Interesting. Can't wait to get a closer Look at it
All New & Old Biome Skirts - 1.11
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Interesting. Can't wait to get a closer Look at it
The new biome skirts were what I was looking forward towards most with this update, and I think they ended up being a mixed bag for me. I love the new variety, for sure, though I do wish there was a way to choose skirts other than changing the continent. I'm happy to hear that they'll be putting the farmland back in, as that was a very versatile map that I think a lot of people use.
My main issue with the update is the continued lack of customization. I don't hate that the maps are continent locked (though I'd much prefer they weren't), but I do wish there was more "basic" variety in terms of skirts. In my perfect world, you'd be able to pick a biome, continent, and a skirt, with options of "flat" (similar to the farmland; rolling hills or a forest), "mountainous," and possibly "lake/island" (like the new NA temperate map). Honestly though, at this point I'd be happy with "flat" skirt options for every biome, especially for desert and tropical. I know the Frontier globe doesn't consider the southeastern U.S. tropical, but I'm dying to make a Louisiana zoo with tropical textures but without massive mountains looming in the background.
My main issue with the update is the continued lack of customization. I don't hate that the maps are continent locked (though I'd much prefer they weren't), but I do wish there was more "basic" variety in terms of skirts. In my perfect world, you'd be able to pick a biome, continent, and a skirt, with options of "flat" (similar to the farmland; rolling hills or a forest), "mountainous," and possibly "lake/island" (like the new NA temperate map). Honestly though, at this point I'd be happy with "flat" skirt options for every biome, especially for desert and tropical. I know the Frontier globe doesn't consider the southeastern U.S. tropical, but I'm dying to make a Louisiana zoo with tropical textures but without massive mountains looming in the background.
Really? That's a shame the long grass textures looked interesting. At least the north America one is sort of flat and the same textures as europe
Man thats what im saying for years. I would love to use the tropical dirt with the twigs and pieces of bark in it on all map!
Really? Sad to hear that. Was relatively happy (despite all the Water, I'd like a Version with less or no Water) with the new Map despite the Fact that I will need a Eternity to build my own City Background unless they release one with a City before my Computer is repaired. A custom built City offers the Opportunity though for escaped Animals to rampage through a City which is really cool.
Now I really want to see a Close-up of both Grass Types on that Map
To be fair Continental Climate is much more widespread in Temperate Asia than Temperate Europe, so it would kind of make more sense for the Asian Temperate map to have Grass like that than Europe, but then not all Temperate Regions of Asia are Continental... If you are building in Japan for instance, it shouldn't look like that. Being able to select Biome Paints before generating a Map would be very useful.
Did we get Official Confirmation?
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There it is, fortunately!Hi! Thanks for flagging! We'll be adding it back in the next patch as we didn't intend to remove it entirely. It'll be an option rather than an 'only'
That's great News!
So, explain to me, please, because I'm a little confused about the biome skirts: these are essentially new backgrounds, right? In that case, are they only available to certain maps? Or can you use any biome skirt on any continent you want (that has the corresponding biome)?
Right so it's overall disappointing how the biome skirts where implemented. Each continent has its own unique skirt meaning you cannot swap and switch skirts to biomes as I was right about biome skirts being locked. But oh no everyone said I was wrong WELL WHOS RIGHT NOW
Basically say European temperate has its skirt - only useable for Europe temperate. North America temperate has another skirt again for only that biome + continent. Yeah so each skirt has its own map, you sadly only have that single skirt for that map. Interesting enough Asia temperate got new shades of grass meanwhile the other 2 stuck with the same old. None of the other maps have seen terrain paint changes - some just a background for the rest of the maps
Haven't tested out the Maps yet, but can you at least use other Maps and Skirts on other Continents? Like the EU Combo on a NA Zoo. I can understand why you can't use different Skirts for different Maps, because they transition smoothly, but you should at least be able to use the Combos elsewhere.
What exactly do you mean and how should the Grass in Japan look different? If it should look different, I hope we get a second temperate Asia Map or as suggested the Ability to select Terrain independent from the Location.
Can someone send Close-up Screenshots of both Lengths of the asian Grass? I want to compare how it needs to be different
I tried to explain that not all Short Grass in Temperate Asia should look like it was under Snow all winter, even though a big chunk of Temperate Asia is under months of Snow due to most of it being in or near Siberia. So compared to Europe it makes more sense but still wouldn't make every Zoo built in Temperate Asia realistic enough. Some would need Grass like EU. All this is based on what @markun said though, since I didn't get a chance to see it for myself yet.
What I feel like some people should try doing is attempt to use certain maps for certain purposes. Just because it says it’s in Asia doesn’t mean it has to be in Asia. I’ve done this for, well, pretty much all my zoo’s. Suspend disbelief for a bit is my personal advice and use some maps for other purposes. Boggy Bottom in particular was based off of the Estonia map but it’s an Australian Zoo!
You cannot mix and match, unfortunately.
I do agree that a skirt picker would’ve been a lot better, imo.
I guess I didn't word it good enough. What I mean is can you click Temperate Asia and then pick a an EU or NA Map or can you do that only if your Pin is in those Continents? Otherwise I do understand you can't mix and match because the Map and Skirt has to transition smoothly like I tried to explain earlier.