What's with all the slit eyes all of a sudden?

[NateZilla10000]

Half the dinosaurs seem to have cat-eye slits all of a sudden.

What happened to the bird eyes?

Out of curiosity here.

I mean, even Jurassic Park, as inaccurate as it is, at least puts hawk eyes on the T.rex.

[Sargon The Grape]

"Rule of Cool" would be my guess.

[[TL]Loganalm]

It may be changeable when they add in the ability to change your dinosaurs coloration pattern, as I recall seeing that or something similar in a stream clip where dondi switches between the slit eyes and the normal bird eyes.

[dinosauriac]

Generally, the predators use more reptilian slit eyes, whereas the herbivores have round pupils. I suppose the reasoning is that the more reptilian look makes them feel more dangerous than them having bird-like eyes which are more emotive. I remember that being the justification for changing the Rex's style a while back and the other carnivores have slowly started to follow suit.

[NateZilla10000]

Well, I hope it becomes a customization trait; I prefer the bird eyes.

Especially when you factor in that a lot of these predators (Rex especially) could see better than modern day hawks. Their eyes should represent that in my opinion; not be more primitive.

[Powerferret]

Originally posted by NateZilla10000:

Well, I hope it becomes a customization trait; I prefer the bird eyes.

Especially when you factor in that a lot of these predators (Rex especially) could see better than modern day hawks. Their eyes should represent that in my opinion; not be more primitive.

I am curious, without any soft tissue preservation, how can anyone know trex could see better than hawks? If looking at braincase molds, i thought they were dominated by the olfactory node?

[Infinite]

Originally posted by Limey21:

Anybody else that though the op was talking about a certain race of players from the title lol..

lmao

[Jynn]

Originally posted by powerferret:

Originally posted by NateZilla10000:

Well, I hope it becomes a customization trait; I prefer the bird eyes.

Especially when you factor in that a lot of these predators (Rex especially) could see better than modern day hawks. Their eyes should represent that in my opinion; not be more primitive.

I am curious, without any soft tissue preservation, how can anyone know trex could see better than hawks? If looking at braincase molds, i thought they were dominated by the olfactory node?

eye placement is a big part of this. Animals with eyes facing forwards, like humans, hawks, and predatory mammals, have binocular vision. Animals with eyes on the sides of their heads did not have binocular vision and had no vision overlap, meaning they could only see with one eye at a time, always.

Tyrannosaurus Rex has binocular vision, indicating vision was important to its life style. Other predator dinosaurs like Charcharodontosaurus had no binocular vision, and could only see with one eye at a time, especially due to the huge blind spot in front that was created by their giant nose. Dinosaurs like Allosaurus had partial binocular vision, but had a big blind spot of their nose as well.

since Rex has binocular vision, it's reasonable to assume it evolved that becuase it was important to its life style and hunting

this explains the study that was done to find that out, and the study is available through a google search too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rtQPo4HKLY

[Powerferret]

Originally posted by Jynn:

eye placement is a big part of this. Animals with eyes facing forwards, like humans, hawks, and predatory mammals, have binocular vision. Animals with eyes on the sides of their heads did not have binocular vision and had no vision overlap, meaning they could only see with one eye at a time, always.

Ok, so its just extrapolation then. Assuming since hawks indirectly are descendants, rex might have had vision similar. This is a little misleading though because, although having binocular vision is a plus when it comes to hunting, just having it dosent mean you have the visual acuity of a hawk. We have it, but hawks see much beter than us. Cats have it, and we see better than them in bright daylight.

[Velociraptor]

even most regular reptiles have normal eyes not like this