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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 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.

8-} oh, geez! I read that twice before I asked! I missed it both times!

Thank you for always keeping this game fresh and interesting! You are truly amazing in my eyes!

I would love to see an example of DFP1 and/or 2 on the Fresian style art.

So.....who do I need to bribe with baked goods to get an Akhal-Teke type next year LOL

Also congratulations on all the hard work put in by you and the team <3

You'll have to fight with everyone else's suggestions. :) When we are ready to start working on the next round there will be forum posts looking for suggestions and votes.

OMG I cannot wait to be done with work today!!

@paradoxphoenix, I'm in the same boat exactly

Has this gone live yet? I bought 5 BC this morning to start a Saddlebred line but don’t think it has gone live yet? Just want to make sure I’m looking in the right spot.

Before:


After:

CLRS15 Dawntless

ss Vesuvius

Hom frame, tobiano, belton:


CLRS15 Freaky Fried Egg

Appies:


CLRS15 Nightlight


CLRS15 Superb Meteor

*BRS Steelix Moon

DaF Dlanods Mabel

my oldest living stud (that I bred) suddenly looks very cool

Fiddlers Dale 2g

17584788 aba

17584823

*BRS Linnea Borealis

$ RRD Zachariah


$ RRD Booker


I know this is probably a long shot, but could we have a way to pay for a one time change of weight for this update (that isn't GMT?) I really love the Friesians, but I royally screwed up and I made my whole herd I had for them made as drafts, not even thinking about being bone weight locked. I would love the ability to mass change them, even if it cost real money!

DD Namarie


DD Weathertop


DD Shadowfax
This guy's mane and tail and markings are acting sassy, pretty sure it's not cache since I've checked on multiple browsers and computers. I'm fully aware this will likely work itself out and not complaining at all :)

Yup, you need to remove the manes and tails that you had on before. :)

D'oh! Well he's fixed now, thank you both!

@cavalynn woops lol someone's peaking through lol would make an interesting kelpie

DaF 18142212

@OopsDotCom

Each new art type costs 5 tokens, you have to unlock each art type to have it available to apply to your breed of choice. So 5 tokens for Saddlebred, 5 for Freisian, 5 for SP.

Then you are able to go to your manage breeds page and found a new breed, this does nothing to your existing original breed. You will just have a new breed option available, from there you can go to the breed characteristics and select what art you want for the different bone types and which bone types will qualify for that breed. After that, go to the horses you want to be that new breed and change their breed at the bottom of the control panel.

ETA: You can also change the art on your existing breed through the characteristics page on that breed, you don't need to found a new breed to show the new art.

by George i think i got it


Copies Combo

Ad g5u Thunder Department

Ad bs Plaid Blimp

Yd F RS Pomegranate Monsters
some of my updated Gentle Giants :D