Dinosaur Colours (Variety is the Spice of Life)

[Kassirex]

one thing that is bugging me of late and something i hope can be corrected after recode is the limited options in the skin colour pallet especially for the carnivores mainly only having choices from the brown, tan, blacks and greys spectrum and very little for the basic body colours or having the full species specific skin colours with some, like the dilo not having any of its colours in the options, the herbivores also have these issues but not to the same level as herbivores have more colour options.

i know the dinosaurs had more colour range before cause ive seen screenshots and videos where it was so, im not sure which patch nerfed our colours or why and someone dose please tell me

i wanna see more colour variety because the current options dont give you much choice and for those who are gonna say they did it for camo reasons that makes no scense because the colour options vs island enviornment dont match up for camo, im not saying you cant make camo but it is harder, maybe that was the point idk but i digress there should be at least more colour groups in the options for a little more creative freedom and for more realistic aesthetics.

[ChadwicKed☯]

Indeed.

[Kassirex]

why thank

[Corporal Crunch]

Ok

[Kassirex]

if you are "stunned" by how much i railed into this i am thorough, blunt and am not affraid to state my opinion

[Viktor]

The devs themselves have stated before they've removed colors because people were making skins too "edgy" and they didn't like multiple people using "too much" black on their skins... lol... Pretty disappointing attitude on their part tbh. Stripping the userbase of something because of their own personal opinion, when they gave the option in the first place.

Hence why there's no option for, say, a black underbelly or body 2, and you have to settle for a lame grey.

We had a pretty rust red at one point, but it got patched out because apparently it was "unintentionally" added to every single body option. It wasn't even a bright red, more of a nice orange you'd see on a fox or a robin, but once again, people were combining it with black and being too "edgy" on top of it being an accidental addition.

Dilo also used to have blue/red options, but those got taken out like with the red.

I've heard the reason raptors have a pathetically sad detail limit is because the devs don't want people to make Blue from JW if they add a blue stripe. Which... once again, is really stupid. Let people do what they want. They added JP sounds and remodeled the utah to look like a JP raptor anyway, and one of its newest animation sets looks like it has funky broken JP wrists... But how dare the userbase make a fan skin hurr durr. Supposedly that's another reason all of the blacks were mass removed/locked to the last slot, because people kept making indoraptors.

...Which... People are still doing, just with all grey or all brown.

There are also the species-locked colors like you mentioned. Sucho has really nice steely grey colors for its default skin, but you can't use them on any other dinosaur or even rearrange the order if you wanted. Pachy has the same color set. Dilo has those pretty light greens that I'd love to use on a raptor, but... Nope. It's really frustrating.

Not to mention all of the "greens" on carnivores are super yellow tinged and don't really blend in with much of anything, whereas herbivores have cooler toned greens.

Tbh I just want the blacks back and more cool-toned colors. Seriously, take a screen of the color menu and use an eyedrop tool on any art program ever, and look at where the swatch ends up on the color wheel. Always in the yellow/red area. For the love of god please stop neglecting cold colors. I'd die for some faint muted or dark blues/purples-- which, mind you, animals have. I could list multiple reptiles and birds that have those colors.

[Crowsfold]

Their removal of colors reminds me of an old art teacher I had who refused black paint from the classroom because she "didn't like black", or whatever reason. We were free to mix our own black, though, of course.
Just like were still allowed to use utah/trike black + carno/para red, all the same "edgy" result is it not. Hardly see anyone with skins like that, though. Many indoraptors after the movie release but now? Nada. Let people go through their phases lol.

I would personally love some nice russian blue colors, uhg how nice would those be. Or, yeah like Peridot mentioned, the sucho colors available on selection as they are also quite lovely.

[The Knight]

I like the dark colors for camouflage, not for Indoraptoring or dumb sh*t like that. I have just one skin that I use for Utah: All dark Utah Gray except for the last body, which I use Giga 5. It does wonders for blending in with shadows of the forest, especially around the dawn and dusk cycles.

I was really disappointed that there are no dark greens for Utah, thus why I resorted to the spotted black and gray.

Removing dark colors because they don't want players coloring the dinos to resemble the creatures from a franchise they already copied in so many ways is just dumb. How is having a Rex that looks like a lemon any better than black with red markings?

[Sad Hawk]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ninja_.Weasel:

I like the dark colors for camouflage, not for Indoraptoring or dumb sh*t like that. I have just one skin that I use for Utah: All dark Utah Gray except for the last body, which I use Giga 5. It does wonders for blending in with shadows of the forest, especially around the dawn and dusk cycles.

I was really disappointed that there are no dark greens for Utah, thus why I resorted to the spotted black and gray.

Removing dark colors because they don't want players coloring the dinos to resemble the creatures from a franchise they already copied in so many ways is just dumb. How is having a Rex that looks like a lemon any better than black with red markings?

HAHAHAH A lemon Rex I call it the freaking same way lol. Sounds funny but it's actually so ridiculous that is not even laughable anymore tbh.

[Kassirex]

thank you for understanding my pain and yeah removing colors just cause the colors and possible patterns were too"edgy"(dumbest reason i ever heard) or look too much like the colors of a franchise that you are already copying and (going off the old JP sounds mod) working with is just to worst reason to remove these colors

if any dev reads this im a tell you that a real BAD excuse for taking that away and i hope you take away that ppl want the color variety back #ANGRY

[Bob]

The ‘edgy’ colours should be difficult to attain achievement unlockables. Nice compromise. Overall the world would be filled with ‘realistic’ colours with only some looking bright. Those who a determined enough to acquire colour X for dino Y would get it and the rest who didn’t really care wouldnt

[Kassirex]

to answer both of you the way i tend to check adult colors of my juvi is usually go in to my own server and mess around withe colors to see how skins will look on all growth stages and seeing what they look like and the colors that were removed were realistic they were just from other color groups,the devs removed them because the didnt like the combos people were making with the colors which were "edgy" patterns (should have clarified), there were a few bright colors but that was mostly in the detail section which are suppose to be bright and im not to sure the devs have current plans for skin color unlocking as they seem to be more focused on creatures and other mechanics that are currently in the game or have been i the works and updating an existing mechanic to include more colors is far easier then writing a whole new program for a brand new mechanic, which ties into recode and why its takeing so long as they are basically rewriting the entire base program for the game

[Kassirex]

play what now XD

[Darth Absentis]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Peridot:

The devs themselves have stated before they've removed colors because people were making skins too "edgy" and they didn't like multiple people using "too much" black on their skins... lol... Pretty disappointing attitude on their part tbh. Stripping the userbase of something because of their own personal opinion, when they gave the option in the first place.

Hence why there's no option for, say, a black underbelly or body 2, and you have to settle for a lame grey.

We had a pretty rust red at one point, but it got patched out because apparently it was "unintentionally" added to every single body option. It wasn't even a bright red, more of a nice orange you'd see on a fox or a robin, but once again, people were combining it with black and being too "edgy" on top of it being an accidental addition.

Dilo also used to have blue/red options, but those got taken out like with the red.

I've heard the reason raptors have a pathetically sad detail limit is because the devs don't want people to make Blue from JW if they add a blue stripe. Which... once again, is really stupid. Let people do what they want. They added JP sounds and remodeled the utah to look like a JP raptor anyway, and one of its newest animation sets looks like it has funky broken JP wrists... But how dare the userbase make a fan skin hurr durr. Supposedly that's another reason all of the blacks were mass removed/locked to the last slot, because people kept making indoraptors.

...Which... People are still doing, just with all grey or all brown.

There are also the species-locked colors like you mentioned. Sucho has really nice steely grey colors for its default skin, but you can't use them on any other dinosaur or even rearrange the order if you wanted. Pachy has the same color set. Dilo has those pretty light greens that I'd love to use on a raptor, but... Nope. It's really frustrating.

Not to mention all of the "greens" on carnivores are super yellow tinged and don't really blend in with much of anything, whereas herbivores have cooler toned greens.

Tbh I just want the blacks back and more cool-toned colors. Seriously, take a screen of the color menu and use an eyedrop tool on any art program ever, and look at where the swatch ends up on the color wheel. Always in the yellow/red area. For the love of god please stop neglecting cold colors. I'd die for some faint muted or dark blues/purples-- which, mind you, animals have. I could list multiple reptiles and birds that have those colors.

Yea, this is one of those good old dev opinions i hope gets trown out of the window as soon as possible.

even if certain color spectrums would be hidden against challenges costing hours and hours of dedicated gameplay, they simply need to change their stance on it. It is doing no good. Besides, we all know this game is kinda based on refferencing movies and games, mainly jurassic park and dino crisis anyhow, and if thinking it trough, we all know those more colorful dinosaurs simply have less chance of surviving this game.

[Kassirex]

ok kinda lost me but i get what you saying and i agree with you on the devs got to stop making opinions and desicions like this and then just going through with them without forethought of the players opinions. and really the only foreseeable drawback of other colors in the select is someone chosing poorly and having less survival chance in game, but i will say from personal experience the current colors arent the best at camo either, it can be done but most of the colors dont match the surroundings were trying to blend with, we are not only missing some "brighter"(big fuzzy air quotes) colors but also some really good camo colors, i understand making it hard for players but we can stuill have more colors and it still be challenging

[Darth Absentis]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kassirex:

ok kinda lost me but i get what you saying and i agree with you on the devs got to stop making opinions and desicions like this and then just going through with them without forethought of the players opinions. and really the only foreseeable drawback of other colors in the select is someone chosing poorly and having less survival chance in game, but i will say from personal experience the current colors arent the best at camo either, it can be done but most of the colors dont match the surroundings were trying to blend with, we are not only missing some "brighter"(big fuzzy air quotes) colors but also some really good camo colors, i understand making it hard for players but we can stuill have more colors and it still be challenging

This is also quite correct. even if we stay with everything between brown, green white and black, there still are not enough colors at all to blend in or make realy interesting camo paterns in general.