Hey, all. Are you tired of finding a great mix of armor pieces only to find that Every. Single. ONE. of them looks completely different in terms of color despite having the exact same color applied to them? Are you tired of having your creativity stifled by the random texture shades that different armors have? Don't want to look like a clown despite the fact your armor is, according to the game, just one color?

If you answered something akin to "yes" to any of the former questions then maybe you, too, want normalized colors.

As a bit of an aside before I get into it further, regardless of whether you like my following suggestions or not, one thing I feel we can all agree upon is that dye colors need to be able to be normalized in some way, having, for example, Essence Green, Julianos White, and Divine Gold all look the same across your entire outfit is something that just, simply, should be. If you don't like how I propose to accomplish this or can think of ways to improve upon my suggestions then, by all means, say so, maybe a good enough idea will spring up and be easy enough to implement that they'll do it.

With that in mind, I feel that most would agree that what I'm calling the "underlying textures" are an important part of the feel of any armor, this, undoubtedly, includes the color depth and shade that naturally comes on the armor, as well. Yet, for a player, if they don't want to wear a whole set and want to mix and match they often can't properly do the "match" part. To allow players to better match, it seems that the simplest to use method of normalizing colors would be to have each dye essentially overwrite the aspects of each item that's being dyed that would normally make different items of different sets look like a different color despite having their color all set to the same color. Basically, what I'm saying, is make Essence Green overwrite the unique aspects and look the same across all materials, (metal, leather cloth.)

However, I propose another option. An option that would let us keep the unique attributes and, in a sense, make our own custom sets via those mysterious arbitrary "underlying textures." Sound a little convoluted? Let me explain.

So, some context along with reestablishing what we already know: Every piece is a part of a specific set, for the most part, every set (or at least most) have their own unique "underlying texture," for example, there's Psijic armor, Ebony armor, Breton armor, et cetera, et cetera. All of the "underlying textures" of these sets arbitrarily change the colors in a preset way in order to best match the set, meaning Ebony's Essence Green won't look anything like Psijic's Essence Green and so on. As you can imagine, or already know, this makes it difficult for the discerning style-focused player to properly mix and match. Making them, often times, have to settle for various pieces being a shade or so darker or lighter than other pieces after a long and frustrating process of "shade hunting" or have to stick to set pieces they don't actually want.

So, the other option I'm proposing, allow these sort of "underlying textures," to be applied in a similar manner to how you select an outfit. That is, once you unlock a piece of a set, allow the player to apply the unlock set's "underlying texture" to all non-set pieces via a drop down menu, essentially overwriting the "underlying texture" of every other non-set piece and, in a way, making the non-set pieces appear to, at the very least, better match the chosen set. This will allow you to mix and match all the pieces while still having them all be the same color, shade, and intensity. For example, you could want to mix and match a few different sets but have Ebony as your "primary," you could then, from a drop down on one of the screens (dye, outfit, etc.) choose Ebony and that set's "underlying texture" would overwrite the "underlying texture" of all the other pieces so that all the colors you apply, including the "Mixed" colors, would look the exact same across your entire outfit thus letting your outfit look as if it were all part of the same set, in this case Ebony, in terms of material color, color shade, and color intensity.