Designing: Halos

Created: 6 November 2023, 23:11:45 UTC

Last updated: 7 January 2024, 20:53:08 UTC

Halos

Examples

Basics

Bullet; White Halos is a modifying gene that allows you to put a rim around any marking.
In your ketucari’s genotype, Halos is denoted by “nHal” (heterozygous) or HalHal” (homozygous)
In its heterozygous form, Halos has a passrate of 45%. Homozygous halos has a passrate of 70%

Color and shape

Halos can restrict to any singular marking. It creates a rim around its chosen marking with the same edgetype, or hardness.
This rim should be readily visible, and no thicker than a max-width Lacing if hard edged or max width Acid if soft edged.
This rim should encapsulate at least 70% of the marking. It may attach to combination markings, such as Marble+Brindle.

Halos can be a lighter or darker color of your chosen base OR marking, with a minor deviation in hue. It can also be a fully desaturated color of the base, as long as it is lighter. Halos may never be pure white or pure black.

These colors would be acceptable for this base color. They are either a lighter, darker, or desaturated version of the base. Notice that this small change is not overbearing.

Halos may ALSO pull from another color on the ketucari such as hued points, display, Colorize, or Vapor.

Below are some examples of each.

Lighter than base halo around a naturally halo'd Marble:

Pulling from Washout haloed Frill

Pulling from Partial's Washout Haloed Mantle. Notice it maintains color across both bases.

Darker than base halo around piebald

Darker than base halo on void

Interactions with Other Markings

Halos and Lycaon do not interact in a normal way: instead of affecting the outer rim of Lycaon, Halos affects the inner rim. In this case the halo cannot be larger than 20px wide at the largest.

When paired with Wrought and Noisy Wrought, it can remove the halo or colorize the halo.

When paired with Monarch, allows the outline to be Lighter than the basecoat or any color elsewise present on the ketucari.

When paired with Brindle, allows the Brindling to be both lighter AND darker than the basecoat, more closely resembling the marking in realworld animals.

It Cannot affect the same marking as Shatter

When paired with Radiance, may be any color.

It Cannot restrict to the following markings:
Vitiligo
Calacatta
Roan
Merle
Bleaching / Intensify
Fading / Charring
Silvering
Partial
Chimera / Lintosi / Tri-Lintosi
Karpati
Jovian
Haze

Accents

Here are some small accents you can add to your designs to make them more unique!