Design guide
Design templates
All Veilhorn design templates can be found and downloaded in the #official-templates channel on Discord.
Mane and tail customization
View rules regarding drawing your own mane and tail for the design template.
Reference image
View info regarding submitting reference images for your characters after their design has been approved.
Veiling
This guide is unfinished.
Characters may be veiled (hide certain magical features such as horns, tails and some mutations) in art after the design has been approved. Please see About the breed in the meantime.
Template and design customization rules
You are allowed to:
- Draw your own horns, as long as it's the correct shape and type for your Veilhorn's horn genotype - see Horns guide.
- Draw your own iris/pupil shape in the eye.
- Color the lineart on the template as long as it is still visible and darker than the design. The lineart may be lighter than the design for special traits such as spectral or glowing mutations.
- Customize coat and markings with dapples, mapping, and more. See each coat and trait guide for options.
- Draw your own mane and tail or modify the ones included in the template as long as it follows the respective mane and tail customization rules.
- Draw your own mutation linearts or modify the ones included in the template, as long as it does not resemble a mutation your Veilhorn doesn't have. Wings from Seraph mutation must be positioned in such a way that they do not obscure the body of the character too much (use default wing linearts if unsure).
- Color in the chestnuts on the legs, as long as they follow the same color rules as the hooves.
- Draw your own all-seer eyes if your Veilhorn has All-seer.
- Reupload the finished design made on these templates on other sites as long as you link back to this site in the submission or description.
- Share modified versions of the design templates in the #modded-design-templates channel in our official discord server, as long as the modified template follows these rules.
You may not:
- Crop or resize the template/lineart.
- Add a background image or background color, it must be uploaded with transparent background. (You will be able to select and change background image after the design has been approved, which is why it must be uploaded on a transparent background).
- Add accessories or armor/clothing/items. You can use equipment after the design has been approved.
- Add shading or textures that do not resemble your Veilhorn's genes or traits.
- Draw scars, injuries, broken/missing horns, or missing limbs. They can be added on your character's reference sheet after the design has been approved.
- Move or change the position of the template/lineart on the canvas.
- Alter the lineart of the body. While you may draw mutations and such, you may not give the template a different size (making it smaller or larger), reposition the legs, or change the character's shape/build (making it more slender or heavy). You may not alter the head shape to give it a roman or dished face - these are customizations that should be on the reference image instead. The only customization allowed on the body lineart itself is for a decayed/skeletal lich mutation which may require erasing parts of the template and redrawing them as a skeleton.
- Draw your own horns to resemble a horn shape/type your Veilhorn doesn't have.
- Redistribute the template files themselves (except for within our official discord server) or claim the files as your own.
Submitting your design
New designs
To upload your new design head to Submit Design, you can find this by clicking "Submit" in the navigation menu at the top of the site, or by clicking "Submit design" on the page of your undesigned geno.
When you upload the design you will also need to fill in your new Veilhorn's name, as well as the username of the person who designed it. The name of your Veilhorn can be changed at any time after it has been approved.
After submitting your design it will go into queue to be reviewed and approved by site staff. If any changes are required before your design can be approved you will receive a notification about this. After your design has been approved your Veilhorn is ready to play with!
Redesigns
You can redesign your characters at any time for any reason, by going to your character's setting page and submitting the new design under "Submit new design". This will go through the submission queue the same way as all other designs and your Veilhorn's profile will be updated with the new design after the redesign has been approved.
Redesigns must follow the design guides and will be judged the same way as a brand new design. A previously approved design is not automatically guaranteed re-approval, even if only minor details were changed. Some older approvals may no longer meet current guidelines due to rule changes or previous oversights, so redesigns may still require revisions before they can be approved.