A curious case of crabs...

[Wain]

The deep sea (spiky) crab colours are confusing me. There are 5 basic skin colours, as listed on Petopia: black, blue, green, orange and red.

However many of them also exhibit a "biolucent effect" in that they show glowing markings of various colours. And you can get the black skin showing, say, purple markings, or blue markings. Same for other skins. It looks like there could be quite a wide permutation of colours. Once more are tameable it should become obvious whether these markings last and are a stable colour or not. But I believe only a basic green one is tameable at the moment.

On Wowmodelviewer I can't get these effects to work in combination with the basic skin colours. All I see is the flat colour, as shown in pics on Petopia.

Does anyone with more knowledge of modelling understand what's going on here? And is there a way of getting Wowmodelviewer to exhibit these effects?

Thanks

[Redith]

Im pretty sure you can catch multicolored spikey crabs at Anastae Toilate
+1 if you get the joke

[The Insect Man]

The green crabs in Blasted Lands don't keep their glowing runes or whatever they are, apparently, so it may not make that much difference.

[Sarayana]

I think they haven't gotten to them yet. I saw a few pictures from mmo-champ way back at the beginning of the beta - a red one with blue runes, I think - and I definitely hope they'll be tameable and keep the runes once Blizz gets around to finishing the hunter/pet pass (which apparently isn't going too well right now... ).

[Wain]

Im pretty sure you can catch multicolored spikey crabs at Anastae Toilate
+1 if you get the joke

[Wain]

Thanks guys! If the markings don't stay, and are treated more like an aura effect, then it won't blow out my list of crabs to huge sizes, but who knows?

[Bellatryx]

I think it'd be totally cool if the markings stayed but I doubt they would.. heres hoping!

[Wain]

The green crabs in Blasted Lands don't keep their glowing runes or whatever they are, apparently, so it may not make that much difference.

Actually, I'm pretty sure those crabs don't have the biolucent markings to start with. They're just a plain green. I went to check tonight. What they do have is a fel aura on them, which is cleaned off upon taming.

So I don't think there's any evidence for or against the crabs with markings keeping them.