GrimoireBlack wrote on 2020-01-24 05:31:38:
For those saying these already exist:
Well, in nature, TRUE albino is not just "white". It's a total lack of pigment typically accompanied by a pink nose and red/pink eyes.
TRUE melanism isn't "black". A melanistic ("black") panther still has spots if viewed in the right light. A melanistic zebra was born last year; it still had stripes.
If it were possible to do so, these would make cool genes.
You can sort of do Melanism if you use Stained and that gene color is black.
Well, in nature, TRUE albino is not just "white". It's a total lack of pigment typically accompanied by a pink nose and red/pink eyes.
TRUE melanism isn't "black". A melanistic ("black") panther still has spots if viewed in the right light. A melanistic zebra was born last year; it still had stripes.
If it were possible to do so, these would make cool genes.
You can sort of do Melanism if you use Stained and that gene color is black.
We do actually get pinks and spots with triple white and triple obsidian! My current avatar is demonstrating the pink inside the ear, where the fur isn't covering the skin:
And even ice eyes or light eyes can approximate albinism as seen in humans, which doesn't tend to come through as pink or red due to how our eyes handle pigment differently. (And dragons have elemental eyes, so honestly we can go wild with assuming how albinism works there— most of the elements have a lighter or desaturated version of the common color that might work well if someone's attempting a breeding project but doesn't want to be bound to a specific element.) We can also make leucistic dragons using one of the less saturated colors if we'd like!
As for melanism:
You can still see the spots on xxx Obsidian.
My own main hang-up is just that… I don't think this would work in terms of FR colors or genes, because of how simplistic the breeding system has historically been. The structure has always been not realism but customizability and being able to obtain predictable results. Suddenly introducing colors/genes/mutations outside the breeding system would be a lot of chaos (as with the eyes referenced above, but moreso).
Genes could be fun but… what would the pattern be? Since pigment mutations/genes are related to how the body handles pigment rather than a specific pattern shared across species. And since albinism/melanism/leucism/etc can be simulated within the structure already, I'm not sure it's necessary.
