What did you do in Planet Zoo today?
- Thread starter Indoraptor27
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I finished the focal point for Wild Roots Wildlife Park (thanks @BiologicalHorror for the name!) - a huge, magical tree at the centre of the park that is home to some capuchin monkeys and of course, my beloved raccoons. I added a swimming pool for the raccs and built an 'Under the Roots' nocturnal house for some north/central/south American animals as well as some exhibits integrated into the habitats. You can walk inside the hollow of the tree to enter the nocturnal house.
This was my (very rough) plan for the underground nocturnal house, with pathing in an infinity shape, each loop wrapping around a habitat/exhibit bundle.
Here's how it all turned out:
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This was my (very rough) plan for the underground nocturnal house, with pathing in an infinity shape, each loop wrapping around a habitat/exhibit bundle.
Here's how it all turned out:
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The anteater/sloth/armadillo habitat is a walkthrough with hidden shelters sunk into the cave walls, so the shier animals have lots of escape routes (I'm playing in sandbox but have most sandbox settings turned off so I do watch out for animal welfare and guest happiness):
All these images are a bit dark so I might take some better screenshots in daytime, but I'm happy with how the infrared heat lamps turned out in the game.
Last week I built a sandcastle for my fennec fox, sandcat and meerkat habitats. I'd like to add signage and call it the 'Desert Babies' experience.
My theme is trees so I have tried to incorporate this into my architecture everywhere, hence the abstracted tree-shaped arches inside the building.
Guests can view the fennec foxes from within the meerkat walkthrough:
My theme is trees so I have tried to incorporate this into my architecture everywhere, hence the abstracted tree-shaped arches inside the building.
Guests can view the fennec foxes from within the meerkat walkthrough:
Heres a skunk WIP enclosure. I'm too tired to write a blurb on it.
Wednesdays are home office day and because there isn't a lot to do at the moment, I continued to work on my billboards for the game (today the whole animal range maps)
In addition, the silhouettes that I have already made in a blue color to match the maps.
I also built the second chicken enclosure, the enclosure for the goats and an enclosure for the sheeps.
In addition, the silhouettes that I have already made in a blue color to match the maps.
I also built the second chicken enclosure, the enclosure for the goats and an enclosure for the sheeps.
Another benefit of these animal props is they work great as statues when recolored to a single color, heres the iguanas being used as a entrance decoration to the galapagos islands habitat area.
I made a new restaurant, Lakeside Grill.
Another step of the Children's Zoo is done - the playground. But I have to give credit to @justGoron for his great modular playground set, I honestly was to lazy to create a playground completely by myself. Thanks to this great workshop item I could easily create the large climbing structure without wasting hours (it still took some time to bring all the items together though). I did create the ropeway, the swings and the seesaw by myself though.
This looks so nice! Love the modern architecture.Finally put a gift shop in the shell I've had built for two years! So great to see it full of shoppers
Going to try and add a food truck cafe up the back, or attach a restaurant to the tables along the windows. I like the idea of a cafe + gift shop combined.
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Same feeling.
I also started a new zoo lately, for the first time I made an entrance I don’t mind! The only issue is I play with settings so low I don’t want to post screenshots.
Does anyone know how to improver performance? I have a lot of games on my computer would I have to get rid of some? Or is it possible with low settings it actually is harder to run?
I don't think having a lot of games has effect on the performance. I mean, they're just occupied space on your HD. It could help closing all unneccessary background tasks though.
As long as you have say more than 75gb left on the drive, there shouldn't be any issue with having lots of games. I have like 20 installed including a flight simulator that is over 300gb big, but planet zoo runs fine. I always say there are 2 ways to vastly improve performance - 1 is build smaller zoos, 2 is buy a new computer with better hardware.
There is a couple ways like disabling the Xbox game bar in the window settings, finding your planetzoo.exe file in the steam folder and right click - properties - compatibility then ticking disable full screen optimization and change high dpi settings to override high dpi behaviour to application. Helped my old laptop a bit when I couldn't upgrade at the time.
Minimise the number of guests in your zoo (in settings), then disable climbing for every single thing that is not a climbing frame or climbable tree for your animals. That makes a massive difference!