Purple Pony Creations

So, before I get down to modding the ever living hell out of the new Raawr Mustang/Heavy Horse (it's called both in files), I wanted to share some comparison shots of the head with the older Raawr Horse head. These are taken straight out of the boxes. All I have done is positioned the jaw and then placed them beside each other. I haven't opened Photoshop to crop these down, these are raw screenshots.


So, starting from the front. The Mustang is on the left, the Horse on the right. Right off the bat, the Horse is much rounder. This makes it look more pony-ish, or you could say the look of the Mustang is more mature. (I hate to call the Horse "childish," because that's not what the look is, but it could be pointed that direction.)


The profile difference is pretty noticeable here. I used the snap grid to align them and you can see that the mustang head is longer than the horse. Will this cause issue with hair? I haven't seen it do so yet, but I've only tried on a few hairs. Some rigged hairs might not fit as well due to the slip of the Mustang's head.


he expression is different as well. The horse seems to have a slight "smile" while the Mustang's face is more neutral. I checked the HUDs and what changes with expressions, and what seems to take away the smile on the Horse is the "sad" emote, but there's no other difference with the mouth.

Some other observations I've had:
- The shoes from the Horse fit the Mustang just fine!
- The rigged legs are different so the Horse's alpha cannot be used (there is a large gap if it is). There are also non-rigged and cut feet, like with other Raawr Mesh avatars.
- Related: The fetlock fluff is part of the leg on the Mustang, instead of an additional attachment as on the Horse. This is not removable, but it is on separate faces, so you can make it transparent. If you like the look of the Horse's fetlock fluff, it seems like it will more than likely work on the Mustang, but any textures would need to be modded as they stick out the back of the hock as is. The Mustang's legs are thicker than the horse's so they do "eat" the fetlock at the top.
- There are both rigged and non rigged hands. I don't tend to use hand attachments that come with furry avs, but you have a choice now.
- This jaw attaches to the mouth instead of the chin like the horse.
- It's possibly SL being weird, but I can't get the torso muscles to stop looking like balloons on the female shape. I have modded my Raawr Horse shape in the mean time.
- Both hair and tail textures are blonde instead of grey scale. This could be potentially problematic for folks who just tint tails. I will be doing a greyscale texture for the hair and tail in future mods, or modding the one I've previously made since I got it looking better.

So, there you have it, my quick look at the Mustang before I start modding. I would have had it modded by now, but I had to sleep right after the release party.

Edit: Upon looking at the PSD files, it appears that there were supposed to be shoes with this av? Hmm, perhaps they got left out of the box.

I have a whole mess of broken pictures on the blog because I have been moving/deleting things. Sorry. ._.; I think I accidentally got my original mod pictures for the Raawr horse when I was cleaning up that gallery. NBD though, I don't actually use that coloration anymore. (In fact, I sold off 5 of my character's alternate colors.)

I said in March of 2014 that I would go over my "latest" coloration, and I apparently never did. Whoops. My life was getting kinda crazy around then, so it's understandable, I hope.

At the end of February, the 18th, judging by upload times on the files in my inventory, I decided to move my character to a "canon" coloration for her. She is from my novel, and this coloration is the one she has at the end of the story.


For a quick backstory, her species, the Delphin, go through what are called "phase shifts." These are physical changes to the individual, usually in the form of fur/hair color, sometimes eye color, and they occasionally gain wings and/or (a) horn/s. These events are brought on by both age (most all Delphin have a shift between 12 and 14 years), and environmental factors. Her cousin, Murial (formerly Nytehawk), had a second shift when she was extremely stressed by a situation she was in, for example.

So, typically, if a Delphin gets a second shift, it's by the time they're in their mid 20s, at the latest. They will typically not experience any later ones.

Unless something severe happens, like a broken horn, or a vampire's bite. (I call them vampires, they are technically not, but it's the easiest term to use.)

The latter definitely happened to Snowhawk the Character (not Sno the mun, I know it's confusing... :p). I'm actually debating on if the first will happen to her, since her horn type changes from her birth type of a straight amethyst core with a silver spiral to Phase 3's smooth, curved type. It would be a good reasoning. ANYWAY.

The coloration I have been using in SL since then is that Phase 3 coloration. I have lots of feels behind this coloration, and it has a lot of meaning behind it. Granted, it's a lot of emo bullshit, but the representation is still there. This is the last canon coloration she has. This is how she looked when the story ends.

So in SL, I've toyed with the idea of roleplaying her. I never really do, I can't take RP as seriously as I used to, and I don't feel that's fair to RP partners, but still... This was how I saw her in my mind.

All other colorations I've used since this one are non-canon. She has three (four if you could the very earliest flash black) colorations in the novel. And the rest are me being bored. And I get bored of them very easily. I've sold all the colorations I've used in SL except this one.


SL has given me a chance to develop characters beyond what I had done before. Even my malt Adian got a new hairstyle! It will be his canon hairstyle after his encounter with a particular character.

I don't know why I'm being vague, no one who reads this will probably ever read my novel. ("Nice and subtle, Sno." Thanks, I try.)

But yeah, I just wanted to post that officially. It's 5:30 in the morning and I should be asleep, but I am fighting it.

So, since my last foray into clearing my inventory out, where I inadvertently deleted over 5k items I didn't mean to, I haven't ever actually emptied the trash on an account. And looking at it, that was actually on Misae. I haven't ever cleaned out Snowhawk's inventory.

You can probably imagine, with being on an account for over 5 years, and building and shopping for sales like I do, my inventory is huge.



Yeah.

So I've decided to clean it out. It's been more than a year and a half since all the shit happened with Kendi (that I will not go into publicly, but I'll explain in private over SL if you're interested), and that's a lot of stuff that I know I probably won't ever wear again. I could just delete the folder, but there are some outfits in there that I really like, and I'd want to keep them, and some that will never be around SL again. So maybe in the future, I could get over it? Anyway... Time to clean and sort and get rid of crap.

Let's just start at the bottom (oldest) and work our way up...

After several hours, and emptying the trash, I had this...



Not bad.

This is so mindless that you can't do it all at once, so I spent the next bit on ESO.

Then I came back to tackle the White Noise items. I wasn't to that point yet, but I figure I should get it out of the way. I first searched through the Objects folder for outfits I hadn't opened and hadn't moved to the "To Open/Duplicates" folder I had. Then I moved on to boxing everything up. I put the outfits in boxes together, not separating colors/color sets, but that's better than the original idea of "dump it all into one box."

After that, and before emptying the trash, I was left with this...



Damn, that's a shit ton of items. Do I dumped the trash...



Improvement. That's 24,082 items gone. That's almost the whole of Misae's inventory before I tried to clean it.

I still have plenty more to do, sorting and deleting and looking at things going "What the hell was that designer thinking?", I'm only up to June 6, 2010 as far as acquired dates go, but I'm getting there.

... Yay, working! :x

I finally did a mod to sell! :3 I'm going to do several color, I think, but there's was a lack of donkey mods on the Marketplace. So I have decided to try and fix it.



There's a few more pictures on Flickr, but this is the v1, I'm calling it, of this mod. I'm going to add in a bunch of other textures for other equine mods. Soon. I'm tired rn. Been up all night working on this.

You can find it on the Marketplace here!
You can find it in world here!

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I streamed this, that's why there's a scrolling message. Just a reminder to folks that I'm actually working and might not see them come into chat.

Shown at 16x Speed.

Working on my webcomic after some pretty frustrating computer issues, and then health issues. (So, hard drive failed, then I fell.)

I'll be doing one mass update to all my comic sites, then very temporarily going on hiatus while I change some things around. A couple characters are getting renamed, and there are going to be a few appearance changes while I'm at it.

Also, this font is not my usual comic font, but the v1 of a personal font. It's not actually ready, but I apparently neglected to re-install the one I actually use when I put everything on the new hard drive. Oops.

I stream on Picarto!
https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=snowhawk
If you'd like to donate to me/my projects, I have a Patreon page, after putting it off for quite a while:
https://www.patreon.com/damantru
The Tumblr for this webcomic is here:
http://ask-damantru.tumblr.com/
And to read the comic, minus a few pages that will go up in the mass update in the next few days, you find find it at any of the following:
ComicFury: http://pastsecrets.cfw.me/
SmackJeeves: http://pastsecrets.smackjeeves.com/
Blogger: http://past-secrets-novel.blogspot.com/

If you're on FurAffinity, you're welcome to follow me there, this gallery is updated most often: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/snowhawk/

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