PW's Animal Color Expansion

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Up to date for Emerald Coast. Right now base game rare coat rates with increased diamond/GO spawning is the only available version. I will continue adding to the versions so increased rare coats are also present.

If you have animal suggestions that are real colors in real life that I haven't done, feel free to comment them! That is the only thing stopping me from adding to ACE.

6/27/2023: I was trying to figure out what the Great One Fallow coats were named to update my tracker on this page, because they are just labeled 'a, b, c' etc. So I opened them to look at their textures for at least a visual description, and I found a "Chimera" Fallow (Great One B) and cried. Maybe it's a puuure coincidence, but maybe a dev actually saw this page and the idea of the Chimera Puma of which was the first animal, the poster child of this mod, did spark an idea? Or do great minds just think alike? The coats were so beautifully done. I can't wait to hunt it. Maybe one day I'll find it in game.



Animal Color Expansion

If you look at the uploaded images for this mod you will spoil what the new colors look like.

I've tried to give an accurate quality-preview below, while still retaining a little mystery,

so you can experience the wow factor of the new colors yourself, in game.

There are also previews of the remasters below, so you don't spoil yourself trying to look them up.

None of the pictured animals below or in the media tab are even close to Diamonds. :)

Important Game Mechanic Note

*This mod replaces some of the "extra" vanilla colors.

Although the spawn/despawn distance is set to 650m for non-avian, yes I'm sure, it seems to choose when and for who it wants to work. It worked for me, I updated, it stopped working for me and promptly worked for people that reported it wasn't working for in a twist of irony. It's tied to individual species, not maps, so it makes no sense on paper. OH WELL.

I only picked the least attractive common color slots to turn into rares, with few exceptions.

You will still find all the albino/mealnistic/piebalds/great ones from the original game.

Example: Black bears had black, dark, dusky. (Very little change and even unrealistic maroon splashing.)

Now Black bears have: Black, Glacier, Kermode (Rare, real life colors.) GO's and rares untouched!

I made this mod for myself to start a fresh new game with while using My Mod Pack. (NOT required.)

As some vanilla colors (previously common) now spawn rarely, this mod may have a strange aesthetic on already filled lodges that had common coats, adding unintentional colors to old trophies.

Your trophies will not permanently be affected- when you remove this mod, the trophies revert back to vanilla colors again. Installing the mod at a later time (such as between updates of the game) will restore your rare looks.

Rare. How rare is rare? How about...so rare that I would be -shocked- if you had heard of EVERY single one of these animals!

Your hunt will be legendary.

These colorations actually exist in real life. (With 2 theoreticals and 1 for-fun 'ghost jackal'.)

I've adapted them to the game as far as modding will allow.(I.e. Can't alter lion's mane model, but can change the color to something fitting.)

The 'Cattalo' and 'Glacier Blue' bear are -extremely- accurate!

Whenever possible, I blended together or altered ex