Zoo heat map, orange layer: pools glowing pale cyan

About this game

Developer: Frontier Developments · Publisher: Frontier Developments · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

The same heat-map system at whole-zoo scale. Where the habitat view (planet-zoo-0) judges one enclosure, this layer recolours everything the player owns, and the countryside beyond it, as a single orange field: trees, terrain and hills stop being scenery and become values. The reading is done by contrast alone. Two habitat pools glow pale cyan-white, the cool end of the scale drawn as literal cold spots in the orange, one wrapped around two dark trees at lower left, one beside a building at upper right; near the centre a building roof sits in dark red with a deeper red spill at its base, the hot end; and in the open savanna habitat at right, the animals are dark silhouettes next to a pale oval hotspot on the ground, while the guests shrink to specks on the paths. It is the Planet Coaster team's data-overlay language pushed further than Planet Coaster took it: no legend, no panel, no numbers, just a zoo you read by temperature of colour. The trailer shows no legend or layer label at any timestamp, so this layer is described by what is observable rather than by a menu name. Frame at about 1:29 in the Planet_Zoo_Launch_Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 89.0s: the montage cycles a layer roughly every half second (about 88.7-90.7s) as crossfades inside one continuous aerial shot, and the scene-change pass caught no frame of any layer. The frame carries the trailer's small 'IN-GAME FOOTAGE' caption at bottom centre, disclosed here; it is the publisher's burn-in, not game UI.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

data-overlay map-overlay

Screen inventory

• the entire zoo and the countryside beyond washed orange: trees, terrain and hills all read as one continuous heat field
• two habitat pools glowing pale cyan-white, the cool end of the scale, one at lower left around two dark trees, one at upper right beside a building
• a dark-red building roof near centre with a deep-red spill at its base, the hot end of the scale
• dark silhouettes of animals (a giraffe and antelope) standing in the open savanna habitat at right, with a pale oval hotspot on the ground beside them
• guests reduced to tiny dark figures along the paths and the entrance stairs; the rail track curving in at lower left

Top 3 colors

#a5512b 29%#b96537 21%#aa582e 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Frontier Developments, Planet Zoo screenshot: Planet Zoo Launch Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: frame manually extracted at 89.0s from the pipeline-downloaded Planet_Zoo_Launch_Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); real game UI (whole-zoo heat-map overlay: orange field, two pale cyan pools, dark-red roof and spill, animal silhouettes, pale hotspot) confirmed visible; the trailer's 'IN-GAME FOOTAGE' caption at bottom centre is disclosed as publisher burn-in, not game UI

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