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The Amphibious Draconians turn pale when they become adults and I can't figure out why. It looks like a genetic color change rather than a sprite change, especially because if it were a sprite change the color tint I change would show over it in some way, but they always turn the same pale whitish-aqua color. I'm trying to change the coloration for my Abyss Dragons and I've been able to get them to stay a nice dark blue up until Youth, but when they hit Adult they change. I've looked very closely at all pigment and pigment bleed genes and I can't account for it. None of them activate at Adult anyway, and I've turned the intensity down to 0 on all the ones except blue. I was expecting them to develop some color mutations from breeding, and that's fine, but I haven't been able to get rid of the adult color shift in the Gen1s yet and it's driving me nuts. What am I missing? Can other genes besides pigment/pigment bleed cause color changes? Conclude with killer catchphrase. (Lurhstaap) "This is not knowledge - this is information!" New Model Army, "Courage" |
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 Sanely Insane RisenAngel Manager |
Since I can't look at your genome directly I don't know if you've already dealt with these genes, but pigment genes 390, 391, and 392 all activate at adulthood in my copy of the Amphibious Draconian genome. Pigment bleed genes 398 and 401 also activate at adulthood, but these genes are set to 128 (default) in this genome and probably aren't affecting yours. If you want to double-check, you can organize the genes by activation age (click on the "switch-on" button in the Gene Editor window) and see if you missed anything that way. Risen Angel's Creatures Blog |
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Lurhstaap |
Ah, you're right, I did misread when those activate. It doesn't matter though because all the ones concerning red and green pigment or any pigment bleed activating after Embryo have been either muted (in the case of the colors) or actually silenced. So this really should not be happening as far as I can tell. I'm very puzzled. o.O I'm about to try literally deleting everything but blue genes just to see what happens. Conclude with killer catchphrase. (Lurhstaap) "This is not knowledge - this is information!" New Model Army, "Courage" |
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Sanely Insane RisenAngel Manager |
Maybe you accidentally hit "cancel" after editing a gene (which wouldn't save your changes)? That's about the only thing I can think of. Risen Angel's Creatures Blog |
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Lurhstaap |
I just double-checked using your suggestion - all pigment and bleed genes activating at Adulthood are silenced, with the ( ) around them. I'm completely stumped. o.O And I just realized it can't be a sprite change because they use Geat-Z, same as standard dracos. So it's GOT to be genetic, somehow. This is so weird. Conclude with killer catchphrase. (Lurhstaap) "This is not knowledge - this is information!" New Model Army, "Courage" |
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 Wrong Banshee Dragoler |
Try un-silencing them and setting them all to the colour values that you want. Creator of the TWB/TCB genome base.  |
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Lurhstaap |
That's what I did originally. The result of that was essentially the same I've been getting - they stay blue until Youth, then turn bright mint-white at adulthood. I only turned to silencing when I'd already tried several changes and couldn't figure out what was going wrong. It's basically the nuclear option of gengineering after all. :p However, for some inexplicable reason, after I made some totally unrelated edits pertaining to Grendels and self-defense, the color genes suddenly seem to be working. At least, one I force-aged to adult during combat testing did not color change. I'm waiting to see what happens with the latest batch, letting them grow naturally, but if they keep their color I'm going to be even more confused than before. Happy, but confused! XD Conclude with killer catchphrase. (Lurhstaap) "This is not knowledge - this is information!" New Model Army, "Courage" |
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