User:Waffles ns/sandbox
attempt at setting up a color customize page for type lumina
Despite being colloquially referred to as a 'color editor,' Melty Blood: Type Lumina's color customization (Located under Main Menu > Customize > Color Customize) is a lot more restrictive than those seen in other games like Guilty Gear Isuka or Rivals of Aether. In those games, the player has control over the Red, Blue, and Green (or 'RGB') values of certain pieces of the character's sprites, effectively giving them a gigantic potential of color combinations to create.
In Type Lumina, the color customization is built solely upon the mixing and matching the parts of a character's available ten colors - everything that you can use to make your own colors for a character come from those ten colors. As an example, Arcueid's top (referred to as 'Base' in-game) comes in a number of different colors, but none of her colors make her top pink. Because of this, you can't make an Arcuied color with a pink top.
There are also cases where some of the palettes for a given part are so similar that they effectively cut your options almost in half. Roa's skin color ('Parts1' in-game) is a good example of this where palettes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 10 could all be used interchangeably and nobody would really notice thanks to the minor differences between them.
Additionally, many characters have more than six 'parts' to their color palette, which meant the developers had to tie certain pieces of the character sprite to one 'part' in order to give us as much control over the character's full palette as possible, and those pieces change together when different palettes are applied to them (Miyako's eye color and ribbon, for example).
However, these limitations of the color customization don't really restrict much in terms of what you can make! Once you select a character within the menu, theres a 'Random Select' button that will randomize all 6 'parts' (Base + Parts1 through Parts5) of the selected custom color slot - press this a few times and you'll see theres plenty of room for unique colors to be made.
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(I guess from here, we could have subpages for each playable character that explain what each customizable 'part' consists of, with images? The palette options themselves come from colors 1-10 as explained above so I'm not sure if that would need to be added there too.
Maybe we could have the Colors section of each character's main page link to a subpage under this page and both pages would show the same color images, but the subpage here would explain what each 'part' changes & then list the palette options for them underneath?
With Akiha as an example, something like "Parts2 - Hair" as a section and then under it it'd list the ten colors it can be. The other 'parts' would be "Base - Shirt, Cuffs" "Parts1 - Skin and Socks/Leggings" "Parts3 - Skirt and Stripe" "Parts4 - Scarf" "Parts5 - Eyes and Headband")