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| + | This started as a guide to paint reactions, but after multiple attempts, I just couldn't seem to write one that didn't sound overly complex. I'm ceasing this project, but feel free to contact me for advice on how to find your reactions. --[[User:Numaris|Numaris]] |
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| − | Welcome to Paint By Numbers, a guide to finding your personal [[paint]] reactions. It aims to be a simple and step-by-step, providing you with just enough information to do what you need to do.
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| − | In boxes like this, I'll go more into the technical side of paint and the theory behind the method I present. None
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| − | of this information will be required to follow the guide, so if you're not interested, you can safely skip the rest
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| − | == How Does Paint Work? ==
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| − | To make paint, you add a number of ingredients to a [[Pigment Laboratory]], and the colors mix to give you your paint. Sounds simple, right? Well here's the catch: many of the ingredients react with each other, and the strength of these reactions depends on the person mixing the paint. That's why if you've tried a recipe you found on someone's user page, it probably didn't work. And that's why if you want to get your optimum recipes, you'll need to do some work yourself.
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| − | This information is available in several places already, so I'll just summarize... the base color of your paint
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| − | is a weighted average of the RGB values of the ingredients you added. The final color is that base RGB value summed
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| − | Which ingredients react is the same for all avatars, as is what colors are affected. Some reactions only change
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| − | the Green value of the paint, some only the Blue, some only the Red, and some change all three. No reaction changes
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| − | only two values. For those that change all three (termed "white reactions"), all three are changed by the same
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| − | constant value. Reaction values range from -64 to +64.
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| − | The order in which ingredients are added *does* matter. Although they will affect the same color(s) either way,
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| − | the actual reaction value for Ingredient A followed by Ingredient B will be different from Ingredient B followed
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| − | == Preparation ==
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| − | Here's what you'll need to get started:
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| − | In-game:
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| − | * A handful (5 should be plenty) of all the paint ingredients:
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| − | **[[Cabbage Juice]]
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| − | **[[Carrots]]
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| − | **[[Clay]]
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| − | **[[Dead Tongue Mushrooms]]
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| − | **[[Toad Skin Mushrooms]]
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| − | **[[Earth Light Mushrooms]]
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| − | **[[Red Sand]]
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| − | **[[Lead]]
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| − | **[[Silver Powder]]
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| − | **[[Iron]]
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| − | **[[Copper]]
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| − | **[[Sulfur]]
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| − | **[[Potash]]
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| − | **[[Lime]]
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| − | **[[Saltpeter]]
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| − | * A healthy stack (150+, to be safe) of whichever ingredient you consider cheapest. I like Red Sand, others prefer Clay or Cabbage Juice. This will be referred to as your "bulk ingredient" and will be used to flush away paints when you're done.
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| − | * A [[Pigment Laboratory]]. If you don't have one of your own, check your local public works.
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| − | Out of Game:
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| − | * A tool that shows you the X,Y location of your mouse cursor on the screen. I like Nattyware Pixie; it's a Windows program but works via Wine on Linux. I'm not familiar with Macs, but you should be able to find a similar tool.
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| − | * The PaintByNumbers spreadsheet, which is in OpenOffice Calc format. OpenOffice is available in all platforms you can play ATITD on.
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| − | * Sigil's PracticalPaint, or a similar paint analyzer tool. PracticalPaint only runs on Windows... unfortunately, I've not been successful getting it to run under Wine.
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