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Written on April 17, 2022 at 10:44 am, by tatu

Today’s news post will be packed with updates and showcases of various Trespasser-related topics not directly related to modifying the game.

MinePass

Trespasser in Minecraft? Yes. For the past six years, MinePass has worked on their recreation of Trespasser inside of Minecraft. A massive work where almost everything is built by hand.

3D Printed Art

Community member Wedge_Antilles showcased some 3D printed Trespasser art they made on our Discord. It is really impressive to finally see Trespasser-related art in 3D style. If you happen to have Instagram, you can follow them for more updates: Wedge_Antilles Instagram

Trespasser Comic

We got even more art coming. PierceHill started to make a comic based on Trespasser that will be based both on the events of Trespasser as well as the movie. A few pages have been done. These are all drawn by hand on paper. You can keep yourself updated in the official forum thread: Trespasser Comic Forum Thread

Toy Photography

Long time community member Draconisaurus continues their toy photography. I thought this was worth a mention.

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JPDS Turns 11
Written on April 12, 2022 at 7:05 pm, by tatu

Guest News Post by Draconisaurus

“Hello! On this day in 2011, JPDS was released to the public. It had been in production since December 2004, bringing production time to around 6.5 years, or one ten millionth of the time since they say Dinosaurs ruled the Earth (circa 1993). We spared no expense. The JPDS Team varied in its membership over time but eventually we pulled through and released a finished, though incomplete, mod to play.

MikeTheRaptor was a great conceptualizer, and modeler, a good friend to bounce ideas with. JPXTom, originally showed me TresCom at the JPToys.com forums. DemonCarnotaur did some great concept art sketches, including the initial area of a helicopter crash by an Ankylosaur and dead Pterosaur. RyanEaglesfield, was hard to work with sometimes but in the end gave some great material. TrikeUatra gave us a great menu. SecondIlliteration did TONS of Dino skin work. Mickey was invaluable for his musical ear, and his sense of a good natural environment in Tres. Nem helped a bit, and Slash_Master. But the mod would never have been finished in time without Tatu arriving on Site B to fix the foliage height errors from JPDS’s bizarre 4096^2 terrain. He even did some level work in the Plains area. 8 )

In recent times I’ve finally gotten a nice amount of feedback on the mod. Youtube playthroughs are quite standard these days and people seem to mention playing JPDS somewhat frequently. I’m glad everyone enjoys it! I myself learned a ton from the experience. Sadly I doubt I’ll ever have a mod project going on so massive as JPDS was.”

Please join us as you discuss your memories and thoughts about the JPDS mod on the celebration thread: JP: Dark Secrets 11th Anniv.

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TresCom 20th Anniversary Level – Progress Update
Written on March 20, 2022 at 7:15 pm, by tatu

Back in August 2021, community member TrespasserGuy suggested that the community should collaborate on a level to celebrate TresCom turning 20 years later this year (similar to the community collaboration for Trespasser’s 20th anniversary level). A lot of project has been made and people are putting a lot of love into the level. The goal is to have the level released in November of this year.

If you want to contribute, keep yourself updated on the project, or just download the latest version, check out the forum thread about the project: TresCom 20th Anniversary Level

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Forum Issues – Solved
Written on February 3, 2022 at 7:30 pm, by tatu

UPDATE: Forum is back online!

Nedry is at it again and caused us forum issues. Stay tune as we are fixing whatever he did this time.

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Merry Christmas
Written on December 25, 2021 at 11:39 am, by tatu

Happy holidays to all Trespasser fans out there!

Trespasser HD Remake

For the past several month, out Discord user wohoyefe have worked on remaking Trespasser in Unity. Today, they have shared a first release of their remake. It is an impressive remake, so make sure to check it out. You can find it in our download section: Trespasser HD Remake Download

Don’t forget that we do also have some holiday-themed levels, be sure to check them out in our Levels section!

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Kim does Trespasser justice
Written on May 18, 2021 at 7:25 am, by paul

A new documentary on Jurassic Park: Trespasser is out. Just… just watch it (it is really good):

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Trespasser: Isla Sorna
Written on March 20, 2021 at 9:00 pm, by tatu

I think it is time for me to make a news post about this mod. Late last year, I released the first version of the Isla Sorna mod created by me and TheIdiot. The first part of the mod combines the levels Beach, Jungle Road and the first part of Plantation House into one big level, while combining the versions of levels we have. You might have already heard about it, or played it. If you have not, check it out for a fresh Trespasser experience!

www.trescom.org/download/trespasser-isla-sorna/

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Server Maintenance – Update
Written on January 13, 2021 at 8:11 am, by paul

UPDATE: Everything should be up and running. Please report any issues you might have. – tatu

Woah, that did not go as planned…

So here’s what happened: during the migration, a mostly automated process, we noticed that the nodes had become unstable. They may have been out-of-synch before, but when the migration started, one of the nodes started to override itself and in turn remove large parts of the files it contained.

The process was stopped immediately, but in doing so we lost access to the data on the node. The node contained files from some of the hosted websites, including trescom, and more importantly our entire webserver configuration. Without it, all websites went down immediately. The databases, which contains the content to all websites were migrated without any issues, so in a worst-case scenario we would have had all the texts, but only parts of the files (images etc). There was a second backup strategy in place, on top of the replication of the data across the nodes, but that one failed us too, as it stopped synching data from the newer nodes. Regardless, we would have been able to recover data from there, but it would have taken a lot of time.

As of writing, we managed to recover the broken node and regain access to all data. We are now fixing remaining issues on the websites – Trescomforum for example is lacking the proper PHP version. So everything should be back to normal soon.

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Scheduled Server Downtime – January 9th/10th 2021
Written on January 7, 2021 at 12:13 pm, by tatu

madpipper has let us know there will be a server migration over the weekend, on January 9th and 10th. The site will be inaccessible at times, so please be aware if you can’t access the site. Thanks!

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Happy Holidays!
Written on December 25, 2020 at 12:20 pm, by tatu

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays everyone! This year we thought we would give you a more proper post for this holiday.

2020 is coming to an end and this year the Trespasser community has seen an increase in activity. Our Forum has seen an increase in activity and several mods have been released during the year. Our Discord has also seen an increase in activity, with many new members.

So as 2020 is coming to an end, we wish you all happy holidays and we hope we will see you in 2021!

I also wanna remind you that there has been several released Christmas/Winter themed levels in the past. Check out the download section and you might find a level you’d enjoy!

Winter’s Journey

Winter’s Journey is “A Christmas-themed Trespasser level” from TrespasserGuy released just in time for Christmas. He doesn’t wanna give away what the level is about, so go check it out right now! (After you’ve finished reading this news post!)

You can find this level here: Winter’s Journey Download

New TPA ID Discoveries

Early this December, LtSten and machf worked together and manage to crack several previous unknown IDs in the TPAs we have. In less than one week, 57 unknown IDs became 16. We hope they manage to crack more of the unknown ones, and maybe one day we will know them all. You can follow their own at our forum: Sound names from the .tpa files

If you are interested in what IDs are used for specific TPA sample, machf have updated the listing and you can download them here:

Sound Name Listing For Build 22-E3 TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Build 32-PCGamer TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Build 55 TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Build 96 TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Build 97 TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Build 99 TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Build 103 TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Retail TPA Files

Sound Name Listing For Demo TPA Files

Lost Jungle Remastered

Sadly I forgot this in a news post earlier this summer. However, here it is! TrespasserGuy took the enormous project to remaster Draconisaurus and Mickey’s Lost Jungle level and have made an amazing remaster. It is worth checking and and you will be impressed! You can find the level here: Lost Jungle Remastered Download

morningstarring Levels

Forum user morningstarring joined our community earlier this summer and has then made some impressive levels and started doing more advanced t-scripting. Check out some of their levels here and here.

Skatepark Map

Now this is not something we’ve seen in Trespasser before. Community member Teromen made a Skatepark map in Trespasser. While you can’t ride a skateboard, you can use the ramps to get an advantage over the raptors.

“Feel free to try it out. Its a skatepark in Trespasser. There’s a few dinos and guns for fun. I made this for fun and to get better at mapping. I got better at collision especially. It was a a bit tricky. I hope you have fun. Enjoy.”

It is worth checking out and you can find it here: Skatepark Download

Draco~Test

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Just in time for Christmas, Draco has released his Draco~Test level. He experimented with various things in this level, including a working “PC”. You should definitely check it out to see various things you have not seen in Trespasser before!

“Alright everyone, Happy Holidays from Draconisaurus! My gift to TresCom this year is the latest and final version of “Drac~Test”, where a number of investigations were made about the disposition of the Trespasser technology. There are 5 zones to explore, in various amounts of development. Hopefully some useful things may be found. I’m releasing this now since it is still technically the eve of the holiday and that is when the occasion is celebrated in Europe. Have a great holiday and hopefully many can spend time with friends & family even if only on video.”

You can find this level here: Draco~Test Download

Trespasser 2020: A Trespasser Modding Starter Kit

MikeTheRaptor made a comeback earlier this year with a release to make it easier for people to play mods. Setting up mods an be quite tricky, and many people have had issues setting up CE to work with an external mod folder. MikeTheRaptor wanted to help out and made this package for you, and included some levels to get you started playing.

“In an effort to make playing Trespasser fan levels and mods more accessible, I’ve created a simple starter kit that includes everything necessary to begin playing Trespasser fan levels immediately with no setup or configuration required.”

You can find this and what it includes in our download section or download it here: Trespasser 2020: A Trespasser Modding Starter Kit Download

New Download Section

We have finally updated our download section. We are now using a new plugin as the old one is no longer in development and started to have issues on latest WordPress.

The new download section will look a bit different, but we will work on improving it over time. It contain all the downloads the old one had, it even got a simple search now on each category page! All downloads will now have their own page, allowing you to make comments to a specific download. Use it to post issues you have with the download, feedback or even reviews for a fan level. You will also be allowed to download a file directly from the list, without the need to open each download in a new tab, just like before.

Go check it out, and hopefully we’ve manage to move all download so all the links work correctly, otherwise let us know in the comments, and we will continue to improve the download section.

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Post subject: Re: Cloning FacilityPostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:43 pm
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That looks and sounds great. I appreciate the ambience being evoked, such as a single crate sitting alone amidst beach debris.. And, it's good to hear that you are applying your old Tres skills to this new, personally-created setting.

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Haven't worked much on this for a while now, but I did manage to crank out a fair bit of work the other day and figured I may as well show another obscure, oblique angle of the island in order to hide the unfinished areas.

I also created a few new TPA files labelled "TIStream" and so on that I'd like to use as a sort of universal sound bank for any work I do in the future. Re-using the same TPAs would reduce the download size for my levels as well as speed up the TPA editing process - for instance, if I want movie-esque dino sounds for a specific level, all of a dinosaur's sounds will already be in the TPA ready to go. The only issue I see with this is having a lot of duplicate files in different folders, though I suppose we already have that with the TexHW folder so as long as you have some hard drive space, I hope it should be okay.

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That is looking quite nice. I enjoy the new sort of sky overhead. Partly reminds me to the haze of the West coast heh, of course the foliage is all wrong for that. I am also reminded of the unfinished cliff-climb level you released. I can't recall what was after the cliff climbing segment...

TPA consolidation, interesting. It reminds me of my tentative project to put collect all Mayan mods of mine into a single CE mod folder for ongoing releases. Sounds fine to me.

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Looking great!

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Unless... you always use a folder named something like "TIMods" or something that comes with all your mods, so they all work from the same folder?

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Hmm. Does CE support multiple TPAs of the same type to be attached to a specific level?

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Hmm. Does CE support multiple TPAs of the same type to be attached to a specific level?

I don't think so. It is similar to ATX, it reads from the TPA's in the data folder but can use an additional TPA. It might be possible, but I haven't checked or tried.

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IIRC, CE will look in several folders/files until it finds a matching name for a given audio...

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Unless... you always use a folder named something like "TIMods" or something that comes with all your mods, so they all work from the same folder?

Good idea! Will definitely do that. I currently have all of my WIP stuff in a "test" mod folder anyway. The only potential problem is FM.ini conflicts but I believe it could be worked around.

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Hmm. Does CE support multiple TPAs of the same type to be attached to a specific level?

Haven't tried it yet, but I seem to remember seeing something in the CE documentation about this...using a "TPA+" and "TPA++" strings or something like that.

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Hmmmm. Alright, for fm.ini:

In [General], there are 2 sections for specifying custom TPA files. The first appears to set TPA files which are to be used -instead of- the main CE data folder's TPA files. The second appears to set TPA files which are to be looked at as optionally -replacing- sound entries found in the main TPA files, of the same name.

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; Custom audio files for the FM (used unless any level explicitly overrides a setting in the level specific
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;EffectsTPA=Effects.tpa
;StreamTPA=Stream.tpa
;AmbientTPA=Ambient.tpa
;MenuTPA=Menu.tpa
; Additive custom audio files can be specified instead (or in addition to), these loaded on top of the regular
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;EffectsTPA+=Effects.tpa
;StreamTPA+=Stream.tpa
;AmbientTPA+=Ambient.tpa

Later on, the individual [levelname.scn] entries repeat the above optioning, but targeted at the specific SCN in question within this mod folder's own data folder.

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; Custom audio file overrides for the level
;EffectsTPA=Effects.tpa
;StreamTPA=Stream.tpa
;AmbientTPA=Ambient.tpa
;MenuTPA=Menu.tpa
; Additive custom audio files can be specified instead (or in addition to), these loaded on top of the regular
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;EffectsTPA+=Effects.tpa
;StreamTPA+=Stream.tpa
;AmbientTPA+=Ambient.tpa

So, let me see... It is possible to have "___TPA+" for the whole mod folder, then separate "___TPA+" for each separate level inside it. That sounds like it has some options.

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Found some more time to work on this. I've moved around the island and created a couple of new areas, but they're so isolated it's hard to get a screenshot of them without exposing the ugly unfinished parts. So here's a nice scenic view of an area that's finished!

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Turns out the 3D grass does indeed work without crashing so long as you are very careful to avoid too much clipping. It can be a bit tedious to place, but the look is worth it.

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Holy crap TI, the level is looking as good as ever 8) It looks like TC~Isle on steroids

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I am enjoying the fresh sky with a difficult-to-pin-down color.

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It looks like TC~Isle on steroids

The level is unintentionally turning into that sort of thing. A lot of similar ideas are popping up in my head, though overall I hope to create a different experience with the way the level plays out. Still have no direct idea of what I want to create which definitely helps a LOT when designing new areas. RTJP could be really restrictive sometimes.

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Heyy I like the signature banner. Hmmm... 10 - 15 years ago, all signature image bars were called banners. Is that still a thing?

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Small update on the level: I managed to find some time to make a quick new model for the level. Very simple stuff, but I've had it planned for a while and the lack of said model has been clogging up development of a specific area. I might have to make a few more small ones for this level along with a couple of big ones, but I'm maintaining my concept of attempting to avoid creating a ton of new assets in order to avoid the scope getting out of hand.

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Heyy I like the signature banner

Thanks!

It was a tossup between that and a recreation of one of the t-shirts from the Visitor Centre Gift Shop.

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Hmmm... 10 - 15 years ago, all signature image bars were called banners. Is that still a thing?

I believe so, though these days most people just put general images in their signatures rather than use actual purpose-made banners.

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Post subject: Cloning FacilityPostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:24 am
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Been wanting to make a non-life-consuming level for a long time. After a series of poor designs and concepts which would take another trillion years, I decided to start on a random level called "Cloning Facility". The idea with this level is to simply not have an idea...I started with a blank level file and am proceeding forward without a plan (unlike my other levels which are meticulously planned-out). I'm just building the level and adding in ideas as I go - the name "Cloning Facility" may be a placeholder as there may end up being no cloning facility at all; the name came from an image of an abandoned, sterile faciltiy overgrown with foliage I had in my head. So far, all I've decided is that the level is going to take place on a small island, and I plan on using some of the less-seen MegaJungle stuff.

Spent a lot of time today getting the skybox just right, I tried to go for a tropical sunset. This is the starting beach, which you'll need to solve a small puzzle to escape:
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I have meticulously placed every single object in order to ensure any overlapping is to a minimum, as I want the level to both look good and be fully stable. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Cloning FacilityPostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:23 am
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Oh this looks good.

This is kinda what I've wanted to do for a long time. Just do a level that has random scenery that wouldn't fit in a level. Either because it is a tiny area, or no puzzles etc. One that is almost only about the atmosphere.

That's what MegaJungle is for - I never thought MJ would ever be playable at all, it was meant to be TresEd only. :wink: This on the other hand is meant to be a proper level with puzzles and all, just a smaller one compared to the massive projects I usually subject myself to...less purpose-made models and such, though I do plan on doing a TC~Isle-esque ocean at least. The level uses the MegaJungle .wtd file which is larger than TestScene but smaller than most other levels, though I tried to use as much of the terrain as possible for the island itself.

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Wow, that preview image doesn't even look like Tres. I'm impressed! Can't wait to see how this turns out.

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I am thoroughly impressed. Finally the MegaJungle creator has returned to show us what his assets are really about. Glad Trespasser is getting so much attention lately - keep it up.

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That looks super sweet, T.I.

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Hey TI, I trust your new models are treating you nicely? Or visa versa..

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Draconisaurus wrote:
Hey TI, I trust your new models are treating you nicely? Or visa versa..

Nicely as in "not making the game crash"? Then yes, everything's going fine at the moment, though there's one specific spot you can look which can make the game unstable. I'm working to figure out the cause of this, seems it might be the palm models themselves which are doing it.

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The palms, eh. CE seems to get a bit finicky with your MegaJugle stuff, if you don't keep the settings lower. I'm hoping RTJP is playable heh. Possibly it will just need low settings.. I remember some pretty vast areas in the last version I saw. With CF, perhaps a graphics settings adjustment is advisable.. Or, maybe this can be one of the mods that works on high settings.

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"The box is in backward. Flip all the switches the other way. Are you dry?"
"No, Doc. I'm soaking wet, lying in the damn mud."
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Hey TI, am curious how this level is doing. I sense it has a lot of potential and benefits from being less taxing to work on.

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"Well, as long as you're under there, you can check the breakers," Thorne said. ... "There's a box right behind the front bumper. Over on the left."
"I see it." [said Sarah]
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"The box is in backward. Flip all the switches the other way. Are you dry?"
"No, Doc. I'm soaking wet, lying in the damn mud."
~Michael Crichton

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Draconisaurus wrote:
Hey TI, am curious how this level is doing. I sense it has a lot of potential and benefits from being less taxing to work on.

About as slow as ever. I haven't been gaming much overall this summer - we haven't had a rainy day for 2 months now so I've mostly been outside. The southern part of the island that you start on is nearly finished, however, though I keep going back and adding further detail. This level is turning out to be probably my most detailed yet, aside from the couple of MegaJungle example areas. Just been trying to come up with a couple of puzzles before I move on.

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Well, that does sound pretty good to me! I am imagining this level benefits from being entirely original, similar in approach to the HD Trespasser levels but without any external accuracy basis. Can be very important.

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"Well, as long as you're under there, you can check the breakers," Thorne said. ... "There's a box right behind the front bumper. Over on the left."
"I see it." [said Sarah]
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"The box is in backward. Flip all the switches the other way. Are you dry?"
"No, Doc. I'm soaking wet, lying in the damn mud."
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Well, that does sound pretty good to me! I am imagining this level benefits from being entirely original, similar in approach to the HD Trespasser levels but without any external accuracy basis. Can be very important.

That's a pretty accurate description. I'm going for a vague "InGen" look, but otherwise I'm not really tying myself to anything. The whole InGen thing will simply be to explain why there's a dinosaur cloning facility on an island without me having to invent any specific plot. I've actually considered mashing together some Anne quotes in order to acknowledge just how sick of ending up on InGen-owned, dinosaur-infested islands after all these years of fan levels..."InGen...*sigh*...I was really hoping that wasn't gonna happen."

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Haha, that sounds great...

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"Well, as long as you're under there, you can check the breakers," Thorne said. ... "There's a box right behind the front bumper. Over on the left."
"I see it." [said Sarah]
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"The box is in backward. Flip all the switches the other way. Are you dry?"
"No, Doc. I'm soaking wet, lying in the damn mud."
~Michael Crichton

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Another quick sneak peek of the beach area, where the game begins:
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I've already plotted out the first puzzle and thrown in a few custom voice-overs, as well as scripted a quick starting cutscene. I plan on making more custom objects to add to the level over time in order to detail the more open areas.

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