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I'll take a look at that another time; in the meanwhile... HOOOOOOOOOOOONK Hatzegopteryx.ztd

I took a break. I was working on a new test zoo recently and got carried away trying to explore how to make fences. I am learning new things still! Also still hoping to get some stuff actually out and released in the nearer future.

I´ll change it eventually, probably also with changing name of Indian muntjac, taxonomy of which also changed. Sharpening textures looks great in ZT - eastern bongo:

Honestly I have such a gigantic backlog of stuff in progress so I really don't know which one I'm gonna be tackling next I miiiiight wanna try doing more base Zoo Tycoon stuff though, so not dinosaurs or tank-confined aquatics.

The Hatzegopteryx looks great! I love the Mahi-Mahi, so colorful. Great job on all of these Lapis!

Pterosaurs are very important to me and I'll have to test it out this week.

Day 131: Here is an animal that is made for the Whale Zoo which is Magnet the Polar Bear playing with his red ball with a snowy cave in his enclosure.

That's ... beautiful!

Or Zoot. Make sure you read the directions. Also try to use ids that already exist. If you really need new ids then you should contact cricket or myself to be allocated a set since they would be needed to be added to a dll. There are plenty of shelter ids that already exist. Edited to also add that just thinking a string id might be usable does not mean it is. You might be overwriting one someone else has used or one that would affect the game.

The rock wall window fence. I like the rock walls but the window version having the 'bars' really makes it feel off and out of date to me. I'm also not fond of the concrete-chainlink fence, I'd rather use one style or the other.

Day 130: Here is an animal that is made for the Whale Zoo which is a decorative pond full of Koi with a bridge that guests can walk through.

Bet. One dubious boyo coming up, Troodon! Specifically, the giant Alaskan troodontid that somehow doesn't have a name yet. Kinda oversized but eh, it was the only way I could get the colors KEK Troodon.ztd

I see this problem with a lot of the folks using the automatic sprite renderer, but it's not the tool exactly. The imported textures from ZT2 mods are designed to be seen in higher resolutions so when they're downscaled to ZT1 size you lose a lot of detail. It tries its best to compensate by blending a lot of the colors together into less pixels and that's how you get a blurry image. Your image looks black and white, but it still has blue and red where they were on the actual texture. They're just getting less pixel space and have been 'merged' with surrounding pixels. You can use Blender compositing nodes to play around with the final render. Box sharpen is a good one to address the blurriness, maybe the RGB tools to mess with the color. It can only get you so far though because again, the original textures imported from Zoo Tycoon 2 were made for higher resolution, and if detail is your main concern then you might need to make your own texture. Simple shapes and colors designed for small sprites usually work best--scaled down you'll see an illusion of detail (which is why I prefer making textures for ZT1 :P). If you've ever seen my hotdog stand, it looks like I added some gradient and texture detail, but it's really just two solid colors. Downscaling and the right lighting did the rest of the work.

I might redo the Tuna Patch with a new tuna model, so keep an eye out for that. With that out of the way, felt like making a different large predatory pelagic fish today. Mahi-mahi! They like pretty big schools, so keep that in mind when exhibiting them. Mahi-Mahi.ztd

Day 129: Here is an animal that is made for the Whale Zoo which is a flock of Northern Mallards swimming around in a pond for a zoo decoration.

Morbius(2022) Common vampire bat This one was actually pretty easy for once, once I was told how to get proper transparency on the wings. Common Vampire Bat.ztd

2-in-1, featuring one of my favorite theropods and one of my favorite thyreophorans. Tuojiangosaurus and Monolophosaurus! They share the same exhibit requirements and they're neutral to each other so they can actually share the same enclosure, but Monolophosaurus will eat eggs, so keep that in mind. Jurassic One-Tuo.ztd

I have recoloured some of the rock walls but I also now have extra heights to colour as well before releasing them. Like some of the other fences they will appear as I finish them. They take a while.

I have to say amen to the stick pole fence and I am also not a fan of the reinforced concrete fence in Dinosaur Digs I am very happy with what Fern did with those She made my zoos a lote happier and brighter of tone I also often use the rock wall when predators are involved but a fan I am not as I found it to dark I would love it if that was available in a colour like this Also seen even a shade lighter or in a multicolour version like this It would certainly have a huge impact on the atmosphere in your game