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Well, I was thinking of making a black mask with brightly colored eyes for an event of some sort, similar to the face of Vivi (the black mage from FF9). As I was unsure if that was too blatant an inspiration (since while it is a known character's face essentially, it's also VERY simple), I figured making the eyes dyable would both make it more original, AND be more fun for all the accessory-happy players on TMW.

A big issue that was brought up to me is that there are currently no, or hardly any, rares that are also dyable. I also considered having the quest idea tweaked a bit to include a random color of dye (excluding black, of course unless you were being funny) as a requirement, which would result in a mask with that color of eyes, and be undyable again.

Personally, while I think it would be more fun to have a freely dyable potential rare, the idea of choosing a color in-quest would be pretty cool as well.

As of right now, I won't include a picture because my work is very rough, seeing as I've never done pixel art before and am... well, awful at it lol. Anyways, just wanna see general reactions, particularly as to whether it should be dyable, and if the idea is to everyone's liking. If it's met favorably, I will post my rough version of it on here. Thanks .

I didn't know who "Vivi" from "FF9" was... so I Googled it...

Is that even a mask.... its looks more like.... his face... or lack of one....

I don't know if it would fit our style well.

I do believe it's Vivi's face, and you've offended the dark-skinned population of the world.

Heh, you mean more than TMW having all people with the same skin color does?

Anyways, I dunno if the style will be a fit or not, since I'm not done with the general shading and all that, but I'll work on it anyways and see how it turns out

I just thought I'd bring this up: In ManaServ (Formerly known as TMWServ) there will be different races WOO!!!!

For a reference until my first mask image is slightly better, here's a picture of Vivi from FF9, so you can see the very basic idea: http://voyager.ischool.utexas.edu/~vide ... i_ffix.jpg

WOW good work

I Had to google it also...a lot of good fan art on google images.
I think as a mask it could fit our style if done right, certainly it contains no bad racial overtones.
I look forward to seeing what you have done, when you are ready to post an image.
many people here will give you opinions on your work LOL more than you want probably =]

As to if it should dye...of course it could be system dyed and given out as event reward, even allow player to pick color...
(it looks to me like scripting could easily do this) OR
It could be bleach-able and dyable allowing in-game dying.

but I really couldn't say until I see the item ;p

you might also inquire about black color shades that will not dye to preserve black areas, idk, I have never attempted a black based dyable item.
but I know the formula exists.