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[Marvinb]

I agree. I'd also like panels with the path textures on them, to hide little gaps and such.

Oh yeah totally. I didnt even think of that

 

[Bughs]

Lol it's literally impossible to do. The game's engine can't handle more than 8 terrain textures. Best they can give us is the ability to choose which eight textures prior to loading the map, but Planet Coaster had the exact same limitation.

Really? o.o I didn't know it works like that. Why it only handles 8 textures? Paths are also textures and they keep adding new ones. I thought a texture for ground would be the easiest thing for the engine to handle than adding 20 more animal species and 200 building pieces with their own textures and stuff.

 

[Captain Callum]

Really? o.o I didn't know it works like that. Why it only handles 8 textures? Paths are also textures and they keep adding new ones. I thought a texture for ground would be the easiest thing for the engine to handle than adding 20 more animal species and 200 building pieces with their own textures and stuff.

I would reckon it must be something to do with the limited scope of the map generation capabilities rather than just adding another entry into the content libraries.

 

[Iben]

Really? o.o I didn't know it works like that. Why it only handles 8 textures? Paths are also textures and they keep adding new ones. I thought a texture for ground would be the easiest thing for the engine to handle than adding 20 more animal species and 200 building pieces with their own textures and stuff.

I believe it was 12 and not 8; but the terrain itself is a completely separate layer from the paths. It has to do with the way they store their terrain textures in the voxelskirt and the related formats.

It's not that loading new textures would be hard for the game; it's just the way the terrain was set up. It was never intended to have more than the ones they have, so adding more simply isn't possible without refactoring how the terrain works and that is a major change that they don't seem to have the time nor budget for (given well, this has been the case for PZ, PC and JWE).

 

[Bughs]

Aaah, ok, thank you for clarifying! One learn new things every day

 

[leehonglocal]

Will these ideas do? Do these count?

1. larger and longer Exhibit if there'll be larger Exhibit-types like these larger snakes: king cobra, green anaconda and larger pythons. The Exhibits are only one size.
2. aviaries for flying birds like parrots and birds of prey (Prehistoric Kingdom had that idea but too small for pterosaurs.)
3. Does Planet Zoo had Walk/Guest mode like in Zoo Tycoon 2?