Hayo fellow Zookeepers!
Since returning after the holidays, we have been busy working away on Planet Zoo to make this our best year yet! We've been excited to get stuck in and show you what we have got coming up for you all, beginning with this post! Many of you knew it was coming; we're thrilled to reveal Custom Billboards are on their way and will be added into the base game of Planet Zoo for free!
Those of you who played Planet Coaster may be familiar with the Custom Billboards, a way of creating your own bespoke signs around your zoos that will supply your guests with information on your animals, habitats and whatever else you want to shine a spotlight on! Like Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo's Custom Billboards will include new assets, such as screens, that will allow you to change the image on it to one of your own. The formats of the images Billboards will use are currently jpg, png, tiff, tga, and bmp. You will also be able to set these assets up to 'advertise' a guest destination and increase the desire for a guest to go and visit it, so if you're proud of something in your zoo make sure to let your guests know!
Alongside this, we've also set the Custom Billboards up so Habitat, Exhibit and Conservation Education Boards can have their images overridden which will allow you to customise the board to an image that you prefer. However, you will still need to set up your boards to be pointing to the animal or topic in the UI menu, as this is what guests will require to understand what your custom image is trying to show them. You're not just restricted to images either, Education Boards, Conservation Boards and Billboards will also be capable of displaying video too! These will work in the same way to images, but you will need your videos to be in the webm format.
Like Planet Coaster, we're also working on bringing Custom Audio to our speakers - this will be included in a future update after Billboards have been implemented. These will require the audio to be in flac or ogg formats. This update will additionally give you the freedom to customise the Education Speakers, after you have set them up via the UI to state what species or topics the audio is representing. Customisation on the Education Speakers will also allow you to add in new music to the Educator Talk Points, which will play while the Educator isn't giving a talk. As we're currently working on these features, we will be sharing an update for when you can expect to see them at a later date. We currently expect to first share with you the Custom Billboards, which will include video, and we will follow up a few weeks later with Custom Audio.
We hope you've enjoyed hearing about the Custom Billboards, and the added creativity they will add into your zoos! We're sure you're already thinking of ways to use them, and we can't wait to see how you all incorporate them. You can expect these in our next update, which we will be revealing more about soon, so stay tuned to our forums and official channels!
EDIT:
We thought you may like to know the Custom Billboard sizes, so that you can begin working on your images and videos to upload into the game once our next update is complete!
Since returning after the holidays, we have been busy working away on Planet Zoo to make this our best year yet! We've been excited to get stuck in and show you what we have got coming up for you all, beginning with this post! Many of you knew it was coming; we're thrilled to reveal Custom Billboards are on their way and will be added into the base game of Planet Zoo for free!
Those of you who played Planet Coaster may be familiar with the Custom Billboards, a way of creating your own bespoke signs around your zoos that will supply your guests with information on your animals, habitats and whatever else you want to shine a spotlight on! Like Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo's Custom Billboards will include new assets, such as screens, that will allow you to change the image on it to one of your own. The formats of the images Billboards will use are currently jpg, png, tiff, tga, and bmp. You will also be able to set these assets up to 'advertise' a guest destination and increase the desire for a guest to go and visit it, so if you're proud of something in your zoo make sure to let your guests know!
Alongside this, we've also set the Custom Billboards up so Habitat, Exhibit and Conservation Education Boards can have their images overridden which will allow you to customise the board to an image that you prefer. However, you will still need to set up your boards to be pointing to the animal or topic in the UI menu, as this is what guests will require to understand what your custom image is trying to show them. You're not just restricted to images either, Education Boards, Conservation Boards and Billboards will also be capable of displaying video too! These will work in the same way to images, but you will need your videos to be in the webm format.
Like Planet Coaster, we're also working on bringing Custom Audio to our speakers - this will be included in a future update after Billboards have been implemented. These will require the audio to be in flac or ogg formats. This update will additionally give you the freedom to customise the Education Speakers, after you have set them up via the UI to state what species or topics the audio is representing. Customisation on the Education Speakers will also allow you to add in new music to the Educator Talk Points, which will play while the Educator isn't giving a talk. As we're currently working on these features, we will be sharing an update for when you can expect to see them at a later date. We currently expect to first share with you the Custom Billboards, which will include video, and we will follow up a few weeks later with Custom Audio.
We hope you've enjoyed hearing about the Custom Billboards, and the added creativity they will add into your zoos! We're sure you're already thinking of ways to use them, and we can't wait to see how you all incorporate them. You can expect these in our next update, which we will be revealing more about soon, so stay tuned to our forums and official channels!
EDIT:
We thought you may like to know the Custom Billboard sizes, so that you can begin working on your images and videos to upload into the game once our next update is complete!
- Screen Panel - 1:1, Square, 512 x 512px
- Conservation Education Board - 9:16, Tall, 256 x 456px
- Projection Screens (8m, 16m, 32m) - 16:9, Wide-Large, 1824 x 1024px
- TV Screen (4m), Projection Screen (4) - 16:9, Wide-Medium, 912 x 512px
- TV Screens (1m, 2m), Habitat & Exhibit Screens - 16:9, Wide-Small, 456 x 256px
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