User:Sanddh/Guides/Armor Color Table

Color Table for Loot & Quest Armor

 * Based upon the DCS color system as developed by Deadeye, and extended by Lone Wolf and Rhesus.
 * The Color ID of DCS (decimal) and the Palette of Vtank (hex) can be matched by using a hex-decimal converter such as this one
 * The Color Sample and the hex for the color is an approach what it looks on your toon. Different slots will result in different hexes for the same ID/Palette.

Files on the wiki and other links

 * A xml-file including the newly added colors and renamed colors for DCS can be downloaded here (right click, "save link as"). Copy it to your DCS folder, rename the old dcs.xml (for backup reasons) to something like dcs_old.xml and rename the downloaded file to dcs.xml.

Quest Armor

 * Quest items with known palettes have their own palettes-table including the known hexes on their page.
 * For quest items, sometimes more colors are listed for one ID. The Sample presents the most striking feature (yes, this is subjective) of this item, usually the main color.
 * The color for some quest items might show a "mean" instead of a combination. This could happen when, even though the quest item shows multiple colors, the result of the property dump is just one line.
 * There are quite a few, mostly quest, items of which the ACID/Palette cannot be determined with known plugins. For a preliminary list of these items, see User:Sanddh/Guides/Armor Color Table/No ACID

Loot Armor

 * If known, the items the color can be found on are listed below, with links.
 * Known Palettes found ingame can be found on the page for each Loot Armor Type
 * When "Old Style" is listed, this refers to the old style armor (i.e. Yoroi, Chainmail, Scalemail, Platemail, Amuli, Celdon, Koujia and Studded Leather Armor) and some of the new styles (Haebrean and Knorr Academy Armor), as well the Old Style Clothing. The Over-robes introduced during Cloak of Darkness also use these colors. This is, however, not exclusive. Also Sedgemail Leather Armor and quest items can feature these old style colors. Note that not every Old style color can be found on every piece (or part) of armor. Another extremely work-in-progress spreadsheet on this can be found here (right click, download as)
 * New "Olthoi" Style refers to the newer Armors with "Olthoi" in their name, including Olthoi Armor.

Other Notes

 * Sometimes, the propertydump showed Hex 000000 though the item obviously was not pitch black. In the hope a proper indication of the color can be made in the future, these items and their IDs are still listed.
 * Some names do not approach the current ingame colors, since they changed a lot when ToD was introduced. Also, on User:Sanddh/Guides/Armor Color Table/New Names you can find an extremely work in progress project for giving palettes unique names or renaming them to more reflect the current ingame look.
 * Any color listed as "Unknown" on the Talk page is not currently in the DCS-color table as presented on Rhesus' side, but extracted by using the VTank property dump, and in some cases adding +38 more light to approach the original dcs-colors. Therefore, it is rather untested. The Unknown will include at least one of the original Vtank hexes

Matching colors in the Table below

 * You can play around with the table by sorting on Red, Green and Blue, or Hue, Saturation, Lightness to find colors that could possibly match.
 * Unfortunately, the wiki code does not allow for sorting on multiple rows, so it is up to you to make a first selection
 * there are quite a few tools online to compare two colors (mostly to what extent they contrast). Examples are the Cactusflower Contrast Analyzer, the Color Contrast Check or the Lumninosity Contrast Analyser. A generic tool including formulas can be found at Springmeier contrast calculator