Two notes with the Bornean elephant

tigris115

tigris115
Ok so, upon seeing the Bornean elephant, I have two main things I'd like to say

1. While the sculpting quality is quite good, I feel the model itself has some flaws, mainly being a bit too similar to an Indian elephant as well as the eyes being overly sunken. The best way I can describe it is that Bornean elephants are more baby faced than their mainland cousins, which is something you see a lot in animals with relatives that underwent dwarfism (that expression of neotenous traits). It should be a fairly simple model edit to rectify this as, overall, the model quality is quite good, especially the sculpting work.

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2. With all that being said, and given the aging quality of the base game models, the Bornean elephant would be absolutely perfect as an asset to remaster the Indian elephant model. This model already resembles a mainland elephant quite well so the process wouldn't be too taxing and a lot of players would be quite excited for another remaster after the Malayan tapir.

As for the animal itself, while I think there were far better inclusions for an Asian animal (especially a gaur or banteng) and even a clone (Asiatic lion, Sumatran tiger, or green peafowl) but I'm not gonna seethe over it
 

NachoB

NachoB
tigris115 said:
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2. With all that being said, and given the aging quality of the base game models, the Bornean elephant would be absolutely perfect as an asset to remaster the Indian elephant model. This model already resembles a mainland elephant quite well so the process wouldn't be too taxing and a lot of players would be quite excited for another remaster after the Malayan tapir.
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I don't see much of an improvement from the base game indian elephant tbh. I actually prefer the base game indian elephant over this one, so no i would not like for the model and textures to be switched to this pointless cash grab.
 

Mr-Hyrax 2

Mr-Hyrax 2
While I don't feel anything towards the animal itself (in-game, I obviously like their real-life counterparts) it's inclusion in the Asia pack was a wasted slot, I think the main reason why they added was so they didn't have to make major changes to a model, a new Orangutan or lion would've required new complex fur texture that they didn't want to do (just for this slot, not in general) and in general this is a very easy clone, I bet a leopard was also a potential choice if it wasn't for the fact we just got one and the controversy surrounding it.

Anyways it looks alright and with the fact that PZ2 is probably right around the corner I can live with this, but I still feel annoyed by what it could've potential been.
 
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