
Make your own Emoticon Petz...
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This "howto" supposes that you have some hexing experience.  If you don't, 
I advise reading a more basic tutorial and understand what's going on.  Oh, 
and don't forget -- _always_ keep a safe copy of anything that you are editing, 
especially pet files.

Question:
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Is it hard to hex them to your own petz / breeds?
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It's easy to add them to your breedz.  And since the arrival of Nicholas' LNZPro 2, 
it's also easy to add them to  petfiles -- previously the most you could do with 
petfiles really was to enable the original hidden ballz and maybe add texture to them. 
This howto concentrates on adding various emoticons to a breedfile.  It's up to you
to figure out how to add the [Add Ball] ballz and Linez for your chosen emoticon
to a pet using LNZPro 2.  It's the same really as adding any extra ballz to a pet :-)

I include in this zipfile two sets of .lnz files, one for a cat breed and one for a 
dog breed;  they are intended for use with my external-lnz packages and they overwrite 
the originals.  You can also of course use LNZPro 2 to put them into any other Great 
Dane or Black and White cat breedfile or, suitably edited, into any other breed.  
They will work with any version of the game Petz 3, 4 or 5.  I have not tested them 
with Petz II, but they should work fine.  In P3-5, your adopted pets will be able 
to breed with each other, but I have no idea what the results will be :-)

If you look under [Add Ball], you'll see a whole series of Added Ballz, each with a 
little header such as ;heart 77, ;question mark 101 and so on.  I think that's clear 
enough; each line of code is an added ball and you can fiddle around with colours, 
textures etc to your heart's content; also what base ball the emoticon is attached 
to of course.  It's fun to add them to the ear tip ballz or tail tip, because they 
move around a lot that way, but they can be added to any base ball of course.

You're not done yet though.  Next you need to make sure that the correct ballz for 
any emoticon that you _don't_ want are all listed under [omissions].

And finally we come to the [Linez].  If you're making your own emoticons, you need 
to be sure that whatever needs to be connected up is connected there.  You can leave 
the lines of code there even when ballz are listed in [Omissions], and that makes it 
a lot quicker to enable some emoticons -- as you can see, what I did was put all the 
emoticons that I thought I might use into [Add Ball] and [Linez], and then just list 
the ones I didn't want in each adoptee in [Omissions].

Cheers!

Carolyn
