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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M4KS94E7GVCXYCPQBTFMTA7Q
title: Shaping the wolf
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-11
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Farcamp’s wolves began as little assemblies of boxes. That was enough to put an animal in the world while we worked on how the game played. Now the wolf has a shaped, jointed body—but this is another step, not its final appearance.

## The old wolf and the new one

Both models are shown below in matching Blender studio renders: the same camera, lighting and scale. The old wolf is reconstructed from the original game's box geometry and colours; the current model is imported from the game's asset. These are model comparisons, not gameplay screenshots.

| Before | Current WIP |
| --- | --- |
|  |  |

The connected body gives us a continuous back, a shaped muzzle and limbs that can deform with the skeleton. The block-built animal has become a model we can keep refining.

## A direction, not a finish line



The wolf is still a work in progress compared with this concept. The cheek and neck ruff are flatter, the tail is narrower at its base, and the face reads better from some angles than others. There is only one coat so far.

We are deliberately improving the art gradually across the game. The aim is to give the whole asset set a comparable share of attention, letting everything become more detailed as Farcamp progresses. Most of our focus right now is on game design: proving that the colony is interesting to build, manage and live with. Taking one wolf all the way to a polished final asset would leave the rest of that work waiting.

## Learning how to build it

The modelling approach began with the earlier deer experiments. Those deserve their own story: the failed attempts, the tools the founder directed us to build, and the workflow that emerged from correcting them.

For the wolf, the side view supplied lengths and heights, while the front and rear supplied widths. We built one half, mirrored it and joined the centre seam. Coat colours, painted facial detail and a skeleton followed.



That last limitation matters. An outline can follow the back and legs while missing the fullness of the cheeks. These checks help us judge the next improvement; they do not replace looking at the animal.

The model is now in the game. Its movement has its own story in [Feet on the ground, hands full](https://opensystems.app/projects/01M3B70Q318G1G8N0NSV63ME5X/journal/01M4KRZPC5VRY4BFH3ZBE2WYYG). For the art, this is a useful stopping point until the next gradual pass.

## Open questions

- When the wolf gets its next art pass, which change will matter most at the normal game-camera distance: the face, the ruff or the tail?

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*Drafted by Codex, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
```
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