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Hello, dear Tekies! ^v^ (hope am right here...) a bit of insight of "our" zoos :> ("mom" designed all, "me" downloaded everything) hope you like it! :D friendly greetings, Ren-tschi

Wanted to run this idea by everyone and see if there would be any interest for me to try and figure it out or if everyone is happy with the current system. Ok ok hear me out. I've been looking at lang dll files the past couple of days and I wondered: what if there was a tool that generated a local dll file based on what's in your current download folder? For example: you have 20 mods, you run my tool, it generates a fresh lang.dll that makes all of them happy and compatible with each other. What is the point?: Anyone, but especially modders, would be able to create custom strings without having to modify a .dll using a hex editor. So say you have two hotdog stands. Previously we would re-use one hotdog stand string to save lines in the lang file. But with my tool, you could have one configuration file in your mod that lets you define human-readable strings of your own. It would look something like this: [modstrings] name:Super Hotdog Stand item:Super Hotdog guest-thoughts: - Haha this hotdog sucks. - Ew never coming here again. - Oh you know what, it's not so bad if you pour all of the ketchup, mustard, A1 sauce, relish, mayonaise, and pepto bismol ontop. item-tooltip:Don't buy this hotdog stand, guests will hate you except for the one that drowned it in ketchup, mustard, A1 sauce, relish, mayonnaise and pepto bismol. I mean maybe, that sounds pretty gross actually. What about the hundreds of files without this new configuration file? The tool would support old lang files if you have them. If you, the downloader, wants to customize the strings, you can just make a custom config file and make your own strings and the tool will ignore the old strings and use the new ones. Considerations as a community and other limitations For new mods, it would be one extra file adding a few more bytes. (though text files are almost negligibly-small) It would allow redundant buildings to have their own unique names (Super Hotdog Stand, Spooky Hotdog Stand, etc.). This will fix the problem of rotating an object and the selection resetting to another object with the same name. The only inconvenience (at least early on) would be for users to manually double click my binary file every time they update their download folder for the lang file to update, but otherwise it would ideally be that easy to use. Let me know if you have any questions! This is probably super weird and unnecessary, and maybe not enough people would find it useful, but if there are, maybe I can start working on it during the holidays. (no I haven't forgotten my unreleased projects xD). It might not even be possible but think of the possibilities.

South American monke. Is this the last monke pack? Probably not. Animals: Geoffroy´s Spider Monke, Common Woolly Monke, Red-Faced Spider Monke Blond Capuchin, Black-Striped Capuchin, Panamian White-Faced Capuchin, Ecuadorian White-Faced Capuchin, White-Faced Saki, Brown Howler, Mantled Howler, Colombian Red Howler, Black Howler, Red-Handed Howler Central American Squirrel Monke, Black-Capped Squirrel Monke, Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin, Golden Lion Tamarin, Cotton Top Tamarin, Common Marmoset, Golden-Handed Tamarin, Silvery Marmoset, Emperor Tamarin, Goeldi´s Marmoset, Pied Tamarin Compatibility: Geoffroy´s Spider Monke, Mantled Howler - Borsato´s Baird´s Tapir, my Lowland Paca, Central American Red Brocket, Northern Tamandua, White-Lipped Peccary, Red Crowned Amazon Common Woolly Monke, Ecuadorian White-Faced Capuchin Red-Faced Spider Monke, Golden-Handed Tamarin - Borsato´s Capybara, my Pale-Throated Sloth, Red-Rumped Agouti Blond Capuchin, Red-Handed Howler Black-Striped Capuchin - Zarawatto´s Resplendant Quetzal, my Common Opossum, Crab-Eating Raccoon, Collared Peccary, White-Nosed Coati Panamian White-Faced Capuchin, Colombian Red Howler, Black Howler, Central American Squirrel Monke White-Faced Saki, Pied Tamarin - my Linnaeus´s Two-Toed Sloth, Black Agouti, Red Fan Parrot Brown Howler, Golden Lion Tamarin - my Vinaceous-Breasted Amazon Black-Capped Squirrel Monke, Emperor Tamarin, Goeldi´s Marmoset - my Brazilian Porcupine, Blue-Headed Macaw, Yellow-Crowned Amazon, Red Acouchi Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin - my Maned Sloth Cotton Top Tamarin - my Panama Amazon, Kinkajou Common Marmoset - Genkicoll´s Scarlet Macaw, Yellow-Ridged Touca, Borsato´s Golden Conure, Blue and Gold Macaw Silvery Marmoset - Genkicoll´s Swainson´s Toucan, my Turquise-Fronted Amazon, Chestnut-Fronted Macaw, Red and Green Macaw, Military Macaw Enjoy! hawkkeyes SA monke.ztd

Right now I think it should be automatic, so you wouldn't need to worry about doing anything. But if it detects that you're reaching an ID limit or file limit, it will simply alert you and then you can direct it or ignore it and try your luck. My plan would be to introduce the idea of 'bundles'. You would group up to around 200 mods together that are compatible with each other and with any save files within. You can drag and drop, categorize mods using a user-friendly app and it will do all of the work to make sure this 'bundle' plays nice with itself and its group of 'save files'. From inside this manager you can change building/object names to unique ones if you want, enable/disable/delete mods, adjust ini settings, merge ztd files, etc. You would switch between bundles to access different mods and saves you've bundled. This could potentially address Jay's concern from earlier. I'm sorry if this is confusing!

Welcome to Tek! Im so happy that you and your Mom enjoy all our downloads and have created such colorful lovely zoos!

Beautiful! I love all of the colors!

8 ZooMania variants backed up on ZooBerry: https://forums.zooberry.org/t/october-2023-mod-backup-summary/78 I'll see if I have time for one last drop before the end of the month; not likely though. :(