Terrain Tools

[RedPandaReggie]

Hello Frontier
Could you please make it so that all biome terrain tools can be apparent in all biomes to add more creativity to habitat building and landscaping, I feel it would improve the look of enclosure greatly with for example different grass, soil and sand
If this could be added, I would be ever so grateful

 

[random goat]

This has been requested and discussed some times before. As much as I'd also like to have this, I think it was said that it would affect performance quite severely, making it almost impossible to play the game fluidly.

 

[LN]

Technical limitations limit it to what it is now. I'm hoping for a scenario editor though, like Planco has. So we can at least switch around the textures.

Hello Frontier
Could you please make it so that all biome terrain tools can be apparent in all biomes to add more creativity to habitat building and landscaping, I feel it would improve the look of enclosure greatly with for example different grass, soil and sand
If this could be added, I would be ever so grateful

Frontier's response:

Hayo all! Thank you for posting your suggestions on this topic here.
As some of you will be aware, our voxel terrain is limited to 8 textures - this is due to memory and/or performance, which suffers when more textures are applied.
In Planet Coaster, we do allow you to select your own set of textures for a Custom Biome, however this is not an easy fit into Planet Zoo because the animals require specific terrain paints to be used to conform to their requirements.
We are aware this is an often requested feature but due to its complexity, we don't want to make any promises regarding its inclusion.

From this thread:

Botanists - Terrain Paints

Hey yo, So I'm thinking a lot of people are asking for the different terrain paints for each biome, so they can paint savanna grass on a tropical map, and so on. I agree I would like to see this too.. but I also understand the 'realism' filter that savanna grass, just doesn't grow on the...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[MSQueen2Zoo]

I would love a paint color tool for all terrains and paths. Why or why can't we have this? It seems so simple but I am not a coder.

 

[ElectricMonk]

I would love a paint color tool for all terrains and paths. Why or why can't we have this? It seems so simple but I am not a coder.

Read Chante's quoted post in the post just above yours

As some of you will be aware, our voxel terrain is limited to 8 textures - this is due to memory and/or performance, which suffers when more textures are applied.

 

[Chante Goodman]

Hayo all, yes this is something that I have answered before and the answer remains the same. Thank you @LN for linking it!

 

[MSQueen2Zoo]

Read Chante's quoted post in the post just above yours

Hi, I really don't complain about anything, I love the game so much. Grew up on Zoo Tycoon 1-2 and this game rocks.

 

[markun]

But we could possibly have the option to pick 8 terrain textures ourselves.

I really hope this is implemented.

Apparently the animal requirements make this more complicated but I disagree.

Two points: firstly if you play in Sandbox and adjust the settings it’s irrelevant. Secondly, if you play in other modes it’s no different to how it is now. You still need the right terrain for the animals you keep in your zoo.

My issue is that it’s so limiting. The closest biome in the game to where I live is Tundra. The tundra map is beautiful. But I just want to use green grass. Like on the temperate map. And we do indeed have green grass here.

I’d like to make an Australian zoo, two in fact. A city zoo and an open range zoo. Once again I’d like to use the temperate terrain textures. But I don’t want to use the temperate map because the green wooded hills in the background are unrealistic. I’d rather use a grassland map or even the Australian desert map. But with temperate textures.

As much as I love the game I find it frustrating that flying islands are fine but green grass in Australia or Scandinavia is impossible.

 

[RedPandaReggie]

I just brought this up because to build city zoos with all different types of landscaping in my opinion would add more creativity, perhaps there could be a setting system for each type of terrain and you can pick the biome manually, but there would have to be a particular code which wouldn't create any technical collisions

 

[Danny_zoo]

But we could possibly have the option to pick 8 terrain textures ourselves.

I really hope this is implemented.

Apparently the animal requirements make this more complicated but I disagree.

Two points: firstly if you play in Sandbox and adjust the settings it’s irrelevant. Secondly, if you play in other modes it’s no different to how it is now. You still need the right terrain for the animals you keep in your zoo.

My issue is that it’s so limiting. The closest biome in the game to where I live is Tundra. The tundra map is beautiful. But I just want to use green grass. Like on the temperate map. And we do indeed have green grass here.

I’d like to make an Australian zoo, two in fact. A city zoo and an open range zoo. Once again I’d like to use the temperate terrain textures. But I don’t want to use the temperate map because the green wooded hills in the background are unrealistic. I’d rather use a grassland map or even the Australian desert map. But with temperate textures.

As much as I love the game I find it frustrating that flying islands are fine but green grass in Australia or Scandinavia is impossible.

Fine green grass should never be impossible. Give us some grass.