Suggestion about temperature color map

[Roxxsmom]

I have noticed that the game shows nice color maps for temp, and there's a scale from -25 (bluest blue) to 45 or something like that (reddest red). But it can be hard to parse what the colors in the middle are, exactly, I have an indoor habitat for my otters, and I have it heated with heaters set no lower than 20 and no higher than 30 (otter range of tolerance is 10-42 I believe and have the water temp set at around 25. I get alerts from time to time that one of my animals is not at its ideal temperature sometimes when they are sleeping in their shelter or curled up somewhere else in their habitat.

The entire heat map looks nice orangey hues, and I can't figure out where those cold pocket are, as I don't see "cold spots" in the areas the animals are lying. It would be nice to be able to mouse over the heat map and get an actual temperature reading, since there must be a something that isn't showing up on the color map, and I can't figure out where exactly to place a new heater. Can't seem the right place to add one to fix the issue.

 

[AlexVonHumbug]

every h-animal in game is fine about 20-25°C, so every single heater or ac can be set to 20-25°. some lower ac temp. are just needed to provide snow.

 

[Roxxsmom]

Yeah, all my heaters are set somewhere between 20 and 30 in the enclosure. Mammals tend to be most comfortable near the middle of their range of tolerance (IRL), while reptiles tend to be happiest closer to the very top of their range, though that depends on how much they rely on basking to maintain their preferred active temp.

I realize this is more technical and detailed than the game allows, and that level of realism would create headaches. But I'm not sure why my otters are too cold in places near the top (in the above diagram) in this enclosure and sometimes in their privacy shelter to the right, which has a heater that is around 24 degrees in it (to be clear, the temp alert is showing the animal as "blue" and indicating that the animal is too cold from time to time, not too warm. It only happens when it is snowing outside, but I'm not seeing the "blue" spot on the map to tell me where the heater isn't covering. If there are places below 10 degrees (the otters' lower limits), wouldn't they be trending towards the cooler game colors? That's where I wish I could mouse over to see whether the coverage is actually failing somewhere, or if it is possibly a bug.

Hmmm is central heating and air a possibility for exhibits enclosed in buildings?

 

[yoav_r]

I have noticed that the game shows nice color maps for temp, and there's a scale from -25 (bluest blue) to 45 or something like that (reddest red). But it can be hard to parse what the colors in the middle are, exactly, I have an indoor habitat for my otters, and I have it heated with heaters set no lower than 20 and no higher than 30 (otter range of tolerance is 10-42 I believe and have the water temp set at around 25. I get alerts from time to time that one of my animals is not at its ideal temperature sometimes when they are sleeping in their shelter or curled up somewhere else in their habitat.

The entire heat map looks nice orangey hues, and I can't figure out where those cold pocket are, as I don't see "cold spots" in the areas the animals are lying. It would be nice to be able to mouse over the heat map and get an actual temperature reading, since there must be a something that isn't showing up on the color map, and I can't figure out where exactly to place a new heater. Can't seem the right place to add one to fix the issue.View attachment 274574

Did you check near enrichment items? The water ebrichment items (waterfall, sprinkler and water stream) have rediculously low temps, to the point I never use them anymore.

 

[Roxxsmom]

I wondered about that, but there isn't any water enrichment near where it occurred. Seems to happen when it's snowing outside, so a sliver of uncovered terrain must be responsible. The problem is, I sink the heaters underground and beneath landscape items, so I can't usually find them to click later or figure out the best place to put a new one. It's so intermittent I'm not even sure it isn't a weird bug, like that one reindeer I had that would be too hot and stay too hot even after she moved to a cool spot where all the other reindeer were happy.

Also an issue with removing a too-hot or too-cold animal from habitat and putting them in trade center and still getting the alert! This didn't used to happen. Is that a bug or feature? Usually the trade center puts them in a kind of stasis where they don't age or get hungry, cold etc.

 

[Firestar97]

I already wish for a long Time for a Heatmap that only shows the Areas that are affected by Heaters and Coolers. This would be so useful because you could see Parts easier that aren't properly heated or cooled and you wouldn't need to wait for extremely cold Temperatures to see where you need to place the Heaters

 

[iloveyourzoos]

(You may have already tried this, so my apologies if it doesn't help to solve the problem.)

I've found that if I zoom in closer and get closer to the ground, that I'll sometimes be able to find gaps in the heat coverage that I couldn't see when I look at the map from higher up. This is especially true when underneath a tree or inside a shelter, since the map might be showing the temperature of the branches/ceiling, instead of the one down on the floor. (Or perhaps it's that the layering of the image is such that the tree/shelter is rendered above the the heat map, and thus obscuring the ground temperature from my view?) In this picture, for example, it looks like there is a slightly lighter coloration on the land that is directly left of the water platform, and that it may be extending to some of the land where the ground level is being blocked from view by the tree?

Sorry again if you've already tried this. It's just something that I've noticed happening to me sometimes. But if I zoom in and walk the habitat at the animal's eye-level, it will sometimes show me things that I couldn't see at a higher or even medium range.

Good luck!