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Sooty (sty), S+, and silver (Z) all cause dapples on horses. The dapples from S+ are a little bit different to Sty and Z, but they are more consistent. If you have a horse with sooty or silver and they don't have dapples, you can just generate a new image seed until you get dapples.

Obsidian knows what they're talking about :D

Also, it's been my experience that *that* particular dapple (RS nightingale songs) I find on red horses that are Sty AND Sty+. It's probably just random serendipity, but that is what I've seen thus far.

Thanks so much for the help! I was already keen on adding S+ to my herd for color reasons, so this is exciting.

Can the different types of dapples be combined / layered?

It seems to me that Dun or Roan mask the effect. Is that true?

I tried poking about in the Search but my results were inconclusive

I don't think it's that dun and roan mask the dapples, but I think it's more of the fact that dapples are harder to see on lighter coats.


SH 9343188 champagne and cream, lightening the coat and making the dapples hard to see


Expro Dun Splash 9251163 sooty dapples on a dun


BrightLightsNCityScapes This one has S+ only, but it's difficult to see against the light coat


2Cn Tall Blonde and Hairy If you squint through the extensive roaning, you can see the S+ dapples


2DCn Remain Probability This one, however, is a roan dun with silver, sooty, and S+


2DFP I Dunnit Rabicano, the white striping on the belly, can also make dappling hard to see


2 9821871 This silver bay chinchilla dun, I'm pretty sure, has dapples! If you just squint onto the top of the booty, you can kind of see it.....

The darker a horses coat is, like these beauties, the more those dapples pop :)


SH Stunning Bad Luck


SH Beauty Beyond Breath


2D Enthusiastic Saturn

And hopefully you didn't mind me spamming my dapples xD I basically have dapple causing genes in all my lines, even the extensively white ones where you may not get a chance to see them 95% of the time.

So that's a feature under the Advanced Tack Editor! You can move things around the screen, and flip them. Even though it is still in its alpha stage you can use it. You will need to flip every item around too, if the horse is wearing them. I'm pretty sure Ammit has removed the ability to flip horses so they're upside down, but there is at least one or two amusing photos of such a feature on facebook.

I did encounter a problem where the item would have its colour changed, but you can also change the colour in the advanced tack editor so you don't need to exit out of it.