Fossils and Archeology: Revival

Fossils and Archeology: Revival

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Preview of Full Size of Dinos

BrickedIn opened this issue ยท 3 comments

commented

Background Knowledge:

-As most of you know, when you right-click the Dinopedia on a dinosaur, it brings up all of their information, their diets, etc.

Suggestion:

-If the dinosaur is a smaller size and not fully mature, there should be a little button called "Preview Adult Size" or something along the lines of that. Then, when you click that button, it'll show a hologram of the dinosaur's full matured size.

Significance:

-This would be very useful to many players, especially newcomers, to make sure their enclosures are the proper sizing for their dinosaurs.

Final Note:

-Developers, feel free to change this up to your liking. You could make the button only available if you use the Dinopedia on an unhatched egg or whatever you decide. Thanks for reading!

commented

I've finished the animation, which is very crude but it's fine lol

Fossils.and.Archaeology.Suggestion.Animation.mp4

Hope this helps!

commented

You have a good point, however it's sometimes hard to visualize based on textual information, which may prove to be difficult in order to create an accurately-sized enclosure. I personally like processing my information visually, and the majority of people (65%) are the same way. Regarding your edit, as I said before, you may change things up to your liking. I'm going to work on a small animation to show you what I mean, just in case I couldn't explain it well enough. Cheers!

commented

I think the idea is great, however wouldn't just knowing the size, that is width, height and depth also solve it? Since some of the model renderers for the models scale the original model beyond 1:1, thus making that feature suboptimal to determine enclosure size as the actual creature may be even bigger than what it visually looks like from the pedia preview. I'm just trying put some perspective on it, still love the idea :)

EDIT: But regarding the significance of the feature, given second thought, some way of displaying a fully matured creature in the world adjecently to oneself (as opposed to in the pedia itself) could be proven useful.