White Half Curbs

[Jay]

White Half Curbs



Author : Jay

Category : Curb

Date Added : June 28, 2013

Current ztd date: June 24, 2013

Size : 4 KB

Compatibility : All Game Versions

Description : When an arch is put in an exhibit, animals will try walking through the walls of the arch unless there are exhibit walls around the outside of the arch's walls. These White Half Curbs can be used for that purpose, as shown in the above screenshot. These are only half of a tile wide, but ZT believes they are a full tile wide, just like any other fence. There are 2 versions in the purchase menu: exhibit and decorative. It is the exhibit version that should be used around arches in exhibits. Since the purpose of the curb is to prevent animals from walking through the walls of the arches, I made them 0 cost. I also made them indestructible in MM/CC. Since the original ZT does not support indestructible fences, I also made them take so long to deteriorate that, for all practical purposes, they are indestructible for that ZT version as well. The exhibit version of the curb could also be used to make a path look like it is inside an exhibit or aviary. These curbs use the Wooden Curb messages when in ZT. Most of those messages come with ZT, but the tooltip message that came with ZT was just a placeholder. So it is recommended to use the tooltip message that is in lang999-override.dll, dated June 4, 2012 or newer:
http://www.ztcdd.org/DG/index.php?topic=5353.0

Since there are multiple downloads that use the Wooden Curb messages, if you select one in the purchase menu, there are times when the selection will go to the first one in the menu: when the menu is closed and reopened, when the menu is switched to a different one and then back to the fences, when ZT goes through its unlocking logic that occurs at the beginning of some game months. We live with this in order not to use up IDs too quickly.

ZT has other graphical glitches whenever there is a slope in a zoo. Depending on the zoo view, the zoom level, and the distance to a slope, ZT will slightly change the position of an object. For most things, this is not noticeable. For objects made to be near slopes, however, that slight repositioning is more noticeable. Although that problem cannot be eliminated completely, in order to minimize the problem, these half curbs are not quite as long as I would have preferred. For me, though, zoos look better using them than the various alternatives.

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