Zoo Tycoon is Microsoft's entry into the then-wildly-popular genre of simulation games, featuring picky animals, lazy staff, and dumb guests.

Developer Mode

A developer mode can be activated in this game. First, add

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Then, at any time in-game, press CTRL and D to activate the developer mode. Clicking the little x at the top of the navigation opens up a new panel (strangely titled 'Giant Panda').

You can do the following using this mode:

• Add a few buildings and decorations that are not normally available to be placed in your zoo.
• Modify the park entrance.
• Place buildings outside the park.
• Remove items not normally removable (for example, food and poo, or 'zoo doo' as the game calls it).
• Modify the amount of money your zoo currently has.

Also, placing a zoo entrance will allow guests to enter from anywhere. Deactivate by pressing CTRL+D again.

Unused Graphics

A male zookeeper carrying a bag. Intended purpose unknown.

A female zookeeper also carrying a bag. The intended purpose did not magically become known.

It appears that the flowers were originally to require watering. Probably removed to allow the maintenance workers some more procrastination time.

Female maintenance workers would be able to do the same. Hurray for gender equality!

Gray wolves were originally able to swim.

Interestingly, gray wolf pups were able to do the same.

The same goes for the gray wolf's palette-swapped and biome-swapped cousin.

The same goes for the palette-swapped pups.

The dust cloud that appears when one animal kills another, with added blood and bones (!). Most likely axed due to the blood.

Placeholder texture found in 'terrain.ztd'. According to 'tiletex.cfg', there's a terrain type called 'Waterfall' that uses this texture.

Unused terrain texture found in 'terrain.ztd'. Neither of the used water variants use this.

Unused terrain texture found in 'terrain.ztd'. Seems to be identical to the trampled terrain texture (which uses 'worn.tga' instead).

Unused Sounds

Intended purpose unknown.

Intended purpose still unknown.

Ambient crowd noise. This was used in the prototype. The final version has three other crowd sounds that are used instead.

A toilet flushing with a baby crying. What an interesting combo. This was also used in the prototype, when the larger restroom is used. The final version uses the same sound as the smaller restroom.

Unused Text

Found in lang0.dll (lang0.lang on the Mac version) are lots of unused text strings referring to unimplemented features.

Usage of this is unknown.

It seems that animals were originally intended to have a pregnancy period. The babies spawn instantly in the final version.

Placeholder text for zoo awards.

Perhaps this was an inside joke?

These birds, biplanes, witches, and fictional figures that some people believe in appear as decorations in the sky. They are not spawnable from any menu and do not display their name when hovered over.

An unused family found with all the other animal families.

Shrubbery. That's all. (This may actually be used; double check.)

Unimplemented scenery. Observation areas, while implemented, have their construction type in their name.

Unused food-related strings. The final game does not tell the status of the food unless an expansion pack is installed.

Gondolas and trains would have been nice additions.

Unimplemented animal toys.

The decorative red jeep has a text string, but it does not display when hovered over.

Who needs those other 18 developer objects anyway?

These may be actually used; another thing for ncovert to double check.

They took away the zookeeper station, but it still didn't stop them from slacking.

More proof that trains and gondolas were planned. Also, pony rides.

The forest floor was used in the prototype, instead of the three separate forest floors found in the final.The waterfall is available in the prototype, but the graphics are unimplemented.

Taking paths to a new level...or not.

No vines allowed.

This string is repeated three times in a row. Check this one as well; but if memory serves right; the only rock formation available is of the snowy variety.

No curbs to be found.

Check this just to be sure.

The western half is included though.

The animals were going to be even more picky. Thank god they changed that.

This would get annoying if it was displayed every single time a guest entered.

Naughty animals being unconfinable.

The game will nag you if the guests are hungry, thirsty, tired, or have full bladders, but not if they long for a gift shop.

Check to make sure these are also unused.

Research and conservation programs alert you with different messages.

The completion of research and conservation programs is notified in a different syntax. Also, pre-made exhibits?

Animal 'houses' do not display a notification when they have changed exhibits.

The staff training programs (which seem to have the opposite effect, by the way) use a different message.

Miscellaneous animal-related strings.

Your mind-reading powers are weaker in the final game, as these thoughts cannot be read.

The animals are not retrievable in the final game.

No it hasn't. Actually, it has, but just via a different message.

Private foundations are greedy in the final.

Unused scenario goals. These are usable for user-created scenarios.

That would be nice, but it's not used.

Miscellaneous unused text strings.

Trampled terrain cannot be purchased from a menu, so its long description goes unused.

Long tooltip placeholders and items that normally have invisible long tooltips.

These pieces of scenery cannot be purchased. The developer object string has duplicates with numbers from 19 to 31.

Food and poo.

Paths remain unelevated in the final game.

Strings

exist with suffixes from 4 to 54,

with suffixes from 09 to 20,

with suffixes from 64 to 80,

with suffixes from 30 to 50,

with suffixes from 30 to 50.

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Date of Award

December 2019

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Civil Engineering

Committee Member

Yaojun Ge

Committee Member

Weichiang Pang

Committee Member

Yaojun Ge

Committee Member

Thomas E Cousins

Committee Member

Nigel B Kaye

Abstract

Typhoon or hurricane or tropical cyclone, which is a large-scale air rotating system around a low atmospheric pressure center, frequently causing devastating economic loss and human casualties along coastal regions due to violent winds, heavy rainfall, massive storm surges, flash flooding or even landslides in mountainous areas. The coastal region of China, which is characterized by high population densities and well-developed cities, is always exposed to typhoon threats with 7~8 landfall typhoons every year since Western Pacific Basin is the most active typhoon basin on earth, accounting for almost one-third of global annual storms. With more long-span bridges are being constructed along this coastal area, it is of great importance to perform the risk assessments on these flexible or wind-sensitive structures subjected to typhoon winds.

To reconstruct the mean typhoon wind speed field, a semi-analytical height-resolving typhoon boundary layer wind field model, including a parametric pressure model and an analytical wind model was first developed in Chapter 2 using a scale analysis technique. Some basic characteristics of the inner structure of typhoon wind field, such as the logarithmic vertical wind profile near the ground and super-gradient winds were reproduced. Then, Chapter 3 develops a dataset of two wind field parameters, i.e. the radius to maximum wind speed, R_(max,s) and the Holland pressure profile parameter, B_s in Western Pacific Ocean using the wind data information from best track dataset archived by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) coupled with the present wind field model. The proposed dataset of R_(max,s) and B_s is able to reproduce the JMA wind observations as closely as possible, which allows performing more accurate typhoon wind hazard estimation. On this basis, the maximum wind hazard footprints for over-water, roughness only and roughness and topography combined conditions of 184 observed landed or offshore typhoon-scale storms are generated and archived for risk assessment. Moreover, this supplementary dataset of R_(max,s) and B_s enables the development of recursive models to facilitate both sub-region typhoon simulations and full track simulations.

Since the present wind field model can only generate long-time-duration speed, say 10-min mean wind speed, Chapter 4 develops an algorithm to compute the gust factor curve by taking the non-stationary and non-Gaussian characteristics of typhoon winds into account. The real wind data of nine typhoons captured by the structural health monitoring system (SHMS) installed in Xihoumen Bridge were utilized to validate the proposed model. Then, the probability distributions of gust factor associated with any gust time duration of interest can be readily achieved after introducing the statistical models of skewness and kurtosis of typhoon winds.

To predict the typhoon wind hazard along the coastal region of China, a geographically-weighted-regression (GWR) -based subregion model was proposed in Chapter 5. The storm genesis model was first applied to a circular boundary around the site of interest. Then, the typhoon forward model including the tracking model, intensity model, and wind field parameter model was developed utilizing the GWR method. A series of performance assessments were performed on the present subregion model before it was employed to predict the typhoon wind hazards around the coastal regions of China.

Chapter 6 develops a framework to investigate the probabilistic solutions of flutter instability in terms of critical wind speed accounting for multiple resources of uncertainty to facilitate the development of the fragility curve of flutter issue of long-span bridges. The quantifications of structural uncertainties, as well as aerodynamic uncertainties or the randomness of flutter derivatives, were conducted using both literature survey and experimental methods. A number of probabilistic solutions of flutter critical wind speed for two bridges, say a simply supported beam bridge and the Jiangyin Suspension Bridge were achieved by introducing different sources of uncertainty utilizing both 2D step-by-step analysis and 3D multimode techniques.

To examine the flutter failure probability of long-span bridge due to typhoon winds, a case study of a 1666-m-main-span suspension bridge located in the typhoon-prone region was performed. The fragility curves of this bridge in terms of critical wind speed and the typhoon wind hazards curves of the bridge site as the probability of occurrence with respect to any years of interest were developed, respectively by exploiting the techniques achieved in previous chapters. Then a limit state function accounting for the bridge-specific flutter capacity and the site-specific mean typhoon wind hazard as well as the gust factor effects was employed to determine the flutter failure probabilities utilizing Monte Carlo simulation approach.

Recommended Citation

Fang, Genshen, 'Typhoon Wind Modeling and Flutter Fragility Analysis of Long-Span Bridges in Coastal Regions of China' (2019). All Dissertations. 2529.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/2529

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