Skin colours, yay or nay?

[Nidhogg66]

Hey there fellow islanders. This is a concern of mine that I thought some people playing the game might share.

*NOTE*
I understand that the Isle's skin customization system is still a very early version of a much greater thing to come, that being said, I believe adding more colour options wouldn't hurt anyone.

I really wanted to bring up how dull and lifeless most available skin colours are. While I understand that vibrant colours might not be entirely in tune with the developers' vision of the game, I highly suggest that they consider adding some vibrant options to see what happens, as what we have at our disposal now is quite bland and greatly limits one´s creativity, to the point where you have to put up with that ugly skin that barely resembles what you had in mind originally. I'd like to think I'm not alone in this matter, that there are those who would very much enjoy being able to run around the map as for example a tiger-striped utahraptor or a brightly coloured Dilophosaurus,

As well, please note the lack of alternate skin patterns, we have only one per each species, I strongly believe that adding maybe just one more per dinosaur species would greatly benefit the game as it would most likely draw new players to try out the game as well as bring back existing ones who may have grown bored of what is currently available.

[[Ravenous]]

Well, I for one am a fan of the idea of keeping things in the realm of realistic-ish, but I would be all for having more options than we currently do.

Examples of what I would like added are some simple sliders to atleast slightly change the hue, vibrancy and opaqueness on the colors we currently have along with more color-options for all dinos, and most of all: instead of having variance options, I’d like to have pattern and size options instead.

Thinking of the possibilities of something resembling tigerstripes on a carno for instance. Or leopard spots..or an even distribution of color like many reptiles have, a duo of colors instead of camo etc.

But more vibrant colors than we have now? Sure, if you want to be easily seen thats fine by me, but you won’t have any support from me if you want to add neon colors and those extremes, no hot-pink neon rexes or glow-in-the-dark raptors for me please XD

[velocitation]

Will take realistic skin colors over blue/red/pink/purple dinosaurs running around any day.

[Nidhogg66]

I don't mean neon or ridiculous looking colours. I mean more more options. Realistic does not mean dull, there are species in the animal kingdom that have beautiful patters and bright colours. Not everything realistic is green, grey or brown with splashes of white or black here and there. Just my two cents.

[[Ravenous]]

引用自 Niddhogg66：

I don't mean neon or ridiculous looking colours. I mean more more options. Realistic does not mean dull, there are species in the animal kingdom that have beautiful patters and bright colours. Not everything realistic is green, grey or brown with splashes of white or black here and there. Just my two cents.

Agreed 100% just as long as the colors don’t get too vibrant for body-colors and such. More options would be good :)

[Rotiart]

I could stand to see some dark purples or burgundies, but I think bright colors should be limited to crests. That being said, I strongly believe all non-crest colors should be universally allowed across all dinosaurs, so the Devs don't have to ♥♥♥♥ the bed trying to balance colors of all things.

[Turbulence]

引用自 velocitation：

Will take realistic skin colors over blue/red/pink/purple dinosaurs running around any day.

While I agree, we don't actually know what color they were. And as someone else said there are plenty of colorful animals, so what's realistic isn't really an issue. Personally I just wish I could make my dinos greener for camo.

[kekyoin]

Agreed, I'd like more options for green that are actually green (to fit into the forest better as well).

And bring back the black colors, I don't see what was wrong with them (sure they stand out but don't the other colors?)

[Frost Spectre]

In real life dinos likely had vision larger than what humans could see, but for gameplay reasons its pretty much impossible to simulate that.

I like the color options, even if they're human standards, as long as bright colors such as bright pink and etc. don't exist, maybe not outside crests and such for sexual dimorphous features.

[[Ravenous]]

引用自 Harry Nurppelz：

引用自 velocitation：

Will take realistic skin colors over blue/red/pink/purple dinosaurs running around any day.

Dude, bright colors in the animal world is VERY realistic. So many birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and sea creatures are brightly colored. Thousands of species. Also, flamingos say hi. Sure they aren't a super bright pink...a faded pink...but still pink. An acceptable shade of pink at that.

I don't see the issue.

Because none of the dinos in The Isle will be eating the brine-shrimp or the blue-green algea that is the sole reason flamingo are pink at all, they are born grey and would continue to be grey if not for the dye found in their specific diet.

But then again there are plenty of birds with sharp and vivid colors like parrots and toucans, but imho those colors would look absurdly stupid and comical on a dinosaur in a game meant to be closer to horror than a life-simulator.

As several of us have posted already, bright colors aren’t the issue as long as the saying «less is more» is kept in mind, it’s neon colors that doesn’t exist in nature and single-color schemes imho.

[Mempo]

Hey while we're talking about this, how about female dinos getting a crest colour?
A lot of bird species (okay, not a lot but *some*) the females are just as bright but the pattern is different. Having a cool 'crest' color but in a different pattern/place on the body would be awesome and also make me want to play females again

[Nidhogg66]

引用自 Ampersandworm：

Hey while we're talking about this, how about female dinos getting a crest colour?
A lot of bird species (okay, not a lot but *some*) the females are just as bright but the pattern is different. Having a cool 'crest' color but in a different pattern/place on the body would be awesome and also make me want to play females again

That sounds like a great idea. Female dinos could use some love too.

[dontoverthinkit]

highkey agree!! regardless of whether you like the albino or "indoraptor" skins or whatever everyone likes something different and it bothers me so much when people complain. like just let people enjoy things for once