Or the zebra to make the camel!
What do you expect from an aviary pack?
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I thought they used the zebras to make the antelopes. Is it all just zebras all the way down? Are we playing planet Zebra?
He is speaking facts. Frontier said they need maximum 3 days to make hardest rig from scratch. I dont understand why so many think it is so important - animations are the hardest according to frontier. There is folder flightless birds. As far as something resembles bipedal ground bird with long legs they will use ostrich/flamingo/cassowary to make it.
So secretary bird/shoebill/cranes will definitely be made from (perhaps) flamingo.
So secretary bird/shoebill/cranes will definitely be made from (perhaps) flamingo.
When you build a rig you're just manipulating points on a skeleton that conform to the model so you can animate it. They'd basically be resizing and moving joints around. It's a bit more technical than I made it sound but that's the basic gist of it. It's 100% possible to have more birds in game currently, they just haven't done it yet. Also they could always add flight mechanics later like they've been doing with deep swimming which is why I've been wondering where all the birds are.
I think the answer to that is: mammals are just more popular.
Take a look at the meta wish list. In the top 30 you can find only 2 birds. The rest is mammals and a single reptile. Of course this might have looked a bit differently if flying birds was allowed on that list, but I imagine even the more popular of those would have a hard time competing with the top 10 mammals.
While most people want more birds, it still seems like some mammals are the priority.
It also helps that there are very few birds which are known and popular on their own. Aside from condors and kiwis in San diego, I don't remember ever going into an aviary searching for a specific species.
Crowds will go asking "where's the Jaguar? Where's the Llama?", but never "where's the macaw?". If anything they will want an aviary in general.
California Condor, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Snowy Owl, and a few others are rather well known and looked for