Dream Zoo How to Customize Animals

So today, Zynga released an update for Dream Zoo which among other things, made it possible to customize the look of your animal.

 So how do you customize an animal? Well we first pick a Champion Level Animal. Let pick the Orangutan as an example.

Lets Choose A Member from this Family

Next, we Select the specific animal we want. Lets pick the one on the right. You will then see the Customize icon on the left side of the screen. 

A Wild Orangutan Appears...

Choose that icon to enter the Customize your Animal Screen.

Customize Animal Screen

Lets go through the components of the Customize Animal Screen so that we will know what each control does, and at the end, i'll post some of the cost associated with each customization.

Firstly, there's the 'Random' button, and it's used exactly how you think it will. Dream Zoo will randomly pick different colors and patters for you on your animal.

You can find some funny combination with 'Random' button.

The middle dark row shows you your current combination that you pick.

Your Current Selection.

And will show the result in the right box.

Each change to the animal will cost some currency. The small boxes with the Dream Zoo Buck in the top right corner means they cost Dream Zoo Buck if you pick it.

The boxes with the golden crown means you already own an animal from that same type of family and it has the pattern or color that you picked. So those changes are FREE!

Now we get to what they actually change...

The first column changes the largest area of an animal, usually the back (dorsal) side of the animal

You can see that it changes the backs of the animals below. Look at the first column and see that it changes the largest area in an animal.

The second column changes the next largest part of the animal. It is Usually the front (ventral) parts, but sometimes, it may change other areas if the largest part is connected (check doing the Eagles on your own). It seems the person who actually designs the animals picks which one is connected to a control.

For the following 2 animals, it will change the 'chest' area. In this example, it changes them to White.

The third column changes either the accents (face, hands, markings) or the bottom (ventral) areas.

In the examples below, the orangutan's face color change, and the Penguin's beak change color.

The fourth and last column changes the pattern that's on the Animal.

The Top Slider changes the transparency of the pattern itself. How visible the pattern is.

The Slider at the end controls how big the pattern is. It controls how zoomed in you are to the pattern on the skin of the animal.

You can clearly see in the orangutan that it changes from many small star pattern, to just one big star.

All these changes are only for preview, in order to make the change permanent and shown in your actual zoo, you have to click on the button at the bottom right of the screen. The button will show you how much the total cost of the change is. You can always his the big red "X" at the top right of the screen to chancel and go back to your zoo at any time.

This is a super long post thanks to all the pictures, I'll post the cost to customize the animals in the next post about Cost of Customizing Animals