How I added procedural fur, scales, stripes, spots and more (evolution sim devlog 1-1)

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0:00 Introduction
2:00 Animal temperatures
3:00 Textures
4:45 New bodyparts
5:25 Skin patterns
7:15 Outro

[@seal6015]

What I hope is that this game expands exponentially.
What would be absolutely amazing would be if it was added for aquatic, amphibious or flying animals. Of course this wouldn't be expected since making a game is incredibly hard, but once the game develops more, perhaps you could introduce these? It would make the game seem so much more alive and like an ecosystem.
Another thing you could add are sizes for trees and animals. You could have animals that evolve to be really small so they can move quickly and don't need as much food (but can be picked up by flying predators) and really large to have no real predators but need to deal with a lot more food needed. Trees can grow absolutely gigantic and it would make it look more like a forest than a desert with a bunch of green and brown weeds in it.
Also grass and mud would be nice too.
You don't have to do any of this. These are just suggestions and it is not expected in the slightest.

[@TheSapling]

You're going to like devlog 3 :)

[@majkatrebaticka2957]

This is amazing! I want to tell the same but i am busy.

[@ruudvandenhove6905]

​@@TheSapling i know where this is going

[@majkatrebaticka2957]

This is my favorite game and pls add fish and alage!

[@majkatrebaticka2957]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@CharChar2121]

Map designer please

[@myrinsk]

❤️

[@Spectrulus]

You did finally get what you wanted!

[@chromaHDME]

Thank you very much for hosting my model, good luck with your game and keep up the good work!

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Epic demonstration as always!
I'm jealous of your animation/presentation/aesthetic skills

[@lourdthebluefoxie]

Is the real bibites!

[@moo8866]

wowwww

[@pamarschoff]

I love both of the channels!

[@AndrewDavidJ]

Aw man, this looks awesome! The way you talk about the fur makes me think that there's so much potential for emergent gameplay there. Looking forward to seeing more!
I recently started a devlog series as well, so it has been really great to explore this corner of RUclips to see what awesome stuff other devs are creating :) Subscribed!

[@kcflick6132]

I love this game so much. It's like a 3d version of 1995s maxis sim life! I jsut bought a copy :)

[@PixelatedFishes]

Just discovering your game! It's everything I hoped to have in an evo sim already!

[@youngyoon307]

In a dreamer I love speculative evolution😊

[@Radcakemix]

I saw this game floating around yt in 2019, but bc there was so little content of it, it got lost. I'm so happy that I found your channel, bc I loved the idea of this game so much! I think I'll purchase it rn!

[@thesleepwalkgamer1694]

this was the start of something great

[@TheSapling]

Haha thanks. Back when nobody was watching ;)

[@roadie5316]

adding fish and algae would be amazing. that way we could see the development of life in the ocean. and see how it evolves to move on to land

[@myrinsk]

❤️

[@bruhman109]

yaaay, almost

[@DeepVoid777]

This is so underrated!

[@KrumpMLee]

Man, I love your game

[@majkatrebaticka2957]

I love it!

[@roadie5316]

it would be cool if you could add non-flowering. non-route bearing. non-leave bearing and nonvascular plants like Moss mosses do produce spores though

[@lorddonqweetle]

are the things in the ground eggs? we see them whenever there are many creatures

[@TheSapling]

Devlog 3 will answer your question ;)

[@lorddonqweetle]

@@TheSapling ohh yea boiisssssssss

[@ruudvandenhove6905]

​@@TheSapling i realy know where this is going

[@roadie5316]

it would be cool if you could add texture to plants such as trees or moss or algae

[@lourdthebluefoxie]

This is so amazing😲😲😲😲😲

[@commanderturtle4636]

I love the game idea I have an idea for defense shells to allow people to make turtles and tortoises and to add omnivores along with sea stuff just some ideas cant wait to play the game I'm getting it around Christmas

[@ChrisCiber]

How about adding a slider to make the creature models more smooth / polygonal? More polygonal creatures could have higher health while smooth creatures could be more energy efficient.

[@TheSapling]

Interesting idea. An important reason for the low poly style right now is of course also the fact that GPUs don't really like having so many animated things on screen ;)

[@ChrisCiber]

@@TheSapling I'm not talking increasing /decreasing poly count, I'm pretty sure there is a way to do the textures that makes seams more/ less smooth looking. Something about normal maps maybe?

[@majkatrebaticka2957]

I faitetd from joy!

[@cgstudiosthebaconbro]

When will the update be out?

[@TheSapling]

Aiming at June 15!

[@mondmadlin]

Oh no and he is handsome too....

[@KyeOctopus]

Can you make it available on xbox?

[@adamgallyot9063]

So I'm all three types?

[@shannonsmith3818]

When is the next devlog coming out?

[@TheSapling]

Aiming for next Tuesday!

[@lourdthebluefoxie]

Hey

[@user-vi8qn8ge1x]

rlly trying hard to be a professional lol.
respect

[@shadowguarder2857]

Your playlist. It's out of order. Why.

[@TheSapling]

Didn't know. Will fix.

[@talonortiz6004]

Hi