122571-i-need-some-help-with-costumes

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So here's the thing. I just spent a lot of platinum on buying the black and white dyes.  So I dyed my 1800 warrior armor, and set it to costume 1.
 
Unfortunately, when I put on my tanking gear, then select costume 1, nothing happens.  How is it that I can still keep my 1800 black and white warrior look while also wearing my tanking gear?
 
Could you please give me a walkthrough on how I can wear my 1800 warrior costume at all times?	
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So here's the thing. I just spent a lot of platinum on buying the black and white dyes.  So I dyed my 1800 warrior armor, and set it to costume 1.
 
Unfortunately, when I put on my tanking gear, then select costume 1, nothing happens.  How is it that I can still keep my 1800 black and white warrior look while also wearing my tanking gear?
 
Could you please give me a walkthrough on how I can wear my 1800 warrior costume at all times?
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Obligatory dumb question:  Did you slot all the Black & White colored items into the costume slots for Costume 1 and click the eyeball icon to the glowing "ON" state in the Stylist window?
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yes !
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Hit P, this is the gear your toon wears, i'll call it your 'paper doll'.  Now go to the protostar costume guy, click him and it comes up with its own interface i'll call this the 'costume interface' or just 'interface'.
 
1) if you want to dye and display the actual gear that you are wearing aka your 'paper doll' then do this: go to the protostar guy and click on him.  In the middle of the protostar interface you will see your picture, dye channels for gear on the left, dye colors on the right. Now look back at your picture and look underneath it at the costume selector.  Open up the dropdown and select NO COSTUME and once that is done you will see the gear that you are actually wearing in the costume interface.  Just select dye channels and select colors and once finished at the bottom right of the interface window hit the DYE button.  Close down the costume interface once you are done. Now hit P to open up your own paper doll, look at the gear slots on the right side  where you have the support systems, gadgets and implants.  Underneath you will see a green icon with a T-shirt on it, click that and select REMOVE COSTUME. Once you've done that your appearance will be that of the gear you are wearing on the paper doll.  When you go to equip something new on your paper doll your appearance will change too.
 
2) if you want to dye and display a costume and not the gear you are wearing on the paper doll do this:  Make sure no other windows are open and go to the protostar guy and click him to open the costume interface.  At the middle bottom under your picture select costume 1. Open up your inventory and put the costume pieces into the protostar costume interface.  Select the dye channels and colors that you want and once you are done hit DYE at the bottom right of the interface.  Once you are finished close down the protostar costume interface. Now hit P to open up your paper doll...at the right side where the slots are for support system, gadges and implants you will see a green icon with a T-shirt on it.  Click that and select the costume number that you were editing at the protostar costume guy.  Once you've done this no matter what your paper doll has equipped you will always have the same costume.  If you want to change appearance then you have to go to the protostar costume guy and swap out the gear that is in the costume interface.
 
That should be all there is too it...if something isnt working the way it is supposed to you either didnt follow instructions or it might be bugged hehe.	
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			So, in order to wear my 1800 set as a costume while im in my tank gear, I have to put my pvp set in the item slots and it stores them there?	
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So, in order to wear my 1800 set as a costume while im in my tank gear, I have to put my pvp set in the item slots and it stores them there?
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So, in order to wear my 1800 set as a costume while im in my tank gear, I have to put my pvp set in the item slots and it stores them there?
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So, in order to wear my 1800 set as a costume while im in my tank gear, I have to put my pvp set in the item slots and it stores them there?
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Oh, did I misunderstand?
 
Like, you're WEARING your PvP Black & White outfit, but want to wear it over your tanking gear?  You're gonna need to spend a lot of time taking those pieces off of your character and putting them into costume slots.	
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How long have you been playing this game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2mfkguytA&list=UUBNkveJBulVQ-SVbG1bLcuA
Here's a video showing how the costume system works.
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Since release, and it has never occurred to me to put my gear into the slots to make a costume.  Why the hell, would any system ever, require me to put my gear into slots and leave them there, just to costume them?
 
This has to be one of the least convenient dying systems of all time.  It costs me an extra 2.5 plat and an entire second 1800 set of gear just to have my main look as a costume.  That's poor design at it's finest.  I still can't get over that I have to actually leave gear in the slots.
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The WS costume system is not, by ANY stretch of the imagination, poor design "at its finest."  I get that you're frustrated, dude, but c'mon.  You didn't know, and now the system probably makes loads more sense to you.  Does the system suck a little more for PvP gear?  Probably.  Is it the worst system out there?  Hardly.  You could be locked behind store-bought transmutation charges (GW2) or have all of your desired costume pieces stuck in cash-shop slot machine lockboxes (Champions Online).
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Since release, and it has never occurred to me to put my gear into the slots to make a costume.  Why the hell, would any system ever, require me to put my gear into slots and leave them there, just to costume them?
 
This has to be one of the least convenient dying systems of all time.  It costs me an extra 2.5 plat and an entire second 1800 set of gear just to have my main look as a costume.  That's poor design at it's finest.  I still can't get over that I have to actually leave gear in the slots.
 
 
Right.  Your option 2 helped me figure it out.  By putting a second set of 1800 gear into the costume vendor, I was allowed to use it as a costume.  Pretty silly if you ask me.  Thanks for the detailed explanation.  You really helped me out a lot, as this was my first costume in this game.
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Right.  Your option 2 helped me figure it out.  By putting a second set of 1800 gear into the costume vendor, I was allowed to use it as a costume.  Pretty silly if you ask me.  Thanks for the detailed explanation.  You really helped me out a lot, as this was my first costume in this game.
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Some additional tips:
 
* you can mix and match the gear you are currently wearing (your real gear) with a costume. If you do not slot an item into a costume slot, then your real worn armour will show for that slot (when wearing that costume).
 
* You can dye your real gear by using the above method and then applying dye to the empty costume slot. I know this sounds counter intuitive, but it works.
 
* Note that any item you dye within the costume system (including your real gear if you use the method above) will retain that colour permanently (unless you use the remove dye option). This can save you gold if you're using an expensive dye and want to try mixing and matching different sets by moving items between costumes. It is the item you are dye'ing, not the costume slot.
 
The WS costume system isn't perfect and has lots of foibles. But it is actually capable of some pretty good results if you experiment. However, it can be frustrating if you want to use gear that you need for an alternative build as a costume (as the OP has found). No way round that unless they implement some kind of wardrobe or skin unlocking system.	
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If you don't put your gear in there, you should STILL be able to recolor it.  You can essentially directly dye the channels.  That should work.  However, that is not a costume slot.  You are, essentially, directly making the armor a color.  As long as everything is clicked to show and you're wearing the dyed gear, it should show up in that one color.
 
If you want to have two colors of the same gear, though, yes, you need two sets of gear.  And yes, that does annoy me slightly.
 
Improvement is apparently on the way, though.  It looks like they'll be instituting a GW2/D3 style costume system where we unlock skins and set those as costumes.  That probably won't be coming until Drop 5 or later.  We're all interested in what's coming down the pipeline for that, though. :D	
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