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This need a discussion, care to tag me on dev channel. Just mention @DDrakov and I'll be there |
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Changelog needs to be more descriptive. We also need to discuss the lore of Shadekin, they need to fit the overall theme of the server. Their abilities also seem quite powerful, with night vision and all.
The code could also use improvements, namely Starlight copy and pasting the already existing night vision system.
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On some servers shadekin can phaze teleport, so simple nightvision is still not that big of an adventage |
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Right lets get this started: First of all the immediate changes for the changelog Changelog ---> Changelog Up next: Clarificaiton on some aspects including the question "Brighteyes ugh": In this PR (And hopefully if implemented in any future PRs) they do not get any special active abilities nor are they going to be limited in eye color or anything if implemented. I dislike that bit alot on SL and HL. Shadekin should just be that: Four eared cats with a long stabilizing fluffy tail not native to realspace while being drawn to anomalous areas. No weird phaseshifting bullshit in realspace, no OP hypermending ability when in darkness. No blood that when drunk makes you feel like you have been hammered by drugs like its currently on both SL and HL. No crazy bullshit glare reminiscent of vampire antag glare. No BRIGHTEYES AND BLACKEYES. Just that. Shadekin. Essentially this PR is taking them out of the weird niche zone and the strange associations that are put onto them many times. The passive upsides while strong come at a considerable downside of being hemophillic. Get shot twice in combat? Time to bandage and inject chems. Get shot a bit more? Time to take a break and wait for your blood to regen or start pumping chems. Heat damage? Well you take more burn damage. Radiation? Same deal. Keep in mind that blood regen is also affected, they regenerate around 1/4th of what a normal person would regenerate in the same timeframe. In the next comment I will provide a general overview on their lore, do keep in mind its adapted from FH so changes might be required further. |
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Here is the current short proposal for the guidebook entry and possible idea where to settle them in lore: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5pnfHaDvwdgL7hCL42bPzBkVbyNeiioAGC8YpeYy9M/edit?usp=sharing (Link should be working now) I have an entire lore doc on Shadekin compiled for FH which has some differences (FH is circa 2326) and with some adaptation (meaning we can for instance leave out the eye color association and the admittetly bad community dividing blackeye/brighteye bear bull bear bull stuff) could probably be made to work very well. The example Shadekin intially shown in this PR was an edge case and is a tail that is usually commented out in most codebases. I will provide Fasuh with an example Shadekin for putting them in armor to show that they should look fine with mono gear (especially with U.I.. I can picture that look very well on them). Similarly laxative-style designed characters can be attained by:
Unaffected by deliberately trying to make an eyesore are Diona and Vox, they kinda look too alien for that to take effect. Anyhow if required feel free to ping me in discord (Irkalla or Ereshkigal) if you want a more extensive loredoc, I would really love to make them work on Triad. |
Google access? I think you forgot to set it |
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as requested i have removed the old preview where the character used was less than perfect for demonstration, and included screenshots of how they look on a more realistic character |
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5pnfHaDvwdgL7hCL42bPzBkVbyNeiioAGC8YpeYy9M/edit?usp=sharing Check now if it works, I did indeed forget to set the mark at the right place |
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Okay, I did not forget about this. Need a long discussion with staff regarding this. |
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At the end of the day for balance you gotta choose either to start with NV or no atmos, yea i know its easy to get both but it it does save a lot of time. Oh and a lore adjustment talk with sigmund in the Discord for ideas they are good at that. |
Thanks for the answer, I get right on work with Sigmund I personally think the NV fit thematically more, them breathing/having lungs can be explained in that they have (vestigal) lungs that they use if they aren't close to whatever their home dimension is. Theres alot of flexibility both lore and codewise with four eared cats |
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Gonna rewrite the lore doc for the guidebook entry a little bit later on this week. Sigmund had very cool ideas how they came into the sector, basically something akin to a decrepit corporation opening a portal to their place on accident (half life style) |
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1fVfbXsAKAFFht-7JWje2e19Nh5gaeY4Vk_FCB0ubI/edit?usp=sharing @Fasuh heres the current iteration of the guidebook entry, where its mentioned that VEI (Void Enigma Institute) are the ones responsible for initially dragging in the marring cats. Can you please re-add the lungs so we are pretty much set on a mechanical side? Other than that I really dig the general idea of VEI Black Mesaing their facility and now as one of the consequences Shadekin are around in larger numbers. Could have a neat thing going where they try to accumulate tech and materials to build a device to go back home for possible player driven interaction.. |
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Hello I am the headspriter here I will be reviewing your sprite due to us using the monolith style off art an how we aim for balencing yet IS your sprite in align for monolith color/shadowing |
Hello there, pardon for the late response, I haven't noticed there was a new comment. Examples for the sprites and how equipment looks on them can be found in the PR description, including a video on how they look without equipment. For reference 
This is them with various monolith armors, UI enforcer Mk2, UI enforcer Mk1 and the SCAF hardsuit. Then theres a short example video for both white fur coloration and dark fur coloration as examples aswell: Uploading 2026-05-18 16-19-59_compressed.mp4… 2026-05-18.16-05-30_compressed.mp4Does anything need changing? |
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The shading of the sprites need new shading. If you want examples on how to shade it, see the reptilian sprites or look up TG station's other specie sprites. We are using the /tg/ artstyle going forwards, as monolith has. This is shading problem is already an issue with other species (vulps, rodentia, avali, resomi, etc), and we do not want to add to this issue. If shadekin or any new species were to be added, they would need to be in this artstyle. |
Anything else while at this? |
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I believe it's fine |
That was already changed by Fasuh, they have lungs now added, but retain NV (with the welding protection turning it off part) I see if I can get somebody paid to shade it since all three of us cant do any sort of spriting. |
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Sounds good, I will update the PR description |
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Shading comment, other than that it's fine
The shading of the sprites need new shading. If you want examples on how to shade it, see the reptilian sprites or look up TG station's other specie sprites. We are using the /tg/ artstyle going forwards, as monolith has.
This is shading problem is already an issue with other species (vulps, rodentia, avali, resomi, etc), and we do not want to add to this issue. If shadekin or any new species were to be added, they would need to be in this artstyle.
Minor nitpick but if you would like, you can change shadekin's guidebook entry to be in line with #112 species guidebook entries. This is not a requirement, but it would be nice to have.
I can see if I can get the template from rebaser, should be no issue translating what we have right now into that to have everything nice and uniform |
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Reformatting done into the new format from @rebaserHEAD, will push this tomorrow after sleep. I asked around with folks involved in this and none of us know what exactly is meant with shading, can you perhaps give some image examples so we know what to aim for? I checked TG lizards vs SS14 vulps and they look too alike for my eyes in terms of depth if that is what is meant. |
Here's a picture of an asakim and the shadekin. 
You can see that the shading looks vastly different in both pictures, shadekin having a more 'dark-plastic' look from VG / old TG station, while Asakim (our reptilians look similar to asakim so that's why i'm using them as an example) have a blue-saturated-ish look with a decent amount of contrast. |
Sorry for absence, IRL issue cropped up yesterday, Thanks for the example, that helps alot. |
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as a normal user... FUCKING YES!!!I loved this race on SS13, and i hope this goes through. |
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About the PR
This PR aims to add species from Starlight server, shadekins, it is a bit of a watered down implementation, due to its... complex nature in that server, this one is made to be less flashy
Why / Balance
I believe it is one of more popular species, with unique behaviour and culture, i think it is a very nice addition to the server.
From balacing standpoint:
All light exposure mechanics have been removed from them, not only are they expensive on the server, they are also too complex and laggy.
Media
2026-05-18.16-05-30_compressed.mp4
2026-05-18.16-19-59_compressed.mp4
Requirements
How to test
Enter the game and create a shadekin character.
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Changelog
🆑 Fasuh, Irkalla, rain_enjoyer