[Recolour] Lvl 40 Horse mounts Palomino(swap), Choco, Bay, Dun, etc

[Ingmaesing]

NOTE: I would like someone to test these out. I am seeing them in model viewer, but not in-game. Would anyone mind downloading these and reporting back to me if they work or not so I can take the steps to fix any sort of problem?

Check back for updates, as there are 4 more colours coming.

WHY

These are recolours of the 4 Lvl40 horse mounts. As a Draenei who hates the way to Elekk look, I grinded rep with the three available Ally factions and by lvl 46 had Horses, Cats, and Rams. Horses were the first, at lvl 42, because I had seen the Palomino at Goldshire and, being my favourite horse, I wanted it. I didn't find out until I was done grinding rep that the Palomino had been removed when armoured epics were added. I bought the Brown Horse, and went on to buy the three others. Excluding the Menethil-only Black Stallion, all the horses looked the same. Brown Horse, splotchy brown horse, reddish brown horse.

I spent lots of time with horses over the summer for the past two years, and was dissapointed that the only available colours were the dull, common ones. So, the first model edit that I started working on was to recolour the Lvl 40 horses. I started when I first read a few guides here, but school got the best of me and I left the project incomplete. Over the past 3 days I have been able to get these edits working, and do a few touch-ups. Now I have started making them available to the public.

DESCRIPTION AND IMAGES
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2KZolvzcs"]YouTube - [MODEL EDIT] LvL 40 Horse mounts[/ame]

Saddle
Along with the horses themselves, I also recoloured the equipment. The pad is a silvery purple and platinum, to match the skin and hair of my Draenei. The saddle and reins are black, to better match the new pad colours.
I take requests for saddle recolours. You may list which colours you want each part of this texture to be (pad, pad stripe, reins, seat, seat outline, metal) and I will upload a BLP file which you can put into the existing patch file.

Bay -done
The bay is dark brown, with a black mane and tail, and black running up it's legs, fading in at the top. This colour is a bit more common, but beautiful nonetheless.

Chocolate -done
The chocolate is a speckled medium brown. The mane and tail are many different shades of blonde, some have been a "dirty blonde" with brown fading to a medium mustard blonde, and some have been a light, beach-bunny blonde.

Palomino -done
An uncommon but astounding shade. The body is a light sunny golden tone, and the mane and tail are a creamy off-white. This is a swap, everything but the saddle, pad, and reins is Blizzard's texture.

Dun
This colour is reminiscent of a seal-point Siamese cat. A tannish white on the body, with a dark brown mane and tail, and dark brown on the face and legs, fading into the white.

Blue Roan
One of two "Roan" tones. Roans are a solid colour, but their abdomen is slightly paler, and speckled. The Blue Roan is a blue-grey colour

Red Roan
The second of the two Roans. This horse is very Chestnut in appearance, having a rusty red-orange colour.

Buckskin
Almost a reverse Palomino with a bit of Bay. Buckskins have a golden fur, a bit darker than that of most Palominos, with black legs, tail, and mane like a Bay.

DOWNLOAD

This download includes the MPQ patch with the basic setup that I have. Pinto is Palomino, Black Stallion is Bay, Brown Horse is Chocolate, and Chestnut Mare is still untouched. Also included in this file is the the BLPs for all 3 recolours, so you may organize them as you wish.

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[J-A-K-E]

amazing, way more realistic then blizzard's horses +Rep

[Mythers]

O..M...G!!

So awesome!!

Rep ofc

Edit: To much 24 hours, sry.. I'll add it l8r

[King Protos]

they look amazing, definite +rep

you wouldn't happen to be making the paladin horses better would? Id love you forever if you did =D

[Axol]

lol i think this is rly shitty music xD but cool recolor xP

[Ingmaesing]

lol i think this is rly shitty music

No music is "shitty", people's tastes in music vary. For example, I dislike most modern popular music.

Even though it's unrelated to the topic, it's better to say "I dislike your music", rather than "you're music is shitty".

[Badlah]

WOW!!! you are amazing... you should put that in a portfolio and apply at blizz.com!!

+rep... wish I could give more than one :-)

[shortyboy395]

finaly, somthing realistic in wow, great job!

[Ingmaesing]

Too much about ****ing horses.

And just what were you expecting when you clicked a thread clearly labeled "horse mount recolours"? High orbit space cannons?


There were no plans to reskin the Pally/Epic/Lock horses, because I didn't really have a problem with how they looked. I guess if I have the time I could try it. No guarantee though.

[Taiin]

Very nice :P But the first two look very much alike aside a few spots.