Author Topic: How to create a dry part in tank for turtles or seals (Read 5257 times)

Giraffe · « **on:** October 25, 2006, 02:19:06 AM »

Is it possible to create a bit of land in an exhibit? I'd like to make exhibits in which turtles, otters or any kind of animal that can live in the sea and on the shore can live. So that means that they need a strip of 'beach' next to the sea. Meanwhile I wan the guests to see them swim under water.

Is it possible to create such an exhibit?

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Doomchild · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2006, 02:49:39 AM »

that's explained in one of the tutorials if i'm not mistaking.

Giraffe · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2006, 04:33:04 AM »

How to start the tutorials then? I just can't find out!

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 25, 2006, 04:47:39 AM »

Go to the 'Play Campaign Game' on the left-hand side of the main menu, the lock and key picture.

Look for one on the left that has tutorial in the title and look at the description on the right under the picture. It should have something lik, 'Learn how to build tanks in Marine Mania.' or something like that.

I can't give a tutorial name cause I haven't got it yet but I hope this helps.

Davedogg · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2006, 08:39:21 AM »

the tutorial name that your looking for is hybrid tank construction and you would start it just like a normal campagne game

Spider Monkey · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2006, 08:50:29 AM »

On another thread, someone explained how you can make a tank, minus one panel, then use the elevation tool to make an island in the middle, then fill in the panel so it fills with water. I haven't tried it yet but it sounds like a great idea.

I have a horrible time making hybrid exhibits. I can't get a lowered tank wall to line up with the land.

Gloria · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2006, 11:43:45 AM »

Sometimes tanks do weird things...

I had a tank, and it was bordered by an exhibit with a fence. When I later tried to expand my tank, the tank suddenly lost all its water and the fish were flopping about on the land. @___@ So I turned it into a hybrid tank... okay, since I had turtles in there too. But then I added a keeper gate to the side which had been touching the fenced exhibit, and BAM, it turned back into a tank again. Except the water level wasn't up to the top of the acrylic walls, it stayed down at the level of the land. So I'm like, "Whatever! I give up." and went to work on something else.

Strange.

I DID, however, finally figure out how to make a hybrid exhibit that connects to a show tank. You have to use the "create ditch" tool in the landscape panel and sort of shave off the bits of land that stick up beside the tank wall. Then you can add a tank portal.

Davedogg · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2006, 05:07:16 PM »

if you arelowering one tank wall then make sure that the land is flat first otherwise the top of the wall will never line up. but there are 2 other ways of doing it
one is to build 3 sides of a normal exhibit and tank wall for the 4th side then put path along the 4th side and run the ditch tool along the path you can also do this halfway along a side and one endit looks very coolthe other way is just to do a normal exhibit with normal fence

Giraffe · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2006, 11:51:04 PM »

Thanks guys!

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Peacenote · « **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2006, 11:05:17 AM »

90% of the time when I make a hybrid tank, when I lower the tank to become even with the land, it works, but I get a message saying "XXX (whatever animal I put in there) is not contained."

Does anyone know why that might be? Am I doing something wrong??

wolfkid92 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 29, 2006, 11:38:10 AM »

I'm guessing its b/c the tank is even with the land so the game thinks the tank is part of it (meaning the game thinks theres nothing keeping the animal in).

Rosinas Cat · « **Reply #11 on:** October 29, 2006, 11:42:02 AM »

Yes, Peacenote, I experienced this today. Unfortunately a tank wall can only be the perimeter of the exhibit if it is at full height. So you need to create a fenced piece of land adjacent to the tank, if you see what I mean.

Peacenote · « **Reply #12 on:** October 29, 2006, 11:48:34 AM »

You mean I have to make the tank first?

When I try to raise the land to be even with the tank height, that doesn't work either because the fence stays at the level it was at.

Rosinas Cat · « **Reply #13 on:** October 29, 2006, 11:57:59 AM »

I don't think it matters in what order you build it. You just can't use lowered tank walls as exhibit perimeters - there has to be something else 'outside' that.

This is how mine worked out, if that helps.

Peacenote · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2006, 12:02:51 PM »

Oh yes! Thanks I think I see what you mean. I wasn't aware that you could have differing levels of walls within one tank like that.

Nique · « **Reply #15 on:** October 29, 2006, 12:20:16 PM »

I'll have to try that Rosina's Cat - I've been having the same issues as Peacenote! Thanks for the tip!

Peacenote · « **Reply #16 on:** October 29, 2006, 01:59:57 PM »

I tried and tried to get my tank to look like yours, Rosina's Cat, and it wouldn't work.

So I finally redid the hybrid tank tutorial, and realized I wasn't holding down the shift key to move just the one wall. :blushing: SOOO simple!

So now it works! And the problem was exactly what you said, the rest of the tank walls have to be higher.

Rosinas Cat · « **Reply #17 on:** October 30, 2006, 10:05:57 AM »

Wow, I'm so pleased it helped, Peacenote and Nique! :

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Mind you, that is pretty much all I know about MM2 at the moment.....:blushing: :laughing:

Lugger · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2006, 10:12:02 AM »

the shgift button is your freind but becare ful
mke it as high as a high fence or some animals will escape

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Author Topic: How to create a dry part in tank for turtles or seals (Read 5257 times)