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okay i actually?? really like these?? they would honestly be really great for scrying my progens??

Okay this is actually pretty rad

[quote name="Anthelion" date="2019-11-22 19:10:36" ] This is beautiful but can we please get a version that's not got the accent colors? Just a nice natural dorsal to ventral fade, maybe with some naturalistic face markings? I think this would be SO useful--a kind of basic+ alternative! [/quote] I am with this 1000% This is a great idea in theory, but they keep adding these awful "accent" colours that make a nice dragon look absolutely horrid. I just want a nice gradient for red dragons that doesnt add a gross blue or green or blugreen.

Thank you for the new genes!!

No. These are too perfect. No way...

New genes! And they're gradients!! [emoji=nocturne star size=1]

[quote name="Xlade" date="2019-11-22 20:14:09" ] These are really pretty, but some of the color combos have me scratching my head. How does bright green end up in orca? Why is Cottoncandy blue and pink on stripes, but not with the fade/blend? Where's the purple you see in jaguar sunset? Again, pretty, nice idea. Just...some of the color combos... [/quote] Different genes use different parts of the palette. Basically, every color on the color wheel has something like this: 1. a 2. b 3. c 4. d 5. e 6. f …and so on. Where a will be the exact shade, b will be a similar shade (except on duotones like orca/violet/grapefruit - b is the color you see on the belly/horns in basic), c will be a similar shade (though some colors start getting funky here, like crimson, sunset, and cerise), and d onwards will often start getting weird. In this case, Fade/Blend each use the Skink/Spinner palette. I couldn't tell you which exact slot the colors get pulled from, only that they aren't anything new and we've seen them before. Pulling from a different part of the palette would have gotten cottoncandy's pink-blue or sunset's orange-purple, but most other colors would not have gotten a visually striking result thanks to that slot usually being occupied by one of the more similar colors to the 'a' shade. Genes aren't done individually but rather by putting these palettes through a program onto a template, and they'll try to pick something that looks good on as many colors as possible. I quite like the accents. You might hatch a moon/radioactive/fuchsia dragon and go 'I can't do anything with this' until you scry and find that moon can get radioactive's light green and radioactive can get fuchsia's pink. For everything else, well - 19 of the 30 primary/secondary gene pairs don't play with those crazy accent colors at all. A couple more usually don't end up with their toes in anything weird (like Python/Morph and Tapir/Striation), and Piebald/Paint predictably just adds blobs of white.