Changing armour appearance

Luigirules

Hey folks. Playing with a thief, havin' a good time. I've been using the +3 Shadow Thief studded leather, since it looks so badass. However, I just picked up the Night's Gift +5, so I'll be swapping to that instead.

Thing is...it's so ugly. Ugh. I don't want to wear brown leather. Can anyone tell me a method to colour it black, just like the shadow armour is?

Shin

It's controlled by attributes on the armour item itself. Open it in NI and you'll see it has three colour controlling effects (7). Change those to what you like (you can for instance look at the shadow armour and duplicate the colours chosen there), or delete/inactivate them to let your character's pre-set colour choices show.

Erg

You can learn more about opcode 7 here.

You can change colours with tools like NI or DLTCEP, but my weapon of choice is WeiDU, so I would do something like

    // delete original colours
    LPF DELETE_ITEM_EQEFFECT
      INT_VAR
        opcode_to_delete = 7
    END

    // set new colours at the same values of Shadow Armour
    LAUNCH_PATCH_FUNCTION ~ADD_ITEM_EQEFFECT~
      INT_VAR
        opcode = 7                 // effect: #7 (Set Character Colours by Palette)
        target = 1                 // target: Self
        parameter1 = 209           // param1: Gradient Number
        parameter2 = 5             // param2: Location
        timing = 2                 // timing: While equipped
        probability1 = 100         // probability1: 100
    END
    LAUNCH_PATCH_FUNCTION ~ADD_ITEM_EQEFFECT~
      INT_VAR
        opcode = 7                 // effect: #7 (Set Character Colours by Palette)
        target = 1                 // target: Self
        parameter1 = 254           // param1: Gradient Number
        parameter2 = 4             // param2: Location
        timing = 2                 // timing: While equipped
        probability1 = 100         // probability1: 100
    END
    LAUNCH_PATCH_FUNCTION ~ADD_ITEM_EQEFFECT~
      INT_VAR
        opcode = 7                 // effect: #7 (Set Character Colours by Palette)
        target = 1                 // target: Self
        parameter1 = 164           // param1: Gradient Number
        parameter2 = 0             // param2: Location
        timing = 2                 // timing: While equipped
        probability1 = 100         // probability1: 100
    END

The above is just a snippet, full WeiDU mod is attached for reference. To install, as usual, just unzip in the folder containing the file chitin.key and run the setup.

Edit: I didn't bother changing the icon. If you want to change that too, add the line

      WRITE_ASCII 0x3a ~ILEAT08~ #8

in the tp2 file, for instance just before the lines

    // delete original colours
    LPF DELETE_ITEM_EQEFFECT

Luigirules

All hail @Erg, the great and powerful!

Luigirules

I have one question, though. This is what I get when I open the item up in DLTCEP.



If I wanted to edit the item appearance, where do I go?

Erg

To change colours with DLTCEP go to the tab "Equipping Effects", select one of three "Colour Effects [7]", click "Edit" and change the "Gradient Number":

Tsyrith

Also, dark poopy brown? Hahah... ahh.

edit: again at #114, "yet another brown", and it stops not long thereafter. Someone awesome looked at the rest of the colors and noped out.

Elric

How do i know which item is the one I want. I see leat08, but how do you know leat08 is the shadow armor?