Now that I have albinos, I'm really missing color variation

WLeonhart

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The general consensus surrounding albinos seems to be that they're exciting not only because they're a rare color, but because they're visually very different from the other animals in the habitat. I feel more strongly than ever that we need color variation, not just pattern variation. Even if it's subtle, like a few different shades, at least then we would be able to tell our non-patterned animals apart at a glance. I find myself getting attached to my albinos and not my regular animals because I can't tell the regulars apart at all without clicking on them, and I'm apparently not the only one.

I'm assuming this is something that's coming down the turnpike and just hasn't been implemented yet because it hasn't been perfected, judging by the Steam page ("from playful lion cubs to mighty elephants, every animal in Planet Zoo is a thinking, feeling individual with a distinctive look and personality of their own"), but just in case this isn't something that's currently on the radar, I wanted to bring it up. :D

The game is downright gorgeous and so much fun. I just think some color variation for at least some animals would bring additional life and beauty to the game. (Especially wolves... but I'm biased ;) )
 

Mkau

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Well,it's a promised feature,which was mentioned multiple times in their videos and developer journals,but now isn't in the full game (same goes for the personality).We are currently still waiting for a dev to make a statement regarding that topic.
 

KaoRu

KaoRu
Unless they meant their patterns were different? Which if that's true is the stupidest thing bcuz you can't really see any difference unless you reallllyyyy look and compare them. But I also have my first albino which is a Peafowl (bought her thinking she was a regular one based on the trade centre picture...Nope. 🤣) and I'm more attached to her than the rest of them. She's almost 25 now and their life expectancy is 23 years so she'll die soon...I bought her when she was 2 years old...How time flies....😫
 

Leopard Lobbyist

Leopard Lobbyist
It's odd to me that this isn't a feature. Not even because they said it would be, but because they already have the tech for it. JWE's skin system works by altering different "channels" of color, kind of like ARK does. Surely this could have been implemented into PZ to give animals random shades of color within a specified set of variables? Maybe there's a really good reason why they didn't do that but I wonder what it is.
 

xTosca

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So far I have noticed one single animal that seems to have color variation. So far it's only been 2 color shades, but it's something- some cheetahs are a lighter cream color, while others are darker golden. They also do have distinctive spot patterns. Of course, these begin to repeat a bit if you have a ton of them, but with only a few it's pretty easy to tell the difference between them.

But so far cheetahs seem to be the ONLY animals with this feature, or so I've seen.
 

Leopard Lobbyist

Leopard Lobbyist
xTosca said:
But so far cheetahs seem to be the ONLY animals with this feature, or so I've seen.
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A friend of mine showed me that two of his tigers differed a bit. One had a slightly less saturated orange color. It's understandable they wouldn't vary much, but then with animals like wolves and flamingos that naturally have a lot of variation in life it's strange that they don't seem to have any in-game.
 

xTosca

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Leopard Lobbyist said:
A friend of mine showed me that two of his tigers differed a bit. One had a slightly less saturated orange color. It's understandable they wouldn't vary much, but then with animals like wolves and flamingos that naturally have a lot of variation in life it's strange that they don't seem to have any in-game.
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You sure that's not sexual dimorphism? Frontier seems to have added sexual dimorphism in colors and whatnot to a lot of animals that don't actually have it naturally, and ik male tigers are generally darker and more saturated in this game compared to the females.
 

Skemmdur

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African wild dogs might not vary in shade but there is definite variation in at least facial marking pattern, and it seems to be genetic/run in families as far as I can see - also two offspring from the same litter can have different facial markings. I don't have the screenshots right now because I'm on my laptop but I'll dig them up tomorrow.
 

WLeonhart

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Skemmdur said:
African wild dogs might not vary in shade but there is definite variation in at least facial marking pattern, and it seems to be genetic/run in families as far as I can see - also two offspring from the same litter can have different facial markings. I don't have the screenshots right now because I'm on my laptop but I'll dig them up tomorrow.
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Pattern variation is definitely a thing. I just wish color variation were a thing, too (beyond sexual dimorphism).
 
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