/RETRIEVING CAPSULE [Design]...
Click on a tab above to begin!
Helpful Terminology:
- MYO: Stands for "Make-Your-Own," a common phrase in species communities meaning a design you create yourself using a "MYO slot." For Vidosphere, Relics are equivalent to these slots.
- Premade: A design that was created before obtaining an owner, such as from an adoptable batch or a raffle prize.
- Redesign: Giving an existing design a new coat of paint or additions.
- Trait: A special feature of a design. Many traits may require something like ES to add to your Vido.
- Custom: A custom-made design, often commissioned from another artist. Users may offer or seek out customs in return for currency or other things.
Designing a Vido
Want to make your own Vido? You can design one for personal use any time you’d like, though to put it on the site, you will need to activate a Relic first! Once a relic is activated and on the masterlist, you can add ES to it at any time.
What is ES?
Certain features on a Vido, or Traits, require Energy Slots (ES) to use. ES is applied to your Activated Relic or Vido through ES Potions. Keep track of how much ES you’ll need to register your Vido with the traits it has if you’re planning on putting it on the masterlist! You can use a handy calculator here to see how much it'd all need.
≥ Minimum Requirements:
- Tear lines coming from the eyes and connecting to the mouth in some degree
- If teeth are showing, at least four flat teeth
- A ref of the blank eye
- At least four digits on the front feet and four toes on the back feet, not counting missing from injury.
- Clothed or humanoid designs must illustrate all traits you want the Vido to have on the image.
Vido may be depicted in quad or bipedal stances, or a humanoid form. Along with these, designs must follow the site's content guide.
Recommendations:
[image detailing inner and outer flesh + how notes can work]Depending on the design, these recommendations may make it less likely for a design to be rejected!
- Make the inner and outer flesh clearly different colors, textures, or patterning! Keeping the inner and outer flesh distinct makes it easier to tell what’s skin and what’s flesh when it comes to traits like Breach or Inkskin.
- If your Vido has drip-like attachments that aren’t actually fluid or gooey, please make a note that they’re solid!
- Conversely, inkskin does best when dripping/detached droplets are shown to convey that the Vido’s surface is liquid! If something seems ambiguous, just labeling it will probably work fine!
- Vido have an open, gill-like gap that connects from under their jaw up to a set of holes on the top of their head. This gap isn’t required especially in simpler styles (for example, people don’t often draw ears on lizards) but it is a species feature that you’re allowed to stylize!
- Soft spikes often don’t have harsh color differences between the base and body, but if they do, write a note saying they're soft so that they aren't interpreted as hard!
Common Features
(Make slideshow later)
Vido can have a variety of differences without the use of ES, such as:
- Smooth, wrinkled, bumpy or amphibian-like skin (may have a wattle of loose skin on the neck, but exaggerated examples may require the use of the Ruffled trait)
- Varying proportions, face shapes, and body types
- Any palette or patterning
- Any shape of horns or "ears" (as long as they don't resemble other bodyparts)
- Tongues can be forked, pointed, round, spined, spaded, or flat
- Tailtips may have a flexible spade or be split near the tip (a hard, bony spade will require Bony Protrusion)
Frills are soft and covered with the same skin as the body -- can be many shapes.
Variants
Some relics come with special features known as Variants. Be sure to check the requirements on the relic's encyclopedia page, every Variant has a set of special traits it can use at the cost of no ES!
Once you’re done
When you are done designing your Vido, you can update your activated relic with its design at the reception area!
Altering your Vido (wip)
If you'd like to change up an existing Vido, you may as long as the design stays true to the original. Recognizability is subjective, but think of it as preserving the Vido's identity on the masterlist! (examples and cases TBA)