Magical gene / fields and regions
Sky Shadow
The whole coat pushed toward mid-grey, with a further wash of light up the belly and flank - and the mane, tail, lower legs and muzzle left at full strength.
What it can come out as
| Outcome | Carrying |
|---|---|
| Sky Shadow | Sky/Sky · Sky/n |
| Wild type | n/n |
How each one is actually drawn - region by region, and the layers it is built from - is on the coding tab.
Crossing two of them
Finding one
About 1 in 1,250 wild horses is born showing this. That is the whole of the supply: catch one, or make one with the carrot below. Breeds set their own pools and a breed built around this gene will carry it far more often than the wild population does.
| Wild pair | Shows as | How often |
|---|---|---|
Sky/Sky | Sky Shadow | 0.004% — 1 in 25,000 |
Sky/n | Sky Shadow | 0.076% — 1 in 1,316 |
n/n | Wild type | 99.92% |
Its gene carrot
The file
common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/sky_shadow.json — a
data-driven gene, not a Java class. It is listed in the
index.json beside it and registered by Genes' class
initialiser at startup.
| Key | horsegenetics.sky_shadow |
|---|---|
| Phase | magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved |
| Priority | 261 — where it sits in the one (priority, key) paint order |
| Alleles | Sky · n |
| Varies per horse | 2 values drawn once off the expressing allele copy, so a foal that inherits the copy inherits the look |
| Built from | AXIS, PARTS, TOWARD |
What it paints
Each outcome, described the way the gene file describes it, and then the layers that draw it in the order they are painted. The prose is the part a reader checks a bake against; the list underneath is what the engine actually did.
Sky Shadow
Not a pattern at all - there is no boundary anywhere on it. The coat's value is pulled a quarter to nearly half of the way to mid-grey, which flattens the contrast between the horse and anything else marking it. On top of that the ventral barrel, the flank and the back of the shoulder lighten further, falling off over a hand's span or two. The mane, the tail, the legs from the knee and hock down and the muzzle are left alone at full value, and the transition into them is as gradual as everything else here.
- the whole coat, toward mid-grey —
PARTS, painted withTOWARD - the upper leg too, fading out above the knee —
AXIS, painted withTOWARD - a further lift over the belly, flank and shoulder —
AXIS, painted withTOWARD
Wild type
No shadow.
Paints nothing.