The Sanctuary - zoo & biopark

[Firehawke]

Beautiful work!!! Love the layout and the landscaping...very natural!

[MaTT²]

Lots of foliage indeed !! In fact, I think forest and jungle are the most difficult areas to fit out ! Animals need lots of trees, of different sorts and it's sometimes difficult to be able to see them once the exhibit is ready .. That's why I put most of the trees near the (invisible) fences to create natural ones and a kind of clearing in the middle :)

On the global overview, you will see a big forest with many clearings almost everywhere ^^

[Firehawke]

I agree...it can be hard to see the animals in some of those exhibits if the foliage is placed just right....and you are doing a great job!

[MaTT²]

And I hope I'll have the same result for the next exhibits !

 

To continue the visit of The Sanctuary, this is a little spring gushing from the rocks (you can see a fence close to it caus this area was still in works when I took the screenshot !)

 

And now :

 

Exhibit 027 : European Red Deer (Cerf Elaphe)

Male : Lug

Female : Epona, Birgid

(names of celtic gods, I thought it was nice ones for deers, given the importance they have in celtic mythology)

 

Here is the exhibit (the pond is shared with the nearby exhibit, as a great clearing):

 

 

Here are the pages from the Explorator's Guide :

 

 

 

Focus on the clearing : the wooden shelter is almost hidden by the foliage and the trunks :

 

 

The animals emerging from the foliage, I love this screenshot :-)

 

 

I'm actually building the next part of the deciduous forest which will present rare and endangered species .. and a brand new leisure area !

[Firehawke]

Love the deer...can't wait to see more of the forest!

[MaTT²]

So ... the game crashed one more time ..

 

It seems it was caused by a problem with the graphic resolution (my screen use "Windows 7 Aero" and the game prefers "Windows 7 basic" .. Was the first time I had this message since I bought my screen 2 years ago but .. anyway .. I selected "basic" and loaded my savegame again but it still crashes. It happens almost instantly since I bought some japanese serows because the last added content I've downloaded was installed 3 weeks ago and it didn't effect anything .. I know there's a bug with serow's foliage, but I don't know if that could crash the game .. Oh .. and my previous savegame was before I built the prairie area .. That's to say many hours of work for me ..

 

If anyone has an idea .. I'm ready to read you !

[Fern]

Did you delete any scenery and replace it while on Pause? I mean scenery from the scenery tab not foliage, rocks etc.

What foliage do you mean for the serow?

[MaTT²]

I tried to sell the serows while on Pause but the game crashed few seconds after playing, didn't try to delete scenery however .. But I saw there was some missing content in the endangered species pack, like arctic objects, and the snowball tree for the serow, is it true ?

 

Finally I uninstalled the game in order to reinstall my bonus content file after file, but it's too long ^^ So I've just bought the complete collection pack (I still had the original game with its 2 extension pack seperately and the downloaded endangered species pack ..) . Maybe I'll have less problems with a "proper" version .. ?

[Firehawke]

That's no fun!!! I hope that ZTCC works without any problems for you!

[(Trustee)ZooGrammy]

I believe that having the complete collection will solve many of your problems.