Hell yea they fly now? Let's fucking go.

Pushing an update to fix that now

Hi, RG_temperategrassland no exist anymore

Hi!
It is possible to have more owl? It can sound strange, but they are my favorite birds and would lile to make a colony around owl.
My favorite species are Otus Scops/Eurasian Eagle-owl (bubo bubo) and long-eared owl.

Thank you for this mod :D

This mod will continue to stay CE incompatible until they release their 1.6 version, b/c I need to see if they're doing anything special with flying creatures.

Alright thanks

Yep CE is your issue then, sorry

I do have CE and the bird was the Black-winged Cuckooshrike

I'm about to go to bed, but I can look at rebalancing in the morning if any birds other than the Owl are killing people lmfao

The owl is around the strength of a Vanilla Fox I think

@Runic I need more details
- Which bird
- Do you have CE installed (this will make the birds extremely unbalanced if so b/c none of my mods are patched for CE)

None of the small birds are stronger than a Vanilla rat, last I checked. If it was the Owl, that checks out

One question, I tested this on naked brutality but, why does 1 bird kill 1 human?

@Doc sophie
Take a look at Bird Up!+! I'll think you'll like it ;)

Bird mom here, you are a legend and I cannot WAIT to see quaker parrots, cockatiels, and all sorts of canaries being added. <3

Yes

Have you had the time to implement the vanilla animal flight mechanics that got added in 1.6?

yeah!

@RealLifeHobgoblin ...Which my mod uses lmfao

moo, that would require Vanilla Expanded Framework.

@moo That's incredibly helpful AND extremely good timing b/c I just got back from my trip. I'll be pushing an update tonight to fix this!

Hi. You can fix this by changing:

<li Class="NocturnalAnimals.ExtendedRaceProperties">
to:
<li Class="VEF.AnimalBehaviours.ExtendedRaceProperties">

Thanks!

yeah, it seems like no birds are behaving as nocturnal because of the error, I have not observed any other issue until now
but I'll be on the safe side and delete the patch while you don't post a fix

In case anyone else want to delete it too to clear the error before the modder posts a fix, the patch they mentioned is located in Patches/bodyClock.xml

Perfect! iirc, the nocturnal coding is applied with an XML patch, so that should be easy to remove by deleting the patch file until I fix it (but otherwise afaik the only thing that should happen is birds just won't be nocturnal)

Thanks to your hint, I could reproduce it with only your mod and VEF, here is the log
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/07093afca62c4240cce900b39e0ed1e7

@Tyrannidae NP, thanks for getting back to me! I’ll try to isolate the error further and will send you a log so you can take a look whenever it’s convenient for you. :)

I won't be able to fix this until the 3rd most likely, though.

@Wednesday
I'm currently on vacation, but this looks like a VEF issue, since that's what the activity period code comes from. Do you have more info about the error?

I'm having this error in 1.6

Could not find type named NocturnalAnimals.ExtendedRaceProperties from node <li Class="NocturnalAnimals.ExtendedRaceProperties"><bodyClock>Nocturnal</bodyClock></li>
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()

Ok I ended up going on a tangent and found an issue with the Cuckooshrikes on accident. Pushing a fix for that and the Triller/Parrot sprites now!

Figured out the issue. I only had E/W sprite sets in there so it wasn't able to handle N/S views. Pushing an update in a bit

@Plaguelord
Let me do some testing this morning. They should be working fine...

Birds are appearing as pink squares while flying in 1.6 for me, no errors or anything.

Seeing them fly is so cute! Great update.

I love the birbs they're so cute :3

Flight in vanilla omg!

lol W

Ok I've updated this mod to 1.6. Flight is gonna look jank while I work on the flight sprites, but it works now without any extra mods (in 1.6 only! 1.5 still needs the Pathfinding Framework!)

Well... I guess update 1.6 answered that question LMFAOO

I WILL be updating this to 1.6, and my other bird mods will also be getting support for this new flying stuff, too! This one and GREG are gonna be prioritized for sure.

@Enrico I do not think so

Do they fly over walls?

Maybe it is just a me problem, but in case it is not I wanted to let you know TYR_AnimalRandomizedColors may be a bit broken as the Philippine Fairy-bluebird does not appear to have a skeleton, instead opting to use its regular body texture instead of Owl_skel

Agreed! I'll probably make an alt version of this mod that makes smaller birds like the hummers ambients

This mod is really cool. Looking forward to Scurvyez's mod that makes small animals not count as actual entities. That would open the door to having lots of small bugs / insects and other little critters without destroying performance.

@RocketRacoon One of the mods I'm planning on making in the near future will do this for things like birds, bugs, and other small animals such as mice, voles, frogs, etc. I already have everything in place code-wise with my Fireflies 2 mod which using a particle system to render the fireflies. I just need to find time to make another, more generic, mod for different animals and effects. But like Tyr said, the base game does not support such things in any performant manner so it takes a lot of code to get it to work.

@RocketRacoon That's out of my scope, sadly. Rimworld isn't really built to have ambient critters like that

@Hex: Thicc grass
It should now! Let me know if anything isn't working properly.

does this mod work with vanilla genetics expanded?

Would it be possible to have birds not being counted as animals on the map or something? While I love the birds, I don't want to have to hunt them for food :))

I'm a giant bird nerd and would love some north american birds like the american crow, northern cardinal, great horned owl, etc

Best mod to restore some sanity. Had too many brainrot content recently