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Published: 2018-02-24 17:27:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 5992; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 14
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So what have I been doing with all those low poly dinosaurs? My original intention was to make a Pokemon Snap style game with them, and that's still something I intend to do, but in the meantime I figured I'd try and make something educational.You can check it out at www.theropodstudios.com/Builds… it currently has a super early species viewer with placeholder text and the above timeline which you can walk around. I currently have 50 species represented, 48 Dinosaurs, a Pterosaur, and a Turtle. Currently Africa and South America are under represented, while Australia and Antarctica are empty, these will change in the future.
Let me know what you think, I'd love feedback and species suggestions
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First off, the good stuff--this is a great attempt at a comprehensive timeline that brings together dinosaurs from all around the world and all different points in the Mesozoic. The way it's laid out continent by continent makes it easy to read, and that's a big plus. So that alone averts a thumbs-down.
But there are some issues, mostly involving anachronism. For example, you list Parasaurolophus as living in the Maastrichtian epoch along with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, and Regaliceratops. This is not the case; it actually lived some 10 million years previously, during the Campanian. Therizinosaurus and Velociraptor should also be slightly earlier, while the time extent you give for Kronosaurus is too great. It lived from 120 to 100 million years ago, not 125 million to 90 million.
Those aside, I really like it.
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I commend you for taking on a project of this scope. Modelling a large amount of prehistoric animals, having them be to scale, putting them in various environments, and even supplying educational information about them. It's very admirable.
However I have a potential issue regarding the use of sources because many of these animals seem to be pretty obviously based on pre-existing skeletal diagrams. For example, the Scutellosaurus looks to be based on that by a.deviantart.net/avatars/q/i/q… " alt=" " title="Qilong" /> . Also, the Kulindadromeus has the color scheme very similar to that used by
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Now we get to my concerns about the factual content of the site. For starters Montanazhdarcho has been depicted as an azhdarchid when it has recently been reinterpreted as a non-azhdarchid azhdarchoid, perhaps a tapejaromorph. Yutyrannus is depicted in the cladogram as being in a polytomy with Alioramus and Tyrannosaurus when it is almost certainly basal to the clade formed by those two. Unenlagia is depicted in that cladogram as being non-dromaeosaurid when practically every robust phylogeny has recovered it as one.
However, in my opinion the positives outweigh the negatives by far. The vast majority of the animals are skeletally accurate (though I cannot say I know much about this particular topic) and their placements in the timeline are pretty much spot-on. Besides what I have mentioned I have no issue with the informational aspects of this site. I almost cannot wait to see it finished and I hope it becomes a valuable resource for palaeo fans.
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Thank you for the feedback, I greatly appreciate it
You are correct in the assumption that many of the species are based on preexisting skeletal diagrams, I am currently in the process of rigging them so I can put them in more natural, generic poses so that they are not direct recreations of someone else's work. That being said, I will be sure to add credits and references to the notation section in the very near future.
The Kulindadromaeus coloration is taken from Andrey Atuchin's reconstruction. I was under the mistaken impression that the coloration was based on fossil evidence, much like Microraptor and Psittacosaurus. This is clearly not the case and I will change its coloration immediately.
I can confidently state that any other coloration similarities are coincidental. The only exceptions are species for which we have good evidence, and the Acrocanthosaurus and Velociraptor, whose colorations are based off of a canceled project I was working on, the original artist will be credited as well in the notation section.
Overall I tried to keep the colorations vibrant yet grounded, though I may need to tone down Baryonyx and Siamosaurus. The main exceptions to this are the Sauropods. I figured there is no way to really hide when you are that massive, so why not show off instead. I fully admit there is no scientific evidence to back this up but it was fun to play around with.
As for your factual concerns, I will adjust my phylogenetic bracketing to be more accurate, though fixing Montanazhdarcho might be problematic. Given how prevelant David Peter's work is and the mostly fragmentary nature of Pterosaurian remains I am considering holding off on any Pterosaur inclusion unless I can guarantee their accuracy.
I hope these satisfactorily address your concerns, while this is just a personal passion project for me, I do want to make it as informative and accessible as possible for others to enjoy
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My main concerns were not actually with the coloration of the sauropods but with some of the smaller animals. The Regaliceratops and Miragaia in particular stand out in my mind for having a really rainbowlike reflection to their surfaces.
I really do feel like my concerns have been satisfactorily addressed and I appreciate that you've taken it so well.
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Ah I see, I can play around with the shaders to try and tone down the iridescence on them.
In the mean time, I have updated the build to include the cladistic changes, the changed Kulindadromeus texture, and a citation page
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