CHOCOBOS !!!!

[SpaceDorf]

as we were talking ...

Because of you now I want a chocobo mod :-$

based on which version of final fantasy ? 
I have only played I - IX .. and would base it on VII .. I don't know the rest ..

And going from there, the breeding alone sounds like a hell of a project .. not to talk about the different abilities 

Damn you Kave Guy .. now I want them too ..

dear modders .. pretty please ?

[The-Eroks]

Would seem simple enough if one could find a decent art source... since they are so popular, one would Imagine that DeviantArt has something

[kaptain_kavern]

Maybe we can find at least sprites from some 8 or 16bits games like from NES

[Sefin]

The bird in the Alpha Animals mod looks alot like a chocobo

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=17087.0

I belive it was called a Meadow Ave though.

[SpaceDorf]

True .. its a red one .. or similiar enough .. skullywag posted something about that it may be possible that he got eventually the time to work on getting the mod to a17 ..

We could ask aFriend for a Multicolored Version.

[kaptain_kavern]

https://www.google.fr/search?q=chocobo+sprites&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivwuSWkaXVAhVQZFAKHTBQASQQ_AUICigB&biw=1600&bih=807

Simply ...

Only found a couple that seems usable. Like maybe ... or

[SpaceDorf]

It took me a couple of minutes to realize why the legs confused me ..

[Sefin]

Yeah that looks ALOT like the one i linked.

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[skullywag]

I do plan on having breeding be a thing....but im not sure why yet....its not like we can ride em...eh who knows, ill see where it takes me, still wrestling with ranged attacks on animals right now.

[SpaceDorf]

It would be awesome if that was a thing

Out of curiositiy, where is the main problem with the ranged attacks ?
Is it a problem with the verb in general or that animals can't carry equipment and could use weapons that disappear like mechanoids and others ?

[skullywag]

Nah its the thinktree stuff and manhunter, It doesnt work the way it used to before A13. I actually think the 2 manhunter sections in the subtree_misc file (the ones labelled HACK) are not even used by the game anymore, Ive been speaking to Zorba about it, gonna have to approach this in another way, the old way does not work anymore.

[SpaceDorf]

Sounds like manhunter is similiar to berserk pawns which prevents the use of weapons ?

[skullywag]

Sounds like manhunter is similiar to berserk pawns which prevents the use of weapons ?

yeah its like a hard coded job or something, doesnt touch think trees so no way using that method to mod the behaviour. Approaching it from scratch right now as if I never had a working solution, think i was blinkering myself into making it work how it used to which doesnt seem feasible anymore. Anyway this is a bit offtopic, continue discussing big multi coloured birds.

[SpaceDorf]

Sorry, I love solving such problems, and I am quite good at testing and debugging.
My own problem is, that I can't wrap my mind arround programming any more.
And I had a wonderful vision about a Boomacritter from Discworld .. Swamp Dragons.
Omnivours with some interesting digestion problems and the ability to breath fire.

But if you insist : WARK !

Having big multicolored egglayers in the game which could act as caravan animals as first stage sounds not so complicated at all.
Breeding puzzles me in so far, as the different colored birds have to be able to breed with each other ( meaning being one type of animal with different looks for the game )
but having the color of the offspring pre-determined by the color of the parents.

This would depend on the egg/content knowing its parents, like mammals.
I haven't bred egg layers for a while ingame, so I don't know this from the top of my head.
Also I don't know if this information gets overwritten when the egg-stacking happens.