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Welp, I'm pretty new around here, but I've been playing around with zoo color palettes for a long time and I thought I would be brave and post some things. I know it's not as exciting as brand new animations, but some of the BlueFang colors are... well...they could be better. I've never shared any Zoo stuff before so let me know if there's any problems or changes needed with these files. It's five degrees fahrenheit where I'm at right now, so let's start with some arctic animals. It's been done many times before, but I have a reindeer recolor here and I think it's pretty good. There are various breeds of reindeer across the arctic on three different continents, and they change color seasonally, but none are bright orange! So I cooled them down. Personally my adopt menu is full to the brim as it is, so I made it a default replacement--I mean "Hack" in the ZT1 parlance, though it feels weird to call a recolor a hack. EDIT - non hack version now available as well -> Reindeer are actually the only deer species that isn't significantly dimorphic: Females have antlers to dig through the snow looking for food. But I made these just slightly color dimorphic (males are redder) because I think it looks nice to have some variation in the herd. The babies are dark brown, which seemed to be the most common color for them based on my exhaustive research (scrolling google image search for about five minutes) Plus one exciting little thing that makes this recolor feel less unnecessary: have you ever watched a baby reindeer fly? Their stars are beige instead of yellow! That's because the baby reindeer takes it's star color from the wrong place on the .pal file, AND it puts star color on random places on its body, which becomes super noticeable if you try to make it look less like a traffic cone. Luckily I found the baby's star pixels and gave it its own .pal so it can use magic properly. I did edit the .ai file a little. They ask for some elevation and a tiny bit more rocks and foliage now. I also made them more tolerant of other things such as grassland, coniferous and highland scenery; other ungulates, and birds. Since I tend to have big reindeer exhibits, it's fun to have a nice eagle or something soaring around. And they like the elephant shelter in addition to the stable. Because options are nice. And I don't get enough use out of the elephant shelter, and the door is actually about the size of the stable door anyway. Jm_ReindeerImproved_Hack.zip Jm_ReindeerImproved_NewID.zip