Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=49886&page=4#32 Author: Scathreoite Time Posted: 8/13/2017 at 10:24 PM Just gonna jot down notes G1s: All really nice, except... um. The change to spots wouldn't be so bad, if the size and randomness of them didn't make it look like a spots gene instead of a ladybug Ladybugs, like the vast majority of insects, are all about that Symmetry G2s: Yes. Yes excellent. These are nice G3: There is so much asymmetry in the wing patterns Many are minor and easily ignored. But... what happened to faded glowlight? It's so. Not faded glowlight. Floral's left and right are completely different from eachother on all the wings. Wisp I feel. passes okay on the female, but not quite on the male. Cecropia's hecking gorgeous, though. ... I literally only just realised that there's no longer a wing lucky runes? M1: While it makes sense on the male's because of their head angle, both antenna on the female should be at the front, surely? We're just staring at the dragonfly ones on the female and it's very strange, with one at the back. Branch antennae are making us giggle. Antlers. Male's Scarab crown seems to be. Not quite as attached to his head as it should be. The back antenna is basically just. Floating there. M2: Sad that garland is no longer tinsel fluff, it was what inspired the Fairy Lights, after all. The new one is nice, but so different. Maybe we'll submit something that looks like the old one next time there's a trait contest for them. For some reason glow dust seems a bit hard to see, might just be the colours we're using, though. Thought the lunar garb'd be ornate armour back when we only had screencaps, because of the similarity to the kelps'. Very pretty. (how do the wings connect to the back through the scarab armour...) M3: Avatar- I feel could possibly use a bit of the fade that lune wings used to have, they look pretty flat compared to the old ones ^ same lune post and pre revamp Gem- well that's different. They're completely different. The fade they have is nice Dragonfly- *quiet crying* my poor Glasfir... Any chance we can have some of the old transparency and stained-glass-y-ness on these new ones? Branch- I feel like they sort of merged with the old gem wings. Nice looking. Ladybug- nice, but with G3 those spots just. obscure everything so much instead of feeling incorporated into it. (*has quiet flashbacks to hours of our life spent picking coloured pencils* Mantis- NICE, silky's AC1 is way stronger on the far wing than the closer one though for some reason? Cosmic moth- very floofy Forest spirit- good except for one point: Scarab- um. Like. They're pretty, but they connect to the body... Really. REALLY weirdly. Especially on the male.

I second nearly everything Scath wrote here. I double-second the stuff about the G3 symmetry, or lack thereof. And I miss G3 Lucky Runes.

Dragonfly Wings need transparency.

I miss the little marks between the eyes on G1 Ladybug.

Branch Wings could really, really use their lovely glow back. And it's sad that Branch Wings still will not show a Visible G3 (the antennae will, but antennae aren't wings).

Thank you, and the artists, for the manner in which they did the crescent-orb-crescent thing on top of the Lunemaras' heads.

I did not write that: Scath did. I'm too mellow to critique like this xD

I love this revamp! I thought it would bring Lunemaras down to last on my list of favourite species because of their more whimsical properties, but au contraire! They're probably my favourite revamp, and definitely in the top five overall.

That said, I have one little issue, and it's with the female hatchling. I finally noticed that it was eating a leaf, and at first I thought it was adorable. And then I looked a little closer, and I realised that the leaf is the same colour as accent colour two. Which is fine when the AC2 is red or green or orange or something else natural. You can almost pretend it did come from a real plant instead of having been a part of the hatchling. When my Lunemara's accent two is pink or black, though, I find I must face the reality that my hatchling is eating itself. Which is weird, I might add.
Anyway, to get to the point, I would suggest making that leaf something naturally-coloured by default, so that we can assume that it really did grow from a plant. It's not really necessary, but it might make a little more sense.


Here we see the sweet, autosarcophagistic Lunemara in its early stages of growth.

I'm so sorry, I just can't like these. ;_; I absolutely LOVED the old art and I really wish there were a way to keep them the old art. This just doesn't do it for me. (Not that it is inherently bad art, I just like the old design more).

Omg dis is so cool. XD tanks Krinadon! I have like no questions about this or the Lunemaras. Pretty sure I spelled it correctly.

Hi Krin, I also wanted to ask about the Lucky Dust mutation. I'd been breeding it into my lines specifically, and a fair few of my Lunes were still eggs when the revamp went live so I don't know whether they are supposed to have visible or carried Lucky Dust. But I'd really like for all of my Lunes that had Lucky Dust to have it back again if possible.

I just don't know which of my Lunes actually had Lucky Dust because there wasn't an announcement that it would be removed following revamp so I didn't write down any notes on it. I also don't know what that means for Lunes with carried Lucky Dust, because the visible traits in that slot are so different from before (can we still choose any trait to cover the Lucky Dust?).

Thanks for all the hard work and for so many new traits for the little buggies!

I noticed the Lucky Runes gene is gone from the wings. Will it ever be re-added?

Um, just a little question: I was playing around with the new theme colors, and the Bottled Moonlight theme has the same hex for Accent 1 and G1. That means this is what Ladybug looks like:



This is the "unfixed" color scheme:



Was this intentional, or an oversight? I guess it still may have been the best choice. I also haven't looked at many of the themes; this was just something I noticed on one of the first themes I tried (which is also one of my favorites).

Kinda upset that the spots that were on glowlight are not there anymore. Maybe we could have something like this??

Great job to the staff and artists! The new art is very cute :-)