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Design Guide: Iridescence
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Iridescence
Iridescence is a mutation that can add a colorful “shine” to one marking on a Tokota. In the right light and at certain angles, this marking can shine with bright colors like blues, purples, oranges, and/or greens. When designing Iridescence, you may choose which marking is affected by the mutation.
Color
Original Marking Color
The marking affected by Iridescence must keep its original, unaltered color in at least one visible spot on the design.
Iridescence Color
An iridescent marking may shine with a single color or multiple colors.
Iridescence color(s) can be picked from the below swatches.
Iridescent colors can be fully opaque, or may be slightly transparent on top of the original marking color for a more subtle shine.
Above: Iridescent colors fully opaque (Acceptable) | Iridescent colors
Marking Color Guide
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Quick Links: Black | Dark Overlay | Darker-than-Base | Light Overlay | Lighter | Lighter or Darker | White | Modifiers | Other
Having trouble figuring out what color your markings should be, or which markings should be lighter or darker than other markings? This in-depth guide gets into the nitty-gritty of marking colors.
Important Vocabulary
Hue: Another word for color. In art programs with a Hue slider, you use this slider to choose which color family (for example, red, green, purple, etc.) you want to use. For example, if you were to take red and change the hue without changing the darkness or saturation, it could become green or purple.
Saturation: The strength or vibrance of a color. On one end of the saturation spectrum is the full color (for example, bright red) and on other end is a completely desaturated color (for example, grey), with a range of greyish-reds in between.
Value: The brightness or
Design Guide: Accents
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Accents
nA/AA
Accents are lighter, hard edged markings concentrated on the bottom of the Tokota along the cheeks, throat, legs, chest, belly, and tail. Accents are normally a lighter shade of the base coat or white. They can have smooth, regular, symmetrical edges or more random, jagged, asymmetrical edges like the splash marking in horses.
Range
Maximum
At maximum, Accents may cover their entire range.
Full Sizes: Toki | Tokhara | Normal | Miralta | Dire | Akota | Dakino | Makhata
Minimum
At minimum, Accents must be present in at least one area outside of Minimal White range.
If you want to have minimal Accents, adding Accents to the cheek fluff, butt fluff, full underside of tail, or front of shoulder would be acceptable, as Minimal White cannot show in any of these areas.
Below is the Minimal White
Design Guide: Collar
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Collar
nC/CC
Collar is a marking that covers 50% or more of the Mane.
Depending on your preference it may be darker or lighter than the Base Coat, and may have any edge type from hard edged to blurred edge.
Layer: Lower | Edge: Hard to Blurred | Color: Lighter or Darker than Base Coat | Rarity: Common
Range
Maximum
The range of Collar depends on the Mane.
Every official import has a Collar layer which shows the full range of Collar for that Mane. The maximum coverage for Collar would be filling the entire Collar layer on the import.
Collared may also 'leak' outside of the lines a little bit, as long as the effect is subtle.
Above: Examples of Maximum Collar Range on Different Manes
Minimum
At minimum, Collar must cover at least 50% of the maximum Collar range.
Above: Acceptable minimum Collar examples
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Quick question, as I'm not sure where else to ask this...
If I have an elemental heart that I want to use to give a Tokota geno a physical trait, how might I go about doing that?
If I have an elemental heart that I want to use to give a Tokota geno a physical trait, how might I go about doing that?