Feral Heart

   Well, for the weather and seasons, it is actually doable on self-made maps using the sky editor. You can also make puddles in maps by making a very, very slight indent in an area, and placing water in it. Bam, insta-puddle! Unfortunately, the standard maps don't have that sort of detail, they are somewhat bland. Luckily, there are a lot of map packs creative people have made that do have some weather, and fun features you can take a peek into.

I like the new animals idea, but wouldn't it take up more space on a PC? oAo?

Not much at all, that's not the real problem. It's more about the making of the skeleton and the mesh for new animals that would be time-consuming.

Can you make me a horse preset of you're taking requests? I have been looking everywhere for someone to make me one. Could it be black with a white stripe down its nose? Thanks~

Sure, I could do that! Kind of sounds like a black beauty horse right? I'm working on the preset contest right now, but almost done, so can probably work on this mid-week or this weekend. =D

Look under the tutorials section, I think there are a few tutorials about making custom meshes. But if you are trying to put textures on them, you typically have to go into the items .material file.

youritem.mesh
youritem.material

look for those (not that exactly named file of course, but the one you're looking for), and open the material file. That's where you change the texture.

   Yeaps, I brokered a preset, first time too! Most of mine do what I ask of them. D:<
But this has me totally stumped. I was making a layered preset, and suddenly I realize the side I'm working on no longer has any shading, and the tummy is just as bright as the top. I've literally picked apart my code, and tried deleting things piece by piece, and the only way I got it to show shadows again was to only make it one layer...here is a sample that looks similar to my code (can't post the exact code because it's for a surprise preset!):
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material preset_?_bodyMatL
{
   receive_shadows on (tried this from Tigg's thread...doesn't seem to solve it)
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture colortest.jpg (This layer is solid, and scrolls)
            tex_address_mode wrap
            filtering trilinear
            colour_op replace
            scroll_anim 0.0 0.1
         }
         texture_unit
         {
            texture test.png (This has transparent spots on it, and stays put)
            tex_address_mode wrap
            filtering trilinear
            colour_op alpha_blend
         }
      }
   }
}
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   I've looked at all the preset tutorials on here, and some on dA, but still can't seem to spot my problem...any other preset makers out there that spot my messup? I'm getting a bit frustrated by it, and would be somewhat sad if I just had to accept that my preset can no longer have any shading ingame. I can "shade" my character in...but wouldn't look the same as the moving shadowing provided for the rest of my presets.