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The last time I saw a beautiful Mod when they turned the Dilophosaurus into a more accurate variant based on the 2020 study; at the beginning, I was thinking that it would be just a reskin that would keep around those small inaccurate Dilos, but what a surprise when it actually gave it the animations and even larger size similar to a Majungasaurus.
I just fell in love with this, and now my park is full of better Dilophosaurus than before, and that got me thinking if this could be applied to other Dinosaurus in an attempt to give them a more accurate look.
This brings me to the idea: find a way to inject the quadrupedal position and animations from some Hadrosaurs (Edmontosaurus and Maiasaura) and bring them into the poor Hadrosaurs that are condemned to walk in two legs all the time, in a pretty inaccurate way (Parasaurolophus, Corythosaurus, Tsintaosaurus, and Olorotitan).
At the same time, we could bring these bipedal models and animations into the Ornithopods that actually walked in two legs (Muttaburrasaurus).
With this, representing actual fossil formations and accurate dinosaurs (which this community has given a lot of precious models) could be a lot easier, and the Hadrosaurs would look a lot more beautiful this way.
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Maybe we could use models that are intended to replace Edmontosaurus, for example, with Parasaurolophus; but instead making whatever this person did to manage that the Parasaurolophus files have this model without replacing Edmontosaurus.
I'm just hoping, I would try to do it myself if I could. Modding is breaking a lot of barriers lately and I really hope to see more, more Mods that give this game the potential it could have had.
Another thing: if you are trying to say that the person who made the 2020 Dilophosaurus mod took model assets from the Dilophosaurus and put them on the Metriacanthosaurus, your statement is flawed. While Putito777 may have used the model of the JWE Dilophosaurus as reference, he most likely just edited the model of the Metri to look like Brian Engh's Dilophosaurus puppet without actually using parts of the model from the JWE Dilophosaurus.
For canon dinosaurs like Corythosaurus and Parasaurolophus, i begrudgingly accepted it.
But sorely wished Tsintaosaurus and Olorotitan were obligate quadrupeds that only ran bipedally.
But now with modding i always hoped that all the obligate bipedal hadrosaurs were converted to their more natural state like Edmontosaurus and Maiasaura.
I think bipedal hadrosaurs are by far the least glaring inaccuracies the franchise has committed. But now with modding being advanced so much and such a little time. I would love to see Ornithopods getting more love in more ways than one.
I just love well-represented Dinosaurs because I like to make exhibits based on Fossil Formations or reconstructing Paleo-environments (the A.I. doesn't help, of course. But at least they look so beautiful in the Screenshots).
And it's sad that most of the time I have to skip all Hadrosaurs except the only two quadrupedal because they just look so off between the other moded Dinos in the ecosystems. I just hope one day I can see a precious quadrupedal Parasaurolophus around my Dinosaur Park Paddock.
But yeah same, even if we'll just have to settle with Parasaurolophus using Edmontosaurus and Muttaburrasaurus using old Para as a base. It's still a vast improvement.