Dev Tracker

The pixel halo issue around mane tufts: Thank you to @xSevenRedSuns and everyone who's reported this. I did delete out some of the duplicate reports but I appreciate the help in tracking down this tricky issue!

TLDR: There's issues with the primary templates and a seam that results from anti-aliased edges meeting together exactly with no overlap and not creating full coverage. This problem can be corrected, but I am going to break this particular issue out into its own subsection so I have a way track it so I don't miss anything.

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What Happen? - For the art and image enthusiasts who enjoy reading about the nitty-gritty of the pixels!

Well, it's three issues, which is why it took so long to figure out exactly what's hppening.

1. Primary Pattern Halo: (F & M, pattern dependent) Gene pairs are drawn seamlessly. So if there's a pattern that has spots that go just where the mane is, the primary has those spots in the same area. We take the seamless template and split it in two to make the primary and secondary. This means that on some patterns we're overlaying the secondary on top of existing spots. This works great in theory, but because our lines are anti-aliased, the secondary's edges will not have fully opaque pixels. So they cannot fully cover what's below it without looking jagged. If what was below it was smooth and not having some kind of contrasting pattern exactly lining the place where the mane would go, there would be no halo. There's no halo in most areas because the line art is enough to cover up that overlap. On the two adult templates, there's little mane chunks that don't have any line art, so the halo is visible on the anti-aliased edges when you have two images trying to cover the exact same pixels with a contrasting pattern.

All primary templates with patterns need to be double checked to make sure that they don't have exact mane-shapes in a contrasting color happening right along the seam, creating a halo. They should be colored in to what's directly next to it to avoid a halo effect.

2. Primary Seam: (F, all primaries independent of pattern) The primaries on the female pose have the little lineless-mane tufts cut out, completely missing and transparent. I normally like to build in a minimum of a 2 pixel overlap between the primary and secondary, so that when the secondary lays over the primary there's no semi-transparent seam. I didn't do that with the female pose template, and a seam is visible, even on genes without a pattern.

3. Secondary Pattern Halo I made corrections for some of the secondaries a few months back. Some secondaries do appear to have patterns that touch just to the edge of the mane, which can ALSO create a pixel halo of color. There will probably be a few of these to fix up after I get the primaries sorted out. Update: There is a minor seam within the wings of most aberrations. This has gone unreported because not visible unless you zoom in in an art program and overlay it against a high contrast background, but since I'm combing through the secondaries anyway, I may as well address this at the same time. As a result, every secondary will be resaved and uploaded. This should not affect the look of the genes in a notable way.


Note on "changing every primary": For anyone worried about this changing the look of their dragons - it won't. Unless you like a little half pixel halo around each tuft, the end result will be the same patterns you're already using, just with no seam or halo! It sounds drastic to say "every primary is going to be changed", but it's not in a way that's going to really change how your dragon looks. This is not a pattern or color alteration! It's more of a technical fix.

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Genes that have fixes implemented:

• P Bar
• P Basic
• P Boa
• P Boulder
• P Cherub
• P Cinder
• P Clown
• P Crystal
• P Diamond
• P Fade
• P Falcon
• P Fern
• P Flaunt
• P Giraffe
• P Ground
• P Harlequin
• P Jaguar (reuploaded to address file corruption that may have happened to three colors during transfer.)
• P Leopard
• P Lionfish
• P Orb
• P Pharoah
• P Pinstripe
• P Poison
• P Ribbon
• P Ripple
• P Savannah
• P Skink
• P Slime
• P Speckle
• P Starmap
• P Stitched
• P Swirl
• P Tapir
• P Tide
• P Vipera
• P Wasp
• S Basic
• S Bee
• S Blaze
• S Blend
• S Clouded
• S Constellation
• S Current
• S Daub
• S Eel
• S Eye Spots
• S Facet
• S Fissure
• S Flair
• S Foam
• S Freckle
• S Hex
• S Hypnotic
• S Jester
• S Marbled
• S Myrid
• S Noxtide
• S Paisley
• S Patchwork
• S Peregrine
• S Rosette
• S Saddle
• S Safari
• S Sarcophagus
• S Seraph
• S Sludge
• S Spade
• S Spinner
• S Striation
• S Toxin
• S Trail
• S Weaver

The following corrections have gone in tonight:

• Tertiary: Riot on Aberration H had the riot fan mutation protruding out in front of the overlapped wing. This has been corrected.
• Secondary: Bee on Aberration M was missing a highlight on the top of the wing. Fixed.
• Tertiary: Spines on Aberration F had a spine that clipped into the mane corrected.
• Tertiary: Koi on all Aberration had the pixel bleed of the shadow corrected.
• The lineless tufts of mane often have seams or halos - this is a larger issue that will be tracked in the post below.

The following corrections have gone in today:

• Eyes: Glowing theoretically have the pixel border removed. Really. I promise it's real this time.
• Tertiary: Lace on Aether F pose had bleed onto a spine near the lower back wing corrected
• Secondary: Noxtide on Aether F pose had missing white stripes on the lower back wing corrected.
• Tertiary: Stained had its line art made less tinted to better match the modern version of the gene.
• Primary: Mosaic on all Aether dragons had the missing the foot fade color present in the modern version of the gene added.
• Primary: Lionfish had the missing accent color in the tail added.
• Primary: Twinkle in bubblegum had its twinkle markings brightened.
• Secondary: Flicker in bubblegum had its twinkle markings brightened.

The thread is now caught up and is being locked. I'll be turning my attention back towards the outstanding gene errors in some of our remaining ancient-specific threads and getting those addressed. At this time we are not accepting new reports except to those ancient-specific threads.

Once the ancient-specific threads are caught up, we will be looking at reopening a universal gene reporting thread to catch any remaining errors. This is likely to happen sometime in early 2024.

Gene releases and expansions are still going to have their own dedicated threads at the time of release so we can fast-track fixes, but a universal thread for all the stuff that has been hanging around is what the plan is. We want to have our genes as nice looking as possible. :)

Apologies for the silence on this.

We have been working with @Hiveworks and they have been engaging in back-and-forth reporting and investigation with their ad providers to get this ad corrected or removed. The holidays have made the response times a bit slower, but we are still looking into this and our engineer was able to get some good info on some of the code within the ad that may be causing the lock-up that we have passed along for review by the ad provider.

We are hoping to find a resolution to this soon. Thank you for your reports. I apologize that this has stuck around for so long. It's not the experience we want our players to have, and we are sorry for the frustration it has caused.

The following corrections have gone in today:

• Eyes - Glowing - Third time's the charm? Hopefully the pixel border around the edge of the canvas is now gone.
• Primary: Starmap on all Aether had additional large stars added.
• Secondary: Constellation on all Aether had additional large stars added.
• Secondary: Constellation on Aether F pose had swirls added to the back wing.
• Tertiary: Points on all Aether had pixellation cleaned up.
• Secondary: Blend on Aether M pose had an extra marking on the right antennae removed.
• Secondary: Myrid on H & F pose dragons had additional dark colors used only on "manes" applied to the butterfly portion of the tail. Their wing-tails have been corrected to match the male's wing-tail and all modern wings with myrid on them.

Known issues and investigations have been updated with all reports. Duplicated, non-issues, or corrected reports have been deleted.

Remember to keep the resolution you share here specific to Flight Rising and be kind to your fellow players!

Hello @DragonCloudBurst! A quick heads up, your title received an edit to bring it in line with our Forum Etiquette. Thank you!

Heeeey, I appreciate everyone being constructive and respectful in the thread, but we are headed into a holiday weekend on the last Friday of the year, so I'm just going to go ahead and preemptively lock the thread now while everyone is still chill. Why? Because historically this topic can become both contentious and lead to harassment of individuals who disagree.

General note for everyone:

If you don't want to see 'likes' on your dragons, please click on any dragon in your lair and then click on the 'Customize' button. On the right hand side of the screen you will see an 'Options | All Dragon Profiles' box. The first option listed will allow you to hide the likes counter across all dragons for your account if you check it.

Thank you!

A quick heads up, the thread's had a bit of a clean up, removing some questionable posts and responses to them.

And a general reminder for everyone to please handle this topic with mindfulness and respect. Yes, our NPCs are fictional dragons in a 2D-browser game and not real people. But how you choose to post about them on this aspect of identity and representation can still read as hurtful or bigoted regardless of your intent and the subject.

This is a forum where you have the privilege to take your time when responding. And in our forums, you can preview your words via the 'Preview' function and consider what it is you want to say and communicate before you hit 'Submit'.

Oh, it's also worth keeping in mind that today is also the last Friday of the year and we're all heading into a holiday weekend.




Thank you!

I think it's time for a time-out on this thread so it can undergo review. Thank you!

The following corrections have gone in tonight:

• Eyes - Glowing: The faint pixel border around the edges of the canvas for Aether M & H have been removed.
• Primary: Flaunt on Aether F pose had the marking on the far thigh colored in.
• Primary: Flaunt on Aether M pose had the correct belly gradient applied to match the other Aether poses and all other breeds.
• Primary: Fade on all Aether had the accent color intensified.
• Secondary: Blend on all Aether had the accent color intensified.
• Primary: Candy on Aether H had the dots added to the horns to be consistent with the adult artwork of the same breed.
• Primary: Cinder on Aether M pose had the neck color removed from the face to match the other Aether poses and breeds with this gene.
• Tertiary: Flutter on Aether M pose had both tail wings from flutter placed in front of the secondary tail wings to be symmetrical and to match the F & H pose.
• Primary: Python had its accent color intensity increased to be more consistent with the modern version of the gene.
• Secondary: Morph had its accent color intensity increased to be more consistent with the modern version of the gene.
• Primary: Spool on Aether F pose had a missing toe bean colored in.
• Tertiary Stinger on Aether F had a scale bleed into the fluff corrected.
• Eye: Primal (Plague) had the pure black line art tinted.
• Eye: Multi-gaze had black line art on the main eye inconsistent with the common version of the eye corrected.
• Primary: Stitched on Aether F Pose had the miscolored patterning on some patches corrected to match the other Aether poses and the modern version of the gene.
• Secondary: Patchwork on Aether F Pose had the miscolored patterning on some patches corrected to match the other Aether poses and the modern version of the gene.
• Primary: Laced on all Aether had the basic belly color and was missing the belly gradient present in the modern version of the gene. This has been corrected.

This has been removed from the suggested names pool.

The drop rate on eggs has not been altered.

Chest drops haven't been altered, except in the form of some venues getting an additional NotN-themed opponent. NotN opponents have higher drop rates than normal opponents and so slightly more of them being around = slightly more chest drops.

The thread is now caught up. I'll be turning my attention back towards the outstanding gene errors in some of our ancient-specific threads and getting those addressed. At this time we are not accepting new reports except to those ancient-specific threads.

Once the ancient-specific threads are caught up, we will be looking at reopening a universal gene reporting thread to catch any remaining errors. This is likely to happen sometime in early 2024.

Gene releases and expansions are still going to have their own dedicated threads at the time of release so we can fast-track fixes, but a universal thread for all the stuff that has been hanging around is what the plan is. We want to have our genes as nice looking as possible. :)

The following corrections have gone in tonight:

• Tundra F Eye Sockets The primary genes where hatchling and male tundras had colored eye sockets but the female pose did not have been corrected to have the eye sockets colored like the rest of the breed. More info in the post directly above this one.
• Tundra F Patchwork The mane in Tundra females with patchwork has colored pixels from stitched that bleed into the mane. Fixed.
• Tundra H Seraph - The Seraph secondary has a clipping issue on tundra hatchlings where linework escapes the end of the front wing. Fixed.
• Tundra M Scales - The scales tertiary on tundra males is missing the scales that go over the wrist of the wing. These are present in all other dragons the other poses of the tundra breed. Fixed.
• Veilspun Runes - The Runes gene on veilspun has an issue where the shadow layer fades in and out on things that have no shadow (on the tertiary). This is most noticeable on darker colors. Fixed.
• Veilspun F Runes - The Runes gene on veilspun F is not present on the back arm. Fixed.
• Veilspun F Falcon/Peregrine - The pattern is misaligned. Fixed.
• Veilspun Tapir - The foot color on tapir on veilspun templates bleeds from the back feet into the tail or body behind it. Fixed.
• Veilspun M Arc and Loop - Arc and loop on male Veilspun are have a small accent patch of color that accidentally had its layer deleted. These accents are present on females and hatchlings. Male pose needs to be updated to match them. Fixed.
• Wildclaw M Flair - A small portion of the back wing (wrist joint) that pops out to the left of the head is the incorrect color for flair. Fixed.
• Wildclaw M Speckle - Wildclaw males have spots clip into the belly portion of the tail. Fixed.
• Wildclaw M Striation - Stripes from stration faintly clip over from the front wing's wrist onto the feathers of the crest. More visible on darker colors, but present in all Wildclaw M strations. Fixed.

• Tundra F Eye Sockets - This has been a long running issue that spans many genes, but the basic colors of tundra female are missing the differentiated eye patch color present in the male and hatchlings. Affected genes include Primary Basic, Fade, Giraffe, Jupiter, Leopard, Petals, Slime, Speckle, Swirl, Tiger, and Vipera.

I am popping this report out into its own reply for tracking. I want to check all primary genes for ones where the hatchlings and male poses have the eye swatches, but the tundra female pose does not. (genes where all tundra have the same eye treatment will not be altered!)


Genes that have been corrected:

• P Basic
• P Cinder
• P Fade
• P Giraffe
• P Jupiter
• P Leopard
• P Mosaic
• P Petals
• P Slime
• P Speckle
• P Swirl
• P Tapir
• P Tiger
• P Vipera
• P Wasp

Genes where the issue is present:

• All done!

Thank you for the report @Hyliah

The bug is now fixed for all achievements related to opening Strange Chest containers.

Any chests opened prior to the bug being fixed will still count toward unlocking the achievement - that data was still collected. The achievements just failed to "look" at the correct data to activate.

Bad news: It's the weekend, but the engineers will be addressing this during the work-week.

Good news: It has been confirmed that opened chests are still being counted on the back-end. This means that when the fix goes in, your achievements will be retroactively completed!

So it's safe to open your chests one at a time or in multiples. Do whichever you like best! You just won't be able to collect the achievements until later this week. Our apologies for the issue!

From the veiled brambles and branches of the Tangled Wood, the elusive Nocturnes are beginning to spread across the realm. These oft-hidden dragons are again leaving the comfort of their dreary habitats and traversing Sornieth under the cover of darkness. On this, the shortest day of the year, Nocturne dragons rule the skies.

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Night of the Nocturne is the annual celebration of one of Flight Rising's Limited breeds. Once a year, Nocturne breed change scrolls become available exclusively during this event! Nocturnes have a 30-day breeding cooldown and eat Meat and Insects.

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Event Details

From now until December 31, at 06:00 server time, it will be possible to obtain Nocturne Dragons in the following ways:

• Finding rare Unhatched Nocturne Eggs.
• Finding very rare Breed Change: Nocturne scroll items.

The items above will be found in Strange Chests--baffling containers left by the breed during their only two weeks of activity. Nocturnes aren't keen to just shower the realm in gifts, however. Several of these chests have a vicious mind of their own, and some are now known to be under the protection of some new clever and camouflaged foes...

In order to find these chests, participate in daily site activites such as gathering, brewing, hatching, bonding, exalting and more! ...or test your skill and battle Mimic monsters in the Coliseum. Mimics can be encountered in all Coliseum areas, with higher level mimics having a greater chance to drop a chest. New this year, all coliseum enemies will have a low chance of dropping event items, but mimics will have a much better chance than a normal opponent. If you can't battle, don't worry! Baldwin is always seeking new alchemists to help him craft the perfect brew to unlock the secrets of these chests.

It will also be rarely possible to find Unhatched Nocturne Eggs while scavenging in any elemental region.

After two weeks have passed, Nocturnes, their eggs, and their Strange Chests will become scarce until next year, when they again return.

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Nocturne Lore

Engineered by the Shadowbinder herself to be covert, hidden, and adaptable, Nocturne dragons have the incredible ability mimic the sounds, motions, and behaviors of other dragons and creatures. This interesting adaptation can have its drawbacks, though. Find out more about the Shadowbinder's sneaky sentinels in the lore article below:

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Higgins' Haunted Hollow

Higgins Haunted Hollow is back for a limited time at The Grand Exchange. This shop is active for the duration of Night of the Nocturne, and includes item, treasure, and gem trades for unique Night of the Nocturne items! It also includes a rather grumpy butler.

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What's New This Year?

Another year brings new chances at unique Night of the Nocturne exclusive items! Here are some of the new items you can expect to see as part of the event. As the event has grown over so many years, we slowing new additions; you can still expect to see a modest selection of new content each year, and the return of the hoard of content from previous years!


Strange Chests
In addition to previous years' prizes, the following new items now are now appearing within Strange Chests:



Baldwin's Bubbling Brew
The following new items can now be crafted within Baldwin's cauldron:

Level 3 Recipes:

Fiona's Fantastic Familiars
Fiona is taking care of new friends and needs assistance! While this figurine will be available year-round, its friends are denizens of the Night of the Nocturne!


Higgins Haunted Hollow
The following new items are available at Higgins' Haunted Hollow.

Item Trades:
Treasure Items:
Gem Items:

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Returning Items

While everyone will no doubt be hunting for the new items, you'll also have a chance to get your hands on items from past incarnations of Night of the Nocturne!


Strange Chests

The following items will be making an reappearance within Strange Chests. Most of these items will show up at a lower rate than that of newer items above.








Treasure Items

The following items have been moved from the treasure marketplace to their new, permanent home at Higgins' Haunted Hollow, where they are always in stock in unlimited quantities.







Gem Items

The following items have been moved from the gem marketplace to their new, permanent home at Higgins' Haunted Hollow.






Baldwin's Bubbling Brew

The following returning items can once again be crafted within Baldwin's cauldron. Recipes levels 1-10 have been balanced to scale with the Baldwin rebalancing performed earlier this year.


Returning Level 1 Recipes:
Returning Level 2, 3 Recipes:
Returning Level 4 Recipes:
Returning Level 5 Recipes:
Returning Level 6 Recipes:
Returning Level 7 Recipes:
Returning Level 8 Recipes:
Returning Level 9 Recipes:
Returning Level 10 Recipes:
Returning Level 11 Recipes:
Returning Level 12 Recipes:


Higgins Haunted Hollow

Higgins' Haunted Hollow is the home for the Night of the Nocturne trades.[/b]

You saw nothing! well, neither did the aethers, for a while...

Uh oh

The following corrections have gone in tonight:

• Skydancer F Secondary fixes finished. See two posts above for full list.
• Spiral M Fade - Spiral males are missing the tail fade in the fade gene present on all other dragons including other spirals. Fixed.
• Tundra F Glimmer - Glimmer gives Tundra females a box border around the edges of the 350x350 image very faintly. Fixed.

Thank you for the report @HTML

You should now receive results as soon as the search page loads when accessing it from the "View All" link in a Clan Profile.

As @Starrlight suggested, this new bug was the result of fixing a related error message.

Sorry about that! I was working through some issues with skydancer f pose wings and when I was putting in the fix for hex, I set the bottom layer of the image to be the wrong color! It should be corrected now, but it may take up to an hour for the dragon images to refresh due to caching.

The following corrections have gone in tonight:

• Opal on Gaoler/Veilspun - Gaolers and Veilspun's opal gene has the highlight layer set to normal instead of screen, resulting in a more muddy opal with less sharp highlights. Fixed.
• Pearlcatcher F Lace - Pearlcatcher females with the lace tertiary have a stray couple pixels that bleed over from the wing to the body of the dragon. Fixed.
• Pearlcatcher M Edged - Edged markings clip from the wings into the tail on pearlcatcher males. Fixed.
• Pearlcatcher M Lace - The lace tertiary does not edge the back wing of Pearlcatcher males. Fixed.
• Pearlcatcher M Noxtide - Pearlcatcher males with the noxtide gene have a strange gradient present in their back wing, along where the arm would be. This appear to have been intended to be a fade to transparency to the primary color that was supposed to be set to multiply in photoshop but is unable to multiply in the generator. Fixed.
• Ridgeback M Ripple/Current - The ripple and current genes do not cover the front portion of a Ridgeback male's back wing. Fixed.
• Skydancer F Noxtide The areas of the gene where the shadow layer fades to transparency isn't clipped properly, resulting in an grey halo these portions. Fixed.

Plants have mushrooms included. Insects have arachnids, centipedes, scorpions, and other non-insect "bugs" included. Seafood is pretty broad and it's like "well, I guess it lives in the water..."

Meat's solid though.

• Skydancer F Bee - The portion of bee on skydancer females that covers the "arm" of the wing as it transitions to the shoulder joint of the dragon's body has a gradient fade with an abrupt, harsh ending, rather than a smooth transition to transparency that all other dragons and the rest of the skydancer illustrations have.

This was a part of a main list, but I'm pulling this one out for its own sub-post because when starting the correction for Bee, I fell down a rabbit hole to a much larger issue.

The secondary to primary fade on the shoulder has a transition that doesn't fade completely out and has a defined edge. All secondaries on Skydancer F pose have had this issue since the breed launched in 2013. It's not easy to see except on highly contrasting colors, where it becomes fairly obvious. It cuts off into what could be considered musculature, but is a much harsher transition than any other breed.




The fix is purely to get rid of a harsh edge when the secondary is laid over the primary, and no changes to pattern will otherwise be made. It needs to be done on all 44 secondaries for Skydancer F, thus the pulling this out into its own sub-post so that there's a way to track the fixes.

Skydancer F Secondary Cleanup Fixes In:

• S Alloy
• S Basic
• S Bee
• S Blaze
• S Blend
• S Breakup
• S Butterfly
• S Clouded
• S Current
• S Constellation
• S Daub
• S Edged
• S Eel
• S Eye Spots
• S Facet
• S Fissure
• S Flair
• S Foam
• S Freckle
• S Hex
• S Hypnotic
• S Jester
• S Malachite
• S Marbled
• S Morph
• S Noxtide
• S Myrid
• S Paint
• S Paisley
• S Patchwork
• S Peregrine
• S Rosette
• S Saddle
• S Safari
• S Sarcophagus
• S Saturn
• S Seraph
• S Shimmer
• S Sludge
• S Spinner
• S Striation
• S Stripes
• S Toxin
• S Trail

Skydancer F Secondary Cleanup To Do :

• All done!

I updated the top post of this thread to split out what is and is not corrected.

The following corrections have gone in tonight:

• Bogsneak F Python/Morph had a correction put in. The gradients contained hard edges where a misplaced selection cut into the soft edges of the gradients.
• Obelisk Runes - Runes for obelisk had the missing horn coverage restored, and missing sparkles added.
• Runes - Runes for all modern dragons has been corrected to remove a grey halo that was visible on certain colors where the shadow layer bled outside of the confines of the gene.
• Ridgeback M Mist Seraph - Mist Seraph on Ridgeback males had a miscolored portion on the wing corrected.
• Skydancer H Laced - Skydancer hatchlings with the laced primary had their shadow hue corrected to change per color.
• Tundra H Koi - Koi Lead was not showing up on hatchlings. This has been corrected.

Hello all,

We apologize for how much this has been impacting you all. I wanted to provide an update. We are also convinced the issue is the Adobe ads. They are showing up very frequently and they are clearly locking up the browser. We are able to reproduce this issue ourselves and we have sent the necessary technical info to our advertising provider, so hopefully we can have these ads off the site fairly soon.

Thank you again for all of your patience on this matter.

All current Ancient genes have been renamed, so theoretically the AH will be completely clear of old naming schemes this time next Monday. (Auctions can be listed for up to 7 days, so the last one should drop off by then.)