This mod is still a WIP. The goal however is to add variations to the skins of different dinos, not just adjust region color choices, but make entirely new skin designs. These will spawn in along side the default version but at a lower rate and have the label 'Rare' before their name to indicate it is from this mod. These dinos will only be able to mate and make babies with it's counter part from this mod and not the default dinos. I will slowly be adding on more and more dinos with time.
I am setting these up to use the Global NPC Spawn settings and having them replace the default versions by a percentage. Because I wanted them to keep a level of immersion in the game I wanted to keep their naming description something that could make sense. So I went with the term 'Rare', as well as I wanted them to be a bit fun to find instead of seeing them all the time. However it will take time for me to fiddle with the rates to get a good spawning ratio down. They will also have their maximum stat rate doubled, so that finding and taming one has it's own benefit as well.
Not only will a new skin/pattern be applied but I will have Female and Male specific color schemes. So from a distance you will be able to tell if something is male or female for the rare varieties.
If it is a species that has an Alpha version the Rare Alpha will NOT have the red cloud around it. Instead it will have red eyes, and at night they will glow red. Technically they glow red during the day but it's hard to tell cause it's daylight. They are the same size as the default alpha variants of their species, as well as have the same level of difficulty in their rates and multipliers. They will just look differently and have the same spawn chance as the default alphas do. Regular Alphas can still spawn too! They also cannot be tamed, just like default alphas. Eventually the goal will be to have special skins for the rare alphas but at the moment they will share the same skin as the rare non alpha version.
Default spawn rates for dinos are: .25 I upped them from .03 as they felt so rare you never saw them. Will see if 25% is to much or not.
Highly recommend doing a 'DestroyWildDinos' wipe with updates to help them spawn faster on the map for you.
Current dinos done:
- Dodo
- Raptor
- Alpha Raptor
- Parasaur
Dino coming next: Trike
Dinos Planned: All of them, Including dinos for all DLC's as they come out.