I have a few habitats that are not calculating water area properly, has anyone else had this issue?
Habitats not calculating water area
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If you mean where the water is showing 0 when you view the habitat details by selecting the habitat, I have it ALL the time. To get it to recalculate the water for the habitat, the only way I've found to do it is delete and replace the keeper gate. But often, as soon as I edit the terrain or barrier again...the water then gets set back to 0.
I honestly don't care too much about this issue, except that for animals that require water it seems to often lead to visitors having yellow faces and thinking "That <insertanimalname> could use somewhere to swim."
Here is an issue tracker report of the issue if you want to contribute to give the bug more traction.
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I honestly don't care too much about this issue, except that for animals that require water it seems to often lead to visitors having yellow faces and thinking "That <insertanimalname> could use somewhere to swim."
Here is an issue tracker report of the issue if you want to contribute to give the bug more traction.
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I was going to report it but im not entirely sure how to reproduce the bug because it doesn't always happen for me, its only some habitats. I have three habitats with a giant river going through them, one habitat registers what seems like all the water, one registers 48 sq meters which is not all the water, and one registers 0 which is also incorrect.If you mean where the water is showing 0 when you view the habitat details by selecting the habitat, I have it ALL the time. To get it to recalculate the water for the habitat, the only way I've found to do it is delete and replace the keeper gate. But often, as soon as I edit the terrain or barrier again...the water then gets set back to 0.
I honestly don't care too much about this issue, except that for animals that require water it seems to often lead to visitors having yellow faces and thinking "That <insertanimalname> could use somewhere to swim."
Here is an issue tracker report of the issue if you want to contribute to give the bug more traction.
webapp
I will try what you said though, thanks!If you mean where the water is showing 0 when you view the habitat details by selecting the habitat, I have it ALL the time. To get it to recalculate the water for the habitat, the only way I've found to do it is delete and replace the keeper gate. But often, as soon as I edit the terrain or barrier again...the water then gets set back to 0.
I honestly don't care too much about this issue, except that for animals that require water it seems to often lead to visitors having yellow faces and thinking "That <insertanimalname> could use somewhere to swim."
Here is an issue tracker report of the issue if you want to contribute to give the bug more traction.
webapp
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How steep are the banks of your bodies of water? What does the “accessible area heat-map” show?
If the slopes are to steep for the animals in the habitat, the water area is not calculated.
If the slopes are to steep for the animals in the habitat, the water area is not calculated.
no they can totally get in the water, and it even registers it on the traversable area map.
S(he)'s talking about the display of water on the habitat terrain information, not the animal's one. I have this bug as well. The animals register and use the water just fine and their terrain panel shows it, but the habitat itself shows no water (or the wrong water).
it registers on the traversable map and they can swim in the water.
Thanks for that tip, I'll have to try it if the problem crops up again.
So far I've only created some test water+land habitats but ran into the same bug. Amusingly enough, when the water area was registering as zero and I right-clicked to remove the river, it then showed the water area as "-3000 m2". Not quite sure how you can have negative water, but there it was!
Be careful when the habitat information panel indicates a negative water area. This seems to be one of the bugs that can cause a broken savegame-file to result in an endless loading screen.
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To solve it, follow the tip from @Jaggid Edje :
Delete the habitat gate and mabe even a part of the barrier so that the habitat is - technically - deleted. Refill the water area, close the barrier again and replace the habitat gate to create a completely new habitat. To prevent this bug, don't change the water area after the habitat has been created by placing the habitat gate.
Issue Tracker
expired, but still there...
To solve it, follow the tip from @Jaggid Edje :
Delete the habitat gate and mabe even a part of the barrier so that the habitat is - technically - deleted. Refill the water area, close the barrier again and replace the habitat gate to create a completely new habitat. To prevent this bug, don't change the water area after the habitat has been created by placing the habitat gate.
Yikes, that's pretty bad. The zoo I'm working on will have 4 or 5 habitats along the same river. Naturally I like to save my zoo fairly often as I work on it. Now I'll have to remember to check each of those habitats for the problem and fix them every time before I save. I'm practically guaranteed to forget at some point and end up with a corrupted save game.
Not good Frontier, not good.
Thanks for that tip, I'll have to try it if the problem crops up again.
So far I've only created some test water+land habitats but ran into the same bug. Amusingly enough, when the water area was registering as zero and I right-clicked to remove the river, it then showed the water area as "-3000 m2". Not quite sure how you can have negative water, but there it was!
I had the same issue. Aa far as I can tell it came from pausing and unpausing while adding and deleting water. Restarting the game fixed it for me.
haha same! My guest complain about the elephants npot having a place to swim while it is swimming in front of their noses.