Ponies have no hoofs

[MCMic]

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[ginkgo]

The idea back then was to have MLP-like visuals where the ponies don't really have hooves.

It's true, however, that there are a lot of things that could be improved with the pony models. Like you said the hooves could be a bit pointier by adding creases for the subdivision surfaces.

To my own shame I have to admit that I sorta lost important asset files for the animated pony. There's a pony.blend which contains the original low-resolution mesh made by Tornado. Skorpio then took those and added a skeleton armature and animations to them.
I myself then baked surface subdivision into the model and did my best to manually fix bone weight problems that resulted from this. This is what pony-animated.blend is. There are serious problems with this, however. The major one being that the pony's breast moves weirdly when seen from the front.
Skorpio's original pony-animated.blend was lost when the freegamedev forum was wiped. If I still had those I think could probably fix this. I could also add low- and high-resolution versions of the pony meshes.

[MCMic]

Too bad you lost those :-/
Indeed a high resolution version would be good.
It would also look better if pony hairs would be handled as fur using the particle system.

[ginkgo]

I have the feeling that having modelled and animated manes for the ponies would likely look better than using a particle based simulation.

Hair simulation is a rather hard problem which has pretty much nothing to do with what my particle system in the game does.