Ark how to speed up the appearance of dinosaurs. How are the dinosaurs doing?

As in any other game, the higher the LVL of a creature, the stronger, more dangerous and thicker it is. It becomes more difficult to destroy. A strong player he himself will kill everything that moves. What is the level of the dinosaur and the player in ARK and how to level up faster? The answer is below.

Dinosaur Levels

Living organisms in the game gain experience and value in the graph somewhat differently than the character. Creatures have three types of levels in ARK Survival Evolved: wild, domestic and captive born.

The first is an indicator with which a wild creature lives constantly. A dinosaur or other living creature is born with a certain number in the column. And they don’t change it until the player bothers to tame it. A wild animal cannot have more than 150 LVL.

During the taming process, at maximum efficiency, the creature can add another 75 levels. Therefore, ideally it will be tamed with a value of 225 levels.

After taming, you can further upgrade your pet by adding another 71 levels to the number received during acquisition. To do this, you need to apply the effectiveness of taming and gain the maximum 2,525,000 experience points. In this case, in an ideal situation, a domestic non-bred dinosaur (mammal, bird, etc.) will be able to have a maximum level of 296.

But the LVL of a creature born in captivity can be twice the maximum domestic level. It may happen that the newborn will receive 450 LVL - the largest that is allowed on the official servers.

How to Spawn a High Level Dinosaur in ARK Survival Evolved

If you don’t want to look for a high-level creature to tame, you can simply summon it using console commands. Cheat codes work either on local servers (in single player), or when using them on your own online server.

Before using cheats, you will have to enter the EnableCheats command into the console. After which you can safely call a dinosaur with a specific level. To do this you need to enter the following:

admincheat spawndino “Blueprint’/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Allosaurus/

Allo_Character_BP.Allo_Character_BP’» 1 1 1 200

Where the number 200 is the desired level, instead of which you can substitute any value. After spawning, a creature with the required LVL will appear, which remains to be tamed or killed.

The character is also limited to the maximum level in ARK Survival Evolved, like a dinosaur. The final figure is 100 levels (before Ascension) and 115 after (5 pieces are added after each tier of the tech cave).

For achievement maximum level 100 you need to earn 1,798,538 experience points. In this case, the character will receive 3144 engram points over the entire game (which is less than the number of engrams in the ARK Survival Evolved game).

If we take into account the levels added by the caves, then you need to earn 6,473,538 experience points to rise to the 115 mark. In this case, the engram points will be 4194 (which, however, is still less than the number of available engrams).

How to increase levels faster

Leveling up is useful, but very tedious. Therefore, I want to raise the levels quickly. What do you need to do for this in ARK Survival Evolved? Dinos and humans have different requirements.

How to level up a player

Some useful tips how to become experienced player quickly:

1. To quickly earn new LVL on initial stage, it is enough to actively extract resources and craft things (in particular, a fabric hat).
2. The next step is taming the creature. With it it will be easier to hunt other lizards (stegosaurs are a priority) and obtain resources.
3. After 14-16 LVL you can go hunting and kill dinosaurs. This gives you a lot of experience.
4. As you progress in training, tame more and more powerful lizards (Raptor -> Spinosaurus -> Tyrannosaurus and so on).

The more you kill animals, craft things and collect resources, the faster your experience grows.

How to level up your dinosaur

There are not as many actions available with dinosaurs as with the player. Therefore, it is important to immediately take care of maximizing the level of your future pet even at the taming stage. Try your best to get the maximum LVL.

If the lizard has already been tamed, its level is raised most quickly by hunting serious opponents. So grab your pet and go destroy the local fauna. The more you kill, the more resources you have, and the more experience your pet has.

Jonathan Reilly, who has been working in game development on AAA games and in cinema on special effects for more than 15 years, will talk about the secrets of creating a realistic dinosaur.

Creating such an extinct creature as a dinosaur required good preparation and a lot of references. Usually, when I create a monster, I rely entirely on flights of fancy.

The creature at the heart of this project once actually lived on our planet, so I spent quite a long time collecting a good library of references to make my dinosaur as realistic as possible, with real anatomy. Tyrannosaurus has always been my model for this extinct species, so when I was asked to recreate something similar, I went with it without hesitation.

01 Scene setting inMaya

For such projects, references are key point

After selecting a side reference of a dinosaur, I loaded it into Maya to use as a guide when creating the dinosaur basemesh. I assigned the reference as a texture to a plane with a planar UV scan along the X axis.

Then I made the image square for faster projection, and the material was translucent. I added the reference to the Display layer, for which I set the mode to Reference so that the image could not be selected in the Maya viewport.

02 Basemesh preparation

Start working on the dinosaur by extruding the faces of a regular cube, focusing on the reference

I started 3D modeling of a dinosaur by creating simple cube. Next, using extrusion, I created a silhouette of a dinosaur based on the reference. I modeled the basemesh using quads, not particularly worrying about small details, I only needed the overall volume. Try to distribute the polygons evenly at this stage, but do not go too deep into the details, which can always be added in ZBrush.

03 Working on details

Create a couple of spheres and place them in place of the eyes

Then I added a couple of spheres to the scene and placed them where the eyes would be. In my opinion, a basemesh always makes face sculpting easier. Next, I moved on to creating a language that was still based on an ordinary cube. Finally, when the basic dinosaur model was ready, I exported the result in .obj format to continue working in ZBrush.

04 Import toZBrush

Import the file in .obj VZBrush and split the mesh into separate subtools

I imported the .obj file into ZBrush. Then I split the geometry into separate subtools using the command Tool>Subtool>Split>Split To Parts. Next, I masked out the various parts of the dinosaur's body using ZBrush's selection tools (+ and click) and created polygroups for them using the Tool>Polygroups>Group Visible command. Thanks to this approach, you can conveniently work with individual elements of the dinosaur’s body.

05 Dinosaur blocking

Try not to pile on units unnecessarily

When working in ZBrush, it is important not to pile on divisions from the very beginning. At this point I just doubled the resolution of the mesh.

Using the Move, ClayTubes and Smooth brushes, I quickly sketched out the general shapes, being careful to take my time with the muscles. At the same time, I worked in symmetry mode on both sides of the dinosaur at the same time, which always speeds up the sculpting process.

06 Muscle training

Use polygroups to hide parts of the dinosaur you're not working on

I then used polygroups to hide the parts of the dinosaur that I wasn't working on. Again, using the Move, ClayTubes and Smooth brushes, I quickly outlined the muscles. At this stage, you can already start increasing the number of subdivisions, but I try to take my time, increasing the resolution only when it is really necessary.

07 Head detailing

Outline the brow ridges and jaw usingClayTubes

The head differs from the body in that it has less muscles, but the bones of the skull are present. In fact, the head is a skull with massive jaw muscles, which create such sharply defined shapes.

I outlined the brow ridges and jaw using the ClayTubes brush. I masked the area around the eyes and used the Move brush to create indentations under the eyes. Then, again using polygroups, he isolated and carefully worked out the internal cavity of the mouth.

08 Body

Practice is a sculptor’s best teacher

Sculpting is a constant process of building up, smoothing and removing geometry, which is practically no different from working with ordinary clay. I created the volumes using the ClayTubes brush, then smoothed them with the Smooth brush, and sharpened the features with the Crease brush.

Thus, a sculptor, even a digital one, can create a finished product only through constant practice, working and refining the geometry until he begins to like it. At this stage, try to pay attention to how the muscles interact with the skeleton and with each other.

09 Skin texture

Now that the muscles are ready, it’s time to work on the claws and skin of the face, elbows, knees, etc.

Then I worked on the claws, folds, wrinkles and skin texture on the face, elbows, knees, etc. I sculpted a couple of skin folds on the neck, which I created with a Crease brush.

I softened wrinkles and depressions on the skin with a Smooth brush, trying to follow the natural direction of skin growth on the shoulders and collarbones. Next, I detailed the resulting geometry, increasing the number of divisions.

10 Klinap geometry

Duplicate the dinosaur's body and draw guidelines forZRemeshwhere you want a neat grid

After duplicating the dinosaur's body, I drew guidelines for the ZRemesh, outlining the mesh around the eyes, mouth, elbows, shoulders, hips and knees. I also drew guides around the tail so that the mesh wouldn't spiral in that area.

I tried not to forget and include symmetry to make the mesh more neat. I decided to stop at a polygon size of 15,000 polygons, and in a matter of seconds I got a neat dinosaur with a new topology.

11 CreationUV- sweeps

Creating polygroups for differentUV-shells

To create the UVs I used the UV Master in ZBrush. For the different UV shells, such as the head, mouth, arms, body and legs, I created separate polygroups by enabling the Color Painting feature in UV Master. This allowed me to mark the areas where the seams should be.

For the seams, I chose areas of the mesh that are not visible, such as the inside of the legs or skin folds. This way I got a development with seams in clearly marked places.

12 Additional work withUV

For better work WithUV-export by unwrapping.obj-file inMaya

I then decided to get more precise with the UV mapping and exported the file as an .obj file into Maya. I configured the UV shells so that the head and mouth were located on one UV sheet, and the body with legs on another. Next, once I was happy with the geometry and UVs in Maya, I imported the new base mesh into ZBrush. I still made the head a separate texture, since, due to the emphasis placed on it, it had to have sufficient resolution.

13 Transferring parts

Transfer detail from the old mesh to the new one

At this stage I needed to transfer the detail from the old mesh to the new one. To do this, I duplicated the old subtool with the dinosaur body, made the UV subtool visible, and went down to the lower level of subdivisions of the original geometry.

Next, I used the Subtool>Project>Project All command to transfer the detail from the old mesh to the new one. Moved to more high level divisions of the old mesh and created a new one. Then I repeated this operation until the result began to suit me.

14 Small parts

INZBrush there are some useful alphas

ZBrush has some very useful alphas, but I personally usually use my own alphas, pre-created in Photoshop. With alphas I work with a Standard brush with intensity parameter 10 in DragRect mode, thus transferring details from the image to the geometry.

Sometimes, to increase the speed of work, I turn on symmetry in some areas, but with the head and body I try to work without symmetry, avoiding the “butterfly effect”.

15 Basic colors

Blocking a pass with primary colors usingPolypaintVZBrush

I always sketch out the main colors using Polypaint in ZBrush. In this case, it is better to paint the model before posing, since with this approach you can safely work with symmetry turned on, which significantly speeds up the work process. For basic coloring of geometry, the Standard brush in Color Spray mode, as well as Alpha No. 07, are quite suitable. The undoubted advantage of this approach is that you do not need to worry about seams, as, for example, when working in Photoshop.

16 MapSpecular

UsagePolypaintto create a seamless grayscale image

Polypaint can also be used to quickly create a seamless grayscale image, highlighting highlights and vice versa. These maps can later be easily exported to Photoshop using the Multi Map Exporter.

In addition, you can create a Cavity map, which can also be used to highlight finer details in the render.

17 Dinosaur posing

Posing is very important, so it's worth your time

The posing stage is very important, so you need to spend enough time on it. By this point, it is better to understand exactly how the character will be positioned, since this will significantly speed up the process of positioning him. So, I T-posed the character using Transpose Master, then masked and moved various elements of the model accordingly.

18 Texture maps

Creating a texture map with basic skin colors usingZAppLink AndPhotoshop

I used ZAppLink and Photoshop to create a texture map with the main skin colors. To achieve this map, I focused on the primary skin colors with a low Noise setting.

In addition, you can use references of elephant skin or, for example, rhinoceros, and then using ZAppLink, project the texture onto the dinosaur, without worrying about seams at all.

19 Baking textures

Bake the cards from the final model usingMulti Map ExporterVZBrush

Next, I baked the maps from the final model using the Multi Map Exporter in ZBrush. Baked Color, Cavity, Ambient Occlusion and Normal maps at 8k resolution. For the dinosaur I used two sets of texture maps, one for the body and one for the head (UDIMS).

20 MapDiffuse

Try to work inPhotoshop with a file in .psdwith unmatched layers

In Photoshop it is very convenient to work with an image in layers, storing the file in .psd format for a rainy day. With this approach, you can always make some edits to the image. As a basis, I took a texture with the main colors of the skin, on top of which I sequentially placed the Ambient Occlusion, Cavity and Base Color maps, adjusting the brightness, contrast and transparency if necessary. Try to work carefully and carefully at this stage so that you don’t have to fight with the light in the render.

21 Additional details

Create a small fake bump by copying the blue channel from the exported mapNormal

On top of all the layers I created a small fake bump by copying the blue channel from the exported Normal map. Then I adjusted the brightness, contrast, transparency and layer blending mode again. At the same time, I tried to remember that I had two different UV sheets that were supposed to be seamless, so any changes in one required instant changes in the other. I used the same principle to texture the tongue and eyes.

22 Finishing inPhotoshop

Improving the final image using filters

In Photoshop, I placed the KeyShot render of the dinosaur on top of the background image. I did some color correction on various layers and set the blend mode to Overlay and Multiply for some of them. You can also enhance the rendering effect by using various filters and stylizing the image accordingly.

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Who doesn't know Winamp, The Bat, ICQ, Far Manager, WinRAR? Once upon a time, these programs were installed on every computer. Are they and their lesser-known contemporaries alive today? Are they updated? Will there be the last available versions work on Windows 10? Let's check!

Winamp

The project is officially dead, and, apparently, no one is going to revive it. There is a poll on the Russian subsite asking whether the resource should be closed. Below is last news, and the latter - in the literal sense of the word. The top one is dated December 31, 2014 and reports that Winamp has been saved. But since that time - no new versions, no news. The latest release with the number of the beast 5.666 appeared on December 12, 2013. That's all.

If we compare Winamp to a dinosaur, it would be a Tyrannosaurus rex, no less. In 2009, Winamp had 70 million users. Just think about this number! For example, according to the latest data, fewer people live in France - 64 million. The army of Winamp users is larger than the entire country.

However, on November 20, 2013, AOL, which owns Winamp, announced the closure of the project. Despite the fact that the program was developing (for example, versions for OS X and Android were released) and it still had millions of users around the world, AOL considered further investment of money futile. Monetizing the free Winamp was not easy, especially since the number of users in the United States was declining the most rapidly. Naturally, the closure of such a well-known project did not go unnoticed - even non-technical media wrote about it at the time.

This story had a continuation, which could mean the revival of Winamp. Two months after announcing its closure, Belgian internet radio broadcaster Radionomy Group has confirmed it is buying Winamp from AOL. That is why a message appeared on the website ru.Winamp.com that Winamp had been saved, but there have been no new versions since then.

Winamp was first shown to the public on April 21, 1997. The latest version was released in December 2013. Consequently, the project lived for sixteen years. Not bad, but this is far from a record. Our review will also include more ancient products.

Will our Tyrannosaurus be able to run on Windows 10? Download the latest version 5.666 and try to launch it. The dinosaur is definitely alive!

True, he did not immediately see the contents of the Music library; he had to add it manually. Overall no disappointment latest version Winamp doesn't call. On the contrary, his modern Bento cover looks quite impressive.

However, there is nowhere to go: offline music players are slowly dying out. Nowadays it’s common to listen to music online - it’s faster, and it’s much easier to find new artists. Winamp and its more lively relatives are now needed mainly by music lovers who cannot part with their accumulated music library. Desktop players also allow you to use an equalizer - this function is not yet available in online players.

By the way, some traditional players have special plug-ins for playing music from the Internet. For example, AIMP can play music from VKontakte. And of course, there is iTunes with built-in Apple Music and an unofficial one for Google Play Music.

The Bat

The Bat is a famous email client developed by the Moldavian company RitLabs. If I gave up Winamp at one time, then I didn’t give up The Bat email client, and I continue to use it. Why The Bat? Yes, because it organizes work with several mailboxes very conveniently. I think The Bat users, especially those who used Outlook before, will understand me.

Yes, The Bat does not have any special features that would be useful for working in a corporate environment, but this does not bother many users at all. If we compare The Bat with a fossil, then I would choose Chi - it’s a dinosaur that resembles bat, which was found in China. But I wouldn’t call The Bat a fossil.

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ARK: Survival Evolved- a very complex survival action game for beginners who immediately have many questions. And when you have already built your first home and are more or less on your feet, the question arises, who is worth taming? And we will try to answer this question.

The guide is written based on the experience of playing on the map The Island, so may not be the same as playing on other maps.

Phiomia

These pig-like creatures live almost everywhere on the island. And this is one of the easiest creatures to tame. The fact is that if you attack a fiomia, it will simply try to escape from you. If you get her stuck in some rock or wall of someone's base, then you can easily stun her even with a club, and then simply tame her with berries, and the taming takes a very short time.

The only caveat is that it is best to tame wild fiomia at level 80 and above, because only then does it reveal its good potential for a beginner. She can be used as a mount, although she is quite slow. But, to be honest, a beginner doesn’t need to travel very far before taming a pteranodon. The fiomia is also a good beast of burden, and can also be used as a good fighter. If you upgrade your fiomia to health, it will be able to cope with 1-2 dilos and defeat one raptor without any problems. And if you tame two fiomia, then you don’t have to worry about your safety on the beaches at all.

Parasaurus

Essentially, it’s almost the same as Phiomia, only less health and stamina, but more speed, damage and weight tolerance, but the parasaur takes a little longer to tame. Cowardly, like fiomia. You can drive it into a wall somewhere and beat it with a club or slingshot.

Dilophosaurus

If you are wondering which is better to tame, Dilophosaurus or Raptor, then the first option is best. Yes, dilo is not as strong as a raptor, and you can’t ride it, but it can be tamed much faster. Even 150 dilos are quite easy to tame. And besides, in battle he will not interfere with you like a raptor, which constantly revolves around its prey.

But the most important thing why dilophosaurs are needed is their eggs, from which you can make food for as many as three species of dinosaurs. Moreover, two of them are the most useful specialist dinosaurs Ankylosaurus and Dedicurus (Kolobok). So you will really need several individuals in the future.

Triceratops (Trike)

Taming this dinosaur is not as easy as the previous ones, and it takes a lot of time. But in general, the task is not too difficult for a beginner. The trike can be seen on the beach, where strong predators will not interfere with you. The main thing is to stun him with arrows, of which you don’t need too many. Also, put wooden fences around it and start feeding it berries.

But if you tame it, you will get a very good fighting dino that can throw back its enemies, as well as a mount. It is also good for transporting goods. But it is most valuable because it can produce berries well. A couple of hundred valuable drugberries can be collected in just a few minutes (the berries are collected by attacking the bushes). The main thing is not to overestimate this dinosaur and do not ride it deep into the island. Maybe a 100+ trike can defeat a rex or a spinosaurus. But God forbid you run into a flock of allosaurs that will simply tear you and your trike to shreds, and it’s not a fact that you will be able to escape from them.

Dodo

The dodo is on this list for one reason only. These are their eggs, as they are laid with enormous speed. And from eggs you can make food for three dinosaurs, and the food is very easy to prepare. It doesn't require jerky, which means it doesn't require oil or an oven. Let’s talk further about who we will tame with this food.

Pteranodon

Pteranodon - best dinosaur for a beginner. Firstly, it is quite easy to tame him, just immobilize him with a bolas, and then stun him, best with tranquilizer arrows, then feed him food from dodo eggs. The main thing is not to tame very low-level pteranodons. It’s better not to look at those below level 70 at all.

A tamed Pteranodon has big amount benefits. Firstly, it is one of the fastest flying creatures. For a beginner, taking off means changing your position significantly. Now you can safely explore the entire island, find the rarest resources, and study which dinosaurs live in which places.

Plus, the pteranodon is an excellent fighter. On the "C" key, he has a very powerful attack, with which you can even kill dinosaurs such as Bronto, Spinosaurus or Rex. In addition, using this attack you can get a large amount of meat.

The saddle for this creature can be crafted at level 35, but this can be achieved very quickly, probably in one day of play. A tame Pteranodon is worth it. You yourself will notice how much easier it will be for you, and you will no longer play the role of lunch when you tame the pteranodon.

Ark: Survival Evolved is a universal game project in the survival simulator genre, in which users go to the era of dinosaurs in order to survive and prove their superiority. In this game, you can create personal servers and control them not only using special settings, but also through special console commands for Ark: Survival Evolved.

Why are these commands needed?

Console commands for Ark: Survival Evolved is a convenient tool for server administrators. If you are one, then just call a special console and enter a certain set of characters, after which you will receive an advantage, a dinosaur or some useful action. These commands are specifically designed to make it easier game process, give server administrators greater power and expand their control. After all, the main creator must be powerful and not deny himself anything.

All that remains is to figure out exactly how to use them. In principle, there is nothing complicated about this. To activate console commands in Ark: Survival Evolved, just follow a number of steps:

1. Press the Tab button to open a special input console.
2. First enter the command enablecheats AdminPassword. If you decipher it, it turns out that the enablecheats command is the main one, and AdminPassword is your password to the admin panel.
3. After successful activation, call the console again using Tab.
4. Then you need to enter a set of characters that is already programmed for a specific action.
5. Press the Enter button and the command will be activated.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated about this, so you can safely start taking advantage of new opportunities and achieving your goals.

Summon Dinosaurs

The most relevant and popular console commands for Ark: Survival Evolved are those related to dinosaurs. Thanks to the collection of these commands, it becomes possible to summon huge creatures for active use in terms of movement and battles.

First of all, we invite you to familiarize yourself with the collection of commands for land creatures, which are the most common in the game. We presented them above. Next, we suggest taking the opportunity to summon water creatures.

The commands below will also be relevant. The main thing is to enter them correctly.

A nice addition will be a small collection of flying creatures that will destroy the boundaries of your movement around the game world.

But don't limit yourself to just these options. For example, you can use console commands for ID dinosaurs, which are bosses, to play Ark: Survival Evolved.

Here, in fact, are all the options for creatures that can become faithful partners in your adventure. Summon, train and use them for different purposes.

A set of utilities for the player

If you don’t need dinosaurs, but want to get an advantage over other users, then console commands in Ark: Survival Evolved for the player can help with this. These include: gaining experience, increasing damage, the ability to fly, freezing opponents, etc. All you need is just to enter the required command.

Here are some more commands that will be useful to you. They are also in demand.

Graphics Settings

IN Lately the game has begun to actively develop, and now it is possible to make adjustments to the graphics settings using regular commands and values. The console commands in Ark: Survival Evolved for graphics are as follows:

1. r.bloomquality 0 (bloom mode regulation);
2. r.lightshaft 0 (adjust the lighting level);
3. r.shadowquality 0 (shadow control).

For now, these are all the available commands for conveniently editing visual settings. In the future, the developers promise to make adjustments and significantly expand the choice of teams. In the meantime, you can safely use the indicated options and customize the design of the game at the right time.

Now you have in your arsenal big choice various console commands that can be actively used during the adventure. Use our instructions, carefully type a series of characters and get the necessary actions. Thanks to them, you will be able to comprehensively control the situation on your server, distribute gifts to participants, cause chaos among players and just have fun. This is exactly what it was created for this opportunity, so we recommend that you do not miss it and feel free to operate with all available command options.