Originally Posted by Moots

Well, for normal warrior glads, it only takes 1 yellow applied, then apply 1 silver. Applying more silver doesn't change it at all, and for 15k platemail, its doesn't work too well. It makes it silver.

Originally Posted by gabrial heart

Guild wars uses an subtractive(cmyk, solids mixing) color model in an additive enviroment (RGB, light mixing) where as the solid model is being expressed through a light substrate (your monitor).

When you combine Red, Green and Blue it creates a white light, when you have no color present in a solid enviroment (cyan magenta yellow and black) it represents white. Both are dependent apon each other and at no time in your life will you see color without a light source.

Guild Wars does not have a modeler to present "true" silver, complete with the mirror like finish, so the model and color mix of silver will only ever produce the purest white (without reflection). So saying silver is white (as white as one can get in this model) is a fact.

In that thought, white is going to represent it's "whiteness" only in a lighting enviroment that allows it to shine pure white (pure RBG mix) so if you're standing in pure white light, silver will be as white as white can get and no "adding" of colors will make it more white. You're wasting your money is you believe otherwise.

Furthermore, cyan will make white seem whiter, especially against a dark backdrop, due to the natural occurance of the blue hue typically found in a "cool" white light. But, due to the subtractive system which takes place in solids (absence of hue) a pure white color is ALWAYS dependent on the light it is being subjected to.

Don't forget, there are subtle variances in monitors and what "true" white really looks like on one screen, may not on another. You can gauge this by taking what you feel is pure white, putting it next to your monitor's whitest white and go from there. Many times the factory settings makes white look yellow (or blue) depending on the k factor of your monitors settings.

G'luck and don't waist your time and gold trying to get silver whiter!

Originally Posted by optical

Diablo...thank you. I did take Color Theory in college. Subtractive colors don't occur naturally....AND far more importantly a computer screen can't display subtractive colors. Computer monitors display additive color..the colors are formed by passing light through Diode or a tube. LCD monitors work by blocking light(sorta...keep reading). By sandwiching a solution of TN liquid crystals between two perpendicularly aligned panes of polarized glass, it becomes possible to manipulate the intensity of light as it passes through this crystalline matrix and out the glass panel at the other end. Depending on the voltage of the electrical charge running through them, liquid crystals will untwist so that the intensity of light able to pass through the second polarized pane is affected. Basically, these displays can switch between light states (where the liquid crystals are fully twisted) and dark states (where the liquid crystals are fully untwisted), or somewhere along the gray scale in between. Cathode Ray Tubes work in the same theory but execute much differently. Basic principles still apply though.

as you can probably guess all computer applications are displayed using additive colors and using an RGB color scale. CMYK color scales are faked using a lengthy algorithm. They aren't true.