Feral Heart

I'll get the masks so you can put it in-game soon enough~!

I'm Reorginzing and re-doing some markings.  >.> Because I feel inadequate after I downloaded Hammy's and some other people's markings.  Also, I may add emotes to this when I get a chance.
RULES OF THE MARKINGS
Once you "install" them, you can use them, but others won't see them unless they also installed the markings, instead, they'll see the default model... C:  

STATUS
V.1.0 so far includes Kura's Markings, Stripes n' Dots, and Gradient, Fade v1, Clouded Leopard, Borneo Clouded Leopard.
I can't believe I've only done five markings. :C Though, it is harder on a laptop with no tablet or mouse, lol.
Screen shots are being reorginized and represented.

I've decided I might ask other people to contribute like Kura, including Hammy and people already with downloads so everyone can download all the markings at once and have them all ordered so there isn't any fussing with being able to see or not see markings. c:  I won't ask though, until I'm finished with all of my markings.

MARKING PREVIEWS




+all the markings Fleech-Hunter suggested (Ima get those sketched up soon.)
+Kuragari's Markings. C:

 Yeah, every time I come onto Feral Heart I get ideas and stuff and they won't leave my head so I'm finally sharing them!
C:

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1. Chat
I have a few ideas on this. It annoys me.  First of all, instead of having the arrival chat option in your esc/options menu it could be added to the chat menu, so it's not that hard to find.  A lot of people don't even know you can turn it off.  

Second, I think that your name-tag should reflect what chat you are watching.  I hate it when I have local chat turned off because I feel like someone is trying to talk to me and I'm ignoring them, but when I have it on and I'm RPing in a public map the RP gets pushed up really fast even if I've made the chat box taller (which you can do, for people who didn't know).  So, maybe, if you have all chats turned on then your name-tag can stay yellow/gold, when you have only local on then it's white, general=green, group or whisper only is bright green or blue, etc, etc.

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2. Actions
A lot of people want more actions and I agree. I'd also like actions to be easier to hotkey. >.>  I know it's possible because that's how it happens in SL, but by easier hotkey I mean have a little bar or just use the chat bar where you type in... for example:   :sadears: or "sadears" or even just  sadears   and then your character has sad ears.  I'd like that better than pressing 1-9, figuring out that the emotion I want isn't there, and then going through the list.  And, it'd be cool, because if the pickup, siton, etc actions are added you'd write:
Then on "Kamaete"'s chat they would be able to say:

Alternatively, you could click on someone and the list of interactive actions would pop up, and then a notification would pop up on their screen. >.> Which would work better.

There's a huge list of actions/emotions people want so I'll just briefly name some:

Actions

• Pickup: sends a request to pickup a pup or something.  Needs to be accepted.
• Ride, SitOn: you can sit on another character. I'm not so sure this should be an action so much as making the character meshes hard?  If that's possible, it means you can climb them just like a mountain. To get someone off of you, you could jump, sit, or roll over.
  
• Nuzzle: Just... nods into another person or something.
• Drink-Involving leaning down from sitting or standing position
• Lick-involving just licking, so you'd have to look over at the person you're... licking. >.> (It's meant to be an affectionate action, not a gross one.)
• Drown-which only pops up when you're in deep enough water and your character splashes. The water depth changes with how big/small your character is.
• Howl, Roar.  Maybe not including the sounds, or being able to turn them off, but it'd be SO AWESOME to have these options. Howl would involve looking up, and roaring would involve... er. Roaring. >.>
• Along with that, growl, whimper, snarl.  Sounds with those please!
• Submit action.  Where your character crouches kind of, with tail tucked under legs, and ears back.
• Submit2: cower and roll on back. Etc.
• WolfPlay: that canine play pose where the tail wags, rump is in the air, and the front part of the body is crouch low.
• TailTuck: tail tucks under body. For felines and canines.
• TailWag: tail wags, for canine.
• TailTwitch: for felines.  Tail tip twitches.
• Hightail: means different things in felines and canines but available to both.  The tail is carried high.

Emotions

• Aggressive: ears go forwards.
• Non-aggressive: ears lie down or back.

I'll probably add more to the emotions list, but the actions list is huge. D: You see why I want the command line, now, huh.

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3. Groups
I hate how the groups are organized now, because I'm OCD like that.  So, what I propose are two types of groups:
Just For Fun RPs (TempGroups) and Permanent Groups (DedicatedGroups/PermaGroup).

This is what I mean: You know how you join a group so you can RP in group chat and not get distracted?  But you're just looking for something to fill up your time?  This is when you join or start and TempGroup.  You create a group and you join it so you can have your own private chat, but as soon as everyone quits, or logs out, or a certain time limit you set in at the beginning or something, the group closes and disappears.  Now, you can only join one of these at a time, but you're not obligated to stay in them.

Now, if you want to join a pack/pride/clan/tribe than you can make or join a Dedicated Group.  If you have an EPIC rp you want to make, you can make a Dedicated Group.  

To Make one of these, you need to, not only create a title, but it's mandatory to add a bio (that, instead of a character limit, you have to write at least ___ characters).  You can select, group or RP, which gives you different options.

In the following example, underlined will mean that you fill those in by writing.  Surrounded by "|" means it's a tab.  Everything in white/beige means it's automatically filled in with (hopefully) a link.

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Group:
|Group| |Members|
Title: True Pride Tribe
Bio: Among the wilderness of Range Islands, a tribe works to keep their territory from succumbing to the CrystalWolves' jealousy.  Blamed for stealing the CrystalWolves' precious crystals, they are constantly being attacked from the northern flank.  They work to keep their territory strong and to expand it into the unclaimed lands of the east.  
Founder: Kamaete
Accepting: Felines+Canines. Special need for Warriors, scouts and healers.
Not Accepting: Pups, pregnant wolves.
Map: Rand Islands, custom map by Kamaete
Thread/Website: Official TruePrideTribe Thread in FeralHeart.com

|Group|  |Members|
Feist Alpha
Ilyx Beta
Silas Scout
Ren DenCarer
...

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In the following example, underlined will mean that you fill those in by writing.  Surrounded by "|" means it's a tab.  Also, this allows other groups to "combine" for lack of better word, with the Rp.  That way you get more than one pack/pride/etc in an RP.

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RP:
|RP| |Groups| |Loners|
Title: In Bear Island
Bio/Plot: A war rages between two groups on Bear Island, the True Pride Tribe and the Raven's Gull.  Bear Islands was once a peaceful home for many, but now it's being torn into a battlefield.  Only one place remains a safe-haven: Mountain Valley.  Who will you help, True Pride Tribe, Raven's Gull? Or are you on your way to the safety that is Mountain Valley.
Founder: Kamaete
Accepting:Loners or small groups of 2-4
Not Accepting: No more big groups
Map: Bear Island: custom map by Kamaete
Thread/Website: Official Feral-Heart Thread

|RP|  |Groups| |Loners
True Pride Tribe
Raven's Gull
Sammy's Pride

|RP|  |Groups| |Loners
Ilyx
Silas
Ren
Giant Lion
Kei
Tamborine
...

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>.> Or something like that, sorry if it's confusing.  D:   There's a lot more but I guess I'll add it later.  Thank you, bye, for now!

Oheithar I'm back.

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4. Map-Preview in the upper corner thing.

So, it's awesome that you can zoom out, but can we zoom out just a bit more? like, to see the whole map instead of the corner we're in and that stretched out stuff?  

But that's not my real idea, this is:  friend previews.  Oh mai goodness, I hate friending random people to get in their group just because I can't find them.  Solution?  When you're whispering someone, show their character in blue on the mini-map.  Friends are default yellow which turn blue when you have "whisper: name here", and when you join a group, character members are green.  Makes it easier when tracking group members. :> (If previous idea is implemented then more colors are needed, har har.

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5. Hunting and PvP

I don't even want to get started.  D: Hunting would be fun.  If PvP gets implemented, surly hunting will be, too. And I'd die of the awesomeness.  Anyways, there's a hunting thread somewhere that's, like, a bajillion pages long, so unless I'm asked to, I won't put in this post of longness.  But pvp, that would be something, too.  On public maps and stuff, it'd obviously be by request, but it's be cool if on custom maps, in map-maker you could check an option like "survival" and have it so anyone can attack anyone without requesting it, for RPs or something.  Like that hypothetical RP I have going in the before examples.  

>.> And I can't resist this little tidbit about hunting: if you kill something please let us be able to drag and/or pick it up.  You could use the same action as picking up another player, but have the kill automatically request it or something, and pick it up (if it's a rabbit) or drag it (if it's a deer).  It'd be so awesome to drag it to your den to share. OwO

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6. Map-Maker.

As I said previously, it's be cool if we eventually get to check options for our map like "PvP" (request duels), "Survival" (Hunting+Non-requested fighting+health, etc bars.), "Hunting"(just hunting...) Or leave them all blank, or something.  Or we had objects like "gazelle herd", "rabbit", "hawk", etc. that became hunting objects, so your custom maps become filled with awesome.

But also, I had this idea that maps made for groups--or really awesome RPs, see above example in red. >.>--would be able to disable certain chat options like "group" or something.  So, when two groups are in a map (hypothetically, TPT and RG) they would occupy different sides, obviously far enough away from each other they could speak in local and not interrupt each other.  In map-maker, you could go to a tab named "chat options" or "misc" where you have those check marks, or other such goodies, and you can check local and general, but un-check group, so that way everyone is speaking in local chat.  That makes an awesome option for RPs with two or more groups, because then "scouts" or "spies" can sneak as close as they can (implementing that "crouch=no name-tag" idea someone had) and spy on their conversations. : D  

I mean, obviously, someone could just spy their way into the opposite group, but that takes time and patience, and who doesn't start off wanting results fast?

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That's all until I think of more.  Ugh, I couldn't get to sleep because this particular role-play idea kept making me go through it in my head.

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I'm back~!!
7. Customization
Presets are cool and everything, but I'd love to see some more markings, meshes and such.  Example markings would be:

• Clouded Leopard Markings[/url
• Domestic Cat Marking v1
• D. Cat Marking v2
• D. Cat Marking v3
• Spots
• Brindle--I've heard complaining that brindle is too hard to make, so there are a few tutorials on dA that can help.
• Some Fantasy marking ideas ~Infinity Creature
• Racoon Markings
• I'll actually draw some more later, or something.

New ear/mane/tail meshes for both feline and canine models would be awesome!  I really dislike the limits on this right now.

• Lynx Tufts
• Canadian Lynx Tufts[/url
• ^and ears, instead of using Caracal ears.
• Fennec Fox Ears
• Fluffy Tail (What I call a feather-tail, and cats have it, too.)
• ^ Those ears.
• I want the full tuft option to have the cheek tufts added, too, along with one for the current full tuft option. :I
  
• Moar later.

Customization sliders for tail length, leg length, spine arch, paw size, snout width... Things like that.  I mean... look at these:

Huge comparison chart.

And the same range applies to canines, too.

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+Feline action of arching/hissing

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Until next time! :3