I can tinker around with some pale gold or brown on the pads and equipment later, but I think Snake looks fine as is. All his stuff has a small blue tinge to it, so it's not just a copy/paste job. But I'll try out your suggestions later and see how they stack up.
Edit: Sorry it took so long, I've been really busy lately lol.
Anyway, here are 2 more Snake previews, one with a bit of improvements to the color of his equipment (belts, ammo pouches, elbow/knee pads, etc) and the other with a small faded tan/gold tinge to the elbow and knee pads.
Again, the hair thing is just BrawlBox being dumb.
I think the gold/tan equipment would be better suited for Mars rather than Maritime. It was a neat suggestion but it just doesn't look quite as good with blue as it does with red/orange.
All I can say for now is just don't cop out with black and white so much. Include some shades of brown, gold, and tan into things like his pants, inner cape, belt, chestplate, shoulderpad, gloves, etc.
And most importantly... keeping Ragnell gold instead of silver!
Really just anything to make it look more natural and less... unnatural.
I would recommend you to take a look at some of Shun One's Ikes. He's got some real good ones out there, all sorts of different designs, colors and themes. Look at them and then picture what one with purple, blue, black, brown, grey, and white would look like, and work from there.
I don't like either of those tbh. I agree with Kramerdorf, both alts need to be mixed together and include more than just purple, blue, black, grey, and white. Mix in some gold, brown, and cyan. Keep his Ragnell the default colors. Outer cape needs to be that indigo color, and really doesn't need the Project M logo on it. Inner cape idk. Just not black/grey/white please lol.
I totally understand. The reason why I even recolored them in the first place was because people suggested me to. I was going to keep them green by default, but the guys back in the Maritime thread on Smash Mods insisted otherwise. And for a while, I did kinda like how it gave a different shade of blue to the texture (since I couldn't find a decent way to add a lighter shade of blue without it looking really awkward or unprofessional), but now that I've done that with the silver armor on the lower chest and inner thighs (you can see it has a small blue tint to it), what other color choices do I have that would make sense and give it a better Maritime feel?
That's why I kept the green cannon: so that I can appeal to both the official feel AND the Maritime feel at once.
---------------------------------------------------- Now for something a little less amazing... ---------------------------------------------------- Here are my Ganons for the "M"s I mainly used Mars Falcon, Maritime Ganon and Minty Fox V2 for the color styles. Though, im sure not a lot of people dont use/care for Melee Ganon, I still want these to be top-of-line-textures like all the rest so hit me with feedback.
Mars
Maritime
Minty
Double thumbs up on all of those, even though I prefer the TP/Brawl model over the Melee/OoT one.
The only thing the old ones do better than the new ones is that the Arm Cannons match the theme, other than that, nice job.
I personally cannot stand having the arm cannon a different color from the official green. This way, the textures look like they belong in Brawl more than they did before.
I think that was Obskore's version, but I don't know if he ever released a link for it.
Also as I'm going back and making some major adjustments to some of my Mars/Maritimes that I'm starting to dislike (the Samuses, Snake, Meta Knight, and Falcon) the differences are just amazing. I just finished doing all the Samuses, and the improvements are so much better.
Mars Samus
Old New
Maritime Samus
Old New
I mean, just look at how much cleaner and vibrant they look. It's ridiculous.
Came home today after working hard all day long since 6 in the morning and saw the new Links, it was totally worth it.
It looks like you used the older version of my gold Link though, instead of the newer one that I had updated the same time I released my Crimson/Cobalt duo. If you could please whip one up for the updated one real quick and replace it that would truly make my day.
Like I said before, I don't want to touch the arm cannon because it irks me when it isn't the "official" colors. Same goes with Link and Tink's Master Sword, Marth's Falchion, Ike's Ragnell, etc.
But now that I look at it more I guess it's not too bad, but I do wish I could find a decent combination of purple and blue armor pieces without it looking too goofy and more true to the official style (where the helmet and upper chest are different from the rest of the armor), so I guess my Samus would be considered the "vanilla" version, and then someone else can make an alternate with different colored armor, arm cannon, visor, etc.
As long as it's not a palette swap... (I'm looking at you, Rage83)
Ugh now I'm starting to feel dissatisfied with how Samus turned out. Solid purple everywhere just feels too lazy. I feel like need to mix in some blue and black somewhere. But I can't find a combination that works.