I don't think the ability to dye weapons armor and apparel the color of your choosing would be hard to implement in Skyrim. So Bethesda if you're reading this, please consider it! Thanks!!!!

If not it will be modded in it is possible.

I've never cared for the idea of armor dyes. Especially metal armors.

We definitely need dyes for clothes, armor etc.

Why? It can look awesome. A set of plate armor would look awesome with a metallic blue tint for example. How awesome would a sword look if you dyed it metallic black? SUPER AWESOME.

I'm open to the idea of dyes at the time of forging or manufacturing, but not after the fact.

We have armor decals, tatoos(?), and face paint. We have smithing, which will probably be fairly crafty. So I don't see why we shouldn't have at least minor clothing and armor dye abilities. Then it won't be so ridiculous trying to find some matching color robes/hoods/etc. by searching all over the game world for them.

The problem with a lot of these dyeing features in games is that they typically svck. As a rule of thumb, I generally don't want something in a game that is just there for the purpose of just "being in the game, because more features = more awesomeness". You don't wanna add a feature into a game unless you can add it with vengeance, so that it turns out good - or else it might risk damaging the game's overall renown (because people tend to focus more on bad features than good ones).

If it'll be good, then I welcome it. But if it turns out to be second-rate, then I don't want Bethesda to waste even a second of their time on it. Just make sure that the armors and colors that they DO have in the game are great, then I'm happy. There's also the problem with realism as well as the Skyrim setting itself - that everything needs to feel authentic and gritty.

As for the modding community - I'm probably gonna DL a latex domina outfit at some point.

I never thought of it but now that I read this thread it would be nice to customize our armor (I feel so dislexic, i think thats spelt right.) I really hope that it ill be like LOTRO with the wardrobe. Might also be nice to have a bank.

How could Beth mess up dying clothes? Even the incompetence that is Lionhead, made an alright dye mechanic. Oh and more features does = more awesomeness. Something TES needs to get back to doing. More content.

How is dying supposed to be lore friendly?
They can't spray it...
Perhaps use flora to dye it (sounds weird though) combined with magic?

Still, I wouldn't like dying. Don't care about it. It usually looks bad imo.

That would be great, and while wre at it, might as well add logo/tags costomization!!

You do know how dying clothe/fabric works? Also plenty of clothes have been dyed in TES games. Pretty much every colored outfit has been dyed.

Which actually doesn't work so well on an article of clothing made from different pieces and different colors of materials. Especially if there's trim or embroidery.

You don't dye metal armor. You paint it.

That's why its a game and reality doesnt matter when it comes to a feature that adds customization. Or you could only dye when first crafting a material. Honestly though, I dont care if its realistic dying, its a fantasy game.

Hey, you brought it up.

And I already said I was ok with dyes at the time of crafting.

I didnt bring it up, hlrv did. Not to mention I already said that you do it by each piece, even if that means taking your armor apart to do so. Which is the way complex articles of clothing/armor has always been dyed.

It depends entirely on the texturing & modeling system they use for items. To dye stuff, you have to have your engine set up for it - you need to have a default color for use in textures that is replaced with a "dye" color. If you have a system that just uses straight texture / alpha / reflection / bump maps, it's hard to just say "ok, and now we'll make the colors in those textures alterable!"

(I wonder... did anyone ever make a dye mod for OB? "Dye" and "Dying" only return two search results on the Nexus, and those are both for the "Undying" race )





...Oblivion's clothing texture system was a bit clunky. Each texture had to be assigned to an individual .nif (model/mesh), so you'd download a "40 different minidresses!" mod, and it would be hundreds of meg, because it needed 40 copies of the dress model, to go with the 40 different textures. Fallout 3 improved that a bit, letting you have one .nif and several different colors. Saved a heck of alot of space when modders wanted to put out collections of thirty different T-shirts, or bikinis, or ball gowns.

i agree there should be dyes for cloths.
but not for armor and swords.

however, since we know mining is in, i think it would be cool if there are different colors of ore you can craft armor and weapons into.

sounds good to me

This is what modding is for.

Nope, see, now you're opening a can of worms for the realism junkies (or just trolling and moking the whole custom creation stuff, but I'll play).

*How woud you dye metal armor? It's not cloth and doesn't really have anywhere for it to grab fast. Now, perhaps you could rig up some kind of electroplating via a shock spell....Paint would be easier*

And then you'll have other jump in with *the painted armor needs to have scratches wehre you can see the bare metal. Especially if it gets into combat.*

Anodized aluminum ftw!


(Actually, you'd probably enamel colors onto the armor. And, yeah.... that's the kind of thing you'd save for ceremonial stuff, because hitting it with a weapon would ruin it.....)

If it was implemented, it could take a page from the Mabinogi http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/index.php?title=Dye. Of course, they could just add in a regular paint pallet, and reduce the 5 options down to one, but the rule is the same. Game is fairly known for the level of individuality in everything from your spirit weapon, to your combat style (kinda similar to the Skyrim system, no classes just a blank character and a massive amount of skills to obtain and enhance) and your equipment. You could wear the same exact stuff as the person next to you, but look completely different, its kind of nice.
Anyways, it might be pretty hard to do in something like the elder scrolls.