AVH News (page 1)
Breeding suggestions 24 Oct 19:34
There is a checkbox in the player settings allowing you to block the breeding suggestions for your mares, while still allowing breeding requests for your stallions.
Brands price updated 22 Oct 08:51
The price for branding a horse was changed to 20000 coins.
However, replacing your current brand with a different one is free of charge.
Note: The first time you create a brand it still costs 30000 (only replacements are free of charge)
Brand preview 22 Oct 08:35
If you own a brand and you hover the image of an unbranded horse you will see what your brand will look like on that horse.
This will hopefully make you decide against using a brand that does not fit the horse's colors.

Note that while on the preview the brand is not resized, so on some poses the preview will be larger than the final look.
However, if a brand looks ugly on the preview, it will surely look just as ugly on the final branded horse.
Transparent images on brands 18 Oct 10:39
Since everyone is asking me how to create images with transparent background, I did the google search for you.

Gimp tutorial

You can download GIMP for free here:
Download gimp

In Photoshop
Abusing bugs 17 Oct 06:08
Players who abuse bugs instead of reporting them, get banned from the game.
A good indication of a bug is when the market pays for a horse more than you paid for it.
When you run into something that does not feel right, you are supposed to report that, or ask a moderator.
If instead of doing that you decide to take advantage of it, you end up being banned and having your coins taken away.
Horse brands 16 Oct 12:12
Starting today the brands will appear on the horse image, so you might need to make sure that your brands look nice.

You should keep in mind that the best brands are the simple ones, so it is best to avoid strong colors, or complicated images.
Also, the brands accept transparent images, so you might want to take advantage of that.
Below there are 2 examples of the same brand, one with transparent background, one with a white background:

White background:
http://www.avirtualhorse.com/horse-details/522809/

Transparent background:
http://www.avirtualhorse.com/horse-details/522786/

As you can see the one with the transparent background is blending much better into the image, so maybe you should try that as well.
Also, since the brand image is now part of the horse image, it means that you can alter your brand for new horses, and the other branded horses will stay with the old brands.
This way you can adjust the colors of your brand for each individual horse, in order to match the colors best.

Note: These changes do not apply for horses branded in the past.
The price for store horses was changed 16 Oct 06:40
The new price of store horses is 20000 coins.
The rescue horses cost 850 coins still.
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