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Planet Dinosaur
Topic Started: Sep 15 2011, 11:14 AM (3,614 Views)
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I'd say T. rex was more of a temperate animal. But, fair point. I still think it might not be completely bald, maybe with some display feathers or something of the like.
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Sep 20 2011, 02:10 PM
It's unlikely that tyrannosaurs had feathers as adults unless they lived in very cold areas; I can't think of any large animal nowadays that possesses any sort of body covering. It's just not necessary; large animals can regulate their body temperatures just fine. It's only smaller creatures, like dromaeosaurs, that require feathers.
Tyrannosaurs actually had a surface area much larger than modern examples of large land animals, so if anything they'd be pressed to keep their feathering.
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It's unlikely that tyrannosaurs had feathers as adults unless they lived in very cold areas; I can't think of any large animal nowadays that possesses any sort of body covering. It's just not necessary; large animals can regulate their body temperatures just fine. It's only smaller creatures, like dromaeosaurs, that require feathers.
Alright, lets look at the list of megafauna with hair.

Great Apes.
Caniformes.
Feliformes.
Giraffes.
Equines.
Bovines.

And plenty others, that I'm too tired to name because it's 1:05 in the morning where I'm at.
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The reason it looks fake is two different things. Where 'Walking With' used low def texture on low def bump mapping, PD uses high def texture on nothing.
And there's the stop and go effect from unsmoothed rigging.
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Note: the main source of the Planet Dinosaur episodes uploads on youtube has been blocked.
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oh good! more of that oversensitve copyright on youtube! What Fun!! :angry:
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Someone will put it up on a Chinese site and you'll have it for years. The PRC's police are rather lackadaisical when it comes to copyright.
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The issue is, that person is somehow the only person in the entire universe who wants to record those videos. If not for that person, the videos elsewhere would not exist, as the fucks who upload said videos elsewhere rely on that person alone to get the episodes
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Need I remind you, Fakey, that none of those animals (aside from the giraffe) even come CLOSE to apporaching the size of the featherless dinosaurs. If we look at which dinosaurs had feathers, it lloks to me like any theropod smaller than a cow had a body covering, but anything bigger didn't. I'm not saying t-rex didn't have feathers; their young almost certainly did, and perhaps the adult males even had siplay plumage, I just don't think that the feathers were extensive enough for any sort of bodily covering.

As for giraffes, giraffes are tall, but very thin, and so have a higher surface are/volume ratio than similarly-sized animals. Hence, they get cold more quickly, and so need the insulation. Besides, their fur is very short anyway.
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Again, you guys can't compare a T. rex with modern mammals, because it has a much higher surface area.
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What evidence do you have for that? T-rex was extremely heavily built, which leads to a high volume/surface area ratio, not the other way around.
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For starters, its particularly long tail; no modern large terrestrial animal that large has such a proportionally huge tail as theropods did, and the fact that it was quite deep (and laterally thin) as well further would imply that a lot of body heat would be lost through it.

Also note that reptilian skins lack the leather mammalian skins have, further helping heat loss.
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Dinosaur Revolution was by far better, many of you main complain the animals were to anthropomorphic but they presented them as animals the belonged to a world, animals that had lives, and didn't just eat or get eaten, it was also interesting to see tha bthey went a little outside of the box in terms of design.



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Sep 28 2011, 05:06 PM
Dinosaur Revolution was by far better, many of you main complain the animals were to anthropomorphic but they presented them as animals the belonged to a world, animals that had lives, and didn't just eat or get eaten,
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Sep 28 2011, 05:06 PM
Dinosaur Revolution was by far better, many of you main complain the animals were to anthropomorphic but they presented them as animals the belonged to a world, animals that had lives, and didn't just eat or get eaten, it was also interesting to see tha bthey went a little outside of the box in terms of design.
Well, Dinosaur Revolution did not had a flying Sinornithosaurus, did it? Therefore, I officially declare Planet Dinosaur better, because the more flying animals there are, the better the world will be.
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