It seems Planet Zoo does not behave the same as Planet Coaster and JWE when it comes to water in the landscape. In Planet Zoo when you add water to the landscape this becomes a fixed feature, updating the landscape elevation around it does not make the existing water adapt to the new landscape but instead highlights a hard edge that contains the water, which tends to look unnatural plus these edges can not be smoothed or adjusted afterwards. The workflow forces you to delete the water and then change the landscape before adding the water again. Having the water dynamically adapt to the landscape elevation changes in real time makes it far easier to sculpt the landscape and feels more seamless. I assume the fact that the behaviour in Planet Zoo is different is due to a technical limitation so maybe we will have to live with it but at least have the border appear more organic.
Dynamic water in landscape editing
- Thread starter londonx
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With everything else that goes on in the game, dynamic water would put way too much of a strain on the system. I believe that PC and JWE look the way they do because that was all done through a shader, which could obviously be made to look really good. However because we have animals interacting with water in a different way in PZ, such as the hippopotamus, they instead have done for a volumetric system with the water. As is people's computers are struggling with the game not being optimized so I really can't see them adding dynamic fluid in anytime soon.
really? im like playing this with every setting maxed out, and its running around 50-65 FPS, dont have the best pc money can buy either Ryzen2700+GTX1070TI+16GB of ram at 2666Mhz.
Well it's good you're not struggling but all you need to do is scan the forums for a bit and take a look at all the people asking for optimization. It's even one of the points Frontier mentioned they're looking into.