What would the animation for Pterodactylusbe? Based on a image I saw online, Aerotitan would most likely be a reskinned Alanqa with the same animation. But what would Pterodactylus have? The Dimorphodon animation with the tail animation shorted for the short tail of Pterodactylus? The Pteranodon animation because they have the short tail? A new animation for small short tailed pterosaurs? I feel like it wouldn't have the Alanqa animation because it would be too large.
114.79.12.213 wrote: I think it would use Pteranodon's animation. Its neck might be slightly longer, but in overall appearance, in my opinion, it looks more like Pteranodontids in morphology
Erm... Pterodactylus is a euctenochasmatoid, a completely different branch of the Pterodactyloidea from Ornithocheiroidea.
Animalman57 wrote: Pterodactylus has the Pteranodon animation!
Personally, this Pterodactylus just looks like a female Pteranodon with a ventrally projecting anterior rostrum.It doesn't even look like the real pterosaur it took its name from. Honestly, I would have been happier if Pterodactylus were using the Dimorphodon animation set for size and limb proportions being more accurate. I do understand this is a Jurassic Park game (which this franchise is already lacking in the accuracy department), but when a creature is hard to tell it was based on the real creature, I end up in that "not mad, but dissapointed" mood.
(I can't actually believe I'm saying this, but Dave Peter's reconstruction looks as accurate as the version given to us by Ludia, and that man is shunned by the entire scientific community for his crazy ideas about the evolution of amniotes.)
To be fair, the JP:B Pterodactylus hardly looked any better.
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True, in Jurassic Park Builder it was just a reskin of Pteranodon, and at least with Jurassic World The Game it has SOME differences, the only difference between Pteranodon in JPB was color, the only difference in this game is color to -_- come on Luidia!
CrashBash wrote: To be fair, the JP:B Pterodactylus hardly looked any better.
Very, very true. Considering that the genus Pterodactylus has existed since the early 19th century, and is one of the most well-known and best understood pterosaur genera (I think that only Pteranodon, Rhamphorhynchus, and Ornithocheirus/Tropeognathus might be better understood at this time), I feel that Ludia should give this ctenochasmatoid some more respect than just making it a recolor of an entirely different pterosaur. The anatomy is almost completely wrong in both games, and it honestly just looks bland. We have plenty of ornithocheiroids and azhdarchids, with only 4 other families being represented (Tapejaridae, Dsungaripteroidea, Dimorphodontidae, and Rhamphorhynchidae), and lumping this fascinating pterosaur in with a completely unrelated group seems like the worst path. Hell, I'd be far happier with this thing having the Dimorphodon animation, since it would look more accurate that way. Just lengthen the head's and neck's rig, shorten the tail's rig, and you'd have a worthwhile "Pterodactylus" as opposed to a "female Pteranodon with a droopy beak". This "Pterodactylus" is built entirely wrong, lacking many of the distinguishing features of the real animal! Where are the keratinous beak tips? Where are the webbed feet? Where is that glorious soft-tissue crest? Where are the TEETH? Where is the long neck? Where are the more equal limb proportions? Where is its small size?
(It's so unrecognizable to most people with some understanding of Pterodactylus's anatomy that even the legendary James Beavers doesn't know if it's a real animal.)
With all due respect, are you really expecting scientific accuracy from a franchise that couldn't even do Velociraptor properly even before we knew it had feathers?
CrashBash wrote: With all due respect, are you really expecting scientific accuracy from a franchise that couldn't even do Velociraptor properly even before we knew it had feathers?
It would be nice for them to have paid a little more attention to the real animal (they could have at least given the Pterodactylus teeth and a large crest on its head so that people could tell that it was meant to be P. antiquus)