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The simple textures i've whipped up using default Crysis materials is actually pretty neat. These cliffs turned out better than expected, but they needed a lot of work to clean up the extreme triangluation in the corners and on the edges.
A while ago someone asked for a shot above the tree line, so here it is.
This shot was taken where Anne first see's the Brachiosaur in the original game. Looking back towards the beach you can see how thick the canopy looks from overhead.
I've been working on the TOD again, I started fresh and am working on a full 24 hour cycle.
The time here is about 5:30pm.
Even with just the couple of textured models in this shot, its already made a big difference to the quality of the Town.
Power Poles, Street Lamps, Bench Seats and the Statue are the only new additions here, plus a few power lines connected to the poles. The water looks pretty nice in the base of the statue, i might put some leaves floating on the surface if i get a chance, the same goes for Wu's pool when i get to it.
Still lots to do, but its getting there.
From this perspective you can see down a lot of different valleys all at once. Even the trees on Mt Crick are still visible from here.
I added some waves and set the water up to be a good compromise between the original games ocean, and the water you could interact with. Transparent enough to see through, but not too much otherwise it would look weird from above or from a distant.
If you go out too far in the water, a shark rocks up and makes pretty short work of you. So when Anne say's she doesn't really feel like swimming, you better listen to her!
That piece of debris in the water was a little bit tricky to get right. Just placing it there didn't do the trick, it actually needs to be "nudged" for the physics to kick in and start it floating on the waters surface, otherwise it was frozen in the air. I had to add a little kick via a physics impulse in its flowgraph, which did the trick, but if you walked about 60 metres away and returned, it was static again as the physics had become dormant. So I had to add a constant timer that perpetually initiated the kick, but this had to be given a delay of a second, so that it wouldn't fly through the air. Once you're out of range of it, the physics are dormant again and timer deactivates.
So much trouble from one little thing!
When the level starts, some rocks tumble down the cliff and splash into the ocean, just like in the original. They have different physics properties when in water, so there is some resistance that makes them sink slowly and they roll along the ocean floor very realistically.
I would really like to add bubble particles that spawn from an objects surface when it first enters a water volume. That way a rock thrown into water will have a bunch of bubbles trail it through the water.
Both sides of the huge fold out illustrations in the book 'Dinosaurs A Fold-Out Book' by Rand McNally.
It's believed the illustrations, by Steve Kirk, are the inspiration for the dinosaur textures in Trespasser.
A quick glance is all it takes to see its a pretty sound theory, as the dinosaurs look pretty much identical.
It took me a while to find a seller that would ship to Australia, but the search was worth it.
Entire church was remade to fix vertice alignment issues and to reduce the number of materials needed. Added some rafters and extra joists, ridge boards and also a cat walk leading to a small storage area above the doorway. The steeple was extended into the church a little and will eventually be made hollow with a ladder up to the bell. This catwalk is accessible via a ladder in the top floor back room, but this room may be locked.
This has taken way longer than expected, but hey, i have to learn how to use 3DS Max!