If you want to play as a dog character, certain breeds are currently kinda locked out, thanks to the fact that the ears region is drawn as a single rectangle pointing up from the top of the character's head.
If you wanted to play as a beagle, or a spaniel, or a shih tzu, you're kinda out of luck. I'd love for the ears region to be toggleable to split in half, and rendered on the sides of the player's head.
You could do this without GUI code in a similar manner to Mine Little Pony, which toggles various species information with differently colored pixels in other unused regions of the skin. You could also possibly toggle it by having the color at 0, 32 be something different, like red or orange.

Does this look right? The ability to change the anchor also exists; it doesn't have to be centered, it can be flush with the front or back of the head too.

keep this functionality in, it works for elephant skins! but for what i'm thinking of, i think the side areas would have to be mostly parallel to the head, not perpendicular
maybe add some tilt to it after rotating it that way, too

Is that not covered by the vanilla headwear region or #8?

Or do you literally want it to point down? That will clip into the player's arms and torso...

(This at least explains why I was having such a hard time understanding the issue title.)

it's kind of covered by the headwear, but it doesn't look long enough, maybe something like ears that go behind the back? or maybe ears that come out from the top of the head and tilt towards the shoulders?? something like this
edit: added chest for some sort of actual context

ears that go behind the back of the skin could work well for rabbit characters that have long ears like that too

Speaking of Mine Little Pony, the option for a forward-facing horn would be nice.

Adding a 45° horn to my list. I was originally going to ask if it should be pointing straight up or straight forward, but 45° is probably the right choice. I think that's also the most MLP-y option, but I'm far from a pony expert.

that'd be correct! though it might look too dark on the bottom from exactly 45 degrees, maybe somewhat higher?

I work on Ears as a minor side hobby. Some patience would be appreciated.

OH WOOPS i thought that closing it meant i was done talking about it, sorry!!

i also saw another issue that was similar to mine that got closed, so i thought that was okay