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Looking good, Loki! Do you have a name for him yet?

Well no, apart from flamecat, which is maybe a too obvious name for the beast.

Going to add him later today, just debating if I should add him as a regular wild cat, or if I should try and incorporate some kind of event for him (like the thrumbo). Maybe he could set random fires around him (no promises - this would require C#, and I suck at C#!). What do you guys think?
Actually, given those two options, I think I can pretty much guess what you guys think.... Ugh, time to learn more C# I guess

Actually, that was exactly what I was hoping you would say  But you could set him free into the world as he is and add the legendary bit later, when you've cracked C# 
Also, I was thinking of an icecat to go with this one

Are you perhaps doing tigers and lynx too soon? ^^
Something that also walks around in colder areas, because I am playing on a cold map, but haven't seen any cat just yet

Well, we already have tigers, they were added in the last release. Do they not show up in your game?
Some colder cats, what would you like to see? I will definitely be making a lynx texture, so maybe this one could be persuaded into sub-zero temperatures.

Not sure, but are you supposed to be able to make cat food at a butcher table? Or is that a bug hehe?

Personally I don't think it's a bug. Why shouldn't you be able to make cat food at a butcher table? After all, cats eat raw meat, even domestic ones.

Also, not sure what this is, but I think it's extremely carnivorous and hungry... anybody want to keep it? 

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Fixed the male Lion outline, should be more uniform with the lioness now

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I personally use and prefer slightly smaller borders, the size of borders also isn't exactly consistent in the base game. Maybe go in between for both? It's mostly an issue now that there's a noticeable difference between the two, and they'll often appear side by side.

ok, I'll see what I can do!

I was just about to push release, will add the scratching post first! Lioness textures will probably need some tweaking, borders are considerably larger than their male counterparts, but for now they're perfectly fine .

I was orienting myself by the other pet textures for the lioness, so maybe it would make more sense to tweak the male lions textures to fatter borders, or do they look more contingent in-game than the lioness?

I might change the post a bit later if that's ok with you? It's a bit too blocky for me I think.

Sure!

Don't mind this, just a scratching post

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Well this took me entirely too long, but here is a Lioness for all your Great Lion Army breeding needs!
EDIT: Wrong PNGs attached *facepalm*


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We'll also need a lioness texture (loki, you up for that? ), but expect a lion update later tonight.

Oh, that's right, silly of me not to think of that, I'll make a lioness for sure!

Oh. My. God. I hereby give you full creative control of the mod! Thats freaking beautiful!

That's kind of daunting
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

Seriously, that guy is just filled to the brim with character! I love his ears sticking out on the back angle, and the mane! The mane!

I know, the mane, right? 

a pic of the two occupying the bed

they're ADORABLE!

So, some lions... or one lion, actually.


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I haven't put your textures in game yet, but as far as I'm concerned the outline looks better than my attempts so far - and most of the core stuff That being said, I will probably simplify the face and make the side a bit more abstract to match with core and cats textures so far.

Go ahead, whatever looks better in-game is fine by me. It's a learning experience and I will be doing a few more textures, so we'll see what comes out of it. I think I'll try myself on a lion next, would that be ok by you?

as they are BOTH adoptions from the RSPCA, and their paperwork says that they are domestic short hair, and my girl was only 6 months old when I got her, but I let her chose how much and when to eat, she grew up to be  large but healthy cat, and my boy when I adopted him was 11 months old and a long boy, and also liked to chose when to eat, but also was very active so burnt off the food, and even has suprised me by doing a vertical takeoff and land 1.2 METRES up without touching the sides of the large cat tower (a bit larger than a 40 gallon drum(200 litre) the tower dimensions are 79cm diameter, 120cm highcarpet glued to outside and inner shelfs, fake fur and wadding on the top with access holes on each of the inner sheves and the centre of the top) andis still one of their favourite places other than my bed

As long as they're healthy, that's all that matters! Do you have any photos of them for size ccomparison? Maybe they would also make it into the game?

That looks pretty damn good Loki! Mind if I use that to make a Siamese inspired by https://instagram.com/meowcifer_kaleidoscope/ tomorrow?

Go right ahead, that's what I made the thing for!

If you open the textures/DomesticCat folder in the mod, there's a bunch of .pxd files next to the .png's the game uses. These can be opened with pixlr, and are my working documents.

Oh, so THAT'S what they are, I was beginning to wonder.

Take a look at some of the base dog graphics first as inspiration, my first mistake was to focus way too much on getting details right that you won't be able to see ingame anyway. What matters much more is the overall feel of the thing. As you can see, I'm still prone to make that mistake - I am no artist either .

That's an interesting inspiration, I didn't think my outline would be too detailed to look good in-game, but I see I might have been mistaken. I'll do better next time.