Optimization And Ideas (Patreon)

Been wanting to optimize the Pony models for a while now, since they run like absolute shit because of their complex procedural texture. I've baked the procedural texture into a series of regular image files, making for a much better performing, although lower res texture.

I'd recommend using the optimized texture for the viewport, but still using the old texture for final renders as it is much more detailed up close. These images here are all with the optimized texture. Also, not seen here, are the new hooves. I've borrowed the hooves from the draft horse model and have attached them to the Pony model, so the hooves aren't just flat on the bottom anymore. All this will come out in a future update for the ponies, so keep an eye out for that. It'll definitely be a huge benefit to those of you who have less-than-perfect PC's like I do.

As for the eggs, well. It's an Idea I had Inspired partly by the bus stuff and partly by a really old seb animation where Twilight shrinks one of the other ponies before putting her inside an egg and then swallowing it.  So the eggs have shrunken Ponies inside and the cutie mark of said pony is on the egg. I'm sure some of you will recognize who this one is.