Your hair... it's... FABULOUS.

• X wrote on 2015-07-16 04:03
  Regular readers of our column will know that your hair is actually an equipped item. To new readers: Your hair is actually an equipped item.
  
  Don't remove your hair, kids. Not even once.
  
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/fYsa3YJ.gif]

  
  
  Anyway... because items use the 4-byte RGB color encoding you can technically have 256*256*256 different hair colors, also known as 16.7 million. This is in contrast to eye colors, which use a single byte, for only 256 possible colors.
  
  The game limits your choices, though, because devCat's a dick sometimes, or maybe they just can't figure out a proper color picker. Non-standard hair color has been sighted on NA, but it's limited to GMs and hackers. Aura, however, doesn't impose this restriction, since one can use the >haircolor command to look simply fabulous.
  
  Canary Yellow? Done
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/koIOUIH.gif]

  
  
  Neon green? Next!
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/l5gAWP7.gif]

  
  
  Pure red? Oh now this one's tricky... JUST KIDDING.
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/nTw8xVt.gif]

  
  
  So that's it for hair co-
  
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/IxWYq.png]

  
  
  Some of you may have guessed where this was going, especially those of you who picked up on me supposedly forgetting the "A" component of colors. Since you can color hair like any normal item, you can also have... flashy hair. In Mabi, flashiness is controlled by the A byte.
  
  Spoiler tag for people easily offended by flashies and/or epileptic.
  
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  Dammit. Why can't I have this IRL?
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/nhptq6I.gif]

  
  
  I chose random colors for this one.
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/fwqXqVF.gif]

  
  
  They told me I could be anything, so I became a traffic light.
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/CtoLCdz.gif]

  
  
  The final one didn't capture well in gif form, so I took a video.
  [video=youtube;NkWEVMm_2jg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWEVMm_2jg[/video]
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  If you guys want to see any specific colors, post a request with their hex code. Flashies can be approximated with this tool: http://aura-project.org/color.htm
• Esileruf wrote on 2015-07-16 22:35
  Is it possible to find out the code for an existing flashy by a .gif of it?
• Bunny wrote on 2015-07-16 22:42
  Omg haha I remember seeing cicada at dunby with flashy hair a long time ago, it was great
• ironwoman wrote on 2015-07-16 22:45
  What about skin color? Because some people might remember, few years back, there were these two hackers running around, naming their characters "Osama Bin Laden" and "Kim Jung Il". They were both Elves with dark skin. Good times.
• Osayidan wrote on 2015-07-17 00:16
  There might be hope for weird skin colors, since those special crown items can turn you weird colors. The day I see a flashy skin person though... (does that count as racism?)
• M wrote on 2015-07-17 00:20

  Quote from Osayidan;1282021:

  There might be hope for weird skin colors, since those special crown items can turn you weird colors. The day I see a flashy skin person though... (does that count as racism?)

  
  
  Judge not by the color of a mans skin but by the frequency of his flashy.
• X wrote on 2015-07-17 00:40

  Quote from Esileruf;1282003:

  Is it possible to find out the code for an existing flashy by a .gif of it?

  
  
  You can use the simulator and go through trial and error, but no, you can't magically derive the code.
  
  

  Quote from ironwoman;1282009:

  What about skin color? Because some people might remember, few years back, there were these two hackers running around, naming their characters "Osama Bin Laden" and "Kim Jung Il". They were both Elves with dark skin. Good times.

  
  
  Rydian discovered that there are a lot more skin colors than are used. I can write a quick cutscene to whip through all of them.
• Rydian wrote on 2015-07-17 01:33
  Tons of colors, but by volume most of them are blues or teals.
• Zeo wrote on 2015-07-17 03:26

  Quote from ironwoman;1282009:

  What about skin color? Because some people might remember, few years back, there were these two hackers running around, naming their characters "Osama Bin Laden" and "Kim Jung Il". They were both Elves with dark skin. Good times.

  
  
  I'd like to know this as well! I've dreamt of being an elf with coffee skin tone, so...
• X wrote on 2015-07-17 06:36
  All 256 colors of Mabinogi skin, helpfully modeled by Shamala.
  
  I'd have picked out interesting ones, but they're all interesting...
  
  [video=youtube;_qzv1BtSh3U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzv1BtSh3U[/video]
• Osayidan wrote on 2015-07-17 11:43
  There sure is a lot of blue and green. The person working on that must have had a smurf and/or ogre fetish.
• Esileruf wrote on 2015-07-17 17:15

  Quote from X;1282025:

  You can use the simulator and go through trial and error, but no, you can't magically derive the code.
  

  
  
  Drat. Reason I ask is cause Cicada's hair is a red-red flashy that exists in the game, I have the metallic version of it as the reg dye version is dead many gachapons ago.
  I'd have a hexcode to test as well, but as IDs are normally broke now.
  
  Is there a list of all the hairstyles, including ones that are restricted/hidden?
• X wrote on 2015-07-17 17:21

  Quote from Esileruf;1282074:

  Drat. Reason I ask is cause Cicada's hair is a red-red flashy that exists in the game, I have the metallic version of it as the reg dye version is dead many gachapons ago.
  I'd have a hexcode to test as well, but as IDs are normally broke now.
  
  Is there a list of all the hairstyles, including ones that are restricted/hidden?

  
  
  
  If you have any flashy item with that color, you can use Rydian's stat tool thingy (stickied) to grab the color codes off it. This works for dyes too.
  
  There's huge amount of hairs. They're in itemdb with a special item type.