Isla Nublar does not have all of the terrain paint options

[Larry]

This is something that is quite ridiculous. Isla Nublar, the SANDBOX island, has LIMITED paint options. I always knew the other islands were going to have restrictions on these tools to maintain terrain continuity, but this is unreasonable. Sand and Shale is not available for Nublar, and some other islands.

According to Paul Crowther on the JWE forums, "The terrain tools are specific to each island. Whilst we know that people would like all options, especially for sandbox, this wasn't technically doable without corrupting or impacting saved games."

I can't say I know how their game engine functions, but I'm really buying it. It sounds very unlikely that adding textures for the paint tool would cause this kind of issue. If this is the case and not an excuse, I think it would be worse that a small additions like that could potentially cause severe issues.

[pixelrobot]

it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. how could changing a surface texture cause so many problems.

[Larry]

Originally posted by pixelrobot:

it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. how could changing a surface texture cause so many problems.

Exactly.
I've been trying to be open-minded about the situation, but I would honestly rather believe this is just an excuse to not do anything about it. If the game's coding foundation is so poorly made that the devs can't add textures to the tool that is not already present on an island (without causing issues with save files), there's a major problem worse than PR.

[E c h o]

wait, i have never heard of shale. is it like gravel or something?

[MS Haftverbot]

This game is dead for me, i had hope with this terrain tools but it´s just a dissapointment. Not all terrain tools for all maps, including the SANDBOX map, wtf. It´s sad that the game is such a dissapointment.