This page specifically covers how to design your foal genos, for general information about designing, see the Designing page. Read on for how to turn your foal genos into designs!

1. Download Foal Lines
2. Breeding Anomalies (BAs)
3. Limitations
4. Submitting Foal Designs

Foal genos are provided by the group via breedings and prizes. You can also trade or purchase them from other members.

Random Foal Genos have no lineage but count as foals so are also designed on foal lines.

Download Foal lines

These lines are for @Boucle-Unicorn use only.

By expanding the section below and using any of these lines you are agreeing to the following:

• not to upload these lines outside of dA, including but not limited to: toyhouse, imgur, tumblr, twitter, facebook, instagram, pinterest etc;
• to always keep the lineset credits visible;
• to only upload official foal designs to your dA account;
• to only upload official import designs to sta.sh, never published to dA (mods upload all imports);
• to never publish “unofficial” uses, eg “test” designs.

WIP: Smaller file versions and ungrouped folder versions are also available inside the above folders

Designing Breeding Anomalies (BAs)

You can only add BAs to your foal that they are born with, or that are added with pralines. Their BAs will be listed on their Breeding Notes, and unless optional or removed with pralines, you must include them on the design.

For more information about BAs themselves, see the Breeding Anomalies page. The following covers how to add them to your design.

BA lines used to be included as part of the templates, but we have so many now that the files became too huge!! You can now find BAs in a separate folder within the Foal Line folders (linked above), and you just need to duplicate over the ones you need into your Foal Templates.

Note: If you need help, or can’t find the BA you need for the mane type you have, try the new Resource Centre and see if someone else has transferred it over already!

Instructions to add BA lines:

Open your separate Foal lines and BA Lines files first (tip: select the top layer in the Foal lines folder before copying BAs in to make them appear in the right order):

• Photoshop: Right click the folder in the BA file and “Duplicate Folder”, then select the Foal Lines file
• Photoshop/CSP/SAI: Select the folder you want to copy in the BA file, press ctrl+c (cmd+c) and then open your foal Lines and press ctrl+v (cmd+v)

That should copy the BA lines over into the Foal Lines file and be correctly lined up with the base!

Note: You may need to drag the BA lines ABOVE the Foal Lines if it didn’t copy in the right order.

Missing BAs:

The group exports one set of BAs for each Boucle type, on the Bald lines, and then members are free to adapt them to other mane types. If there is a BA missing for the mane type you need, it may not be converted yet! You can convert it yourself from the Bald BA version.

Note: If you need help, or can’t find the BA you need for the mane type you have, try the new Resource Centre and see if someone else has transferred it over already!

DIY BAs:

The following BAs are DIY and do not have premade lines by the group, you are free to design these as part of your design or by editing the base lines! You may find premade ones in the Resource Centre.

(* = you may edit the base lines to add these)

Limitations

Unless your design has an Ancients’ Blessing, Corruption, or a Favour, you may not REMOVE any of the default lines on the design template. With 3D mutations you may ADD lines to the template but the default lines will be hidden underneath.

You CAN do the following on the REFERENCE but you CANNOT do the following on the DESIGN:

• Clip the hair
• Resize or customise the BAs
• Add non-mutation accessories
• Add scarring

You may only remove lines on the DESIGN for these common exceptions:

• DIY BAs marked with an asterix (*) in the previous section which must be custom-drawn!
• Extended Marque can cause dog ears (but not a dog tail, nose or paws)
• Extended Fawn Rayé can add antlers and cause a bobtail without the BA, but not deer hooves, ears or nose
• Extended Faon can add horns/antlers (but cannot cause a Bobtail)
• Instances where the BA templates do not combine or layer well together can be edited to fit but must follow the original shape (eg, Gem Armour often conflicts with non-standard horns and feet, and you may hide the forelock when Crest is present)
• This list is not exhaustive, please ask in Discord #design-questions if you would like to know if your particular idea is possible! You can write in our Discord #suggestions channel if you can think of other common exceptions!

Note: There are instances where incorrect designs will be overlooked and accidentally accepted; these are either ancient designs or accidently missed by an admin in processing and are not intended to be repeated. If your design is denied for one of the above reasons but you have seen similar exceptions before please feel free to show us and ask if it was an intentional exception or an accidental admin boop. We may reconsider but in the case of a historic design or previous admin error that is unlikely!

Submitting your foal design

16th of May 2024: Due to deviantArt’s update to their groups, we have needed to fundamentally change this system. Please see the updated information below!

You can only have 5 designs in the queue at any one time

When the foal has been designed or redesigned:

1. Upload your design to dA, making sure to include the ID at the beginning of the title.
2. In the description, include the Foal Design Submission Form below. 
3. Go to our Discord server and the 💙🤖-foal-design-submissions channel. (If you cannot get a discord account, please read the Submit Without Discord section below).
4. Open the appropriate ticket type
   1. If you are submitting a design for a previously undesigned foal, you should press the ‘Foal Design – First Check’ button.
   2. If you are submitting a redesign of a foal with a previous design, for any reason, you should press the ‘Foal Design – Re-Check’ button.
5. A ticket thread will automatically be opened for you as a subchannel of 💙🤖-foal-design-submissions. If you wish to withdraw your design, you can close the thread by using the ‘Close with reason’ button.
6. Design mods will respond to you in the ticket thread if edits are needed so that you can work with the mods to resolve any outstanding issues. 
7. Once the design is accepted, a design mod will comment on your foal with an Official Seal of Approval (OSA) from the @BU-OM deviantArt account, add them to the registry and close your discord ticket. The design is official as soon as the OSA has been posted.
   1. Optionally, submit your design to the appropriate folder in the @Boucle-Unicorn group, e.g. A017 would belong in the A-ID Foals folder.
   2. Admins will accept your foal into the appropriate folder in the group once it has an OSA, assuming it has not expired.

How to Get Discord

To get a Discord account and join our community server, first follow Discord’s Getting Started guide (available in multiple languages). You can optionally download the Discord app, but you can use their web client if you prefer!
Once you have set up your Discord account, you can join our Discord server by following this link. Welcome!

Submit Without Discord Foal-Approval System (CURRENTLY CLOSED)

You may ONLY use this system if you do not have and cannot get a Discord account.

1. Upload your design to dA, making sure to include the ID at the beginning of the title.
2. In the description, include the Foal Design Submission Form below.
3. Note the @Boucle-Unicorn account using the appropriate title and form below.
   1. If you are submitting a design for a previously undesigned foal, you should use the form titled ‘Foal Design Submission – First Check’.
   2. If you are submitting a redesign of a foal with a previous design, for any reason, you should use the form titled ‘Foal Design Submission – Re-Check’.

Title: Foal Design Submission – First Check
Foal ID: For example A123
Breeding note or similar proof: The link to the foal’s breeding note or other origin.
Link to the design: The link to the foal’s design uploaded to dA.

Title: Foal Design Submission – Re-Check
Foal ID: For example A123
Breeding note or similar proof: The link to the foal’s breeding note or other origin.
Link to the updated design: The link to the foal’s updated design uploaded to dA.
Link to the previously accepted design: The link to the foal’s accepted design on dA.

4. Roughly once a month, admins will go through the notes and open tickets on behalf of our non-Discord members. These tickets will then be handled by the design mods once they are reached in the queue.
5. Design mods will respond to your note if edits are needed so that you can work with the mods to resolve any outstanding issues. 
6. Once the design is accepted, a design mod will comment on your foal with an Official Seal of Approval (OSA) from the @BU-OM deviantArt account, add them to the registry, close the ticket created in your name and let you know the design was accepted in the note. The design is official as soon as the OSA has been posted.
   1. Optionally, submit your design to the appropriate folder in the @Boucle-Unicorn group, e.g. A017 would belong in the A-ID Foals folder.
   2. Admins will accept your foal into the appropriate folder in the group once it has an OSA, assuming it has not expired.

Good to know: 

• Discord is completely free to use.
• You can decide who can send you Direct Messages (DMs) and Friend Requests. 
• You can set up Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for your account for an extra layer of security.
• Our server is PG.
• You can be a member of our server and use the ticket system without chatting in the other channels – we do not have an activity requirement <3
• You can mute notifications for a whole server, or for specific channels.

Foal Design Submission Form

Please fill the form by copy and pasting fields directly from your Breeding/Proof Note, don’t edit any spellings or add or remove any formatting (e.g. don’t change slashes or brackets in the phenotype/genotype) with the following exceptions:

• You should remove unused options in the Phenotype, Genotype, Bouclite and optional BAs,
  e.g: if you had (Normal or Snowpuff) in the Phenotype, you should remove the options you are NOT using
• You should remove unused retired genes from the Phenotype and Genotype

If you are unsure of what needs to be removed for unused or retired options, just submit with the Phenotype and Genotype from the Breeding/Proof note and a design mod will help you out when you submit!

Breeding Note/Proof Link: (i.e. breeding note, prize redemption link, praline redemption link, etc. Even if it was sent by someone else and you don’t have access, the mods will!)

Phenotype: (Do not add commas or other breaks, or otherwise alter. Example: Rouge Tobiano (Bald))
Genotype: (Do not alter other than to remove retired/opted out of genes! Example: ee/aa/nTb/(B))
Breeding Anomalies (BAs):
Birth Defects (BDs):

Bouclite:
ID:
Height:
Type:
Gender: (classiques & palais can choose later on the reference if desired)
Designer: (if not yourself)

Opted out of: (only if you did opt out of any retired/optional genes or BAs in your chosen pheno/geno!)
Previously approved design: (only if this is a re-design of a foal with a previously accepted design!)

You are free to include anything else such as sire, dam, and pre-reserved slots after the required form, but the required form needs to be at the top of the description!