Weird color

[Argent]

brown double cream champagne

[Hazel]

Sable Cream, I think it's called. :3 w/o the CH, it'd be Seal Brown Cream.

[larissar]

Could he have mealy in his pedigree? I haven't looked into the database values right now and it's hard to tell visually. If he were brown based then he should be much more diluted on the underside, which makes me suspect that it's mealy having too strong of an affect (programming-wise). I'll have to look into the database to know for sure.

[Argent]

Not likely as his pedigree is exclusively barb/arab

[larissar]

I saw that you put him up for sale so I bought him. I'll inspect closely and let you know what I find.
It's quite possible low expression of mealy is in the Barbs. I've added very minimal expression of mealy in most breeds to add some subtle effects. Although they should stay quite minimal if there is no other outside influence.

[Argent]

I was curious about the two different types of brown: one with only pale flanks, elbows, etc. and the other with an extensively pale belly. Is this genetic, related to mealy?

[larissar]

There are actually 2 or 3 variables of genetic "brown" programmed into the game (same with bay), plus various effects from mealy. We can test for brown in reality but not much is really know about mealy. Just from my own observations I've noticed what looks like a mealy effect on same horses who are genetically bay and I wanted that in the game as well. So I used mealy to accomplish this.

Once sooty is added in to the game it will complicate matters even more (chestnuts could end up looking almost like bays if sooty is extensive in the mane/tail as an example). My aim was to make it not obvious what colour a horse is. In reality it can be quite difficult to guess a horses colour even if it looks "obviously X" colour, and I wanted to portray this in the game as well.