DESIGNING YOUR KIRIN
To design your Kirin, you will first need an undesigned Geno, which can be acquired by breeding, buying from other users or requesting your first starter Kirin upon joining the Discord. Whatever means you use to get your Geno, unless it's already designed it will be marked down on our Undesigned Kirins List. If you loose your geno or ID, simply input your name in this list to find any undesigned Genos you currently own.
After finding your Geno, check its traits and choose your base accordingly. Bases are sorted by Hair Type and subsorted for Horn Type to cut down on layers in your program. Additional lineart packs for horns and scales will be available to download in the future, but will need to be manually added and adjusted onto your base.
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Extra Horn & Scale Packs
None at the current time!
When using the base, please make sure you don't resize it and keep transparency intact when sending it in for approval. To do so the file must be a .PNG, though its advised you keep a file with layers intact for yourself in case you're asked to make edits in approval.
Furthermore, please do not make any line edits unless you also use a Scale of Dusuri in your approval request. In doing so, you may design your own Horns and Scales or style the hair as you like within the possibilities of the hair and horn type. If you redraw the mane to be very long, please let most of it hang behind the body so the design of the overall coat is still visible.
The overall pose and body should not be changed, even with the scale. If you have a scale, mild adjustments may be made to the face, such as adding a roman nose or dished profile, or scars such as a torn ear.
Items can't be added at this current time, but will be added as an option in the future.
Make sure you read the needed marking guides thoroughly before sending in your design for approval to minimize the chance of running into an issue and needing to correct the design. If you're unsure, you can also ask on the discord server if there are any issues you may have overlooked before sending it in.
When you think your design is ready, upload it to your stash and fill out the description information in full. Meaning Name, Gender, Age, Phenotype, Genotype, Traits, Horn Phenotype, Horn Genotype, Lineage and Specialities. Personality may be filled out, but may be kept blank. ID and Stats need to be kept blank as well.
Once you've done that, send a ticket through the correct discord message and start the conversation with this message:
ID: (Your X-____ ID, so we can confirm ownership. Your final ID will be given on Upload.)
Design: (Stash link to your design and description)
Items: If you're using a scale of Dusuri, mention it here.
Design Notes: Anything you'd want the admin to know while checking your design?
After sending your design for approval, wait for an admin response. This can take a while, but it's important that you do not delete the design from stash until it's actually approved AND uploaded.
APPROVING YOUR DESIGN
DESIGNING 101
There are a handful of terms throughout the marking guides describing what a marking might look like. To elaborate and give a visual example of what the terms mean, here are some images for the more common terms. If any other terms cause you confusion please don't hesistate to ask on the discord for clarification.
Please note that the marking showing these examples (White) doesn't allow all of these different types of edges and details. It's merely used to show what the different terms mean. You can click all the images to magnify.
CRISP
Crisp edges mean that the marking has clean and defined edges, but it also allows for 'mapping', which is a thin band of the markings colour around the main marking, but with lower opacity. Blur on edges must be extremely minimal, if there is any at all.
SEMI-SOFT
This means a marking is still clearly defined and has some clean edges, but also areas which are blended into the rest of the coat to somewhat merge the marking into the rest of the colour in those places.
GRADIENT
Probably one of the easiest types of edges, the gradient is a very soft edge that transitions seamlessly into the rest of the coat. It should never have any clear edges and no texture.
ROANED
Like the gradient, roaned doesn't typically have a clear edge either. However, it's heavily textured and blends into the coat that way. The fuzzy edges are easily achievable with a rough textured brush or even cloud brushes or similarly textured landscape brushes.
SPOTTY OR PATCHY
Spotty or patchy means that there are spots or large patches of the marking colour outside of the marking itself. The only difference between these two is the size, spots being small and patches larger.
HOLES
Some markings may have holes in them, which are just rounded bits in the marking that show the colour below it. If a marking allows no holes, it should not have any. However if it shouldn't have large holes or many of them, you can typically get away with 1-3 small ones.