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As I said above our team has been working for 8 months on this. We are tired. Furthermore, our daughter has only a scant few weeks left of summer before school starts. Her last summer in the US, so we are going to take a break to do some family stuff. Not everything is as polished and perfect as we would like but it is time to push this out.

Here are some things not working as well as we would like and are already on our fix-it list.:

Body Warping
Overall I am pretty happy with how well we got the body warping working, but there is always room for improvement. You can expect to see some more polish coming to these, and even the older art in the future.

Leg markings
The generator was really only designed to do two legs not four so some of the colors have some issues with either stray white markings or missing dark markings. This is number one on our fix list but is going to be a bit of a process. Please be patient while this gets sorted.

Old art showing up
There are two generator processes happening which is why you sometimes get images that don't match the advanced tack editor version of your horse. We are phasing out the old system, and the old tack editor, and can't wait to have that gone. In the meantime, you might on occasion see your BC-modified horse show up sans their new art. It should correct itself with out you having to do anything. If it is really struck just fresh the image and it will correct. This won't be an issue once the old editor is gone.

Body Tattoos
Tattoos you add directly to the body are going to be showing up in kind of funny spots for a bit. Sorry about that. It's highish on the fixit list.

University Horses
If you clone a horse already modified but a BC the clone will have that BC applied. What you can't do at this time is change the art used by any university horses. That is not intentional and you will have the option to change those.


What to expect over the next few weeks.
Critical bugs will get addressed right away. I will also be low-key working on identifying and fixing leg issues. You can also expect a fix out for university horses in this time window. For the most part, we won't be starting anything new.

What to expect over the next few months.
Once we are back from our break we have to dive into updating our payment platform. This is vital so the game can keep taking payments and it will save us thousands of dollars a year. It has to be done in August. So that is going to be taking priority. As soon as that is done there will be a whole nother round of work on the tack editor. Fixes like body tattoos, and tack system updates are expected during this window. We really appreciate your patience and understanding that payment updates have to come first.

We know there are some frustrating bugs going on with tack that we have had to push back for other updates but fixes for these are coming! Basically, it was impossible for us to address those until we got the code to a steady place with this release.

I also plan to start the breeding lab overall once the kid is back in school. Very excited about this.

Don't forget subscription prices increase probably in September!

The future of tack in game
I know people have a lot of questions about the future of tack in the game and how it relates to the new art. Yes! You can use the current tack on the new art, for whatever value it happens to fit now that is. In the past, we have had art that was specific to certain art assets. You may not have noticed but the basic halter had to be drawn three times. Once for light, medium, and heavy. In the future tack will no longer work this way. You will be able to apply any tack item to any horse. If the item does not fit you can rotate it or change the size to help it fit correctly. We will also be focusing on modular tack items that you can more easily adjust to fit any horse.

Yes, more mane and tail options are coming for the new art. We also have a lot of the groundwork in place so that you can have manes and tails in front of OR behind the horse's body and this will work on all bodies. You'll eventually have lots of options to swap them between BCs as well.

Yes, more tack is coming! Once our break is over Jenx will be back at it creating new art for you all to enjoy.

Have a favorite background you like and want to see 500 high. We are going to convert all the ones we can to be taller. Not all of them are possible but we are going to try! Give us time it will be a slow process. Backgrounds that were made by our members in past contests can not be increased and maybe eventually phased out. But we will have more contests to replace them if that is the case.


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Thank you so much everyone for an amazing 17 years. We are so excited about this update, and all the options it opens up for us. Thanks in advance as well as we polish all the details in the weeks and months to come. The hard part is done and we have lots more new features coming for you.


This post alone has been an exhausting write-up. I will post below shortly with examples of each of the new BCs and you are very much invited to post your own examples. I am also willing to take requests on showing the new BCs in different colors but I will only take the requests that sound interesting.

Adult Color Examples


Classic Black


Bay


Light bay - You can see that bays on this BC suffer from missing black leg syndrome. This one will be QUICKLY fixed.


Rich Brown


Brown but make it Buckskin


Silver Bay


Light bay dun with DFP


Same but with more dilute genes


Tobi and roan


Kit M


Perlino


Unicorn


Yup! They all come in pony size.

Foal Examples


Black


Lil Chestnut dude


Bay

Fantasy Examples


Ice 19 on silver bay


Nexus and paintbrush


Chinchilla grullo.

This is now live!

Please keep in mind that the image updating process will be running in the slowest possible mode and we are going to have thousands and thousands of horses running updates over the next few days. If you want to see a horse with the new art right now you need to open their page and refresh the image.

Please DO post your examples here, I will post mine a bit later as they are still generating.

Please DO NOT post bugs here. Post them in the bug section, and make sure you read the info above about it before posting. If your issue is already addressed you will simply be linked back to this thread.

We are going to go do some much-needed errands and once we are back we will address any of the critical bugs that are bound to pop up.

Super cool - thanks for all your hard work on this, he is so handsome now! :x


LH12G Woodlouse

My new breed the Katlineers Cob, this stud is one of my foundation stallions. Thanks Ammit for the beautiful art work.

RKO Lets Mumbo
One of the foal that I wanted to be a foundation Katlineers Cob, my new breed will be 14h to 10h with the ideal height being 12h but not smaller than 10h high.

RKO OC Teensy Dawn

I decided to make my newest project medium boned because I'm absolutely obsessed with this new art! Can't wait to see his glow up! :x


LH1 Olive the Above

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