Preview Dyes

[Punished Jeremy]

There should really be a way to preview how a dye looks. Kind of dumb having to constantly reload

[Boogeyman]

Especially when some the items are bugged and show completely different colours than what the dye was. (red turns into brown etc.)

[Coffee&TV]

I double this

[Sketchy007]

Please Larian Studios, you're our only hope. Make Dye previews a reality.

[LArc7thHeaven]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3032013535&searchtext=dye

[Ironwu]

Would be nice. But this post should be over in the Suggestions & Feedback forum. Not here in General where Larian will probably never see it.

[CorwynCorey]

There is... press F5, use dye, dislike it, press f8.

[Punished Jeremy]

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

There is... press F5, use dye, dislike it, press f8.

Originally posted by Punished Jeremy:

Kind of dumb having to constantly reload

[CorwynCorey]

Originally posted by Punished Jeremy:

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

There is... press F5, use dye, dislike it, press f8.

Originally posted by Punished Jeremy:

Kind of dumb having to constantly reload

Best use of savescumming ever.

That said, mentioning "please change this developers!" things in a distributor's web forums seems silly. If you ask here, people will tell you how to get around using what exists.

If you want coding changes (unlikely in a game they are simply doing bugfixes on, not major mechanics additions) then why ask here? Ask on Larian's site, where they might see it?

[Punished Jeremy]

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

Originally posted by Punished Jeremy:

Best use of savescumming ever.

That said, mentioning "please change this developers!" things in a distributor's web forums seems silly. If you ask here, people will tell you how to get around using what exists.

If you want coding changes (unlikely in a game they are simply doing bugfixes on, not major mechanics additions) then why ask here? Ask on Larian's site, where they might see it?

I dont need to ask anyone how to get around this when i explicitly mention the current way of getting around this. How do you know I havent already posted on Larians official channels? Maybe i wanted to know what the steam randys thought on the matter

[Punished Jeremy]

Also

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

(unlikely in a game they are simply doing bugfixes on, not major mechanics additions

What the ♥♥♥♥ are you talking about?

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

There is... press F5, use dye, dislike it, press f8.

And if BG3 didn't take a flobbety-jillion years to load, that might be a viable solution.

It is not.

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3032013535&searchtext=dye

Yeah, that's no good.
The idea is to have something in the game, not an external guide.

The developers did a dumb thing that needs correcting, not a dumb thing that needs a kludge solution implemented by the end-user.

[chaosek]

Well there is also the dye remover that the mummy sells in act 3. Don't know if she's the only one that has it though.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by chaosek:

Well there is also the dye remover that the mummy sells in act 3. Don't know if she's the only one that has it though.

Again, the idea is to try-before-you-buy. So you know what you're getting into without committing to it.

It's just a quality-of-life issue with the game; it may not be realistic, but it's more fun than having to try dying an item and then reload when the results are unexpected and unwelcome.

[Lord Farquad]

Originally posted by BionicDance:

Originally posted by CorwynCorey:

There is... press F5, use dye, dislike it, press f8.

And if BG3 didn't take a flobbety-jillion years to load, that might be a viable solution.

It is not.

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3032013535&searchtext=dye

Yeah, that's no good.
The idea is to have something in the game, not an external guide.

The developers did a dumb thing that needs correcting, not a dumb thing that needs a kludge solution implemented by the end-user.

Hey necromancer, please empty your charnel pit before you use other charnel pits

[Punished Jeremy]

https://bg3-dyes.tumblr.com/page/2
Ive been using this to get around the issue, but I still feel like an integrated feature should happen at some point. Other games with dye functions have it so this isnt an unusual ask

I also want a transmog feature, and that was an ask that many people had for original sin 2 which didnt have anywhere close to the customization that bg3 has. There was a mod for it but it worked by swapping appearances through crafting and thats more convoluted than this should be