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Took a little break from monotonous white patches to finish up my prototype for the Classic clothes and experiment with colors! Featuring canon sage (which I might replace lime with in game), crimson, white, and most difficult of all, rainbow.

As pride merch of years past has shown, designing rainbow clothes that don't look like dog shit is a bit challenging but I feel this sort of subtle, prismatic effect looks the best, if a bit complicated to replicate. XD

Would love to hear feedback on these; do you like the rainbow effect? I might change it to make it a more uniform gradient per piece of clothing vs. the current individual gradients each line. Should I change the red arm bands on white to a more greyish tone to match how its changing with rainbow, or keep it red to match the canon design?

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Classic Clothes done!

There are 18 total colors for clothing in the game: the classic SAGE color based on canon, 8 basic ClanGen inspired colors, and 9 fancier colors inspired by all the planets in-game. There's also 3 different metal types they can generate with as well - gold, silver, and bronze - meaning all together there's 54 different color possibilities!

Colors shown here, top to bottom, left to right: SUN, CRIMSON, RAINBOW, HEARTH, WHITE, SAGE, INTERLOPER, STRANGER, INDIGO, HOLLOW, BRAMBLE, & EMBER. Personally for me, SUN, INTERLOPER, HOLLOW, INDIGO, & RAINBOW are probably my favs

Sidenote, I know a lot of it is covered by the UI rn, I still need to go through and move things around so the sprite display nicer but I've been working on this non-stop for the past 3 days so I really wanted to share the progress now.

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Heya Nomaigen, long time no post! This is still very much in the works don't you worry. Just had some life changes happen over the course of the past couple months (nothing serious but things that did impact my time and productivity).

Done with my first pass on the Classic clothes; now I just need to go back to refine them; e.g. flip em to make sure they look good both ways, make them look more consistent/inline with the cannon designs, add those decorative lines to them, etc. After that I'm planning out all the colors then importing them to clip studio to compile and recolor.

I know I originally planned to to release 4 different clothing types for initial release to replace all 4 collar types but in the interest of possibly getting the mod out sooner, I may hold off on the other 3 for a future release.

Code wise there have been some setbacks unfortunately. Clangen has been going through a LOT of changes on the backend, to the point that even my new fork of it that I was working on bringing my changes to became rapidly out of date very fast. I tried to update it using the merge and rebase features of git but I'm a noob and wasn't 100% sure what I was doing, so I messed it up a few times and tried to revert the changes to try again, but didn't do it properly, so everything basically got to a point where it was a chaotic mash up of both new and outdated code that just didn't work together. Because trying to revert it was how it GOT to this state, suffice to say, I can't really properly revert it to go back and try again, so this copy is just.. borked, I'm better off scraping it and starting again.

Thankfully I hadn't really added that many of my changes to the fork so I didn't lose a ton of work, and the actually meat of the project so far (i.e. the list of new names, the artwork itself, etc.) will be easy to just copy and paste over to a new fork, so starting over will be annoying but it's not like I've really lost anything. Just know that's thrown a little spanner in the works. Now that I'm more familiar with the merge, pull, rebase, etc. features this... hopefully won't happen again.

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New Make a Clan sprites are finished! Since it's quite a few sprites and looks better in action anyway, I recorded a video to show it off instead of taking screenshots. Also took the time to rearrange the names and show the leader, deputy, and medic titles (and also show the very minor way I've rearranged the screen elements so bigger sprites fit better).

Ignore the clashing light blue bg with brown UI elements. I plan to do my own color scheme and just changed the bg color because it's the easiest thing to change. Which means i will have to revisit these Make a Clan sprites to color them better, but,, not right now. XD

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Small update, progress shot on the classic Nomai clothes I'm working on, + 2 accessories I'm planning: blueberries (from og clangen) and bells, both which will be horn accessories.

I'm thinking there will be ear accessories, horn accessories, and face accessories, and the horns are gonna need to be split up into a couple different layers so everything overlays correctly. Would've liked to also have hair accessories but I can't right now for r e a s o n s.

On the side I'm also working on the shaders and cleaning up the markings (which will include doing the last two).

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White Patches are done!!!!

So excited to announce the white patches are done, in the game, and working perfectly! Here's a biiiig wall of some examples, from top to bottom, left to right: ART, BANDED, HALFIE, MOTLEY, CHAMOIS, SOCKS, TWOTONE, GOULET, SPRINGBOK, APPALOOSA, PILGOR, POWDER, SPLASH, SPOTTY, and SWISSMARK.

And these three show the additions of point patches and vitiligo, which are two different categories of white patch that can be combined with regular patches!

First example has the HEL face marking (named after my own Nomai oc hehe) and the STARDUST vitiligo patch, second is the IRISH white patch + the POINTS point patch, and the third is a somewhat close attempt at a canon nomai, with the CANON point patch given a darkcream tint (you can get closer than this with golden eyes and red skin but I just chose this one randomly to edit).

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There are more patches than this but I find this a decent amount of examples.

Uncertain what I'll funnel my focus into next; I still need to finish all the markings then go back and touch them up a little (they look,, bad in some places, I was kind of rushing when I first did them), have already started clothing and accessories so could pick those up, etc. but for now this is the update!

Also want to take a moment to thank you all for all of the likes, reblogs, follows, and enthusiastic comments, it's incredibly motivating and makes me excited to share this project with the community. <33333

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Test for Something in the Making...

Just a little baby post to test my webhooks, as I'm working on a discord server for Nomaigen! Figured it would be nice to have a proper community space where people can keep up to date on the mod's progress, talk about their opinions and suggestions, and discuss outer wilds and clangen as well! I'm still getting everything set up so it's not ready to be shared yet, and would like to get clearance from clangen mods before posting it as well, so it might be a while before it's ready, but it's in the works~ As for an actual mod update, I'm almost done with the base drawing on the classic clothes; just need to add those white accent lines on the clothes now. After that'll it'll just be a matter of recoloring and compiling into spritesheets... then setting up my actual code again so the clothes actually work. I'll post pictures here soon once it's ready to go!

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Intro

Welcome to NomaiGen, a mod for the warrior cats fan-game Clangen that replaces the cats with Nomai, a fictional alien species from the game Outer Wilds. This pinned post will have a quick rundown of the scope of the project and some important links to find out more.

[progress tracker] // [sprite guide] // [github] // [og clangen]

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What is Clangen?

Clangen is a free, open source fan-game for Warrior Cats. It’s primarily text-based with some sprites for the cats themselves. It works sort of like a colony builder, where you randomly generate a set of cats to make a clan, then time skip one moon at a time to watch them progress and grow, with relationships between the cats, random events, injuries & sicknesses, food and herbs to keep track of, patrols to go on, kits born between cats, etc. etc. 

What is NomaiGen?

NomaiGen is a standalone, modded version of Clangen, as opposed to being an add-on to the base game. It will replace the cat sprites with Nomai sprites and change key parts of the game to make it seem more like a bipedal, advanced society vs. a wild group of four-legged animals. Aside from the obvious changes like replacing the sprites and all cat mentions to more Nomai-y things, NomaiGen will feature:

Ages expanded into more human-like lifespans

Moons printed as years and moons (instead of just moons)

New clothing variable added; works like accessories but just for 1 type of clothes

Prefixes made into Nomai names (i.e. derived from latin plant names)

Suffixes made into various roles in the clan (i.e. Captain, Medic, Teacher, etc.)

I have lots of other things planned as well to actually change the meat of the game (i.e. new roles, overhaul to border patrols, etc.) but won’t go into detail about that until I start actually working on them, don’t wanna make empty promises! For now, the project is focused on replacing the cat sprites and implementing the above features.

Is it downloadable yet?/Where is the download?/When can I download it?

As of now, the first phase of the project is not yet done, so there is no download available. I’ve made this blog to post updates as I slowly make progress on it, since mod threads are closed in the discord and may not open up again for a while. There’s also no ETA on when I plan to have it done, it’ll simply be ready when it’s ready (i.e. all phase one features are implemented well enough to play with).

Once it’s ready for download, I’ll definitely be announcing it here with the Github link, so keep an eye on this blog if you’re interested!

Will this game have spoilers for Outer Wilds?

Seeing as this mod centers around the Nomai and their way of life, there are some “spoilers” that simply can’t be avoided, such as the appearance of the Nomai under their spacesuits (which I,, admittedly took some creative liberties with) and the general goal of Nomai clans themselves.

Beyond that, once we get past phase one, there will be small nods to content from the game here and there, in the form of thoughts, patrol events, etc. None of it will be big spoilers since most of that pertains to the actual narrative of Outer Wilds itself, which this mod is pretty far removed from. I’ve been thinking about adding a spoilers toggle in the settings to maybe disable this content if you don’t want to see any of it but am unsure if I’ll actually do that/how complicated that would be, so for now, just be cautious going into it if you really want to avoid any and all spoilers.

This BLOG will likely end up having a lot of spoilers though, as I share my future plans for the game and ramble about my influences on certain decisions. I'll be tagging all posts with the spoiler tag just to be safe.

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Helpful Tags

progress - any posts sharing progress updates

sprites - updates on or showoff posts for spritework

f&q- answers some commonly asked questions you may have about nomaigen

ui - updates on ui elements

code - updates on code changes + new features

text - progress on major text changes (usually the names or patrol/thought/etc. changes)