Dyes in general
Dyes can be used in several different ways. You can add it to your kukuris markings to make their design more unique, or create different colored patterning to its fur. Shop bought and crafted dyes come with 3 uses. Adding different trademarked logos/items from series is not possible however. Dyes can be added to kukuris fur, skin or feathers, but giving different color to eyes or mouth is not possible. You can use as many dyes as you wish to your kukuri, but the amount dyes cover should not go over 50%, and the maximum area cannot be solid - it needs to have holes and not dyed parts inside. When dyes cover markings, possible flat area of the dye can't be wide enough to hide the whole marking.
Color sliders under dyes are not must for color picking; you can use darker, lighter, saturated and desaturated shades of the color.
Dyes can be acquired in two ways, but some dyes are not possible to be bought - they are needed to be crafted. The Shop has basic colors in sale for 5000 Cr each, while Crafting has all colors that are possible (excluding Rainbow Dye, which is acquirable only via events or buying from other member). Most of the crafting items are acquired from different activities, while Dye catalyst is bought from the shop. Rainbow dye itself can't create multiple colors, but any one color from any range when used.
Maximums and minimums, Do's and Dont's
Maximum amount of one dye can be seen above; there is no minimum area dye has to fill. This amount can be wherever in the body. Basically one dye use can be used in one area; it can contain several splotches or lines, but they need to be close to each other. If you wish to spread the dye more, it will require more than one dye use. Dye doesn't have to be of one shade - it can have gradient or make different shade patterns inside color slider (yellow can tint slightly to orange and so on).
Dyes can be used as add-on to the markings your kukuri already has. Below are some examples of dye usages to excisting markings of the kukuri. In this case, example kukuri has Hood(nH) and Tailwind(nTw).
Dye cannot mimic other markings on large scale nor fake dominant markings.
You can add few dalmatian dots, you can break hood to look like it's being cut by underbelly, you can add a heart shape, but you should not make it look like a whole new marking via dye.
Coloring prairie feathers needs one use of dye for each feather area. Filling the biggest Emperor feather areas need two uses of dye.
If your dye is identical (or close to identical) on both sides of the feather area (for example arms), you only need one dye bottle for it. For areas where the feathers are not automatically visible (Usually on tail or head), you need to provide other side view of the Kukuri for it to be considered mirrored.
You can also mix dyes together to make gradient effects, even rainbow if you wish! Each color will require its own use of color, even when using rainbow dye.
Examples below are showing what is not allowed to do with dyes. In this case the original design has hood(nH), dalmatian (nDa) and hearts(nHr).
Examples of dyes on existing kukuris
These example kukuris dye uses are correct with our current dye rules.
Do not use other dye uses as examples for your own that are under ID number 4400!
