Khaydar's Projects

[(Designer)Khaydar]

So, turns out the remake wasn't the only thing I was working on, I actually have something of different nature being made.
I have got some feedback about my projects visibility, not only people have to own a forum account to preview this thread, but ancient projects get burried, in this case under 60 PAGES !
People instead seem to share my google drive link, which isn't bad on itself but also lacks some form of content preview. Having to download a mod and unzip it just so you can see what the content look like and thus choose if you want use it, extremelly archaic.

Thus I have been working on a solution.... BEHOLD, the Khaydar Website !

Oh my god Khaydar is quitting us....
No, I am not. This website only serves as a storefront for my google drive, an "user interface" if you will. I will keep sharing stuff here and uploading into the Tek library of downloads.
Makes also easier to share contents in other places like Discord servers, might host content and mods for other games other than Zoo Tycoon in the future.
The website isn't finished yet, as I have pages and files to migrate from Google drive(s).
Oh and yes the thresher model was made by me for another game, totally not foreshadownig.....

[(Designer)HENDRIX]

These look absolutely great ingame! I think the plaques could benefit immensely from (fake) caustics. The originals have them, too. If you still have the blender scenes, which I assume you do, I always did caustics by giving a spot light a generated noise texture.

 

Only found this tutorial in German for blender 2.7, though. Happens to be the one I followed years ago, haha.

 

[(Designer)Khaydar]

7 hours ago, HENDRIX said:

These look absolutely great ingame! I think the plaques could benefit immensely from (fake) caustics. The originals have them, too. If you still have the blender scenes, which I assume you do, I always did caustics by giving a spot light a generated noise texture.

Thanks, sadly I don't have the scenes, I use mainly blender for the script thought as I dislike the interface and the way some things are handled like the actions. I use Cinema 4D for animation/meshing as well as for plaques. I will take a look into tutorials about causting for plaques. Thanks for the suggestion, also the sharpening node idea you had works great.

[(Designer)HENDRIX]

You can probably achieve a similar effect in C4D. Or perhaps you can just get away with photoshopping in some caustics?

[(Designer)Khaydar]

On 2/4/2023 at 9:26 PM, HENDRIX said:

You can probably achieve a similar effect in C4D. Or perhaps you can just get away with photoshopping in some caustics?

Wasn't getting a good enough effect on C4D, funny enough it kind of worked for the scene floor. I decided to photoshop them instead.

Do you think is is good enough or do I need to increase the caustic layer opacity? Like here:

[(Designer)HENDRIX]

I would make it much more pronounced, especially locally on the side hit by the light. Tricky to do that in 2D, but I tried:

[(Admin)Cricket]

On 2/2/2023 at 6:13 AM, Khaydar said:

Ladies and Gents, it's with pleasure that I announce that the Remake of Ocean Superstars has been released. You can find it on the drive under packs.

If you run ito issues please tell, don't hesitate to give feedback and most of all...
Do NOT mix the remake with the old one, or you might run into file conflicts.

 

From Jay:

 

Here are the checker results for Khd_Ocean_Superstars_Remake.ZTD in Ocean_Superstars_Remake.zip. Most of these warnings and efficiency messages are in ZT's animal configuration as well. So it is up to Khaydar what to fix. However, I highly recommend fixing the cause of "*** Warning: animals/.../m/sub/sub.ani is not in ztd". That is changing "subidle = sub idle" to "subidle = subidle" in dwsper.uca and pygspe.uca. I also recommend fixing "*** Warning: cHabitatSize is not set to 100" by changing "cHabitatSize = 80" to "cHabitatSize = 100" in greywh.uca. That Grey Whale also shows "*** Warning: animals/greywh/m/subtrsh/subtrsh.ani is not in ztd". That is because greywh.uca has "submerged_thrash = subtrsh", but the ztd has greywh/m/subtrash/subtrash.ani and greywh/y/subtrash/subtrash.ani instead of subtrsh/subtrsh.ani. "*** Warning: Action surffury is in BehaviorSet, but is not in Animations" is because srwdol.uca has "f = fPlayTime(surffury,4)" instead of "f = fPlayTime(surface_thrash,4)".

Australian Snubfin Dolphin
ausdol.uca date: Tue Jan 31 23:22:02 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: A cPrey is in 9503-9506 range, but no BehaviorSet\bCaughtGuest].
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Common Dolphin
sbcdol.uca date: Wed Feb 01 12:20:18 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Chilean Dolphin
chidol.uca date: Tue Jan 31 21:53:22 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Dusky Dolphin
dusdol.uca date: Tue Jan 31 21:51:58 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Dwarf Sperm Whale
dwsper.uca date: Wed Feb 01 12:10:06 2023
*** Warning: animals/dwsper/m/ssurfidl/ssurfidl.ani is not in ztd.
*** Warning: animals/dwsper/m/ssurfidl/ssurfidl.ani is not in ztd.
*** Warning: animals/dwsper/m/sub/sub.ani is not in ztd.
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: A cPrey is in 9503-9506 range, but no BehaviorSet\bCaughtGuest].
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Fraser's Dolphin
fradol.uca date: Wed Feb 01 12:16:32 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Grey Whale
greywh.uca date: Thu Feb 02 11:35:40 2023
*** Warning: animals/greywh/m/ssubswim/ssubswim.ani is not in ztd.
*** Warning: animals/greywh/m/subtrsh/subtrsh.ani is not in ztd.
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: cHabitatSize is not set to 100.
*** Warning: f= has bSurfsplash, but there is no BehaviorSet\bSurfsplash].
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Hourglass Dolphin
houdol.uca date: Wed Feb 01 12:32:50 2023
*** Warning: animals/houdol/m/ssurfidl/ssurfidl.ani is not in ztd.
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Item id 9240 has multiple settings in [cSuitableObjects].
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Pygmy Sperm Whale
pygspe.uca date: Wed Feb 01 12:09:50 2023
*** Warning: animals/pygspe/m/ssurfidl/ssurfidl.ani is not in ztd.
*** Warning: animals/pygspe/m/ssurfidl/ssurfidl.ani is not in ztd.
*** Warning: animals/pygspe/m/sub/sub.ani is not in ztd.
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: A cPrey is in 9503-9506 range, but no BehaviorSet\bCaughtGuest].
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Pygmy Right Whale
pygwha.uca date: Thu Feb 02 11:07:08 2023
*** Warning: animals/pygwha/m/ssurfeat/ssurfeat.ani is not in ztd.
*** Warning: animals/pygwha/m/surfeat/surfeat.ani is not in ztd.
*** Warning: animals/pygwha/m/usurfeat/usurfeat.ani is not in ztd.
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: f= has bSurfsplash, but there is no BehaviorSet\bSurfsplash].
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Southern Right Whale
srwhal.uca date: Wed Feb 01 12:34:24 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: f= has bSurfsplash, but there is no BehaviorSet\bSurfsplash].
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Southern Right Whale Dolphin
srwdol.uca date: Wed Feb 01 11:30:52 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Item id 9240 has multiple settings in [cSuitableObjects].
*** Warning: Action surffury is in BehaviorSet, but is not in Animations.
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

Striped Dolphin
stridol.uca date: Wed Feb 01 12:31:54 2023
Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):
*** Warning: Has fDustBall and sound, but no 'dustball=' sound setting.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line before fPlayTime line.
*** Warning: No fPlay... type of line or fDie line after fPlayTime line.
* Efficiency: iCharacteristics/Integers] sections are unused + can be removed.

[(Designer)Khaydar]

thanks will correct those Asap

[Hawkkeye666]

Hi, I played with your new animals, and they are awesome!

 

But I encountered a little problem with dwarf minke whale - it says its favourite item is feather duster worm, but dwarf minke doesn´t need any plants.

 

Rest seem to work like clockwork. Thanks for all the animals!

[Kariana]

Hello! First off, I would just like to say that you do amazing work! The animals you've made are a perfect addition to the zoo and blend right in with the originals.

 

Secondly, sadly I cannot seem to download your Roughneck Monitor from your website. It says the page no longer exists when I select download. I would love to add this reptile to my zoo please. ^_^

Same goes for the Cuban Crocodile actually, but thankfully there was a download for it here.