How do we turn off these horrible wild dino colors in single player?

[Redeyeflight]

I've tried everything I can think of. I don't have any events activated through launch options. I've gone so far as to completely wipe my single player data and all progress. I'm still seeing creatures with neon pink, purple, red, blue, yellow polka dot ..... They don't blend in with the rest of the scene at all. The game is unplayable for me.

I'm hoping there's a graphics setting somewhere that I tripped that caused an error, but I have a correctly skinned creatures standing right next to something that looks like a yellow school bus, so I doubt it.

Can I get rid of these eyesores?

[Vesuvius]

"Unplayable?"

Anywho...


[ServerSettings]
ActiveEvent=None

Singleplayer gameusersettings.ini

[Redeyeflight]

Thanks

[Dradiin]

How in the H.E. double Hockey sticks is the color of a dino, rendering the game unplayable ?

[Redeyeflight]

Originally posted by Dradiin:

How in the H.E. double Hockey sticks is the color of a dino, rendering the game unplayable ?

The same way painting all the rooms in my home in random neon colors and replacing my nice wood floors with bright purple 70's shag carpet would make the house unlivable.

It's a jarring assault on the eyes when set in contrast to the otherwise natural landscapes.

[Redeyeflight]

I've tried three times and thus far adding ActiveEvent=None to the [ServerSettings] secion of the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini has caused the game to crash.

Two of the three attempts saw the map loaded and oddly enough the same dinos in the same colors spawned in the same places, even after using the "Delete all single player data" feature in the game creation screen.

It really shouldn't be this hard to opt out of events.

[Vesuvius]

Removing the event does not necessarily remove already spawned dinos.... do a wild dino wipe.

As for opting out...that is what we already have... we should have to opt in.

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

Originally posted by Dradiin:

How in the H.E. double Hockey sticks is the color of a dino, rendering the game unplayable ?

The same way painting all the rooms in my home in random neon colors and replacing my nice wood floors with bright purple 70's shag carpet would make the house unlivable.

It's a jarring assault on the eyes when set in contrast to the otherwise natural landscapes.

No... not the same....
A: your rooms dont keep changing colour

B: You would not sell up and move out if you knew that in a week or two... your house would go back to normal.

And in the end.... your toilet still flushes... the lights operate... the oven/TV/fridge/Doors etc etc all function as normal.... rendering your temporarily psychedelic house..... livable.

[Redeyeflight]

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

The same way painting all the rooms in my home in random neon colors and replacing my nice wood floors with bright purple 70's shag carpet would make the house unlivable.

It's a jarring assault on the eyes when set in contrast to the otherwise natural landscapes.

No... not the same....
A: your rooms dont keep changing colour

B: You would not sell up and move out if you knew that in a week or two... your house would go back to normal.

And in the end.... your toilet still flushes... the lights operate... the oven/TV/fridge/Doors etc etc all function as normal.... rendering your temporarily psychedelic house..... livable.

As an example to illustrate an answer to the original question, the analogy is perfectly acceptable. If the scope of an analogy is broadened beyond the basic premise then no analogy will ever be sufficient.

As for the counter argument based on the expanded scope you propose I would say that selling the house is not a reasonable reaction.

Dousing the entire house in gasoline and setting it ablaze with whoever painted it without my permission tied up inside...

...is the reasonable reaction.

[Redeyeflight]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

As an example to illustrate an answer to the original question, the analogy is perfectly acceptable. If the scope of an analogy is broadened beyond the basic premise then no analogy will ever be sufficient.

As for the counter argument based on the expanded scope you propose I would say that selling the house is not a reasonable reaction.

Dousing the entire house in gasoline and setting it ablaze with whoever painted it without my permission tied up inside...

...is the reasonable reaction.

You could just... paint it?

But you're right, no analogy would suffice... particularly when one is a static tangible asset with intrinsic RL dynamics and the other is a temporary pixel with temporary switches - replete with an intrinsic vanishing act at a single stroke. :lunar2019coolpig:

a·nal·o·gy

noun
a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
"an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies"

a correspondence or partial similarity.
"the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia"

a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects.
"works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature"

[Dradiin]

Oh and you can paint your house, and in ARK you can paint the Dinos to, Maybe kill the offending ones you dont tame, and those you do tame paint them a boring black or white with a shade of earth tones to really simmer down those garish colors.

[Redeyeflight]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

a·nal·o·gy

noun
a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
"an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies"

a correspondence or partial similarity.
"the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia"

a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects.
"works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature"

Posting the definition of analogy does not an analogy make.

But the take home from it, now that you have bothered, was in "significant respects" - the only significant respect of yours was the disparity. I even listed the most significant.

Now, did you get to your dino colours back to... standard?

Premise: "The appearance of unexpected and unnatural coloration in a given environment may cause certain individuals with a predisposition to avoid those colors to feel disgusted to varying degrees".

Observation 1 (Ark): The dinosaurs for the event unexpectedly spawned with unnatural coloration, causing me to be repulsed.

Observation 2 (Analogy): My home was unexpectedly painted with unnatural coloration, causing me to be repulsed.

Conclusion: Should my home undergo a transformation like that of the event dinosaurs in Ark, my reaction would be repulsion.

Analogy: Accurate.

And yes, I got things straightened out. Thank you all for your help :)

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Posting the definition of analogy does not an analogy make.

But the take home from it, now that you have bothered, was in "significant respects" - the only significant respect of yours was the disparity. I even listed the most significant.

Now, did you get to your dino colours back to... standard?

Premise: "The appearance of unexpected and unnatural coloration in a given environment may cause certain individuals with a predisposition to avoid those colors to feel disgusted to varying degrees".

Observation 1 (Ark): The dinosaurs for the event unexpectedly spawned with unnatural coloration, causing me to be repulsed.

Observation 2 (Analogy): My home was unexpectedly painted with unnatural coloration, causing me to be repulsed.

Conclusion: Should my home undergo a transformation like that of the event dinosaurs in Ark, my reaction would be repulsion.

Analogy: Accurate.

And yes, I got things straightened out. Thank you all for your help :)

you forgot

Observation 1 (Ark): The dinosaurs for the event unexpectedly spawned with unnatural coloration, causing **it to be unplayable**

Observation 2 (Analogy): My home was unexpectedly painted with unnatural coloration, causing **it to be unlivable**

Conclusion: Should my home undergo a transformation like that of the event dinosaurs in Ark, my house would be declared unfit for habitation.

Analogy: In-Accurate.

[Redeyeflight]

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

Premise: "The appearance of unexpected and unnatural coloration in a given environment may cause certain individuals with a predisposition to avoid those colors to feel disgusted to varying degrees".

Observation 1 (Ark): The dinosaurs for the event unexpectedly spawned with unnatural coloration, causing me to be repulsed.

Observation 2 (Analogy): My home was unexpectedly painted with unnatural coloration, causing me to be repulsed.

Conclusion: Should my home undergo a transformation like that of the event dinosaurs in Ark, my reaction would be repulsion.

Analogy: Accurate.

And yes, I got things straightened out. Thank you all for your help :)

you forgot

Observation 1 (Ark): The dinosaurs for the event unexpectedly spawned with unnatural coloration, causing **it to be unplayable**

Observation 2 (Analogy): My home was unexpectedly painted with unnatural coloration, causing **it to be unlivable**

Conclusion: Should my home undergo a transformation like that of the event dinosaurs in Ark, my house would be declared unfit for habitation.

Analogy: In-Accurate.

You just constructed a conclusion out of supporting observations. This is not deduction.

You've also narrowed the scope of the conclusion to a point of specificity that the premise does not support.

[RHBallistic]

What a juvenile thread. It is perfectly reasonable to think neon-pink and green dinosaurs are stupid.

[Phasmata]

The fact that players still have to edit .ini files instead of having options in the game's interface is yet another illustration of the imbecilic design of this game.