Dinosaurs 1993 Dinosaurs Model/Texture changes

[FjodorDova]

Alright so with the 1993 DLC being pretty much confirmed, I sincerely believe that the below-listed dinosaurs in the game should receive the models/skins from the Jurassic Park trilogy. A JP aesthetic wouldn't be complete without the way the dinosaurs were portrayed in the original movies. Some dinosaurs (like the Mamenchisaurus and Spinosaurus) already have the texture from the original movies, because these dinosaurs didn't make an appearance in either of the JW films. These dinosaurs I leave out of the list. After some research the following dinosaurs have had an appearance in the original JP universe and need a new model/texture (with links to images for examples):

Ankylosaurus - JP3 skin
Brachiosaurus* - JP3 skin
Gallimimus -JP1 skin
Parasaurolophus - JP1/JP3 skin* -JP2 skin
Stegosaurus - JP2 skin - JP3 skin
Triceratops - JP1/JP2 skin* - JP3 skin
Tyrannosaurus Rex - JP1/JP2 Female skin* - JP2 Male skin - JP3 Male skin
Velociraptor - JP1 Female skin - JP2 Male skin - JP3 Gen. 2 Female and Male skin (requires model changes for the skull!)

Notes:

*I personally believe the default Brachiosaurus in JWE is based on the JP1 Brachiosaurus, only remade in HD. The Fallen Kingdom Brachiosaurus looked pretty different compared to the one in JWE so it can't be based off on that. Lastly, this image of the official JP1 Brachiosaurus statue convinced me that the dinosaur in JWE is practically the same.

*There is no clear image of the JP1 Parausaurolophus, other than in this one scene in JP1. Both JP1 and JP3 show this dinosaur to be green, only JP3 gives us a much more detailed look of the dinosaur. Since there are no clear differences I just assume they are both the same dinosaur. I don't think Frontier would bother differentiating the two anyway.

*As with the Parasaurolophus, the JP2 Triceratops doesn't have a clear shot/animatronic that shows the differences with her JP1 counterpart. I therefore think that they share the same texture. Also for the people who may question the texture of the JP1 Triceratops; the JP1 Triceratops looks brownish in the original film, and the reason for that was because the dinosaur was covered in dirt. The true texture was pretty much what you see in that statue screenshot.

*Rexy from JP1 has pretty much the same texture as the Doe in JP2. They're both females with a brown texture and some darker striping along their upper part. Honestly it would be better if Frontier could just change the default T-rex texture to be like the female T-rex in the original JP movies, because they look far better and more detailed than the current "Rexy".

Please let me know if I forgot any dinosaur! I also understand that some dinosaurs like the Corythosaurus or the Spinosaurus don't look 100% like their exact counterparts in the movies; but the important part is that they come very close to the original designs. If Frontier could make them even closer, then I would definetly support that decision, but as of now I don't think it's necessary to mention them in that list. Posted this thread on Reddit as well.

 

[gabeluna27]

While previous designs for reoccurring film dinosaurs may be a thing, as community manager Paul_Crowther confirmed last year they are aware of people requesting such feature, I do have a big problem with "male" designs.

All of the dinosaurs in the game, as confirmed multiple times by the developers and even in-universe confirmed by the tour voiceover for the gyrospheres and safari trucks, are exclusively female, excluding the Indoraptor. It wouldn't really make sense as to why a female dino would have the skin of a male. I presume this was done to keep the direction of what both parks in the films wanted to go for by faith, even if nature were to find a way to reverse that goal in the films exclusively.

However, one way how this could work is maybe they could be confirmed as sterile so they don't give the impression that both the male and female individuals would have the potential to mate and reproduce together, as well as record new lines for the tour voice as to when the gyros and trucks detect a male dino, it would refer to them with male pronouns.


But, the concept of bringing different designs from previous films would be interesting because, again, they are aware of people asking for these. It probably would be like a special gene "strain" mechanic either as a modifier on its own or as its own gene slot like the Indominus rex's camo gene, rather than just bringing them as extra cosmetic genes. All the cosmetic gene options are from selected living animals (ex: Coastal is from the marine iguana, and Savannah is from the zebra) and are rather cohesive as to what they can all do that doesn't set any of them apart, which is "changing their skin colors and, occasionally, their textures. Special designs from previous films would need to be something a little different than just extra cosmetic gene options in the same gene section of the gene modifier.



However, even though there are some in-game files that suggest a 1993 based DLC is in the making, there's currently nothing dinosaur related to confirm what exactly it's probably going to have for them such as this feature. But that's not to say a feature like this won't probably happen for it. I can really see the potential of 1993 designs for that film's dinosaurs making it into the DLC if it's decided, but not all of these dinosaur designs are even from the original 1993 Jurassic Park film. So I'm a little skeptical about the second and third film designs being in this particular plausible DLC. But of course, I don't have any way of knowing for the moment.

(P.S., even the Edmontosaurus, Suchomimus, Metriacanthosaurus, and Allosaurus don't exactly 100% match as they looked like in the Isla Nublar website or in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.)

 

[Flint2025]

You forgot green Dilophosaurus skin. Also i think the 2 green skins in the game for the stegasaurus pretty much matches the lost world version.

 

[FjodorDova]

While previous designs for reoccurring film dinosaurs may be a thing, as community manager Paul_Crowther confirmed last year they are aware of people requesting such feature, I do have a big problem with "male" designs.

All of the dinosaurs in the game, as confirmed multiple times by the developers and even in-universe confirmed by the tour voiceover for the gyrospheres and safari trucks, are exclusively female, excluding the Indoraptor. It wouldn't really make sense as to why a female dino would have the skin of a male. I presume this was done to keep the direction of what both parks in the films wanted to go for by faith, even if nature were to find a way to reverse that goal in the films exclusively.

However, one way how this could work is maybe they could be confirmed as sterile so they don't give the impression that both the male and female individuals would have the potential to mate and reproduce together, as well as record new lines for the tour voice as to when the gyros and trucks detect a male dino, it would refer to them with male pronouns.


But, the concept of bringing different designs from previous films would be interesting because, again, they are aware of people asking for these. It probably would be like a special gene "strain" mechanic either as a modifier on its own or as its own gene slot like the Indominus rex's camo gene, rather than just bringing them as extra cosmetic genes. All the cosmetic gene options are from selected living animals (ex: Coastal is from the marine iguana, and Savannah is from the zebra) and are rather cohesive as to what they can all do that doesn't set any of them apart, which is "changing their skin colors and, occasionally, their textures. Special designs from previous films would need to be something a little different than just extra cosmetic gene options in the same gene section of the gene modifier.



However, even though there are some in-game files that suggest a 1993 based DLC is in the making, there's currently nothing dinosaur related to confirm what exactly it's probably going to have for them such as this feature. But that's not to say a feature like this won't probably happen for it. I can really see the potential of 1993 designs for that film's dinosaurs making it into the DLC if it's decided, but not all of these dinosaur designs are even from the original 1993 Jurassic Park film. So I'm a little skeptical about the second and third film designs being in this particular plausible DLC. But of course, I don't have any way of knowing for the moment.

(P.S., even the Edmontosaurus, Suchomimus, Metriacanthosaurus, and Allosaurus don't exactly 100% match as they looked like in the Isla Nublar website or in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.)

I agree with your way of introducing these dinosaur skins; it would be best if they had some sort of different gene options that enables them to get the older skins. The female/male issue can indeed be easily tackled with the sterilising option, under the term of "population control". Furthermore, I'm not sure that there is a better way to introduce the original movie skins than via the 1993 DLC itself. The most requested skins are from the second and third movie anyway, and getting them through a different DLC would be a bit unfair to our wallets.

You forgot green Dilophosaurus skin. Also i think the 2 green skins in the game for the stegasaurus pretty much matches the lost world version.

I'm not sure to which green Dilophosaurus skin you're referring to. Stegosaurus has the problem that the colour of her plates are different from the movie versions. Even so this only applies to the Lost World skin, but not the JP3 skin.

 

[Flint2025]

The only Dilophosaurus that's ever been in any of the movies was green, the one that killed dennis nedry. But in the game we have no green skin for the Dilophosaurus.

 

[LordTrilobite]

The Parasaurolophus is already the design of JP1 and TLW. It's pretty much spot on. In Lost World it's just very dirty so that the colours are washed out. Only JP3 has a different design, which is the likely male variant.



I really would like to see the old JP1 Triceratops design back in action though. The JW trike skin is much too smooth and less accurate than the 1993 version.

 

[Endskull]

We do have a good green dilo skin in JWE, but the frill is also green... so yeah. I don't get why every JP videogames have a brown dilo, especially when Frontier had access to official material from Universal.

For Stegosaurus, I'm not convinced. To me it's base color is not really clear in TLW. I think it's supposed to be green body with orange plates just like in JP3 but the lightning and color grading of the two movies are different. We do have that skin in JWE no? Same for TLW para? To me it's already ingame.

For T.rex, I disagree. JP1 female is not identical to TLW female, when JP3 male was just re-used TLW male animatronic. (But maybe the CGI is different?) TLW female is an entirely new animatronic and CGI, with different brown color and more stripes/dots/patterns, but yea we can't really appreciate it in the movie.

You forgot TLW female raptor, which I can understand because we barely see her in the movie. She's paler than her JP1 counterpart as you can see on the bottom left here.

 

[FjodorDova]

The Parasaurolophus is already the design of JP1 and TLW. It's pretty much spot on. In Lost World it's just very dirty so that the colours are washed out. Only JP3 has a different design, which is the likely male variant.

JP1's Parasaurolophus is green (with possibly a different design that is posted on Reddit by a user here and here), while TLW one's is brown. You might be right that due to dirt the colours are a bit washed out, but Im not 100% sure.

For Stegosaurus, I'm not convinced. To me it's base color is not really clear in TLW. I think it's supposed to be green body with orange plates just like in JP3 but the lightning and color grading of the two movies are different. We do have that skin in JWE no? Same for TLW para? To me it's already ingame.

For T.rex, I disagree. JP1 female is not identical to TLW female, when JP3 male was just re-used TLW male animatronic. (But maybe the CGI is different?) TLW female is an entirely new animatronic and CGI, with different brown color and more stripes/dots/patterns, but yea we can't really appreciate it in the movie.

You forgot TLW female raptor, which I can understand because we barely see her in the movie. She's paler than her JP1 counterpart as you can see on the bottom left here.

The stegosaurus in TLW officially looks like this. As you can see the plates are significantly brown compared to the other green skins in the game. The Wetland skin comes closest as far as I can see, but if they just change the frills to be brown then they pretty much nailed it. As for JP3 that's the official chart of the dinosaur in the movie, and that might be a good "male" skin for it.

As for the T-rex, the image you show is fan-art. The animatronic of the TLW female officially looks like this. Can't really find good references for the JP1 animatronic, but taking a look at the official headbust shows them to be practically the same.

Lastly, while the female Raptor in that animatronic image seems to be a bit paler, I doubt that the difference is so much significant that they should have a different skin. The males in that images also seem to be less vibrant than what we see in the movie. Though of course I won't oblige if they added this skin too, the more the better .

 

[Flint2025]

We have a yellowish green dilo. Not a green dilo of the right color. I think the base dilos opened frill has the jp frill color but it aint green.

 

[LordTrilobite]

JP1's Parasaurolophus is green (with possibly a different design that is posted on Reddit by a user here and here), while TLW one's is brown. You might be right that due to dirt the colours are a bit washed out, but Im not 100% sure.

The JP mural has a green wash over the whole thing. This is likely partially due to it being backlit. All the shadows have a green tint on there. It cannot be used reliably as colour reference for the Para. The on screen Paras might have some subtle differences but their details cannot be seen.The design that has been there since the beginning, from concept to all promotional material is the one that's in JWE right now.
The original maquette, I think this one might have been for TLW. Though the exact same design was already being used in all toys and such before that.

It would be nice if the JWE dinosaurs could get dirty, but the TLW design is the same as the original pretty much.

Another example of a dirty dinosaur. You might think the JP1 Triceratops was brown. It's actually not brown at all.. The actual animatronic was mottled light grey/beige and dark grey, almost steel black in some areas. But it looked unrealistic so they smeared it with actual mud, which is why it appears brown in the film.
These aren't the best pictures and one has very yellow light, but they give an impression of the colour.

 

[Endskull]

As for the T-rex, the image you show is fan-art. The animatronic of the TLW female officially looks like this. Can't really find good references for the JP1 animatronic, but taking a look at the official headbust shows them to be practically the same.

Lastly, while the female Raptor in that animatronic image seems to be a bit paler, I doubt that the difference is so much significant that they should have a different skin. The males in that images also seem to be less vibrant than what we see in the movie. Though of course I won't oblige if they added this skin too, the more the better .

Your first picture is not the official animatronic, it looks more like a prop used in a theme park. Here : JP1 vs TLW female T.rex. This photoshoot featured every rexes and raptors animatronics they made for the film. JP1 T.rex was just a solid brown with big dark dots running on her back, while TLW have stripes just like the male and a creamy white underbody.

In the movie, when Sarah hits the ground and two raptors fight each other, one is a male, the other female. You can clearly see two different skins. The female variant is often confused with male, but as you can see on the pic above, TLW male is almost vibrant red with black stripes.

 

[FjodorDova]

The JP mural has a green wash over the whole thing. This is likely partially due to it being backlit. All the shadows have a green tint on there. It cannot be used reliably as colour reference for the Para. The on screen Paras might have some subtle differences but their details cannot be seen.The design that has been there since the beginning, from concept to all promotional material is the one that's in JWE right now.
The original maquette, I think this one might have been for TLW. Though the exact same design was already being used in all toys and such before that.

It would be nice if the JWE dinosaurs could get dirty, but the TLW design is the same as the original pretty much.

Another example of a dirty dinosaur. You might think the JP1 Triceratops was brown. It's actually not brown at all.. The actual animatronic was mottled light grey/beige and dark grey, almost steel black in some areas. But it looked unrealistic so they smeared it with actual mud, which is why it appears brown in the film.
These aren't the best pictures and one has very yellow light, but they give an impression of the colour.

Thanks for the pics of the Triceratops, I had to use an image of an official statue, but the colours can also be seen here. Also I guess you might be right about the Parasaurolophus.

Your first picture is not the official animatronic, it looks more like a prop used in a theme park. Here : JP1 vs TLW female T.rex. This photoshoot featured every rexes and raptors animatronics they made for the film. JP1 T.rex was just a solid brown with big dark dots running on her back, while TLW have stripes just like the male and a creamy white underbody.

In the movie, when Sarah hits the ground and two raptors fight each other, one is a male, the other female. You can clearly see two different skins. The female variant is often confused with male, but as you can see on the pic above, TLW male is almost vibrant red with black stripes.

Honestly I'm still not convinced about the TLW vs JP1 T-rex. The image of the JP1 animatronic is too much influenced by the scene's lighting that I can't differentiate the two properly. Furthermore, as far as I can see the differences are very very minor at best. Though you might be right in the Raptor case.

 

[Matthew rutherford]

Dilophosaurus Skin Dark green Pattern red
Parasaurolophus skin Gambia River base and pattern red from 1993