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Topic Started: Aug 15 2007, 04:46 PM (1,617 Views)
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I just made this critter out of fun, and i dont know if i did the skin right, because i had a bad ref, but here ya go, I call them... Goldycats!

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baby

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Female varients:
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male varients:
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I realy dont feel like making their dirty and sick forms right now 0-0
you can use the lioness to make them, but they are in between the size of a lion and a lynx
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I do not think these skins will work in game, vitani. You have to use the skins provided in the game as a reference, and it is best to generally paint over a copy of the skin taken from the game. Do you know how to find and extract skins from the game? If not, you may want to look at how to find the skins by reading the Variant tutorial, here: http://z14.invisionfree.com/ZT2_Designing_...?showtopic=1210
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oh, okay. I has looking at a very badly done, cartoony skin for reference.. :blink:

okay, until i find a lioness skin im not doing goldycats.
But in the mean time, heres another imaginary creature...
The Waterwolf!

I inveted them when i was like, 5 :)
They love water :D
( If anybody wants to do them, be my guest, but i think the skin needs revision )
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Okey dokey, im trying to make a varient for the lion, but im having issues. It is of my character, Gold. Here's my problem:

Okay, I created a folder tiltled ZT2 where I would put my creations. I got the skin, recolored it, and saved it properly as a .z2f file. I get this little ZT2:MM icon in my folder, just like the ones i get when I download things. I copy and paste it into my real folder for Zoo Tycoon 2, ya know, the one you paste downloads into? I strat up the game, place down a bunch of lionesses but.. :blue: no Gold varient *umm* What happened?

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Tried my best..
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Well when you open the .z2f file you created with the skin, what is the first thing you see?
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It's not as simple as just saving the file as a .z2f.

The skin should be saved as a DDS file.

The skin needs to go inside a folder called Lion, and Lion should be inside animals, and animals should be inside units, and units inside entities, and then you should right click on entities, and zip that into a .z2f.

Your file structure should look like this:

entities/units/animals/Lion/Lion_M.dds
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ShenTirag,Oct 12 2007
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It's not as simple as just saving the file as a .z2f.

The skin should be saved as a DDS file.

The skin needs to go inside a folder called Lion, and Lion should be inside animals, and animals should be inside units, and units inside entities, and then you should right click on entities, and zip that into a .z2f.

Your file structure should look like this:

entities/units/animals/Lion/Lion_M.dds

I have it saved like that. in the folder "Lion" i have two Items, the skin saved as a .z2f and as a .dds.

It looks like this:
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Oh, and penguinman- the screen looks like this when i open the .z2f file:
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Thanks for showing the screens, that makes things so much easier!

The problem is that when you open the .z2f file, the first thing you should see is the entities folder. Meaning, you need to right click on the entities folder instead of the .dds file and say add to archive. Does this make sense?

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Penguinman,Oct 13 2007
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Thanks for showing the screens, that makes things so much easier!

The problem is that when you open the .z2f file, the first thing you should see is the entities folder. Meaning, you need to right click on the entities folder instead of the .dds file and say add to archive. Does this make sense?

Yes, much, much more scence!
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But this begs one more question- how do I get it to turn up in my game?
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Well everything else is right, so as long as you fix your .z2f so that it is made from the entities folder, it will show up :)
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Oh and when you choose the name for your entities folder, DONT call it entities.z2f :P Call it Lion Variant.z2f or something :)
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Oh, thank you guys! I'll post pics as soon as I can!
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