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There are some changes i would like to add to some of the NPC's in the game.
Example.
Mortegro, Andral and Rabindrinath all share the same exact shape and color style

1: Mortegro
Hair - Instead of Brown it could be Black and Grey
Trim of Coat - Could stay gold
Main Coat Color - Could be black grey or could stay dark blue

2: Andral
Hair - Grey
Trim of Coat - Could be Black Grey
Main Coat Color - Could be a Brown to Tan Color

3. Rabindrinath
Hair - Black
Trim of Coat - Could also stay gold
Main Coat Color - Could stay the dark blue

If possible? I would like to learn how? or Request these as add on's

I have some ImageMagick scripts to do color swaps which would largely automate this, and even made color charts to help match lightness to lightness. It's not perfect though, because there are more of some colors than others and so a one-for-one match is more art than science.

Mortegro would have something like:
Brown 1 to Black 1
Brown 2 to Black 2
Etc.
Blue 1 to DarkGray 1
Etc.

For adding some grey around the temples, that would be a manual edit on 32 frames.

I haven't done much graphics work in a while, but I'll see what I can cook up. You can find a lot of it shared here. Black dragons, gold golems, etc.

If you are interested in a guide I could write one up.

@Dominus, do you know if the colors have defined names anywhere?

Not that I know.
And yes, changing those can be a patch or mod (even SI fixes(

I look forward to what you come up with! I'm trying paint.net to recolor in games screenshots to get an idea. But currently unsuccessful at the moment.

You'll want to have Exult, Exult Studio, GIMP, and ImageMagick command line version installed for the steps I have planned.

Speaking of shapes, why hasn't the stocking fix on github been committed to SI fixes? Was it fixed meanwhile, in the 3 years that PR has had open.