This tutorial will go over how to turn a bred pet into a breedfile. While I do not condone doing this for any kind of breeding purposes, I do find that bred pets can make interesting bases for starting hexies with. Fun scales, body shapes, and mutated parts make great starting points when you're in a rut. This tutorial can also be used to convert bred pets between games, but do note that they will lose their lineage in the process. It is a good option for loved oldies that we may have bred with about 10 different external files that we no longer have anymore, but we'd still like to enjoy our old and classic pets.
This is also an excellent way to make fun brexies if you are unfamiliar with editing entirely in LNZ pro. You can create a "breed" to hex on with the pet you are attempting to brex, hex on it as normal, and when you're done, copy the information over to your beloved bred pet.
For this tutorial I'm going to be using Dexter, a great dane I bred myself back in 2011. He has nice poofy feet and a nice, poofy sheepie tail.
Dexter is quite blatantly a great dane, but sometimes mixed breeds have different ideas as far as sound and personality assignments. We're going to confirm that Dexter is a tried and true Dane when we open him up in LNZ pro.
After we open him up, click on the Ancestry area on the left side, followed by the Family Tree tab. We can see that our suspicions were correct, and Dexter is indeed a Great Dane per the game mechanics. For this tutorial we will be moving him onto the Great Dane file, but if you'd like your new breedfile to be based on a different breed, check out the personality swapping tutorial.
Now that we know our game sees him as a Great Dane, we're going to open up our Great Dane.dog file and open the files side by side.
If you've ever accidentally overwritten your hexed file and attempted to recreate it with a .pet, it's as simple as copying all of the information from the adult and baby areas from the .pet to the .cat/dog. Bred pets require a little more picking and choosing. If you've tried this with a bred pet before, it will crash your game.
In your PET file, expand the LNZ area on the left by clicking the + symbol. Choose Adult. We're going to start with this section. Ctrl + A to select the entirety of your pets information, and Ctrl + C to copy it.
In your breed file, in my case the Great Dane.dog, expand it's LNZ section and choose the extension that does not have pup or kit attached to it. This is the adult area that will correspond with what you've just copied.
In all adult areas in breedfiles, you will find the following sections near the top:
[Default Linez File]
[Soundz] [Little One]
These are things we have to leave! In cat files, there is an extra area called [Breed Name]. This also has to stay. Here, for example, is a Calico file.
For this particular tutorial, and good boy Dexter, we're not worrying about breed name. Instead, we're going to select everything below [Little One], and Ctrl + V/Paste all of the Pet info we copied.
Now we're going to head back to our pet file and copy everything in the child area. Whether you have a dog or a cat, this section is always called child.
Return to your breedfile and enter the PUP or KIT area. The only thing you need to ignore in here is the [Default Linez File]. Select everything underneath of it, and paste in your pet's child information.
Save your file and open your game! Head to the adoption center and check out your breed. In my case, I pulled a Great Dane out. Dexter has been officially converted and is ready to be hexed on!
If your pet crashes your game, start over and confirm that you:
1. Did not overwrite the [sounds], [little one], [default linez file], or [breedfile name] sections in your breedfile
2. Did not paste your pet file onto a mismatched breedfile. For example, pasting Dexter onto a Scottie would have resulted in a Scottie (that uses the extensions "SC" with information in the lnz for a Great Dane, which uses "GD."
You can fix this one of two ways:
1. Start over, and paste your .pet information into its matching breedfile. Dexter's, remember is the Great Dane.
2. Find the areas in the LNZ that list breedfile letters, and replace them with the correct breedfile. For example, using my Dexter & Scottie example, I would edit the following sections: