coffeycup on Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:52 pm
Pip: thanks!
Harm: Thanks on the Gallimimus, no I didn't make the texture. There's so much amazing dino artwork on the web I figured it would be silly to start from scratch. To make the model I started with a
good side view I found, cleaned it up and made a second silhoutted version to use making the model. Then when I was done, as long as the model lined up with the silhoutte, I could just project the skin onto the model with almost no effort. For a ped I figured projecting is good enough rather than wrapping.
Yes, you can do the T-Rex, the one in the screenshot looks perfect. Actually it looks like you have a whole collection of dinosaurs, even the ones I just recreated! You should set up a T-Rex and one of his meat-eating cousins. What other dinos do you have from Trespasser? Like Pip said, could that Explorer be setup as a drone or noncar? And the Hot Room map looks interesting, finish it up will ya?
Did a little research and I saw there was a Trespasser demo, but also read, being from 1997, it seems to suffer the same problems Carma does trying to run on modern systems and that you'd need patches and advice from the guys on the Trespasser forums. (sound familiar?) I'm not ready to go down that rat hole! I'll just check out some gameplay youtube vids instead.
According to one of the wikias the Trespasser map is not based on the movie island but uses
topographical info from Cocos Island.
So I guess I can either try to do an Isla Nublar map or just say fuck it and come up with my own island. I do want to try some environmental effects like waves, smoke, clouds and flowing lava. Trying to do a believable jungle might be a challenge too. Lots of alpha channeled textures.
As far as gameplay goes, I was trying to think of where would you start out? On the beach? What if you start alone in the
cargo hold of a tramp steamer anchored offshore. You drive onto a ferry (side moving platform) and ride it to a dock on the island. (Other AI opponents are already driving around on the island.)
Maybe the cargo ship is explorable? Maybe you're able to take ferry back and forth? Or are you trapped on island?
ETA: Alien animations are not included in standard C2. You need to grab an 'alien patch' to get the BON, MOVE, etc. files. Note: aliens don't seem to support the swapping of heads like the human peds do. At least it crashed when I tried it.