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Thank you to everyone who gave feedback about satin and voted on it on our discord server. Over 100 people responded in some way which really helped provide clarity. The community was split between wanting satin expression to stay how it was currently and those who wanted it to be brighter.

For this update, I rebuilt how the satin intensity is calculated to make a much smoother and more consistent expression level between different bases. Some fantasy genes are impossible to calculate for because the way they alter colors is based on the seed and not genetic, but aside from those everything should be correct now.

In addition, because a good chunk of the game population wanted brighter sabino, I added some variation to it via the image seed. Satin now comes the prior expression level, a half step brighter, and a full step brighter. You can get a new seed to adjust how much satin shows.

Here are the 3 levels of satin you can get in the game now.



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The sabino genes have been in our game for over 15 years and are very outdated. They go back to a time when sabino was expected to have many named variations instead of the current white series system. These were also added back when the full expression extent of these genes was not well understood. They also needed to be replaced because they are not compatible with the 4 leg update we put out in December. Both sabino 1 and sabino 2 have been updated to be fully dynamic and have expression more in line with how we now understand these genes to express.

Sabino 2 has been renamed w15 and is based on real-life w15 from the Khartoon Klassic line of Arabian horses. Like sabino, w15 is a lower expression level kit mutation that is nearly white when homozygous. This makes it a very similar gene to the sb2 we had before.

It is important to note that when these genes were added originally to the game it was not fully understood what was happening at the genetic level and homozygous horses had less white than they should have. The new expression is much more accurate, but hom kit mutation horses are VERY white and may not be what players are going for. If your hom. sabino line isn't going to work for you now please drop me a PM. I will help you out.

I have some work still to do integrating our other white genes with this new system. Homozygoes expression, and sabino/w15 combined with other KIT gene expressions are going to be seeing adjustments in the future as I get all these different genes working on the same system.

All this work with sabino is laying the groundwork to have the full complement of known W series genes so I hope folks are looking forward to that.

Here is how sabino 1 at max white factor is looking these days


And here is a w15 example at max white factor


W15 has less ticking and less broken-up markings with slightly lower expression levels. Sabino gets more ticking with higher expression levels