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ZT2; What animals?
Topic Started: May 20 2012, 07:04 PM (1,865 Views)
miocenemadness
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Okay, for those of you who know about Zoo Tycoon 2, I might get winRAR, which I can make new animals for ZT2 with. So, what animals do you think I could make? I was thinking about making a Phoenix, as well as making a downloadable expansion pack with freshwater animals, and a mini-pack with Christmas items. (I would also like to make a hippocampus; for those of you who don't know what that is, it is a creature in Greek mythology that is part horse and part dolphin.)
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No, a hippocampus is part horse, part fish, or part horse, part dragon.

Go learn your mythology.
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Okay.... What would you all think about a candy biome full of Oompa-Loompas? I could also make Winter the dolphin on ZT2. But not in the candy biome. And a bathtub biome with rubber ducks would be cool and funny.
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S) i don't remember anything like that in zoo tycoon, mod or not.
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What don't you remember?
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being able to make candy biomes, minature humans, giant bath tubs and ducks.
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You can make a lot of downloadable creatures for zt2.
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Well, the finding of the ability to make new biomes is quite new (as in 2-3 years old)

@miocenemadness : I imagine doing those things you mentioned would be quite hard though, there's not really any good dolphin or duck model (then again, I presume it doesn't need to be that realistic to make them)
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Well, Even, there is the Bottlenose dolphin in Marine Mania that I could use. And for the rubber ducks, I could use the common peafowl.
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there's not really any good dolphin or duck model (then again, I presume it doesn't need to be that realistic to make them)
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RR has set the bar pretty high for realism :) But Fakey's right a hippocampus is technically that, plus spawn of Triton as well ;)
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Does anyone actually have some IDEAS for me?
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Whoops, I forgot GLM's models (although are they public domain?)

The same story goes with the dolphin model, it is quite hard to earn permissions from them if the model you're going to use aren't stated to be public domain.

As for ideas, your ideas (in first post) are quite good IMO
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as for cetaceans there are plenty of good models, also DM's duck is public domain
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Oh yes, we still have GLM's, Sophie's, Kasatka's ,etc., and startlingly I forgot all of them (Perhaps I've got infected by the Aurora Designs Over-dependency Syndrome lol)

Btw, I agreed with bexi, DM's duck model is also a good choice if you want to create a duck
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