Saturday, July 30, 2022

Inconveniencing gyrospheres as enrichment

Bok bok bok.
Continuing to work on my movie park sandbox. I added a little guest area at the entrance point, even though the entrance is at the wrong end of the map for accuracy purposes. The shape of the buildable area just worked better this way, I think.

The Cretaceous Cruise (which includes a lot of Jurassic dinosaurs, in a park called Jurassic World, the most advertized dinos of which overall are from the Cretaceous) got split in two with herbivores on one side and carnivores on the other, as apparently there are canonically a bit of both in that space? With the guests paddling through it without a barrier between them and the animals? I... what? Anyway,

For Suchomimus, I decided to remake my girls Verilettu and Cookiedough (1, 2) from the Isla Muerta sandbox park. We'll pretend these are the same individuals, just transported here.

With them are housed two Baryonyx, one of which is seen here napping not quite with them, but near them! I know it's sandbox and I've got dino fights disabled, but I still felt a little nervous about having them in the same enclosure. Would they get uncomfortable and panic all the time and avoid each other?

Well, not avoiding.
Yell together!
Yeah, I think they'll be alright.


"Wanna go help your gf bully the tourists?"
"Oh boy, do I!" :D
Also a fun detail about the different spinosaurids' fishing habits. The Spinosaurus I had on Sorna put her snout in the water, and let fish swim between her jaws, while the Baryonyx seem to prefer waiting with their face out of the water, and striking quickly when a fish is in just the right spot.


There's supposed to be Metriacanthosaurus in there, too, but I put the two of those in their own enclosure next to the hotel, since there was still just enough room. Figured it makes more sense if it's just the piscivores living together. Anyway, is it just me, or is this skin inspired by the Chaos Effect Velociraptor?

The vivid skin is pretty, too.
Also more Apatosaurus shenanigans.

a lump of dino
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