Re the Furstralia forum, the problems began a few years ago with the mass exodus of Aussie furs to Facebook. The then owner of the forum figured that PhpBB was out of date and announced that replacing it with something called "Vanilla" which had "lots of new features" would attract everyone back. It turned out to be the most awful forum in appearance, and did not provide even one new feature. Not one. He later claimed that the real reason for the change was because the forum had been hacked at some past point. Then the owner decided to call it quits and asked if anyone wanted to take it over, which thankfully one furry in Queensland did. He's been working hard to restore it from the mess that it ended up, but there's a lot of stuff that he's still trying to synch back to normal. Duplicate posts are just one of the symptoms - I ended up with the avatar of someone I don't like and he accused me of trying to steal it from him.
Re Sebastian. He has a mixture of both; scales with fur growing out between them. Both his scales AND his fur can change colour. However the technology to make this possible in a fursuit isn't going to exist within my lifetime. I'll have to make do with what's available (assuming I live long enough to be able to afford this).
No, it's not a case of "Look at me! I’m lit with LEDs!" or even "Hey! My suit changes colour!" It's a case of "This represents Sebastian's chameleonic abilities." If affordable technology existed to create a fully chameleonic suit I'd be going for it.
Making the LEDs less obvious would suit me, so long as ease of maintenance is preserved. I don't want to be hacking pieces out of the suit whenever it becomes necessary to replace blown LEDs.
Re a fan in the head, I wouldn't allow it to be made without one. I was very disgruntled with the design of my foxaroo costume because I expressly requested TWO fans in the head, with holes below the ears to act as exhaust ports. However the costumer created no holes at all, and simply stuck in a fan to (supposedly) circulate the air inside the head. It's only about 5% effective. Even with the fan running I still end up coming out of it looking like I've been dunked in a swimming pool. With a full-body suit intended for Sebastian I'm going to need every possible method of keeping cool. My warm blood is genetically coded for a cold climate, and isn't going to cope very well sheathed inside a full body suit in the Australian climate. Had I been able to emigrate to Canada it may have been a very different story.
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Re Sebastian. He has a mixture of both; scales with fur growing out between them. Both his scales AND his fur can change colour. However the technology to make this possible in a fursuit isn't going to exist within my lifetime. I'll have to make do with what's available (assuming I live long enough to be able to afford this).
No, it's not a case of "Look at me! I’m lit with LEDs!" or even "Hey! My suit changes colour!" It's a case of "This represents Sebastian's chameleonic abilities." If affordable technology existed to create a fully chameleonic suit I'd be going for it.
Making the LEDs less obvious would suit me, so long as ease of maintenance is preserved. I don't want to be hacking pieces out of the suit whenever it becomes necessary to replace blown LEDs.
Re a fan in the head, I wouldn't allow it to be made without one. I was very disgruntled with the design of my foxaroo costume because I expressly requested TWO fans in the head, with holes below the ears to act as exhaust ports. However the costumer created no holes at all, and simply stuck in a fan to (supposedly) circulate the air inside the head. It's only about 5% effective. Even with the fan running I still end up coming out of it looking like I've been dunked in a swimming pool. With a full-body suit intended for Sebastian I'm going to need every possible method of keeping cool. My warm blood is genetically coded for a cold climate, and isn't going to cope very well sheathed inside a full body suit in the Australian climate. Had I been able to emigrate to Canada it may have been a very different story.