Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Dyeing clothes

It would've been great, if we could preview the result of dyeing. Now it's hard to tell just by the name of a dye - would you like the result or not. F5-F8 is too long to check all the colors on all of the armor variety...

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thats only for 1 armor and 1 clothing. Even if there were video for all armor, it would be even less convinient then save\load due to enormous lenght.

Shadowheart is taking 'em back to school with the Lisa Frank palette "Saved by the Belle" lol

Thanks for posting that video! I was searching around for a Munsell's Malevolent Codex of Random BG3 Dye Names, cause it's a bit like shopping for house paints right now. Mellow Fruit and all hehe

For me little things like our character's chosen chromatics make a big difference. Or trying to get something matchy matchy going for the group, like team safety colors. I wish there was a bit more of an aesthetic progression on this, cause I feel like when you frontload this too hard it takes something away from the excitement of that final tier in colors. Like I'd be perfectly happy if we could only Dye the components that are actually capable absorbing a dye. For other components like metal we should be able to use paint, tinting glazes or polishes, or magic. I think something desirable (which the video above shows quite clearly) is a way to adjust the sheen/shininess of the metal, so that some of these duds would look a bit less ceremonial or parade worthy, and more like grinding it out. I wish we could set dirty face so that it applied more to our gear than our foreheads, because it makes sense to clean and maintain our armor after battle and it's a lot less intrusive to see some grime and blood on your boots ya know.

This isn't exactly related, but sorta related, so if we elect to "Dye" our face, I wish some of these would be treated more like warpaint than permanent facial tattoos. I mean no judgment on face tats for peeps that are making that stop at the shopping Maul, but we're missing some simple stuff there. For example when soldiers or athletes paint their under eyes black, the way Lae'zel does, this to help reduce glare and the need to squint, and quite practical but we don't have basic stuff like that. We should probably have like half a dozen variations on that. You know like going woad, but only in the heat of battle, then when you get to camp you can wipe it off. That'd also be nice.

Agreed - my current strategy is to save before every dye and reload if I don�t like the look

That being said, thank you Larian for enabling my entire party to wear themed outfits - just because a worm is eating your brain doesn�t mean you can�t style on your enemies.

My bigger issue is not what the colours look like but rather what parts are affected on a given piece of armor. There are also pieces where the dyes have little to now affect effectively wasting the dye. (Eg shields, some helms, etc)

The dye choices are also basically paladin/bard/rogue colors. They're either all pastels or bright garish colors, or some mix with black.

My druid had virtually no way of applying a dye to armor that amde it look remotely forest-like in color palette. It's all fruity colors or red and black.

There's a Fey Wild color and swamp/sage green that sort of work but often times turn the shoulder section of the armor white, so if you have a character with white hair color it looks really bad.

Even guessing based on the names and bottle color isn't great. I applied Deep Lilac dye to a cape and it turned bright gold.

It's truly become one of my biggest annoyances so far how time consuming it is to try out the dyes one by one, wasting them along the way unless I save an reload. A quick preview would be so welcome, and also, the item combinator UI doesn't show which items are equipped, which is also annoying.

Really, they just need to make a transmog ability/shop where outfits and armor looks can be changed and colors applied so we can decide what we want.

Also some of dyes paints piece of gear not in the titled color. The title says blue, but my cloak becomes green... Wtf..

Bumping to support this idea! Preview would be great.

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Yeah, would be much easier (and better) to just let us pick the primary, secondary, tertiary etc colours individually. Instead of all the separate dyes just have one "equipment dye kit" that lets you select and preview any colour and pick what you like.

That's an excellent idea. I like having the ability to customize the look of my gear, but the current system is unnecessarily clunky.

bumping, a preview dye option would be SO appreciated!! saving and reloading when I dont like the dye is SUPER clunky and time consuming, especially when 99% of the dyes have unexpected colors

bump?

All of the merchants sell dye removal on the cheap. Test, remove, test, remove, rinse, repeat.

i've suggested to make dye system convenient and demonstrative, you suggested to use another wry crutch