The Oda clan always seems to fail, it's as if everyone has trouble with the yellow and the black... I took your colour mod pack, Zane (Hope you don't mind) and decided to give it a go myself by re-opening it up and seeing what I could do to them as the current brown/bronze makes them look kinda cheap... I wanted to make them recognised with a new and unique colour set, keeping their original black and yellow scheme but making them look less like the other clans and more like a menacing, mighty war machine (like the Takeda Clan, lots of people love them for the black and red), this is what I came up with:
As you can see the unit's do not turn a bright colour as you zoom out, this is because I made the yellow slightly green tinted. The game's lighting effects (Or something) seem to affect the colours slightly in game and it really seems to dislike yellow, but has no problem with green. By using dark grey (80%) rather than black armour it doesn't go a rusty gold/brown colour as you zoom out, niether:
The units vary slightly, some have the papaya yellow whilst others have black armour:
The general's portrait in the bottom left looks a little neon green but, for some reason it always appears brighter than the units in battle and I can't change that unless I make their armour ALOT darker. Besides that though they look pretty nifty without changing colour as you zoom out... That's not just in the snow terrain, they look fine in all conditions:
(Please note that the yari ashigaru in the background of the above image have brown/greenish clothing on, this is because this screen was taken when I used pure black as the colour of clothing and so it turned a mucky colour as you zoom out. It was after turning this into a dark grey that I fixed this problem and they now appear correctly as in the other screens)
I love how they are now, menacing without the use of red (Generic). They certainly stand out from the other clans like this and even though it's a fairly bright color I don't think it's too neon or unrealistic. You might disagree but that's my opinion and in my campaign, this is how I want them to look
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It was so easy to do, I've never edited hex before! I found it fun, really. I don't understand why the developer's didn't allow us to edit our single player army the same way the multiplayer army can be customised. Don't tell me it's for historical accuracy as there wasn't usually a uniformal colour for each clan in real life, so the whole thing is wrong anyway.
Regardless, if anyone else wants a clan's colour changed, just message me the hex # you want for the 3 parts: armour/clothing/detail and the clan you want changed, I can make it for you. Don't go overboard though, I'm not going to start changing every single faction's colours over and over for all of you but, maybe the 1 clan you want to play as. I don't mind fixing them up a bit to get them the colour you want as it's 100X more fun to play with an army you think looks the best!
If you like my Oda clan's colours and would like them too, then here's the pack:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W9IGHUK1
It's Zane's V11 pack so all of the other clans are how he currently has them but, with only the oda changed (Everything else is left the same). If you already have Zane's colour mod then this does mean that you'll have to remove Zane's pack from
data before using this one, otherwise it may not work for you. Once done, just drop it into your data folder like normal.
Not trying to steal your thunder, Zane. Just giving other's the chance to use what I've done... That's the best part of mod forums
Enjoy!