That’s pretty much the whole point of this thread. If the colors are not consistent then the color wheel doesn’t matter.
If you decide that you want to use a complimentary or triadic color combination you will very often find that the colors you have chosen don’t look the same on a bunch of different armor sets.
Let’s say you choose an split-complimentary color scheme (blue, green and red-orange), that’s two primary and one tertiary color. You want to be able to apply that color scheme to a variety of armor types for your different thralls, one armor for archers, on armor for bearers, one armor for fighters, plus a fourth type of armor that’s your personal set because you are the leader of your thralls and you want to look different from all of them.
Well good luck to you making that color scheme look good on all of the different types of armor you want to use. Blue doesn’t look the same on all armors, green doesn’t look the same on all armors, red-orange doesn’t look the same on all armors. You cannot depend on the colors to look consistent without spending time experimenting with different armor types. You might find yourself forced to choose between the best armor and the armor that looks good, becuase some colors look bad on some armors.
Knowing the color wheel doesn’t solve the problem being discussed in this thread, instead knowing the color wheel exposes what’s wrong with the coloring system that needs to be improved.
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