#petz hexing tutorial

Okay so last time, on PART 1 We were coloring our golden retreiver.

If you haven't read through Part 1 I recomend going BACK with this link and doing so.

Dont forget to rotate the modle so you don't miss any ballz, they like hiding.

If you want to change the tongue and whiskers(chihuahuas and catz) you'll have to select them on the left ballz selector and hit they apply all. They're too hidden to see in PW

In your left handed tabs hit the eyes. These squares will let you change eye colors and eyelid color.

Now in the little drop down menu on the top menu we want to go to Paintballs!

The first thing you're going to do is select a ball you want to add a paint ball on. Notice everything that is a paintball is visble even on ballz not selected. This is good to see where you have paintballz since they can hide, but it also can be a pain in the butt if you have a lot of paint ballz(for example a paint ball merel or tortie) to see what you're doing.

On the top menu you want to hit the button that says "add"

I think by now we're familar with the color selecting in the bottom menu. Though, please note there are 2. One is for out lines. It's not common to put outlines on paintballz but it can most defitly be fun to do so! You can also choose if the paint ballyou're adding is above or under all the other paint ballz. ANd the size. SIZE is a percentage of the BALL IT IS BEING PUT ON. So a size 30 on the shoulder ball, is a lot bigger than one on a toe ball. The fuz is how smooth the lines are around the paint ball. The bigger the number the fuzzier it is. You will rotate the modle to change the position of the paint ball. When it is where you want it...

Hit that place button!

They're always a circle. If you want them to be lop sided you'll have to stack them.

Selecting the select again will let you select a new ball to add paint ballz too.

Got everything placed the way you want? GREAT! Remember to save the file. See the paint ballz covering the paw pads? The only reason I move the paw pads up above the other paint ballz.

Feel free to open the game and take a look at what you have so far! Please note that the paint ballz are not yet anchored so it's not 100% acurate.

Now we go back to LNZ! Also open the Anchor utility(TRUST ME! You don't want to anchor ballz by themselves!

So firs things firs, find your [Paint Ballz] Section in LNZ

You can divide them up using the semi colon method if you want so it looks more like this instead.

Now in anchor utility you're going to put each color number you used on the paint ballz you want anchored into one box per color of the "color selection"

Then you're going to put the desired textures, your texutre list can be found in lnz or in PW under the tab menue where it says texture. Your texture list starts at number 0 then add one for each line.

This file has 0, 1, and 2. In the "textured desired" collum you'll put the corresponding texture you want next to the boxes by the color. I want them all to have hair10 so I'm going to put "0". Note you can also do -1 as the texture if you want no texture.

From there you want to copy the paint ballz you want to anchor from LNZ(I cut them out of the file) and then paste them in the small box above where it says "anchor away!"

Then hit "Anchor Away!"

Copy and paste the whole big box back into LNZ from where you took it from!

If it gives you an extra blank line, delete it.

OH no something went wrong!

This was the mustashe. Which was 48 not any of the colors I chose. I know I want the mustashe to be a different color though! So I'll change it first.

Note this error will pop up for EVERY paintball that doesn't have a color in the list.

I mentioned I don't want the paint ballz on the toes over the toe beans, that means I'm going to select that entire selection and cut it. Then paste it again at the top.

So now the toe beans will be on top of every other paint ball.

There is one more thing I like to do with the nose before I finish. I don't like the nose having textures on any of the ballz. SO I go to the "ballz info" in lnz

I scroll down until it says "nose (bottom)"

That very last number? That's the texture. I change it to -1. AND DONE!

Don't forget to save your work before you close and bring your new pet out in game!

You will be getting them from the adoption center just like any other adoption!

And because of the image per post limit...watch out for post 3 which will have the final results!

TADA! with all the glory of the tongue and toe beans!

For anyone curious about what I was talking about regarding paint ball anchoring, the first picture, with the tan/golden stashe is unanchored paintballz. The second photo with the the white stashe are all the exact same ballz just anchored. it makes a world of difference.

This tutorial is also available on my website. Just a quick tutorial on how to add external textures to *.pet files.

​I'm just taking a freshly adopted calico and adding these three textures to the patches, I'm leaving white as is, changing black to silver, orange to cream and tan to the brown.

First is the texture list, since I still want to have the textures that are already in the file I'm adding them to the end so I don't have to worry about the numbers of any other textures. the ; blocks out any text after it and lets me number my textures because i can never remember anything. The first number after the texture is the transparency: 1 is how textures appear in the game. Kind of a semi-transparent where the texture still is seen but the ball color comes through. 0 is absolutely no transparency. The ball color underneath does not matter. The color is what the color is. Any other number connects to the colors. So for example 75 will make the pink in petz semi-transparent but leave everything else solid.

Addballz will be the first thing you hit(I highly suggest  going to the top where it says tools and clicking reformat. it adds spaces and commas and makes the whole thing easier to read) Now I'm changeing certain colors to certain textures. the green highlighted is my ball color. the second before last collumn is my texture number. So as you can see I changed the textures towards the end(the ones above with the -1 are usually the animated ballz and stuff that's omitied i ignore them) I changed any in the 30s(black) to textrue 5(my silver), 60s(orange) to 3(cream) and the 100s(tan) to 3(brown)

Repeat for the Ballz Info section

And the painballz section where I care about the 5th number and the second before last, the last number in paintballz is the anchoring.

And that's it. you've done it! All done!

A couple quick ball color and line color changes and you have perfection.