In order to get a phony on the masterlist and become playable, you need to import your genotype onto a base. You download the file, color the base with your colors and given genes, and then send it in for approval. Here are some notes to keep in mind for imports:

• You may change the pose a bit, however the posing/position of the torso and at least one leg must be original to the base.
• You can add a mouth!
• Normal phonies don't have opaque eyelids. If you're going to have your phony squint or be heavy lidded, make sure the eyelid is translucent.
• You're more than welcome if not encouraged to change up the fins. You have full freedom with the fins as long as it makes sense for your phony's pigment type. (I.e. a regular phony can have any colored fins, but an axanthic phony's fins can only be white, grey or blue)
• Please either use the given fins, make your own, or use fin designs which you have permission to use. Don't trace over other people's edits of their imports.
• Please don't shade the import! You can add a drop shadow or halo around the lines, but no actual shading on the import itself.
• You may color the lines as long as the line color makes sense (i.e. a cyan phony shouldn't have bright red lines) and that the phony's pupils won't be mistaken for any pigment mutation's eyes. (See the eye guide for more info! This is one of the most common errors for phony importing. Pupils must be very dark unless your phony has a mutation that says otherwise!
• Don't change the background unless you have a valid background change
• Phonies cannot be created with scars but can have them added later.

Make sure to include the import info (it's available in the downloads folder) in the file description of your phony's import.

If your phony has Rw, es, ts, pl and gu all at once, you can use the palindrome lines for that phony's species! The import deals with the inclusion of those mutations so you don't have to change a ton of lines.

Please don't edit any of the import information (change any of the letters for the colors, the color names, the genes, the breed) in the description. Copy and paste the genotype as it is! Otherwise, we have to go back and look over a million things to ensure that the genotype is correct, which makes the import approval process way slower than it already is. Thank you!

When posting an import, you can refer to this checklist to see if everything is ok!

• Did you use the right breed lines?
• Did you use the base color? (All the other colors are optional except the base)
• Are the eye colors legal?
• Did you include every gene included on the geno?
• Did you include the genotype description?
• Did you include the parents? (If this was a bred genotype)
• Are the lines darker than the colors?
• If you had help putting the design on an import/designing, did you credit them?
• Are the markings in the right order? (bottom layer, then midlayer, then top layer)
• Is the genotype exactly as it was written when you received it?
• And, most importantly, is the stash file with the description linked to the image?

What about after I've uploaded my phony?

Once your phony is created, you can make minor edits for free, or major edits with the "editor vial" item. Both of these can be done at the import modifications thread. What counts as minor and major edits?

Minor free changes are:

• Color changes on any part of the body within the color that they already were. So you could take yellow to a lighter or darker side of the swatch, and so on.
• Fin shape changes that don't change the silhouette in a major way
• Updating outdated linearts, (i.e. replacing the bones on a clearbodied phony with the new bone lines)
• Midlayer markings (i.e. repeating patterns) can have more or less of that marking added. If you have stripes, you can add or take away some stripes, but only within the area of the body where stripes already were.

Major changes are:

• Color changes outside of the colors that markings already were
• Fin shape changes that change the silhouette in a major way
• Marking changes that span outside of the area where they previously were. If you had stripes only on the rear, you could add more stripes to other areas of the body like the head or legs or neck.

If you want to go back into "geno editing mode" by using dishes to change the genotype, that is also a major edit and will need an editor vial. The only exception to this is the weird brine goop and the even weirder eye goop which can be added to an existing phony without using the editor vial. All other dishes and items will require the vial.