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My plan the past week or so was to work on the tack editor but a series of technical issues meant I had to put that on hold. Because of that, I had some surprise free programming time and I decided to use it by working on gray generation. While working on gray I also saw a tweak that I felt made every horse in the game look better.


How does gray work now?
Gray foals are now born with hyperpigmentation and gray googles. Horses progressively dapple and gray out as they age with hom. gray horses aging a bit faster than het. gray horses.

Why are all the dapples the same? What about fleabites and blood marks?
I only had enough time to get gray generation to this point. Gray is a HUGE process, and like when we did appy generation I am going to have to put updates for it out in waves as I have time to work on it. Right now the dapples are static and the same for every horse, fleabites and blood marks are also not working yet. I wanted to get something presentable out now, it is already way better than what we had, but it is still a long way off from what I would like to see it end up as. I would love to see gray finished before the end of 2022.

What is the "every horse" tweak?
Saturation has been slightly bumped to help balance out the recent yellow bump we had. I feel this makes the horse images more engaging and pleasing to look at. It also helps make pangare and other lightning markings more effective looking. I did my best to test this but, sometimes, until you put it out in the wild it can be hard to get a good feel for a low-level system-wide change.

Reroll currently required.
Both the new gray update and the bumped saturation require a full reroll, not just an image refresh to show. There is no way to make these changes show up without fully regenerating a horse's texture map. If you just refresh grays right now you will see a change but it will be a hybrid between the old images and the new ones. I am open to suggestions on the issue of how or if we should force update to the new gray system. Happy to hear what people think is the best way to go about it. (We will not be force updating every horse in the game. That is totally unnecessary.)

Feedback?
Finally, if you have feedback either on the gray update or the saturation update let me know! I am very open to what you all have to say on the issue.

Important note that gray does NOT work in the advanced tack editor yet. I will be adding that when I do the next round of updates on it.