My dream: a new unofficial expansion pack

[(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul]

  On 10/6/2014 at 3:41 PM, jbl89 said:

 

As for size, I've seen various screenshots with divers. Is there an animal in Marine Mania to which you would compare the average size too?

 

I've worked only just a bit more on this animal, working on the shape, and eyes. Next: fins!

A full grown sunfish , with the dorsal fins, would be comparable in size to the manta ray. If you use the size of the manta across the body from wingtip to wingtip as a guide for the size of the sunfish from top to bottom you'd be very close.

 

As an aside, have you thought of trying a basking shark or a leedsichthys , about the size of the whale shark?

[jbl89]

Thank you Professor Paul!

 

Well, let's first see how this new animal works out. I ordered a new laptop yesterday, so hopefully I can use the 3D program more efficiently soon. Not sure if it will ever make it to a ZT1 animal though, it's all very new and it seems a difficult task to do all the animations and all (I'm lucky with the Sunfish that it stays underwater, otherwise it would have been even more complicated!). I'm definitely not a graphic kind of guy, although it makes for some good fun to try.

 

Very interesting suggestion though! I'll definitely keep it in mind, if the Sunfish works out. As for a second animal, I was currently considering the Bowmouth Guitarfish (how cool does that sound :o ), but I really want to see how it goes with the Ocean Sunfish first.

[jbl89]

Since I actually started development - not promising it will ever get done, I created a new thread .
This can be locked.

[casey]

Hi Jeff, nice to you back in action. I have done quite a bit of programming for research, scenario's, buildings and other things in ZT1. If have done some graphics work on objects too. It is kind of fun, but I am not that interested in those things. Send me a pm, when you want some help with programming, and we can make arrangements