Feathers! yay!

[irondune]

Devs, great job with the argentavis and dodo feathers!
now, i get to the point: add feathers to the raptor, rex and some other theropods, because at first you said that feathers were too hard to make, but now you guys have proven that statement is false.

imo a feathered raptor is 5000 times more awesome than a naked one, and about the rex:
add some feathers, but not too much...
spino should remain featherless.
and of course pteranodon (i forgot that one) it had pychnofibers (they look like hair).

image of a feathered raptor (Dakotaraptor):
http://41.media.tumblr.com/b345cd676101721080e4e2e39c56acd5/tumblr_inline_nx2g1cK9CY1rx4yme_500.jpg

feathered T.rex:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wlTB5jBNWbw/U9o_oUnhWnI/AAAAAAAAH9M/9Jp7Tpl97Qs/s1600/T+rex+feather+1.jpg

[Fact: carnotaurus was proven not to have feathers, so don't add 'em to him!]

I'm not begging for accuracy or something...i just think it looks a bit better

also, with feathers i don't exactly mean 'bird'' feathers (depending on dino) but mainly pychnofibers for the rex, and real feathers and pychnofibers for the raptor

[TheLogicalCow]

t-rex didn't have feathers......

[rat]

Originally posted by TheLogicalCow:

t-rex didn't have feathers......

actually there is strong evedence that t-rex did have feathers though in the game we don't have a 't-rex' we have a tyranosourus dominous

[Shion]

Originally posted by HOO-DINI:

Originally posted by TheLogicalCow:

t-rex didn't have feathers......

actually there is strong evedence that t-rex did have feathers though in the game we don't have a 't-rex' we have a tyranosourus dominous

Pretty much this.

[Kirby12352]

A giant reptile seems more fearsome than a giant chicken. Besides, the dinos aren't meant to be scientifically accurate.

[JasonB]

Well the Terror bird will be like a feathered raptor. I think the only one they have missed is dimorphodons should probably have feathers because they are textured on.

[Kirby12352]

Originally posted by JasonB:

Well the Terror bird will be like a feathered raptor. I think the only one they have missed is dimorphodons should probably have feathers because they are textured on.

Yeah I know, I'm just so used to the Rex not having feathers that it would just look really weird IMO.

[squidussy]

Dimorphodon's were reptiles, they shouldn't have feathers. And the T. Dom., if it's actually part of the Tyrannosaur family, should have some feathers. But it doesn't bother me too much.

[dinkey]

The dinosaurs do not hold feathers in the dossier (except for the Utahraptor, which holds a tiny amount). They did not add feathers because they were hard to do, they didnt because its their artistic liscense and their view of how their trex looks, so no they will not be adding feathers.

[PCAwesomeness]

I honestly agree with this.

Can you stop comparing feathered dinosaurs to some inbred farm animal?

[ZoomyCat]

I'm not too fond of the feathers myself... http://imgur.com/y2952v1

[CrspyToast]

Originally posted by TheLogicalCow:

t-rex didn't have feathers......

Please don't say that, You will start Dino feather war 3.... IM ON SCALES SIDE!!

[Calus]

Raptors already have display feathers. If they're going to add any more feathers do them, they should be primal feathers. Not bird feathers. Primal feathers are more like fur.

As for T-Rex, we don't know if they had feathers or not, nor enough evidence to conclude anything but that they "might" have. If they had feathers, it was likely only in certain areas, (possibly back, arms, maybe tail) and surely primal fur-like feathers, not the bird feathers, which most people jump to when they hear "feathers"
There's also a strong theory they had fur feathers when young and grew out of them.

Wether they had them or not, people have to get bird feathers out of their heads when they think of Dino feathers. The structure of primitive Dino feathers was more like fur than flight feathers, except for the display feathers on dinosaurs such as raptors. (Which Ark has)

I'm not trying to start a feather vs scale war, I'm just stating that both sides are thinking of "feathers" the wrong way, and it makes the arguments look silly.

T. Dominium looks great the way it is though.

[Shion]

Originally posted by 420:

Dimorphodon's were reptiles, they shouldn't have feathers. And the T. Dom., if it's actually part of the Tyrannosaur family, should have some feathers. But it doesn't bother me too much.

Pterosaurs were covered with a fuzzy coating called Pycnofibres. Closest analogue IS the feather, but it isn't quite the same thing. Pterosaurs were also, frankly, their own unique group, with their next potential closest relatives being the dinosaurs in all likelihood.

Ratite feathers, on the other hand, are probably the closest modern aproximation of dinosaur feathers- actually, I believe the feathers they recently found on a VERY well preserved Ornithomimus specimen were explicitly compared to those of an ostrich or rhea.

[stunner]

This is not an educational game, leave the dinos as they are, cool looking.

[Buster]

If you want an idea of what dino feathers may have looked like in real life, look at the eclectus parrot, or kiwi.

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/male-eclectus-parrot-sharon-mau.jpg

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/csz/news/800/2015/kiwibirdgeno.jpg

Naturally some of the raptors had more bird like feathers.