So I went and read through a few guides on making armour, and it seems alot of people not just the creators of Halo Ultra v2 just don't quiet know how "colorOptions" work, which is why the armour in the mod isnt dyeable. "colorOptions" is suppose to work with dyes, and the command "colorIndex" but it seems who ever made these armours did not know that.

How the colorIndex command is suppose to work:

seems simple, the numbers relate to what dye, but here is where people get lost or confused, in most/all armour codes there is this.

and people see this and go "ok so the title above (//BLUE) means what dye, however that isn't correct, the line its on represents the dye, the first line, or as the game reads "Line 0" is no dye, the second line or "Line 1" is black dye, the "//green" or what ever is above, is just a label, the "//" tells the game to ignore the text. so now, there are some problems i would like to reveal.

This code is from the "Security Helmet" code:


See a problem? firstly, they put green first, which is not how this works, the labels mean nothing, and secondly there are only 11 lines, when there should be 12, because they are missing default, or option 0, so green is 0 black is 1.... ect.... and tbh, that would still work up until blue, which is suppose to be green, and purple is suppose to be purple.... ect.... and even that would still somewhat work, however you can only have 4 colours changes through this, the game only supports 4 colours being changed through dye, to clearify how these lines work

but if you look above the colours for "red","blue" ect.... have more then 4 specified, which resulted in us unable to dye them with dyes.

so the coders work around, make a station that focibally dye the armour like this

even though this is "brown" because he messed up the colour order for colorIndex (1. Black 2. Grey 3. White 4. Red 5. Orange 6. Yellow 7. Green 8. Blue 9. Purple 10. Pink 11. Brown) he had to use 10 instead of what should of been 11.... and there is the cause of all of this... now im gonna fix this mess haha, and i may keep the station and rename it to "Visor Painter" or something, since as i mention only 4 colours can be changed through dyes, meaning i wont be able to dye the visors and armour, so dyes will be for armour, and paint will be for visors.

On this post a user "Karmos" did a fairly good job on explaining this.
https://community.playstarbound.com/threads/colour-options-editing.59021/