Board Thread:Creations/@comment-29417644-20160804201914/@comment-6040659-20160805185510

FantasticGuy wrote:

PCAwesomeness wrote: Looks OK.

It doesn't really need toes (and in this case, it's a mammal, so it doesn't need 3D feet or teeth).

Also, did you just skin-wrap a mammal?

Personally, I like the jaw that starts at the start of the head, but all the rest is mentioned by ASDFGirl.

As for the info, this thing was actually an omnivorous scavenger. Even if it wasn't, I doubt it fed on giant rhinos, big cats, and large birds. "Researchers disagree on the diet of Arctodus. Analysis of their bones showed high concentrations of nitrogen-15, a stable nitrogen isotope accumulated by meat-eaters, with no evidence of ingestion of vegetation. Based on this evidence, A. simus was highly carnivorous and as an adult would have required 16 kg (35.3 lb) of flesh per day to survive."[7][14] In other words, it's highly debated, keep in mind that this is no modern day bear. I'll make sure that I don't need any 3d teeth or claws for my next model (I'm assuming it's for lag reasons? Too many details?) As for whether it ate rhinos and such, that's true, they were solitary and likely couldn't take down such creatures. But these dire bears were likely sprinters and could take down prehistoric horses, maybe scavenge mammoths from other predators like North American dire wolves. All up for your own interpretation. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247494638_Ecomorphology_of_the_giant_short-faced_bears_Agriotherium_and_Arctodus http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1080/02724630903416027 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408170815.htm http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0077531

As it says, the polar bear has longer legs than the brown bear; however, it doesn't RUN faster than it, due to its immense girth. Arctodus would have honestly been the same.

Since horses are super fast, I would expect that the bear would ambush them.

Hell, I wouldn't break a sweat if it even turned out to be a scavenger.