If possible, I recommend removing the "alpha glow" on ptera and wyvern.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957097792

Oh man i thought i had removed it from the ptera, next update it will be gone. As for the wyvern i will make it so you can toggle it off/on in the game .ini

On a side note, i will add in a health multiplier and flate value. So you could increase/decrease total health by 20% for example or make it so the saddle adds/subtracts 500 health( will also put in a health check so the saddle/costume does nothing so it doesn't intantly kill the dino because it takes the health the minus)

So far i've not done extensive testing so i will likely have more suggestions later, but if its possible to put a multiplier on the grade of the speed saddle based on the grade of the saddle used, that'd be awesome for balancing, as would having a health multiplier VS a set health option.

I also suggest making the alpha glow an option rather than removing it. personally i think its quite good to tell if you're using the speed saddle or not, as balancing the saddles (via health option, nice addition btw) so they are less proficient for combat is really required for pvp. So people who combat with their fliers will want to carry both saddles (or remove the costume) when fighting. - this is a good balancing method.

Could you make speed saddles for land dinos?

Originally posted by BaK (THF):

So far i've not done extensive testing so i will likely have more suggestions later, but if its possible to put a multiplier on the grade of the speed saddle based on the grade of the saddle used, that'd be awesome for balancing, as would having a health multiplier VS a set health option.

I also suggest making the alpha glow an option rather than removing it. personally i think its quite good to tell if you're using the speed saddle or not, as balancing the saddles (via health option, nice addition btw) so they are less proficient for combat is really required for pvp. So people who combat with their fliers will want to carry both saddles (or remove the costume) when fighting. - this is a good balancing method.

Thats a pretty good idea, with the grade multiplier. Once i have finished the current planned overhaul of the mod i will look into doing that. With the alpha glow i will eventually get around to changing it so every saddle/costume will apply a small glow to the dino, that can be turned on/off in the .ini.

With the set health and healh multiplier, once the saddle has been taken off the dino will get its original max health back. Depending on the settings from the server admin, the dino might be at 100% health or at 10%. This presents some issues and also works as a kind of balance, unless you carry a daeodon(healing pig) around with you. So i have been thinking if i should include some kind of regen once the saddle/costume has been taken off? Or maybe some kind of healing potion that will heal your dino but make it immobile while taking increased damage, to stop people trying to abuse it in combat and pvp.

Originally posted by Some Distant Guy:

Could you make speed saddles for land dinos?

Currently i don't have any plans on making saddles for land/water dinos since they can level up speed. But i guess i could always include some kind of lower end generic costume that all land/water dino's can use.

seems to me that the daedon heals by percentage, so if you know what % the dino is down in health (which you will from the ini settings) you can fake a daedon buff for the appropriate time to bring it to full health - and any damage taken during that time would cause it to not have that health at the end of that duration.

one suggestion i would like to make as it would be nice to put an icon or some sort of identifier as to what dinos have the speed saddles. i dont think i would put speed saddles on every dino but my best ones all the others could have reg saddle for moving them around but for the few that have the speed saddle it would be great to know just by looking

Originally posted by Phantomice:

one suggestion i would like to make as it would be nice to put an icon or some sort of identifier as to what dinos have the speed saddles. i dont think i would put speed saddles on every dino but my best ones all the others could have reg saddle for moving them around but for the few that have the speed saddle it would be great to know just by looking

I'm currently working on that, will change the icons and also put in glows that be enabled/disabled in the config file.

I have been testing with glows to make it easier to spot dino's wearing the saddles.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=966235000
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=966238270
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=966238849
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=966237298

Not too sure on the direction i want to take them, if you have any ideas please share them.

Originally posted by dahlskebank:

As long as it can be disabled via INI-config, it's all good. :2017stickydrink:

Can you add icons similar to feeding trough/mate-boosted? For example a lightning bolt to show which flyer is wearing a speed saddle/costume?

This is more of what i was thinking as well

Yeah i wasn't a huge fan of it ether, but the light/glow did make it easier to find the dino's in the dark. Have lost so many flying dinos in the dark while getting a beacon and then getting attacked by a raptor or something

So with something like this for the lightning bolt icon?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=969156916
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=969157440

As you have seen by now, i'm not even remotely okay at art. I'm now having an attempt at redoing the icons so you can tell them apart from the orignal saddles

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=969204884

Lightning bolts don't seem to go well with the saddle icons, trying to keep the original saddle icon in the icons since everyone is used to them.

The other good news is that i have the custom item descriptions working (no crashing yay1) so you can see what the server settings are on the saddles. Only downside is i need to add a custom structure in order for it to work. So this could potentially cause some lag as the saddle item would have to phone home to the structure in order to get the values in order to display them. Also trying to make it so the item can auto update its text if the server admin changes the settings, this means already made items should get the text as well.

Yeah that works, just didn't look great with the icon i was using. Not sure that most people would understand the Autobahn sign tho

Black Icons are much harder to see, but sure if it would look as good if it was any other colour.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=969572093
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=969571305

should have used a smaller resolution so they screenshots were bigger, im afraid you will have to open them up.