Dinosaurs Dinosaur Size As a Gene

Paleoguy

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Being that the size of certain species, namely Styracosaurus is something most players bring up, what if there was a gene for size. Not to increase the size of the base model, but decrease it a bit, if one wanted to use a gene that would decrease the size of the dinosaur. Of course, this could work the other way, as to increasing size, but I don't think Universal would be on board for something like that. It would give variation, if it's part of a herd, not all the animals will look exactly alike. Also, if the animal is smaller, it could add or change some of the game dynamics, with comfort thresholds. On islands that are smaller, that probably would help. Some species should be smaller, and this would be a way to show a more accurate size.
 
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DragonNTiger

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As awesome as this would be, I feel the nature of the animations makes this impossible... start messing with the sizes, and the models won't match up correctly...

Jurassic Tyrant King said:
Allosaurus and Dreadnoughtus are the only DINOSAURS of this game I can think of that need a down scale sizing and an upscale sizing.
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Then you really don't know much about dinosaurs... very few are correctly scaled in JWE. Most are too big, some are too small... the "just right" ones? They're the smallest in number...

Paleoguy said:
I agree with those two dinosaurs. I do also think Styracosaurus is way to big. The Ceratopsians should be more varied with their sizes.
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And yet, the Styracosaurus is still closer to its real size than say... the Chasmosaurus, Nasutoceratops or Sinoceratops...
 
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Stutter11

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I remember hearing something about how resizing the 4 carnivores was immensely difficult. I don't know the details of why exactly it was difficult (if someone could enlighten me, I'd appreciate it) but I imagine it had something to do with animations, like DragonNTiger already mentioned. Considering how difficult it apparently was to resize 4 dinosaurs, it would require too much work from Frontier to resize the entire roster.
 
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