non realistic eye candy.

**fallen851** · 03-14-2006, 17:01

Originally Posted by Keba

Black horses tend to seem a dark blue from certain angles and under certain lightning.

What? I own a black horse, and he has never looked blue. Nor has any of the black horses at the barn, nor has anyone ever asked "is your horse blue" or said "the horses sure look blue under this light".

Where did you hear that from?

**Keba** · 03-14-2006, 17:17

Originally Posted by fallen851

What? I own a black horse, and he has never looked blue. Nor has any of the black horses at the barn, nor has anyone ever asked "is your horse blue" or said "the horses sure look blue under this light".

Where did you hear that from?

I could swear the ones that I saw looked like that ... hmm ... well, I'll just write it up to my faulty memory and defer to your experience.

**Akka** · 03-14-2006, 17:49

Originally Posted by fallen851

What? I own a black horse, and he has never looked blue. Nor has any of the black horses at the barn, nor has anyone ever asked "is your horse blue" or said "the horses sure look blue under this light".

Where did you hear that from?

They don't look like they are blue, but the "true black" color on every hair (human or horse) has blue hue under lightning (the "not so true black" having a reddish hue).

**Voigtkampf** · 03-14-2006, 19:27

Stop nitpicking about the color of the horses…

**Puzz3D** · 03-14-2006, 21:06

I saw a horse of a different color in the Emerald City.

**Nelson** · 03-14-2006, 21:51

I have always regretted day glow colors in Total War. The faction colors could be different enough without being so garish.

I always turn the huge unit faction standards off along with the green arrows, finding both very annoying. The signifers and aquilifers that the Romans get are fine of course, as are the small banners other factions have.

The Napoleonic screen shots look tasty indeed.

**x-dANGEr** · 03-15-2006, 19:56

I think it's supposed to get a little messy, when all units are clashing. So you can't identify your units, but get a war-like feel.. Imagine LotR the movie, with the armies colored and glowing like in the game..