I've gotten all the color/marking combos I wanted on the currently available mounts in Palia, so now I get to show them off!
I will say... as beautiful as everything else in the game is, there were a lot of really ugly mount options that I had to work around, or that I hoped would look good and was disappointed by. I do have some questions about the aesthetic choices made...
Such as why didn't you make the paint and polka dot (appaloosa) markings white on the brown Dawnspur coat so they would actually look like the natural horse patterns they're based on, Palia? Why didn't you adjust the polka dot pattern on the horses so the mirroring doesn't stretch dots across the back in weird ugly stripes? You clearly took that into account by darkening the backs on the polka dotted Riffrocs, so I know you noticed. And when you designed the face marking on the Akwinduu's dapple pattern to go with the gray coat by putting that rim of lighter gray around it, did you notice how bad it looks on every coat color that has actual color? Why did you decide to make the shiny sheen look... like that? Why did your research into the names of horse colors fail so hilariously?
(they call that buckskin Akwinduu a roan... I guess they got as far as learning that roan means white hairs mixed with a base coat color so they just uniformly lightened the coat, making it look like a cream gene instead. And then there's the chestnuts. I know people who don't know horses often get bay and chestnut mixed up, which explains why the chestnut Dawnspur looks bay, but why is the chestnut Akwinduu gray???)
Still, clearly, there are also a lot of really beautiful beasties to be had. I'm especially proud of the iridescent dapple gray Akwinduu. She's three generations of breeding. Also, the rainforest pattern on that dark gray Riffroc is badass.
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