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Considering the hundreds of hours of work ahead of me, it is very unlikely.

Very exciting! I just started getting into Wild Bay after noticing not much was happening with it on the leaderboards. Change is necessary for growth - looking forward to them!

Thank you Ammit I can't to see the new looks,. Will the skin parts of the horse be showing realistic coloring in the skin areas of the horse. I do love it when the mottled eyes, muzzles and sheath/udder areas show up on the Appaloosa colored horses. Again thank you for all you and your team dose for HAJ.

Thank you, I should have asked will you be making the skin areas a bit darker more noticeable? Sometimes to me the coloring is very light on some horses. I am talking about horses that genetically have black skin under their coat, so the skin part wouid be black in color if that makes sense.

That horse is a pearl cream. They do not have black skin and the skin shown here is correct and accurate to real life.

http://www.thegypsybreedconnection.com/uploads/1/7/4/3/17432281/43000408-1988367291222340-1219715444424835072-n_orig.jpg

DNA testing confirmed smoky pearl. Skin very much not black.

Just an update I found that fixing wild bay is going to require completely rebuilding how agouti works all the way from the palest bays to the darkest browns. The actual moving parts are going to stay the same but how the game decides what "level" of bay to assign a horse is going to change. I will try to minimize appearance changes in regular bays and browns but there may be some shifting that happens to them. I'll post examples when I can.

A reminder that I am still working on these in the background. We are going to have a very large single update to get things working for the 4 legs update, then we will roll out updates to make genes fully dynamic one by one.

Expect to start seeing update posts about these soon.

Here is an example post of the agouti promoter changes I am working on.

The stallion is the after and the mare is the before.
https://imgur.com/a/RDmiqEG

Ooo I like it! Satin was never one of my favs because of the reddish/warm cast that seemed to show on some of the darker coats, and my personal preference is cool tones. I like that it’s neutral now.

I really like the new satin on the cream.

So based on feedback from all 3 servers and Discord we made a few tweaks today. The same feel just cleaned up the shine some. Not posting on lots of bases yet, just giving an idea for how it looks on different BCs.







I want to make a point of sharing how it looks on a national horse. Our national BCs are pretty flat so the shine on them reads a bit off. The nationals along with several of our original BCs are still in the works to get an update on the highlighting and shading. I am sharing this so you know what the plan is. I don't know if the satin update or the shading update for the nationals will be out first

It looks great!

They are all beautiful - wow! Nice work Ammit and team

Wow! I love it! Beautiful! Well done!!

We have things a bit more nailed down now. So I can give a general update. In the next week or so we will roll out a very large update that will allow horses to generate all 4 of their legs independently from one another. The generator now really only creates two legs. After the update each leg will have have it's own generation and sampling.

Major things this update will include in addition to those 4 legs:
-Wild bay complete and total overhaul
-Switch over to new satin art
-Tweaks to cream generation.
-Nexus and Axium will no longer cancel each other out.
-The lowest level expression of roan will have more white hairs than before.
-Some pinto horses had overly blue eyes, this will be made more realistic.

It will also include the hundreds of small changes needed to make all the different four-leg generation work. Most of those you won't really see changes on. For example, Dun is still exactly the same; it just has a bit more leg going on.


Once this changeover occurs every horse will old generation will have broken far side leg markings on even simple things like bay. So we will be adding logic in the game that says if your horse is flagged to refresh its image and that image is older then the launch date of the 4 leg update, do a full regeneration of the image instead. This will mean the shape of your markings will change. There is no real way around that so if you have any horses with extra special markings be sure and safe those images asap.


After this update goes out I fully expect there to be a fair number of special cases that need adjustment. I will do my best to test things thoroughly but there is no way I can catch every possible combination. After this large update expect a bunch of smaller ones to come out in short succession.

Wanted to share how the Fresian foal is going to look after the update.

Did some work on the darkest shades of buckskin today. You can see the before and after here. I think in the future we will want to do another round to make these more dynamic, but I think this is a much nicer and more accurate expression.

Yassss. I am a huge fan of the dapples, and the coloring on the new ones are fantastic! Love sty+ but gosh the sty/sty is a gorgeous color. Hammered metal it reminds me of. Well done!

This was yesterday's post

Somehow it got missed on this server

This has very much been an "If you give a mouse a cookie" update

In order to fix agouti promoter, I had to rework how bay/brown calculated and because I had to rework bay/brown I had to redo how sooty expressed, and because I had to redo how sooty expressed... You get the picture.

It's been a struggle to keep the changes has similar to the old art as possible while still fixing the issues that need fixing. Here are some progress photos

Oooo, I love these!

I rebalanced Palomino this morning. The tone is more representative of real-life palominos now and I added in a bit of leg lightening.

Normal Sooty


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