Magical gene / ground and strong white
Valentine Appaloosa
An appaloosa whose every spot is a heart - laid on the coat outside the blanket, and cut out of the blanket as holes inside it.
What it can come out as
| Outcome | Carrying |
|---|---|
| Valentine Appaloosa | Vln/Vln · Vln/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 2,500 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 |
|---|---|---|
Vln/Vln | Valentine Appaloosa | 0.002% — 1 in 50,000 |
Vln/n | Valentine Appaloosa | 0.038% — 1 in 2,632 |
n/n | Wild type | 99.96% |
Its gene carrot
The file
common/src/main/resources/horsegenetics/genes/valentine_appaloosa.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.valentine_appaloosa |
|---|---|
| Phase | magical — it adds signed colour in phase 3, after the pigment has resolved |
| Priority | 208 — where it sits in the one (priority, key) paint order |
| Alleles | Vln · n |
| Varies per horse | 4 values drawn once off the expressing allele copy, so a foal that inherits the copy inherits the look |
| Built from | AXIS, PATCHES, SPOTS, 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.
Valentine Appaloosa
The appaloosa arrangements, drawn with hearts instead of round spots. A white blanket lies over the hindquarter and hearts are cut out of it as holes, so the coat shows through each one; outside the blanket the same hearts are laid on the coat in white instead. Every heart stands upright with its point down. How much blanket there is varies a great deal - a scatter of hearts over the hip on one horse, a white sheet full of holes on the next. It carries no colour of its own: whatever the horse's base is, Valentine draws in white on it.
- the white blanket over the hindquarter, with hearts cut out of it —
PATCHES×AXIS×SPOTS inverted, painted withTOWARD - heart-shaped spots laid on the coat —
SPOTS, painted withTOWARD
Wild type
No valentine.
Paints nothing.