It seems like I just can’t give up the fight. Try as I might, I can’t seem to produce a breed file that won’t corrupt and crash my game, and yet I’m itching so bad to get back into hexing that I’ve planned out two different files for me to work on.

This first project is intended to go by pretty quickly. It’s a big alligator-headed monster that I want to make, based on a dog. It’s going to be very smooth in the body but have big blocky facial features and a fully detailed mouth(or as fully as I can get it), including a tongue.This is just some brain-storming I’ve done with the cat-dragon variations. I really want this project to work, so I’ve been playing around with different shapes and ideas. I guess I might even have to open up my Virtual Machine to make sure Windows 7 isn’t just messing with the file in some way. I guess we’ll have to see.

In non-hexing news, I got two new dogz in today! I haven’t decided on their names yet, but I’ll be revealing them and adding them to the site as soon as I can.

This breed hexing process is hurting my heart. Try as I might, I just can’t seem to produce a breed file that doesn’t crash my game.

So for now, I’m going to play around with doing hexies the old way – hexing something over an existing breed file and releasing individual petz. I have a VM running Windows XP that I’d like to try to make work too, but I think I might take a break from hexing altogether. Besides, there’s a breeding project I want to try. I’ll have more on that later.

Hello! If you haven’t seen my hexie file progress yet, here it is. It’s a cat-dragon that I’m working on that’s inspired by Lepitaurs and is sort of an exploration for a breeding game idea that’s been knocking around in my brain for the last decade or so.

The basic idea behind this breed is that it’s meant to be a “pet” dragon. Not big enough to ride, not small enough to be a strictly decorative pet like a fish.

I’m pretty happy with the shape of the face now. I still need to mirror the nostril on the other side of the face and I have a lot of variations that I want to add, but the basic shape is pretty much what I’d envisioned when I first sketched these guys out. I’m actually much happier with this shape than with the last attempt’s! Different ear shapes and facial modifications (scales, teeth, gums, etc) are coming soon. Before I tackle that, I still have to get past the neck problem I was having before. This time, I’ve mapped out how long I want the necks to be in the image below.

This is just a mock up, an edited image made up to look like what I want the final product to be. The necks on the last version were a little too long and when I tried to shorten the neck, the game started crashing on me. This time, I’m going the opposite way and making changes to the neck -after- I’ve made changes to the head. I have my fingers crossed this’ll work.

For now, I think the best thing I can do is make a checklist so that I can at least remember to come back to certain things. A checklist is pretty much the best way I can stay organized.

(See future posts for more info)