Invisible Tall Herbivore Feeder 1.0


Greetings to all my fellow park managers,

I'm delighted to introduce my very first mod here in NexusMods for Jurassic World Evolution 1.
Hope you'll have seen the information about the upcoming sequel and hype about it, like me.
You may have noticed that the sequel,  herbivores can feed from natural trees, unlike in the original game's feeder system.
But what if we can do a similar thing to that?

As many of you, I also wanted to have a feature in original game to recreate natural scenes with the herbivores. But those ugly feeders are ruining the that and makes it more artificial. So I wanted the developers to provide in the original game and they just ignored it. Then I though to find a way to get rid of feeders and found Invisible fishfeeder by  unsc200 which makes the fish feeder invisible and just keeps the fish only, which I really wanted. I'm really thankful to unsc200 for creating that mod..
With that inspiration, I wanted to apply the same method to Tall Herbivore Feeder to make it invisible!

Functionality
-This mod will replace the Tall Herbivore Feeder in Jurassic World Era with an invisible feeder.









DLC Requirements
-You do not need any other DLCs to use this mod, only base game is required.

MOD Requirements
-No other mods required.
-But you can get better results if you have installed Ultimate Mixed Eras Mod by Kaiodenic. (Removes scenery and terrain constrains which is very useful)

Installation Steps
-Download the Mod zip file
-extract the downloaded .zip file
-Find the ovldata folder in your Game installation folder (For Example C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Jurassic World Evolution\Win64)
-Copy and overwrite the existing files. You may need to backup original files, in case if you need to remove the mod.
-Play the game..

Known issues and Workarounds
-Do not load your existing save files. It is recommended to start a new Game in Sandbox Mode.
-It will not add any tree when it is placed. So you need to manually add a scenery tree near to it.


-It will not stop the feeder disposal sound effects.
-It is not an unlimited feeder, it is not a real tree. So you need ranger team's help to refill it.

-It is recommend to always create feeders first and then add scenery trees. Otherwise, if you place a feeder on a scenery tree with a constrain warning, the game may crash. Please refer to the screenshots uploaded with more instructions.


-This mod uses same files that used in Invisible fishfeeder by  unsc200. Therefore to avoid conflicts, I have included his mod (Invisible fish feeder) in my mod. (all the credit for the invisible fishfeeder goes to him and please do endorse his mod)
-This mod will make the food - tree leaves in all the Tall Herbivore Feeder as empty, by visually only. Because all the Tall Herbivore Feeders uses the same mesh as a reference and only their ground base is separated.

-You may notice a small tree leave mesh which I purposely left without removing. it can be use to align the scenery tree branches for better results.



Future plans
Depending on your endorsement, feedback and the free time I have, I may work on below in future.
-Make this mod as standalone feeder
-Remove feeder sounds when disposing food
-Make it an unlimited feeder (no manual re-fills) 
-Make all feeders invisible, while keeping the food visible


Note of Thanks
To all the developers who developed this great game.
Creators of Cobra-tools which made modding possible for JWE.
My special thank goes to  Kaiodenic and  unsc200 for their wonderful Mods.
All the users of this mod and for your endorsements and for the feedback.


Version 1.1
-Released with Invisible small herbivore Feeder
-Re-modeled the food on the feeder to correctly show it as a bush
Note: When the feeder is loading the bush will go down and will go up with feeder sound effects. :-)