Author Topic: Hippos underwater? (Read 9561 times)

Bengal · « **on:** November 09, 2006, 04:36:51 PM »

I was just wondering..

I just now added hippos after getting MM2. I don't have a tank for them, just a pool of water. Has MM2 allowed them to walk underwater now? All of mine were doing it, but they didn't really have any new animations, they just looked like they were walking on land. When I looked at their actions, it just said "Walking Around" ..they looked like they were stuck in a hole, walking around. Is this a glitch, or do they just walk around underwater now with MM2?

mikaboshi · « **Reply #1 on:** November 09, 2006, 04:43:20 PM »

I actually don't have a clear cut answer for you. I thought Steve said something about some of the animals that don't go underwater but I can't recall if the hippo was on that list or not. Now, in the wild, hippos do walk underwater a lot, so I don't know if its a glitch or not, unfortunately

Flames The Dragon · « **Reply #2 on:** November 09, 2006, 04:52:03 PM »

its no bug all mine do i`ve seen many hippos do that so it must be progarmed

Bengal · « **Reply #3 on:** November 09, 2006, 04:56:21 PM »

Well, after watching them for awhile, they seem to get stuck underwater. They don't go to land to eat, drink, or anything and their needs continue to go into the critical zone..they just continue walking around in the water. So I do believe it must be a glitch or something..

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2006, 11:06:30 PM »

Animals that newly go underwater are the E. penguin, P. bear, Hippopotamus. I think that's it. He said that when they watched crocs they were mostly on the surface.

Hippos walk underwater like in real life, that's programmed I think but getting stuck must be a glitch. That's all I can say at the moment but I'll experiment!!!

EDIT: I just experimented with hippos and water and it worked fine, they sunk to the bottom, wandered then surfaced then swam to the shore and exited the pool. One thing I did use though is maybe something you didn't.

When I use animals with pools inside, I always go round the edges with the 'Smooth Terrain' tool to make it a slope to et out. Maybe you could try that???

Here's a pic: Pool Gradients

mikaboshi · « **Reply #5 on:** November 10, 2006, 12:02:24 AM »

That's a good tip zookeeper; maybe that will keep your hippos from getting in the red, Bengal.

wolfkid92 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 10, 2006, 12:09:56 AM »

Quote from: Bengal;155710

Well, after watching them for awhile, they seem to get stuck underwater. They don't go to land to eat, drink, or anything and their needs continue to go into the critical zone..they just continue walking around in the water. So I do believe it must be a glitch or something..

actually the hippos have new behaviours for swimming but its not really a real swim, its kinda a dive to get from a high to low elevation under water, otherwise they go underwater, b/c in real life hippos walk underwater, they are newly programed for this, and the reason they arent leaving might be that you arent smoothing the terrain underwater so u have an underwater cliff which the hippos cant get back to land.

ChubbyPanda · « **Reply #7 on:** November 10, 2006, 12:15:58 AM »

Steve said it's the crocodiles they didn't modify to swim in tanks because they stay near the surface most of the time =o.

Cuddly Panda · « **Reply #8 on:** November 10, 2006, 12:39:57 AM »

Were the crocs updated in the final version?

mikaboshi · « **Reply #9 on:** November 10, 2006, 12:59:38 AM »

No the crocs were not updated in MM2

Bengal · « **Reply #10 on:** November 10, 2006, 02:43:31 PM »

Ah- I did not know to make slopes for the hippos. Thanks! I will try that.

orka · « **Reply #11 on:** November 10, 2006, 04:58:51 PM »

Zookeeper is right,:thumbsup: the only newly programmed animals in mm to swim underwater are emperor penguin, hippo (not pigmy) and polar bear. I checked the main animals's XML file and the have "submerged" actions that they didn't have before. I tried to programm the cocodrile to swim underwater, but it is a big hard stuff !

Iwuvmyparakeetz · « **Reply #12 on:** November 10, 2006, 05:08:41 PM »

Could someone post oics of the hippos underwater?

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 13, 2006, 11:52:36 AM »

Sorry, kept forgetting but here are a couple:

Hippo Submerged

mikaboshi · « **Reply #14 on:** November 13, 2006, 12:33:57 PM »

Has anyone checked to see that the pygmy hipps doesn't do this too? Because I think they use the same animations, thus when one is updated the other should be too.

Eriorguez · « **Reply #15 on:** November 13, 2006, 01:28:30 PM »

Pigmy hippos spend most of their times in land, I think that's why they don't go underwater.
Well, at least, it might be easy to give 'em theunderwater animations.
The bad news are for moose and beaver...

Iwuvmyparakeetz · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2006, 01:44:18 PM »

So, the pygmys don't go underwater?

mikaboshi · « **Reply #17 on:** November 13, 2006, 01:44:52 PM »

Well moose geneally dont go under water in the way that the other animals do; they swim, yes, but the only time their heads go underwater is to eat plants off the lake floor

csleesburg · « **Reply #18 on:** November 14, 2006, 12:17:20 PM »

No, it's like the crocodiles. They don't go underwater, either.:

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Cuddly Panda · « **Reply #19 on:** November 15, 2006, 12:47:11 AM »

Oh no! I would have loved to get the pygmy underwater. :

: Well, I could probably make a hack to fix this when I get it, so it doesn't matter too much. :wink:

Bengal · « **Reply #20 on:** November 15, 2006, 02:16:20 PM »

My hippos don't look like the one that was in the picture which was posted. They look just like they are walking on land, except they are underwater. Even though I sloped the banks, they still get stuck. :wacko:

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 16, 2006, 10:43:52 AM »

That was a submerging hippo, here's a hippo walking underwater.

Hippo Walking Underwater

Not sure about what to do with the getting stuck, the smooth always works for me.

Megaraptor · « **Reply #22 on:** November 16, 2006, 02:49:20 PM »

Am i the only one more than a little upset about how the Crocodile doesn't submerge? BF usually does their homework. This i find a little odd.

Cuddly Panda · « **Reply #23 on:** November 16, 2006, 03:11:21 PM »

Yeah, I am too. I hope they fix it one day.

mikaboshi · « **Reply #24 on:** November 16, 2006, 03:24:46 PM »

I think the reason why BF didn't code the crcos to go underwater is because of crocs usually are at the surface of the water, with just eyes and nostrils showing.

Taken from Animal Diversity Web:

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they often go into the water with only their eyes and nostrils showing and stay submerged

Bengal, I don't know why your hippos don't like to come back up

DO they do this if they are in a mixed tank/land exhibit or only if they are in a natural one?

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