Yeah i was just showing the standard adjustment in gimp. Obviously if a sign is darker anyway it needs a higher exposure level
Alternate Education Boards
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Alrighty then. Here are the newest boards, y'all:
Looking great! Maybe some point next year you will have all the signs
One can dreamLooking great! Maybe some point next year you will have all the signs
Alrighty then, we have some more to show:
I'm loving this project. I hope you'll find the motivation to make these for every single animal in the game!
Got a small recommendation for one of the animals. Since the overall theme appears to be the natural habitat of the animals, the Arctic wolf's education board should not feature any trees, as there are no trees in their natural environment. You can use low lying bushes, shrubs and grasses though.
Got a small recommendation for one of the animals. Since the overall theme appears to be the natural habitat of the animals, the Arctic wolf's education board should not feature any trees, as there are no trees in their natural environment. You can use low lying bushes, shrubs and grasses though.
Check also the Animals in the Wild Thread out
I think when I've researched after seeing the Arctic Wolf Pictures, it was mentioned that they do encounter Trees in some Areas
Animals in the wild - ingame pictures
This project is a long project of taking high quality photographs of every habitat animal ingame. Yes that's a whole lot but let's get started! Anyone who wants to participate with their own high quality (high or ultra graphics) habitat animal pictures please send me a forum message to prevent...
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I found it pretty hard to find a good reference for the arctic wolves that matches existing foliage in-game. I guess I went with a winter theme in the end. All the pictures comes from my animals in the wild thread
Thanks, but the pics themselves are coming from our very own @Captain Callum
Check also the Animals in the Wild Thread out
I'll check it out, thanks. Didn't know these were based on another thread. Either way everyone involved with the project saw my feedback, so no need to repeat it there, I guess.
That's probably an issue with taxonomy. According to the way PZ defines an Arctic wolf (based on its range map in the Zoopedia), which is also the traditional way to describe Canis lupus arctos, the nearest trees are 700-1,300 km from the southern fringes of their range (not to mention the actual forest line is further south).
I'll attach the range map of the Arctic wolf, the Canadian treeline and bird's-eye view calculations for reference.
Canadian tree line:
Range of the Arctic wolf (light blue):
Bird's-eye view calculations:
For comparison and a better understanding of scale, the distance between Denmark and Italy is roughly 900 km.
I can help you with that if you want. A good place to start would be to research the flora of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Canadian High Arctic tundra ecoregion.
High Arctic tundra - Wikipedia
Canadian Arctic tundra - Wikipedia
Canadian High Arctic Tundra | One Earth
This ecoregion encompasses most of the northern Arctic archipelago, from much of Baffin Island, Somerset, and Prince of Wales Islands in the south, through all islands northward to the most northern island in Canada, Ellesmere Island.
Also, here's a link to an Arctic wolf feeding on a muskox showing what most of their natural habitat typically looks like. I wasn't sure if it would be ok to directly post it here, since there is some mild gore. One thing I can comment on is, you can use more foliage in the form of small low-lying tundra bushes and shrubs than seen here, since not all of their range is as barren. Ellesmere Island is the northernmost of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Thanks for the links, I'll make another habitat for these wolves in the futureI'll check it out, thanks. Didn't know these were based on another thread. Either way everyone involved with the project saw my feedback, so no need to repeat it there, I guess.
That's probably an issue with taxonomy. According to the way PZ defines an Arctic wolf (based on its range map in the Zoopedia), which is also the traditional way to describe Canis lupus arctos, the nearest trees are 700-1,300 km from the southern fringes of their range (not to mention the actual forest line is further south).
I'll attach the range map of the Arctic wolf, the Canadian treeline and bird's-eye view calculations for reference.
Canadian tree line:
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Range of the Arctic wolf (light blue):
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Bird's-eye view calculations:
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For comparison and a better understanding of scale, the distance between Denmark and Italy is roughly 900 km.
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I can help you with that if you want. A good place to start would be to research the flora of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Canadian High Arctic tundra ecoregion.
High Arctic tundra - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Canadian Arctic tundra - Wikipedia
Canadian High Arctic Tundra | One Earth
This ecoregion encompasses most of the northern Arctic archipelago, from much of Baffin Island, Somerset, and Prince of Wales Islands in the south, through all islands northward to the most northern island in Canada, Ellesmere Island.www.oneearth.org
Also, here's a link to an Arctic wolf feeding on a muskox showing what most of their natural habitat typically looks like. I wasn't sure if it would be ok to directly post it here, since there is some mild gore. One thing I can comment on is, you can use more foliage in the form of small low-lying tundra bushes and shrubs than seen here, since not all of their range is as barren. Ellesmere Island is the northernmost of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
I'll check it out, thanks. Didn't know these were based on another thread. Either way everyone involved with the project saw my feedback, so no need to repeat it there, I guess.
That's probably an issue with taxonomy. According to the way PZ defines an Arctic wolf (based on its range map in the Zoopedia), which is also the traditional way to describe Canis lupus arctos, the nearest trees are 700-1,300 km from the southern fringes of their range (not to mention the actual forest line is further south).
I'll attach the range map of the Arctic wolf, the Canadian treeline and bird's-eye view calculations for reference.
Canadian tree line:
View attachment 332510
Range of the Arctic wolf (light blue):
View attachment 332512
Bird's-eye view calculations:
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View attachment 332502
View attachment 332503
View attachment 332504
For comparison and a better understanding of scale, the distance between Denmark and Italy is roughly 900 km.
View attachment 332508
I can help you with that if you want. A good place to start would be to research the flora of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Canadian High Arctic tundra ecoregion.
High Arctic tundra - Wikipedia
Canadian Arctic tundra - Wikipedia
Canadian High Arctic Tundra | One Earth
This ecoregion encompasses most of the northern Arctic archipelago, from much of Baffin Island, Somerset, and Prince of Wales Islands in the south, through all islands northward to the most northern island in Canada, Ellesmere Island.
Also, here's a link to an Arctic wolf feeding on a muskox showing what most of their natural habitat typically looks like. I wasn't sure if it would be ok to directly post it here, since there is some mild gore. One thing I can comment on is, you can use more foliage in the form of small low-lying tundra bushes and shrubs than seen here, since not all of their range is as barren. Ellesmere Island is the northernmost of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Then it's probably rather rare or someone spread Misinformation. Would be nice to see some Pictures that are more scientifically accurate 
Yeah because looking briefly at Google I see many of the top results with trees. Maybe these are wolves in rescue facilities much further south than the possible northern frontier , some more accurate examples below:
The second Picture reminds me of thisDoubt anyone would purposefully spread misinformation, instead it could be a case of lumping several populations/traditional subspecies to redefine valid subspecies. For instance, if you were to lump C. l. arctos, C. l. bernardi (now extinct) and C. l. mackenzii into one subspecies, they would fit the aforementioned criteria of "rarely encounters forests" due to C. l. mackenzii's range bordering the forest line. That could be a potential explanation for finding information on forests in text.
As for the images, Callum's got it right. Most of the quick pics you'd get on Arctic wolves online would be of captive/rescued specimens. I'm guessing those pictures also played a part in Frontier giving the animal 'Taiga' biome suitability. Realistically C. l. arctos and the now extinct C. l. bernardi should only have 'Tundra' biome suitability; meanwhile C. l. mackenzii should have both 'Tundra' and 'Taiga'. My emphasis on the extinct C. l. bernardi is to highlight the fact that there is a whole subspecies south of C. l. arctos that is also a pure tundra dweller, and you have to actually move onto the third subspecies to generate some form of contact with trees.
Didn't know this Subspecies yet. Damn, there are lots of extinct Subspecies. 13 if you don't count those that went extinct in prehistoric Times
Do you mean the Mackenzie Valley Wolf? Aren't those and the Northwestern Wolf the same Subspecies? (Canis lupus occidentalis) or was something new discovered regarding their Taxonomy?Edit: Wikipedia still lists them both as Canis lupus occidentalis.
Ok, found out which one you've meant
Mackenzie River wolf - Wikipedia
Nope, the Mackenzie River wolf. A different subspecies.
That map I've linked earlier is a good source to track subspecies and their respective ranges. Although there are a few oversights with the modified "present distribution" - for instance they've forgotten to remove the now extinct C. l. bernardi.Didn't know this Subspecies yet. Damn, there are lots of extinct Subspecies. 13 if you don't count those that went extinct in prehistoric Times
Edit: Wikipedia still lists them both as Canis lupus occidentalis.
Ok, found out which one you've meant
Mackenzie River wolf - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Edit: We are going a bit off-track now. Let's not hijack DarthQuell's awesome thread.
I am now fully offended and demand tribute...Edit: We are going a bit off-track now. Let's not hijack DarthQuell's awesome thread.
So, Cap, should we proceed with this project?
There was a temporary absence, it seems, by a Mr. Quell; really despise that guy (oh wait, that's me)
There was a temporary absence, it seems, by a Mr. Quell; really despise that guy (oh wait, that's me)