I'm making another gene suggestion, and it turns out it's been two years and four days
the last one, Venom tert!
This is a Primary/Secondary set, but with the primary being more prominent, I'll post them here.
Dun and Equus (or Ferus)
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(default colours in Shrek green lol)
This set of genes is based primarily on the
primitive markings of horses, commonly called 'dun factor', and typical of wild horses.
It shares a colour palette with Python and Morph (
I only saw one colour with an issue -- maize) and has three colours, light, medium, and dark.
The corresponding colours were colour-picked on a male coatl from the tip of the second, darkest, wing feather (1/dark), the eyebrow (2/medium), and the shoulder horns (3/light).
It's pretty much impossible for a gene to look good in
every colour, and it's true with this suggestion, too; you can see it performs best on high-contrast colours to bring out the dark elements, and also on warm and neutral colour ranges.
This is the type of 'natural' gene I'd love to have more of -- not explicitly patterns copied directly from real animals, but rather ones that look like they could be at home in reality.
This didn't actually start out as a gene suggestion but that's what it turned into since I've been visualising a suggestion like this for a while.
Note: the pearl wasn't intended to be coloured, I made an error and it's not worth fixing since we know what a 'default' pearl looks like.
Dun and Equus are shown on a pearlcatcher due to the implied equine traits in the breed, but they could also work particularly well on tundras as well as translating just fine to fully scaly breeds.
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