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Tectonic / Tc
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Tectonic is a versatile gene that creates a layer into your design with irregular or geometric patterning in style of tectonic plates.
Marking rules
- Tectonic can be lighter or darker than the color it sits on top of.
- The color can be picked from any non-mutation basecolor slider or natural color slider.
- Tectonic can be affected by Hue and Recolor
- This marking has no layering rules and can sit on top of or under other markings.
- Tectonic plates can cover centaurs whole body, but at least a 25% are of the body must have cracks that show the basecolor or marking under Tectonic
- Largest acceptable Tectonic plate coverage, meaning the largest uniform patch without any cracking, is about 50% of the body.
Smallest acceptable tectonic plate patch must be about the size of centaurs hand - Tectonic allows you to put other markings from the genotype to sit inside the Tectonic plates. See examples below!
Marking edge
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Tectonic patches must be solid, meaning the patches can't have holes inside them, and they can't have complex edges
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Tectonic plates must be either geometric or irregular looking. Round circle spots aren't allowed.
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Tectonic is a marking with lots of options on how to display it.
Swipe through the gallery below to see some examples how to design Tectonic!