@DanielBoone I'm glad you've come back to carry this mod on your original posts and screen shots looked really promising!
Those screenshots involved changing the textures of the existing plants and animals in the game. Hopefully with adding new models I can keep up what I showed in earlier posts.
My understanding is that I cannot add add new animals to the the existing animals in the game so my project will be to add 22 dinosaurs to the mod by replacing the existing animals.
So I am working out which dinosaurs to add to the mod at the beginning and hopefully down the track we can add more than 22 animals which will randomly appear in the mod. Ideally we would have am option for example where the T-Rex is always there if selected while other dinosaurs are randomly in the game if they are selected.
What I need to decide on is how the dinosaurs will look in the mod. For example the T-Rex as a baby was cute looking with feathers with the feathers running down the back of the T-Rex as an adult and on the tail. However as shown below it is not as frightening looking as it appeared in the Jurassic Park movies.
The T-Rex will be bigger in the mod than what is shown below but I will need to look at any performance impact on the game by having several large dinosaurs on screen at any one time. Hopefully by the time the mod comes out there will be an option to not having more than one animal appear at a time as it would be very difficult fighting more than one T-Rex at a time.