New animals from the world

[Baelish]

Hi, I hope that you know my world map. For the first time I want to create new entities for custom biomes. Is there any similar project for american, asian or oceanian fauna and flora? Maybe a guideline for a list of entities that could be useful for the community, because I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

(I've already red guidelines about markers' number limitation and textures format and size.)

Claude wrote this for me, please share with me your opinion.

Tropical Rainforest (Congo, Amazon, SE Asia)

• Fauna: jaguar, tapir, sloth, coati, macaw/generic parrot, poison frog (small decorative)
• Flora: kapok/ceiba with buttress roots, climbing liana, tree fern, epiphytes/orchids (trunk detail), banana palm

Tropical Savanna

• Mostly complete. Nice-to-have: hyena, ostrich, umbrella acacia (shape variant, not new species)

Hot Arid Desert

• Fauna: fennec fox, scorpion (decorative), desert monitor
• Flora: already covered (palms, thorny acacias). Missing columnar cactus, but that's American — see below

American Desert/Scrubland (Sonoran, Chihuahuan)

• Fauna: coyote, roadrunner, rattlesnake
• Flora: saguaro, prickly pear (Opuntia), yucca, mesquite

Cold Arid Steppe (Central Asia, Patagonia, Mongolia)

• Fauna: saiga antelope, wild ass/onager, European bison, corsac fox
• Flora: feather grass (Stipa), steppe wormwood/artemisia, tumbleweed (Salsola — explicitly requested on the official forum)

Mediterranean

• Essentially complete, no priority gaps

Temperate Deciduous Forest

• Complete via existing temperate/alpine biome, no urgent gaps

Boreal/Taiga

• Fauna: moose, reindeer/caribou, lynx, wolverine
• Flora: spruce, larch — likely reusable from alpine biome, check if current textures hold up at higher latitude

Tundra/Polar

• Fauna: reindeer/caribou (shared with taiga), seal, muskox, ptarmigan
• Flora: lichen (ground decorative), moss, dwarf willow, dwarf birch

Dry Tropical/Monsoon Forest (Yucatán, coastal East Africa, central India)

• Fauna: peccary, coati, green iguana, toucan
• Flora: ceiba (shared with rainforest), agave, tropical columnar cactus, royal palm

High Mountain/Alpine

• Fauna: marmot, ibex (if not covered by generic goat), golden eagle as a dedicated model (not the current generic "hawk")
• Flora: mostly fine with existing conifers

Oceanic/Tropical Islands

• Fauna: crab, sea turtle
• Flora: already fine with existing coconut palms

 

[Thalatta]

Just to mention some iconic South American animals that seem missing (some not very known to outsiders): condor, rhea, capybara, maned wolf, viscacha, guanaco, vicuña, and of course the more known domesticated variants of the last two: llama and alpaca. Also shared with other continents: penguin, flamingo, anteater, armadillo and cougar. I can't remember if elephant seals or sea lions are already in the game.

[Baelish]

19 minutes ago, Thalatta said:

elephant seals or sea lions

No, there is the walrus.

If anyone wants to collaborate I'll submit all on my github repo. You can also give me some advices on github issues. 

[guerringuerrin]

1 hour ago, Thalatta said:

Just to mention some iconic South American animals that seem missing (some not very known to outsiders): condor, rhea, capybara, maned wolf, viscacha, guanaco, vicuña, and of course the more known domesticated variants of the last two: llama and alpaca. Also shared with other continents: penguin, flamingo, anteater, armadillo and cougar. I can't remember if elephant seals or sea lions are already in the game.

Don't forget the second big cat of Sudamérica after the jaguar! (although present in North, Center and South America): The Puma, a.k.a. the Mountain Lion

Edited 44 minutes ago by guerringuerrin

[Thalatta]

Just now, guerringuerrin said:

Don't forget the second big cat of Sudamérica! (although present in North, Center and South America): The Puma, a.k.a. the Mountain Lion

It's the same as the cougar, puma concolor in binomial nomenclature

 

[guerringuerrin]

8 minutes ago, Thalatta said:

It's the same as the cougar, puma concolor in binomial nomenclature

That happens to me for (not)reading too fast haha 

 

48 minutes ago, Baelish said:

If anyone wants to collaborate I'll submit all on my github repo. You can also give me some advices on github issues. 

I'll keep an eye on the progress and see how I can contribute. Coincidentally, I'm getting back into studying Blender.

Edited 34 minutes ago by guerringuerrin

[ShadowOfHassen]

2 hours ago, Baelish said:

roadrunner,

 

There are open issues on git tea which can be found here of  other animals people started to work on that are half way done if you want to knock a few out easily while your out it. Please don't open issues for new animals just a PR to add the new the animal is nice.