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The only issue now is the animals 'exited' in the middle of the rope swing, with the rope still missing after the animation was completed. I suspect this may be as the animal used for the test, a gibbon, uses baby orang anims instead of adult at present. The configuration lines for the exit slot ar...

Toy configuration is complicated. Most of the toy configuration is the same as configuring guest buildings and shelters, especially buildings like the Stego Putt. When Blue Fang designed ZT, they did not make building and toy configuration as flexible as they should. So we are limited in what can be...

Welcome back to ZKL. Thanks for the kind words. Because of spambots, this site does not allow members to start new topics or send personal messages until they have posted multiple replies in existing topics first. Some topics are locked and do not allow replies. The tools for designing are still sim...

uca2post.zip in the third post and uca2post-Source.zip in the fourth post were updated October 29, 2022 by Jay. One of the messages was missing the word "no". "***** Error: cNameID is set to 19000, but there is [defaultLCID] section." was changed to "***** Error: cNameID is ...

The Dhole was updated August 31, 2022 by Jay to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines, to change a setting that is meant to match the setting for all ZT's animals, to make the preferred object tooltip work for females and young, to make two of the sounds work, to fix several typos and spa...

The Volcanic Unicorn was updated August 28, 2022 by Jay to remove unnecessary lines and files, to make the preferred object tooltip work for females and young, to make two of the sounds work, to fix several typos and spacing in the animal info, and to rename the ".ztd" to unicornBySundance...

Hamadryas Baboon was updated August 25, 2022 by Jay to remove unnecessary lines and files, to change a setting that is meant to match the setting for all ZT's animals, to make the preferred object tooltip work for females and young, to make two of the sounds work, to fix several typos and spacing in...

Chacma Baboon was updated August 18, 2022 by Jay to remove unnecessary lines and files, to make the preferred object tooltip work for females and young, to make two of the sounds work, to fix several typos in the animal info, and to rename the ".ztd" to chacmababoonByDevona.ztd so that it ...

On August 9, 2022, checkpal.exe was updated in checkztd.zip and checkpal.c was updated in checkpal-Source.zip. There was a case where checkpal was giving an '".ani" dir1 setting' Error when it was not actually an error. The updated ".zip" files are now available in the previous t...

If you are a programmer with a C compiler such as gcc, it is possible to compile the checkpal and checkztd programs yourself. Here is the source code for them. Extract checkpal.c and checkztd.c from the ".zip" files and use the following commands to compile them in a MS Windows Command Pro...

Here is another checker for user made animals. While the above uca2post program checks various settings in ".uca" files, the checkztd program checks a few things in animal ".ztd" files: 1. gives an error if an ".ani" file in the ".ztd" has a dir1 setting that ...

If you are a programmer with a C compiler such as gcc, it is possible to compile the uca2post program yourself. Here is its source code. Extract uca2post.c from the ".zip" and use the following commands to compile it in a MS Windows Command Prompt window: gcc -O3 uca2post.c -o uca2post str...

This is an Animal Configuration Checker utility. All Zoo Tycoon animals have a configuration file inside a ztd file. For most user created animals, this configuration file ends with ".uca". For all Blue Fang animals and some user created animals, this configuration file ends with ".ai...

The Blonde Grizzly was updated April 25, 2022 by Jay to fix the ztd corruption, to allow it in tanks, to configure it not to climb fences since it does not have fence climbing animations, to add the same prey and dislikes as CC's grizzly bear, to add the preferred foliage tooltip for the female and ...