dye weapons, then you should also not be able to dye the METAL of heavy armor.

I explained this in abother comment.

It is just my opinion. May not even be true but gives a possible reason for it.

SophiCat

PLEASE LET US DYE WEAPONS!!!

RED is NOT my favorite color! Also I use the same set for destr/restor staff so they both look EXACTLY the same (dropped set is Argonian style so I can't even convert one to Imperial style) - if I could dye them then I could tell them apart so I know which deck I have up.

please?????

Nyghthowler

Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »

I heard they don't want to do it because they don't want male characters swinging their big pink swords around. That should be the least of their worries. Thanks to the many emotes we have people have been using them cleverly to simulate sex acts. I would much rather see pink swords than continue to see the naked *** in the cities.

I don't know why, but this gave me a mental image of a tubby Nord in a wedding dress asking random others "Want to hold my big pink sword? I think it will fit your hands nicely..."