Looks Genes

These are the main types of genes that affect how a creature looks.
They mostly have no direct affect on gameplay and are just for the sake of diversity.

The genus gene also affects how creatures react to it,
and C1 only allows same species breeding.

Typically a creature will only have a single Genus gene, but some such my Grellorans have two that are sex-linked.

Genus Gene
Bit	Description	Detail
11	Species	00 = norn
		01 = grendel
		02 = ettin
		03 = shee or geat
12	Father	The four letters of the father's GEN file
13
14
15
16	Mother	The four letters of the mother's GEN file
17
18
19

Usually a creature will have four appearance genes, one for each body part.
Those with sex linked such as YinYangs have twice as many.

Only Wingies have wing genes.

Appearance Gene
Bit	Description	Detail
11	Body Part	00 head
		01 body
		02 legs
		03 arms
		04 wings (used for tails in later games)
12	Breed	Which of the eight or so breeds See the breed list for values

Typical creatures have twelve pigment genes, four for each primary colour.

Pigment Gene
Bit	Description	Detail
11	Colour	00 red
		01 green
		02 blue
12	Intensity	How strong the colour is, the higher the number the more intense the colour   If set to 80 (128) then that colour channel is unchanged. Higher numbers increase that pigment, lower ones reduce it

For more details on creating intensely pigmented norns go to this page

Recently it was discovered that Pigment Bleed gene extensions work in C1:

Pigment Bleed Gene
Bit	Description	Detail
11	Colour	00 red
		01 green
		02 blue
12	Intensity	How strong the colour is, the higher the number the more intense the colour   If set to 80 (128) then that colour channel is unchanged. Higher numbers increase that pigment, lower ones reduce it
13	"67 65 78 74" which is "gext"	Previously thought unimplemented in C1, can be optionally added to the end of the pigment gene to turn it into a Pigment Bleed Gene.
14
15
16
17	Rotation	Lower values mean hue is rotated: R>B>G Rotation of 80 means no change Higher values mean hue is rotated: R>G>B
18	Swap	Lower values mean hue is made more red Swap of 80 means no change Higher values mean hue is made more blue Swap does not affect green hue