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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2010, 08:03:04 pm »
But...Cyan is such a wonderful contrast to red~
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2010, 08:05:42 pm »
Well, go with my theory, and it could very well be red...
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2010, 08:18:41 pm »
Quote from: Nihilist on April 28, 2010, 07:39:33 pm
If your mind likes Realism over fantasy it could very well look like aerogel
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Its typically a bluish substance and has a ridiculously low density. It is also an extraordinary insulator
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*blink* Wow... if I didn't have Google/Wikipedia to prove it, I'd say you were messing with me...

That. Is. Awesome!
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2010, 09:44:56 pm »
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2010, 10:15:27 pm »
A very hard mostly-clear foamlike substance with a slight cyan colored luminecence.  Raw adamantine has a very sharp, rough texture, capable of easily slicing open the hand if handled wrong, even through thick gloves.  And is found in thick strands interwoven through rock. When heated to 10140 U, the adamantine gains a plastic consistency, and loses it's sharp edges, allowing it to be very easily shaped even by hand. All attempts to truly melt the materiel have ended in failure. When re-cooled the adamantine does not regain it's rough sharp texture, instead becoming incredibly smooth.  However, if the adamantine is worked into a thin shape the edges gain an extrodinary sharpness, sharper than any other materiel known. 

Although the materiel is far too light for use in arrows or blunt weapons,  The incredible hardness combined with it's light weight make ideal armor.  Even clothing woven of this materiel has shown potential as impenetrable armor, although more testing needs to be done in that area.  The materiels sharpness also shows potential use in bladed weapons, such as swords, spears, and axes.

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That would be how I see Adamantine.
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What color is adamantine? EVERY COLOR!!!
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2010, 10:35:51 pm »
Without any further ado, I give you:

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MULTICOLOR ADAMANTINE!

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Spoiler: Replace the normal adamantine metal in inorganic_metal.txt with these... (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: And replace raw adamantine in inorganic_stone_mineral.txt with these (click to show/hide)

And there you have it!  Every vein of adamantine you come across will be a random color, but they all have the same stats as each other.  (That's a project for another day...)
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Feel free to ask me any questions you have about logic/computing; I'm majoring in the topic.

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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2010, 11:23:43 pm »
Hmm I've always thought of adamantine as being of a greener variety.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2010, 11:29:47 pm »
Well, now you can have it! And eat it too!
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Dwarven economics are still in the experimental stages. The humans have told them that they need to throw a lot of money around to get things going, but every time the dwarves try all they just end up with a bunch of coins lying all over the place.

The EPIC Dwarven Drinking Song of Many Names

Feel free to ask me any questions you have about logic/computing; I'm majoring in the topic.

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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2010, 11:30:35 pm »
I always say all the best things are white.  8)

Na, honestly I see it as a pale cyan.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2010, 11:33:52 pm »
Well, whatever.  I'll go set this up with it's own topic later.
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Dwarven economics are still in the experimental stages. The humans have told them that they need to throw a lot of money around to get things going, but every time the dwarves try all they just end up with a bunch of coins lying all over the place.

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Feel free to ask me any questions you have about logic/computing; I'm majoring in the topic.

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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2010, 12:17:59 am »
I too see it as a silvery-light blue metal. I do so want it to mesh up with LotR.
Did you know Tolkein used adamantine as one of mithril's many many names? Therefore:
Adamantine=Mithril
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2010, 12:20:20 am »
The most common I've seen is cyan, blue-ish grey, and green.
Personally, I like to change color of cyan in the raws from this to this.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2010, 01:21:36 am »
Damn you canalan, I was just hurrying to the second page to mention mithril. But yes, Mithril is essentially adamantine.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #28 on: April 29, 2010, 02:58:51 am »
Quote from: Danjen on April 29, 2010, 12:20:20 am
The most common I've seen is cyan, blue-ish grey, and green.
Personally, I like to change color of cyan in the raws from this to this.

You can change the colours in the ini... the wiki has lists of different colour bits - let me see... *mutters about Americans and the wiki not recognising the word "colour"*

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Color_scheme

Just pick the colours you'd like to change and put in the new RGB attributes and bam, the colours you want! I use one of the natural schemes myself, so I don't feel like ripping my eyes out when I find microcline.
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Re: What color is adamantine?
« Reply #29 on: April 29, 2010, 03:30:42 am »
Well if we're going to go on precedent, isn't wolverine's skeleton and claws covered in adamantine?

Ignoring the fact that its a different genre entirely that suggests a greyish color

I could be mistaken however, not an expert on comics
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