Design Guides

Design Guides: Ground Rules


Below, you will find all the guides you will need to design your ketucari. However, there are a few basic ground rules you should be aware of that will apply to every design.

•  Do not try to abuse marking ranges to create a pseudo-version of colors/markings your ketucari does not have.

•  The base coat should always be immediately recognizable, as should markings. The only exception is if the ketucari has piebald or melanistic pastel covering their markings.
 
• Lineart should always be darker than what's under it. The only exception is if the Lineart Itself is being used to represent Filigree.

• Admins reserve the right to clarify the design guides at any time, especially if there is a pending design that makes us aware of loopholes or badly worded guidelines.
 
• As a warning when using colorful/any color genes, please avoid making eye-burner designs. They will be denied if more than two admins experience eye-strain or headaches as a result of highly contrasting colors.

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Markings with pass rates of 45% or greater are common, between 20% and 40% inclusive uncommon, and 19% or less rare. More information here.
 

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Basics

Jaw Types, Eye Color, and Skin Color
Thin Fur (links to Jaw Types, Eye Color, and Skin Color)
Stylization

Feather Types and PSDs

 Feather Variations

Bald Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Fantail Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Frizzle Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Harpy Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Jacobin Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Lucerne Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Nicobar Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Phoenix Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Silkie Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |
Smooth Feather Base | Ryno | Danuoc | Ketixi | Garoch |

Build Specific Rules

  • Danuoc scales and fins follow skin rules.
  • Danuoc spines follow horn rules.
  • Ketixi fins and spines follow skin rules. Mutations follow the mutation rules, check Chasmho.me for details
  • Garoch plates and thagomizers follow horn rules

Base Colors, Color Modifiers, and Mutations

Unmodified
Base Colors

Modifiers (Dun)
Carnelian Bases (nCr/CrCr) (20%)
Emerald Bases (nEm/EmEm) (20%)
Flaxen Bases (nFx/FxFx) (20%)
Ocean Bases (nOc/OcOc) (20%)
Plum Bases (nPm/PmPm) (20%)
Rose Bases (nRs/RsRs) (20%)
Smokey Bases (nSk/SkSk) (20%)
Modifiers (Glass)
Caramel Bases (nCml/CmlCml) (20%)
Colorpitch Bases (nCol/ColCol) (20%)
Ghost Bases (nGho/GhoGho) (20%)
Paradox Bases (nPx/PxPx) (20%)
Raven Bases (nRv/RvRv) (20%)
Satin Bases (nSat/SatSat) (20%)



Mutations
Albinism (nA/AA) (10%)
Axanthism (nAx/AxAx) (10%)
Chimera Bases (nCma/CmaCma) (7%)
Chromata (nCrm/CrmCrm) (7%)
Erythrism (nEr/ErEr) (10%)
Flow (nFlw/FlwFlw) (10%)
Inversion (nIv/IvIv) (10%)
Leucism (nLm/LmLm) (10%)
Lintosi/Tri-Lintosi Bases (nLs/LsLs +Tri) (Base gene 7%, Tri modifier 40% when Lintosi is present)
Lutino (nLt/LtLt) (10%)
Maltese (nMal/MalMal) (10%)
Sunwashed (nSwd/SwdSwd) (10%)

 

White Markings

Calacatta (nCl/ClCl) (15%)
Acid (LcLc) (Requires dominant lacing)
Hearth (nHt/HtHt) (50%)
Hood (nHd/HdHd) (60%)
Hued Points (nHp/HpHp) (45%)
Inferno/Blue Inferno (nIfr/IfrIfr +B) (Base gene 35%, Blue modifier 20% when Inferno is present)