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Rough progress shot of the Atlantean Fountain (not a 'forgotten spire' anymore): Small improvements on water reflections, color, lighting, textures; none final. Still trying out a few ideas. I'm thinking the walls should have open archways where the water would come out from. I'm basing the design off of the Atlantean Arch from the game: I'll be adding the vines and tiny pebbles around the base. Also need to make the base brick a little lighter. Does the 'spire' look Atlantean-enough in shape? What else would it take to convince you for it fit in with the original items?

Thanks for the kind comments. I'm glad it seems to be passing the sniff test haha. I want to see if I can give it that sort of 'sheen' texture the arch has on its tiles to get it a little closer. I thought the same thing! I was actually surprised there were only like three or four atlantean-themed objects (does that sound right?). I wonder if a lot of it was just cut due to time. Maybe I'll revisit the theme in the future for other things.

I have Elden Ring collecting dust in my Steam library because I gave up after dying too many times to that first camp right outside the intro cave. I'm not very good at souls games. 😔 I didn't get very far on the spire today but I did a bit of a water study from the official game fountains. I was going to go for a toon look but it seems Blue Fang opted for realistic water: I haven't nailed it yet but I'm getting there. You can't tell in the progress shot below because it's only the viewport render but right now I'm struggling with the water being too translucent and not reflective enough. Not entirely sure what I'm doing wrong but I'll figure it out eventually. The lighting is going to be challenging to get right again. Since I have water shaders this time, I can't get away with the Workbench render engine I used for the hotdog stand which made it easy. I'll have to play around with light sources at some point. Edit: Going to make it atlantean-themed. :D

I'm glad you went with the Atlantis theme. I was sad that Blue Fang didn't exactly go wild with the theme and make enough Atlantean items to make a whole zoo with the theme. More items such as this are always welcome, and this does look good. =)

Oh that looks absolutely fabulous,!!!!! I love it,I love it I love it!!!

It looks like it might also work with the Atlantia Pack with its Green-Grey coloring which is my favorite after beach-y themes.

I don´t have much time right now, so this week, just my old cranes pack with reworked animation for all species except crowned cranes. I added brolga as a bonus. Compatibility is the same as before. Animals: Grey Crowned Crane, Black Crowned Crane, Brolga, Sandhill Crane, Whooping Crane, Demoseille Crane, Hooded Crane, Common Crane, Siberian Crane, White-Naped Crane, Sarus Crane, Black-Necked Crane Enjoy! hawkkeyes cranes reworked.ZTD

You know youb are my favourite ZooTekkie right?

I'm still figuring out how to fix the graphic issue, but that should not spoil the gameplay experience... Feel free to report any other issue you may find! 😸😸 I appreciate all the effort and creativity you put in your exhibits!

Ooh I really like that! I think it will fit in nicely!

Notre Dame spires made me think those are for catching clouds if some clouds get low enough.

The Souls franchise has some of the most stunning architecture and environmental design I've ever seen, even in worlds full of tragedy and suffering there is still so much beauty to behold.

hoooo that one has some serious spires

I am excited to try these! This week is full of doctors appointments and very intensive housework but I will get to them this weekend!

Sure, I'll take a look and dm it your way if I can remember how to do that. Shouldn't be too bad Yep! All of them needed screenshots and descriptions so I've been testing as I go.

oooh you added ZT2 stuff I never seen before I got most of it lol Are these files all tested in game or are you not sure about that? And Also could you perhaps upload the leopard shark as a single file?

View File Hotdog Stand by Goosifer No, stop, don't leave. Your guests want this hotdog-shaped hotdog stand. Install it. Because, you know, the game is really lacking in those. Special thanks to Jay and Fern for all of the hand-holding during the development of this mod. License All art assets used to create this mod are original works made by Goosifer. I release all of my assets, including any sprites, PSD files, 3D models, image textures under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This means you are welcome to use them for your own mods as long as you link to the original and pay it forward by using the same license. For more information, please visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Submitter Goosifer Submitted 08/09/2023 Category Food and Drink  

The hotdog stand is now finished and can be downloaded here at Tek: Hotdog Stand at ZooTek If you prefer an edge in your games for contests or otherwise: Hotdog Stand by Goosifer (click on the 'Alternative' button for the 'contest' version). I'll try to do this for all of my mods. Big thanks to Fern and Jay for all of the help and their patience; I had soooo many questions! They effectively did the all of the configuration; I just followed their directions. Feel free to use the sprites for your own projects (more deets in the file). I'll upload other assets later this weekend.

Originally I called it a 'castle' so long ago but you know, I have no idea what it's supposed to be anymore. Looks more like a thick lighthouse doesn't it? The hotdog and the 'spire' were both unfinished projects of mine when I was still designing so they don't totally make sense today as I recycle them for ZT1. 🙃

what is exactly a spire ? Where is it used for? Or is it exactly doing what I see A decorative pointy tower?

Yes Zoot I remember I did things with zoot and ape and a graphic thingie I can not remember the name of Now to figure out that and the right order I loved rotating The best part of it all

You can create graphics in Zoot but you also need to do the rotations there as well after you load them.

Thought I'd give a one week notice: I'll be updating ZooBerry DNS records next week and completely replacing everything with www.zooberry.org. If you have any zoo.goosifer.io bookmarks you might update those with the new domain.

I also noticed this... This happens when I create the graphics in zoot... Before this, all graphics were made with ZTStudio batch feature, but (maybe because tyrannos are bigger, I dunno) every shadow was horribly cropped in most angles when doing this... This happened every time so I had to manually create every animation in zoot... All shadows were recovered doing this, but as a result, the icon is not in the center 😿😿

Had more time to play around, all of them seem solid in animations and stuff, no problems, but they're super off-centered in the Animal Info panel, and so is the arrow pointing at them

The Peryton gave birth!

Honestly, original ZT2 beaver shelter is not that good to my taste... Instead (and to make it more original) my proposal is this: I got Cat & Juicy logs & branches (I used some of these for my cats scenery items) and I'm thinking like a beaver: I'm throwing branches into Blender until my instinct is satisfied 😹😹 This is what I got after some minutes importing, rotating and resizing items... How is it going? This is meant to be a lodge... There will be also a dam