There are a few ways of trying to predict what the outcome of a breeding will look like, but this is how I do it.
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Step-by-step Guide
Step One
You're going to need two very important tools: the custom demo and the colour mixing tool.
Step Two
Open the parents in separate tabs so you see them both. For this example, I'm using the following wajas, one of my favourite breeding pairs:
Sire: Cheetah Bane
MU:0 MG:0 LQ:100 IN%0
Base Color: #665239
Eye Color: #8EA4FF
Mane: #020100 - Visible
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Brindle: #C89953 - 20%
Belly: #FFF2CE - 100%
Cheetah: #140600 - 100%
Dam: Cheetah Wind
MU:0 MG:5 LQ:82 IN%:0
Base Color: #000000
Eye Color: #2E2536
Butterfly Wings: #000200 - Carried
Ram Horns: #FFFFFF - Carried
Leg Feathers: #000000 - Carried
Mane: #0E0C0E - Carried
Cheetah: #RAINBOW - 100
Step Three
In the custom demo, we can select bane as the breed, as they are more dominant than the tempest breed. To estimate the base colour, enter the base colours of the parents into the combine colours tools. In this case #665239 + #000000 gives #33291D, a very dark brown. The pups may not have this exact code, but it will give us a good idea of what to expect. We can do the same thing with the eye colours.
Step Four
Because the mother's markings will be layered under any gained from the father, we will put cheetah on the bottom layer. Rainbow is generally dominant over colours, so we'll use that. Because the belly and brindle markings are unpaired, they could be weakened considerably. For this prediction, let's guess that the brindle will disappear altogether, and that the belly is weakened to just 20.
Step Five
Both parents have a mutation gene of 0, so they are fairly unlikely to pass on their mutations. However, they both have the mane mutation, so let's apply that to our prediction. #0E0C0E and #020100 are both black, so it doesn't matter which code we use.
Step Six
Click preview and we have our prediction.
Outcome
So, how did we do? Let's look at a litter I bred from these parents.
Prediction
Base Colour: #33221D
Eye Colour: #5E659B
Mane: #020100 - visible
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Cheetah: #RAINBOW - 100
Belly: #FFF2CE - 20
Pup 1
Base Colour: #282011
Eye Colour: #6A71A6
Mane: #0E0A08 - Visible
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Belly: #FFF2CE - 10
Cheetah: #RAINBOW - 100
Pup 2
Base Colour: #35211C
Eye Colour: #4C588C
ButterWings: #000200 - Carried
Ram Horns: #FDFBFB - Carried
Mane: #020100 - Carried
Belly: #FFF2CE - 10
Cheetah: #RAINBOW - 100
Pup 3
Base Colour: #1D120E
Eye Colour: #7477AD
Mane: #020100 - Visible
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Brindle: #C89953 - 10
Belly: #FFF2CE - 20
Cheetah: #RAINBOW - 100
As you can see, we were pretty close. The colour codes don't match exactly, but the actual colours are very accurate. Take a look at this image from the compare colours tool: the colours along the top are the eye colours of the three pups, underneath the colour prediction I made by combining the parent's eye colours together.
Other Predictors
There are plenty of tools available on the net designed to make pup prediction easy. My personal favourite is this Colour Mixer, which works just like the link I provided above, but allows you to enter all the colours at the same time.
There are few (one?) predictors that actually produce the images for you. The one I know about is the foremost pup predictor. This is an excellent tool when you want to throw two wajas together to see what colour you'll get. But a word of warning! This predictor only works on wajas with matching markings. Hark back to my section on breeding and consider what I wrote about unpaired markings. The foremost site reads when two wajas breed with markings that aren't similar, even markings at 100 will be brought down to a strength of 20 or 10. This isn't factored in this pup predictor, so the colors may be inaccurate, and they are precisely right.
While my method may be very involved, it's also very accurate. The worst that can happen is that your waja has stronger markings than you predicted - never a bad result.
Here's an example of what I mean:
This is Orange Crush and Snowdrop, a pair of plushies owned by a wonderful friend of mine:
I ran this pairing through my prediction process; note how I reduced all the markings down to only 20% - this is the "worst case scenario", the markings may show more strongly than this in the actual pups. I also had to leave out the giraffe marking as the custom predictor can only show 4 markings:
This is what the foremost predictor gives you:
Orange crush had her pups! Here is one of her gorgeous pups:
