Camelot Grab Bag Q&A

Mythic’s Sanya Thomas stopped by the Camelot Herald yesterday to post another Grab Bag Q&A. This week, she answers questions about respeccing, spellcraft, exploiting, and more. Here’s a taste:

Q: Why is there no white dye in the game?

A: I have answered this before, but I am going to shamelessly steal an answer from the wonderful website DAOC Tradeskills, or rather, their forums. A poster named CapnBry explained it thusly, and hit the ball out of the park:

(Think of it this way. Take any item, your desk for instance (I’m assuming you have a brown wood desk). Turn off all the lights, and your computer monitor, and carry the desk into a dark closet. What color is the desk now? Black. Now get one of those cool Navy Seal red flashlights and shine it on the desk, what color is it? Mostly red. Now grab one of those annoying blue laser pointers all the damn kids have at the movie theaters. Shine that on the desk, what color is it now? Mostly blue. Now get a flashlight out and shine it on, what color is it? Brown again. Get a stronger flashlight. Still brown. Try to think what color light you’d have to shine on a brown desk to get it to turn white. When you figure that out, we can pass that to Mythic, and probably the Nobel Prize people because it’s impossible.

That’s how materials work in any D3D or OpenGL environment, you light a material to tint a texture.)