Starting with the
Black Tunic, I think it looks odd that the belt, arms, legs, and collar are black as well. All the other tunics have a brown belt, arms and legs in a different shade of greyish brown, and a bit of white cloth you can see at the collar. I suggest that the Black Tunic, just like all the other tunics, differ solely in the color of the main body part, but have the same arm, belt, leg and collar color.
Similarly, the
Black Gambeson would look better in my opinion if you took the model of the Blue Gambeson and only changed the padded armor part. Belt, collar, skirt, and arm protection should stay brown. The legs should stay greyish-brown.
I can explain why the best way if you compare the Gambeson and the Red Gambeson. The Gambeson itself is a multicolored model; it has the white padded armor, the green skirt, the brown belt, collar and arm protection, and the greyish-brown legs. If the whole thing would be mono-colored white, it would look mildly interesting. For the same reason, the Red Gambeson kept the green skirt and the brown parts.
The Blue Gambeson is the same as the Red Gambeson and the default Gambeson, apart from the Blue Armor part and the brown instead of green skirt. The designer of the Blue Gambeson seems to share the common opinion that green and blue do not look well together (there are exceptions, but this aversion to combine blue and green is shared by the wide majority of people). Therefore, the skirt is brown. He could have made it blue, but that would look boring, so he made it brown instead.
So please keep the Black Gambeson multicolored and include the brown elements! (Just like blue and green, I would not combine black and dark green, and since lime green is not very medieval, we should stick to brown).
If you want another explanation: The Black Lamellar Vest is not entirely black. It has brown leather elements and a grey collar. If it was mono-colored black, it would look boring. If you want, you can test it and make the Black Lamellar Vest mono-colored black and verify that it looks less interesting than a multicolored Black Lamellar Vest.
I addition, mono-colored items allow less combinations with other items. For example, if the Steppe Armor was mono-colored green, brown shoes would look odd on it. The only leg armor you could use with it would be Green Hose with Kneecops. Since there is an issue with the models (not the textures), and the Green Hose with Kneecops looks "cut off" unless it is combined with the right items (Steppe Armor is not one of them), there would not be any leg armor at all to combine with Steppe Armor. Fortunately, it is not mono-colored, but has brown elements with a slight tendency into red, so it looks good with Woolen Hose and Rus Cavalry Boots, for example.
The
Black Steppe Armor texture suffers a bit for the same reasons described above: It is entirely mono-colored and a bit boring. It fits well into a black-and-white movie, but not into a multicolored game. If you agree with me or at least find it worth to check the idea, please upload an image of the Steppe Armor with only its green elements made black. If you wish, you can slightly darken the arm wrappings to make them grey instead of creme white, but please don't overdo it.
Black Brigandine over Aketon looks terrible because of the Purple and Green Hose elements. I do not like the purple and green legs with the red, green and blue version either, but at least it is not pure eye-cancer like in the black version. Please make the legs in some neutral creme white or grey, and a corresponding version of Purple and Green Hose in this color, and then, there will be a bit of hope left for Black Brigandine over Aketon. Another issue with the current picture is that the belt and the fasteners are metallic-silver. It makes no sense for these to be made of steel, so they must have some leather color instead (brown, brown/red, bleached leather, blackened leather, or maybe creme-colored hide).
As for the
Black Brigandine over Mail, make sure not to darken the Kneecops because then, we would need darkened kneecops of the same shade on the leg armor as well, and I am not sure if the
Black Hose with Kneecops fulfills it. But it is hard to see on the pictures only, so nevermind if I am wrong =)
Brown and Black Rus Cavarly Boots: For safety reasons, change only the boots themselves and leave the trousers as they are, so they remain combinable with other armors.
Bronze Knight and Black Knight Set: Here is no issue at all. Since the original models are mono-colored, a mono-colored color swap does not hurt them at all. However, as mentioned, most of the other models are multicolored and need fine adjustment of each element separately, or some elements should better remain in the current color.
You definitely bring all the technical skills needed for an item manager, but we have to work on your design decisions a little =p Since you are very reactive to feedback, this shouldn't be any issue though. Thanks for this thread
There is a lot of awesome stuff, and after some fine-tuning, I think all of the items qualify to be included to the mod. The council will make the decision, and we need an item manager of course (which won't be a problem if you will be our item manager).
I'll comment on the other items you presented if I feel like it later and if my suggestions were of any use for you, it's you who implements them or not, after all
Edit: typo
