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About this mod
A modification of Havok1999 and Gabboi's Northern Lion with more color variation, mesh tweaks, and realistic hunting behavior.
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NORTHERN LION PLUS
This mod is a modification of Havok1999 and Gabboi's Northern Lion custom species mod, featuring a few tweaks that were initially primarily for my own enjoyment, but I've decided to share with the modding community in case anyone else would like to mess around with it.Features:
- More Color Variation: This mod has tweaked .fgm values to give the lions a much wider range of potential color variations. These variations are not meant to be realistic, they are meant to be fun and give individual animals a bit more individuality and uniqueness than is otherwise possible in the game. As such, they do come in colors that lions do not naturally come in, or may more commonly express certain color morphs that are rarer in real life- they can come in black, white, brown, reddish brown, dark brown or dark reddish color, grayish cream, white-cream, cream, golden, etc.
- Model Tweaks: I have tweaked certain aspects of the lioness model to more fit my own aesthetic preferences, giving it slightly larger ears and a slightly fluffier/scruffier appearance around the face, as some lionesses have. Lionesses have a wide range of appearances, and this particular look is what personally appeals to me, and so that's what I went for. I have also replaced the cub model with the one from the African Lion remake, as I personally prefer the scruffier look.
- Realistic Hunting Behavior!: By tweaking the fdb values for the threshold of predation, I have managed to get these lions to only hunt and kill when very hungry, and hunting is no longer an "important" or "essential" behavior- which means animals are less likely to hunt overall, and more likely to eat available food instead. They WILL still hunt if they get hungry enough- however because the drive is so low, their desire to eat and fill their hunger will be higher and they will be more likely to eat instead- meaning if one lion kills a zebra, the majority of the rest of the pride will go eat the carcass, instead of the entire pride mass killing the herd. This is not 100% perfect- on occasion you will get a rogue lion that decides it would rather hunt than eat an available carcass, however the chance is low enough that I am now confident in the ability to keep lions and zebras together in a "wildlife reserve" sort of situation, without the zebra herd dropping like flies and killing not being a constant behavior.