"Albino"/White wolves?
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Honestly, I wish Frontier would confirm if every animal has a variant skin (so people breeding for them aren't wasting their time on any animals that don't have one).
Snow leopards, african wild dogs and thompson's gazelles all come to mind as species I question if they even have a variant. You'd assume wolves would, but as a popular animal it's very odd we haven't seen one yet.
Well I'm not the poor sod who's inbreeding 50+ pairs of animals to try for an albino so I guess it doesn't technicaly make a difference to me.Maybe i'm alone in this one, I hope they don't confirm anything on different variant skins..
It's a lot more fun to suddenly see a picture of an 'albino' on this forum..
I like surprises
Just a bit of a shame if people are wasting their time trying to get a variant when certain species don't have one.
A simple yes or no if all species have a variant skin would be fine.
Any plan on giving the animals that don't have albino/leuc sightings an alternate variant skin?Not all animals have albino variants, no
The cheetah for example has the spotless skin which (I assume isn't meant to be an albino) - though it was an odd choice instead of a king cheetah.
I also hope there's plans for more variants - melanistic skins, golden tigers, king cheetahs, etc.
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So why don't wolves have a variant? Wolves are literally the most color diverse wild mammal on the planet and definitely come in white, black, etc, yet ingame they are one of the ONLY animals that not only have no normal coat variation, but also no albino variant??Not all animals have albino variants, no
Why were wolves given the short end of the stick here? Why didn't they get any attention at all compared to other animals?
It's possible they just havent been bred yet. Albino thompson's gazelles exist so they should be in game, and I've yet to see one. Same for the elephants. No brown giant pandas either.
People seem to have mainly focused on white tigers/lions, but maybe now they're common the breeding programs will branch out.
She just stated not all animals have an albino variant.. Nothing about a specific animal..
We'll just have to wait and see, which animals don't have an albino variant ..
Not all animals have albino variants, no
Can you confirm if some animals have multiple variants as well? It seems everyone very badly wants to know if melanism or other mutations [such as king cheetahs] are actually present in the game.
Currently we only have albinism as a variant.
Gotta wait for that leopard/jaguar DLC for melanism.
Hopefully they'll add melanistic skins for the other animals though.Can you flat out confirm whether or not wolves, specifically, have an albino variant or not?
Does albinism cover both albinos and leucistics? I guess leucism is completely different? It's a bit vague on wikipedia:Too bad that 80% of the albino variants aren't even albinos.
So albino animals don't actually have to be white depending on the species? The eye colour also seems to vary by species/type of albinism.
Should have just called them variant skins like ZT2. Less confusion.
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Does albinism cover both albinos and leucistics? I guess leucism is completely different? It's a bit vague on wikipedia:
So albino animals don't actually have to be white depending on the species? The eye colour also seems to vary by species/type of albinism.
Should have just called them variant skins like ZT2. Less confusion.
There are different types of albino and if you really want to get into the genetics it gets confusing. Like from your quote albino is a lack of melanin. So some animals, snakes are a good example, aren't pure white as albino. Their markings turn to yellow or yellowish orange. Look at albino ball pythons. Leucistic ball pythons are nearly pure white. Sometimes you can see a hint of pattern in them, depending on the genetics behind them. And oddly if you use a UV/black light on them you can see the pattern they have.
Yeah was looking at boas in the main albino thread - someone was saying those yellow boas aren't albino but amelanistic (no idea if that's true or not). If nothing else reading up about albinos and colour mutations in animals is quite fascinating. Dug up the ball python mutations image I posted over there - adorable.