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Back in July, I warned everyone that this was coming, and now it is finally time to see it in the game.

Every image in the game is updating!

If you love the specific markings or look of any of your horses you have this weekend to save the images to your computer. We are prepping for mass updating. This will not impact your tack/backgrounds/awards/BC choices etc. It will change the colors and markings of your horses.

Why is this update happening?
Our image generator was originally designed for only the two near-side legs. This worked great for a long time and worked ok with the side poses for the BCs up until now but we want to offer much more dynamic poses. Doing so required a huge update on the generator so it now generates fourlegs independently instead of just the two.

I like the old generation why do I have to update my horses?
The process of making things work for four legs removed all the stop-gap measures we had added to make it sort of work for the new standing BCs. None of those BCs will work correctly after this update without regenerating the horse. Additionally, we have a ton of horses in the game that still have generations from before those half-measures were implemented and they really won't look right at all. There are to many horses that NEED to be updated for us to mess around with making it optional.

How will the update happen?
We have added a tracker that takes note of the last time your horse's image was refreshed or regenerated. The next time your horse's image refreshes for any reason (be it tack update, award, aging, image to old,etc) it will regenerate the image instead of refreshing.

Once this update goes out, every horse in the game will have an image that is flagged as "too old" and its image will automatically regenerate when the page is loaded. To see the new generation you will only need to open your horse's page.

At this time it will require a page open to update an image. We plan in the future to run a slow mass update to update the rest of the images in the background but have no eta on that.

How will my horses be impacted
First of all, brace yourself for marking changes. With every update comes the chance that markings can change a good deal. I had to edit almost all genes to make them work for this update and any time I touch them the change that markings will be different increases. Just plan for that to happen.

This update also comes with a ground-up rebuild of bay so that agouti promoter can work properly and be more realistic. I also adjusted the tones slightly on chestnut-based horses and cream expressions.

-Black-based horses won't see a ton of changes to their color.
-Red-based (chestnut) horses will see some minor tone shifts, mostly more saturation at the lighter end.
-All bay horses in the game are going to see a LOT of changes. Sooty and sooty plus have been made more distinct from one another.
-Agouti plus horses will see the most change of all, as agouti plus is now just a part of regular bay and simply reduces the overall amount of black expressed. Expect your wild bays to look more wild bay like and your dark agouti plus horses to be like other bays.
-Cream horses have also been updated to be richer in tone.