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tatu wrote:
LCountach wrote:Was there any version of BE where they showed where the airplane parts would be positioned? Or is it just something left up to me to decide?
Build 96. :)
LCountach wrote:Are there are any more props/items that I missed?
Let me check what I can think of. :)

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Thanks, I will have a look at all of these things later today.
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Tatu, I had a quick look around in Trespasser at the things on your list. I haven't done an extensive look yet.

In build 96 beach. I was unable to find the plane propeller location.

I did always think it strange there were two kinds of monorail tracks. One with the raised center and one without. I just figured the devs did this to make it easier to walk that long final stretch of track at the end of the level. Swapping some out to be more consistent wouldn't hurt. Although, I think leaving that long flat section at the end is needed. It would make walking it and the many jumps far more difficult. It would also eliminate the ability to place the boxes and crates as they did. I do also think it strange they placed the dirt road textures as they did. Perhaps they placed them when the map was still more flat? They when they edited it later to make it more hilly and neglected to fix them?

I did notice the chew tow in the Lab level. I wasn't sure about it. Like the layout of many of the levels. The devs made many changes. Some drastic and some very minor. It is hard to know if they did many of the changes for performance or design reasons. In many cases, they may have just thought the changes made for more realistic or better gameplay. The beach is a perfect example of that. The start area is very different from build 96 to 99 to 103 to 116. It seems they were experimenting to find the best setup. It has to be considered that changing many aspects back to how the BETAs were may not always be for the best. It is difficult to know what to change back and what to leave as is.

In PV I was aware there was a 3D modeled version of that "water path-thingy". However... it really creeped me out. I dont believe it was for water. It was probably for something far more evil. It is likely a sacrificial location of some kind. The Mayans would murder their victims and let the blood run down those paths. We have evidence of this from the game devs. There is that sacrificial knife model that was never put in the game.

In any case, I must compliment you Tatu on your extensive knowledge of all these items from the BETAs. Much of what you said was not in the lists I referenced.
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In build 96 beach. I was unable to find the plane propeller location.
That would be in Build 55 JR.
I did always think it strange there were two kinds of monorail tracks. One with the raised center and one without. I just figured the devs did this to make it easier to walk that long final stretch of track at the end of the level. Swapping some out to be more consistent wouldn't hurt. Although, I think leaving that long flat section at the end is needed. It would make walking it and the many jumps far more difficult. It would also eliminate the ability to place the boxes and crates as they did. I do also think it strange they placed the dirt road textures as they did. Perhaps they placed them when the map was still more flat? They when they edited it later to make it more hilly and neglected to fix them?
They probably changed it in BE to the flat ones for that yes. I was only thinking about those lying around. As for the dirt road textures. My guess they were placed for guidelines where the player path was planned. This is more clear in the 3ds Max version of an early JR version we have.
I did notice the chew tow in the Lab level. I wasn't sure about it. Like the layout of many of the levels. The devs made many changes. Some drastic and some very minor. It is hard to know if they did many of the changes for performance or design reasons. In many cases, they may have just thought the changes made for more realistic or better gameplay. The beach is a perfect example of that. The start area is very different from build 96 to 103 to 116. It seems they were experimenting to find the best setup. It has to be considered that changing many aspects back to how the BETAs were may not always be for the best. It is difficult to know what to change back and what to leave as is.
I'd go with what you like. I personally usually go for a combination of all, but then we don't have all the changes they did in 3ds Max only and never into a playable state (like the changes seen in the Town Max scenes).
In PV I was aware there was a 3D modeled version of that "water path-thingy". However... it really creeped me out. I dont believe it was for water. It was probably for something far more evil. It is likely a sacrificial location of some kind. The Mayans would murder their victims and let the blood run down those paths. We have evidence of this from the game devs. There is that sacrificial knife model that was never put in the game.
Draco fixed that knife for JPDS. ;)
In any case, I must compliment you Tatu on your extensive knowledge of all these items from the BETAs. Much of what you said was not in the lists I referenced.
There are probably some more stuff I can't remember. Oh, and the buttons on the reception desk is missing in the one you put in IT. ;)
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tatu wrote:Oh, and the buttons on the reception desk is missing in the one you put in IT. ;)
You do have a sharp eye! I was aware of this but didn't think anyone would notice.
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I have run into a very strange problem. Tres CE will not allow me to import any more items into The Town map. It doesn't matter the complexity or amount of textures. Adding just one more item causes a crash when opening the map in Tres CE. This is testable and repeatable. Any item I import causes a crash. If I delete any item before importing a new one. I can import any new item but only one. If I have one to many items in the map and Tres CE crashes. I can fix it by deleting any item out of the map. It doesn't matter what item I chose to import or delete. There just seems to be some kind of limit. ATX does not exhibit this strange new problem I have run into.

I guess I won't be importing those buttons for the reception desk. I actually had 5 new items to import. I got three in and spent some time setting them up. When I tried importing the forth. Tres CE would crash no matter what I imported next. I then loaded a backup from before I started working today. Then tried importing different random items. Saving and testing after each import. Over and over it crashed on the forth item. I am truly stumped!

GeomAdd says this so I dont think its out of space.
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Update to this strange importing limit problem.

Knowing that I seemingly had only three of these unspecified import slots left in the Town map. I decided to import all five items I wanted. After setting them all up with TresED and testing in ATX. I went back into TresED and exported all five as a single TPM. I loaded up may backup from before starting and imported the single TPM. Surprisingly that worked! It seems to have taken up two of the magical unicorn slots for reason. I can now only import one more item before crashing again. I am really stumped!

I wish I knew that clumping items into a single TPM was a thing I should have been doing from the start. Big Bummer!

Does anyone know what this problem is that I have run into?
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No idea what caused your issue. I know "Import Directory" can cause GeomAdd to crash on saving.

Could you PM me the version that crashes in CE? See if I can help debugging it? :)

Oh and Trespasser have a limit for around 65,000 objects so I don't see why it should crash.
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I sent a PM. Did the file attachment work?
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I don't think attachments in PMs work on the forum...
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tatu wrote:- Also that nighttable in TestScene belongs in the PH house.
I looked around at the plantation house from several of the BETAs. In which one does it show where the night table goes?
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LCountach wrote:In PV I was aware there was a 3D modeled version of that "water path-thingy". However... it really creeped me out. I dont believe it was for water. It was probably for something far more evil. It is likely a sacrificial location of some kind. The Mayans would murder their victims and let the blood run down those paths. We have evidence of this from the game devs. There is that sacrificial knife model that was never put in the game.
Heheh I'm curious what makes this creep you out so much? It was standard practice thousands of years ago to offer up blood or organs for success in various activities.
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tatu wrote:- Also that nighttable in TestScene belongs in the PH house.
I looked around at the plantation house from several of the BETAs. In which one does it show where the night table goes?
IIRC it's shown in a prerelease screenshot.
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Draconisaurus wrote:
LCountach wrote:In PV I was aware there was a 3D modeled version of that "water path-thingy". However... it really creeped me out. I dont believe it was for water. It was probably for something far more evil. It is likely a sacrificial location of some kind. The Mayans would murder their victims and let the blood run down those paths. We have evidence of this from the game devs. There is that sacrificial knife model that was never put in the game.
Heheh I'm curious what makes this creep you out so much? It was standard practice thousands of years ago to offer up blood or organs for success in various activities.
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tatu wrote:- Also that nighttable in TestScene belongs in the PH house.
I looked around at the plantation house from several of the BETAs. In which one does it show where the night table goes?
IIRC it's shown in a prerelease screenshot.
I don't know if I can answer you first question to your satisfaction.

Prerelease screenshot? Could you please point me in the right direction to finding said screen shot? Perhaps even link it?
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I am gonna link to our Concept Art page itself: http://www.trescom.org/concept-art/
Under the level "Plantation House", 4th image from the left. Linking to the page itself in case you wanna look at all the other images. :)
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Thankyou for the link. Something that jumped out at me right away was the second image from the beach. The shot where the pickup truck is used in the shooting gallery. It is very similar to the Beach from Build 103. I very much liked that setup and wished they had done something like that in the retail version.

Ohh and I sent you another PM Tatu.
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Little Update: I have still been tweaking the levels for a bit more polish. I want to thank you Tatu for the suggestion to "delete/move the road textures that are on the hills" in Jungle Road. After studying them. I am fairly sure they were placed when JR was a much more flat and open level. It seems the devs just never went back and updated their placement. Additionally I had a close look at the monorail pylons. From their placement and rotation. I am also fairly sure the devs never got to fine tuning their placement either. They are often rotated at strange angles and not placed in any form of alignment with each other. No hurricane or storm could explain their haphazard placement. So, I went through the level and fixed the placement of the road and pylons. I also went through and repositioned those huge rocks that were placed directly on the road. After making these little changes. The level suddenly makes more sense. I also went through adding and updating/replacing some props to reflect what was in the BETAs. I must say, I am very happy with how it turned out!
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