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?Variants?; Making Variants
Topic Started: Jul 6 2016, 06:35 PM (757 Views)
xXPhoenix_RisingXx
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Could someone please tell me how to make a variant and place it into the game?
There are several animals I would like to make variants for and I would also love to make my creations downloadable for others.
Any help is appreciated.
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I'm very out of touch in the designing community, so I don't know if things have changed. But, here's some stuff that I know. It might very well be outdated, but it should get you started in the right place!

Here are some (some what outdated) tutorials I found.

Old (but helpful) Tutorial
Zoo Tycoon Designing Center: Variant Tutorial

Another Old (but reliable) Starter Guide
Mika's Guide

How to make Baby Variants
NSskies, Ghost's Tutorial

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Here are the basics I know. :D
These are free and open source programs that you might need.

You might need paint.NET
This is for editing the .dds files, where the colors of the animal skins are stored. You could also use GIMP but I'm not sure.

You might need 7zip
This is how you open zt2 files and package up downloads.

You might need Notepad ++
This is a robust but lightweight, plain text editor. You'll need this for XML files.

You might need NifSkope
To be honest, I admit that I don't remember why this program was needed. It's used to open NIF files, maybe preview the skin, and... something else, but I don't remember what.

To share downloads, you might need an account on Media Fire.

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From what I remember, I think you might need to set up a zip file with folders inside, with this folder structure:
entities > units > animals > nameofyouranimal

And in the last folder with the name of your animal, you would put your .dds files there, which are your variants. But I don't remember where to put the XML files in order to code how rare each of the variants are.
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

1 - Just wanted to tell , that this isn't the good place to ask , here it is : http://thezt2roundtable.com/forum/4179836/ ;)

2 - Here's an up-to-date tutorial : http://thezt2roundtable.com/topic/11201766/1/#new :)
Edited by Zoo Tycooner FR, Jul 19 2016, 12:50 AM.
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I made a new post asking about variants, completely forgetting about this older one XD thank you for all the tips! Hopefully I can make some neat ones, and with the permission of the creator of the models, maybe post some.
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