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Sighting the events of the past SEVERAL weeks regarding the contents (or lack thereof) of the JPDS1 level, with both things on it having been completed and things having been all-out removed or downgraded in difficulty, I've decided that the old to-do list is now entirely obsolete and we require a new one to get us through the rest of the year (just under 2 weeks). Here is the final listing, to be updated as it's worked on:

JPDS1 Final List of Things To Do:

1. Set up environment sublevel
2. Model final streams/waterfalls
3. Model Rex Nest top
4. Shorten browning stump
5. Remap swamp/nest base trnobj
6. Fix HoodA / door mags
7. Import VJRTablkC02-00 from ED
8. Comm. Station buildings (make/reuse)
9. Finish cave
10. VL physics
11. Set up/model VL walls
12. Model sleeping rex
13. Finish swamp shack
14. Swamp shack object placement/scripting
15. Finish HC lanturn
16. Finish Mayan tunnels - connect to construction site
17. HC generator
18. HC laser fence
19. Finalize HC object placement
20. Chinook?
21. InGen/BioSyn version of JP gas jeep
22. Fix height of HSP
23. Plains perimeter fence??
24. Limit explorable area of Plains?
25. Finalize Plains Research Observatory
26. Import gas station (blue?)
27. Finalize gas station object placement
28. Bring in Lab from Tres to HRS
29. Bed subobjects
30. End table mags
31. Hammond desk
32. Complete HRS object placement
33. Complete HRS scripted events
34. Fix bridges around level
35. Dam Control Building - build out of pieces??
36. Dino River bridge debris/trnobj cover
37. Explodable rock?
38. ATX maps?
39. Finalize Runway model
40. Finish Hanger/physics
41. Import wood palette
42. Runway object placement
43. Fix gun scale
44. Swinging vine?
45. Always-face toad
46. New megaraptor model?
47. New retail raptor skin selection/import
48. Model TLW ptera (alive/dead)?
49. Model EA exterior&fence/populate area
50. Use ***App to fix object heights
51. Combine all sublevels (see below)
52. Cutscenes?! Intro and Newgame x_x
53. Create additive TPA files (installer must seek out originals minus menu)
54. Finalize ~ dead hunters event(s)
55. Finalize ~ Music/Sound design
56. Finalize ~ foliage
57. Finalize ~ environmental scripting (EAX environments, random birds, fog areas, new hint triggers)
58. Finalize ~ dino placement
59. Finalize ~ gun/ammo placement
60. Finalize ~ scripted events/puzzles/text guides
61. Finalize ~ JPDS1.swp contents
62. Create valid JPDS1.scn file in ***App if possible
63. Finalize ~ Menu (HUD, sounds)
64. Finalize ~ ATXconfig settings (hotkey - h = hud), folder/file set-up
65. Write JPDS installer
66. Release JPDS1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

List of sublevels used to develop working areas of JPDS1:

• JPDS1
• JPDS~Plains
• JPDS~lodge
• JPDS~Swamp
• JPDS~TrnObjA
• JPDS~HRS
• JPDS~Foliage
• JPDS~HC
• JPDS~Dam
• JPDS~Runway
• JPDS~UtilShed
• JPDS~Maya
• JPDS~RapVal
• JPDS~EA
• JPDS~MistyMtn
• JPDS~Envrnmt
• JPDS~underbrsh

Additional to-do notes:

• Fix Waterfall jump - die when careful
• edit Hammond pylon voiceover
• Fangorn Forest music in old forest
• Submarine Symphony - Secret Island music (reverb)
• HRS - vines on cars/buildings, VH21 for Nedry's room, hollow crate lid icon, fire box from util shed
• TrnPlnSndPtch00o8.bmp - use PV sand for plains sand?
• Pack of megaraptors feasting on dead sauropod
• download chinook:
  http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/I ... /ID/357042
  http://www.jplegacy.org/home.php?load=j ... shed.shtml
• Buildings\Misc\Medical
  Buildings\Misc\Signs
  Buildings\Models_Tatu
  Buildings\Models_Ryan
• Enter HRS Admin by tele wire only
• Keycard in Hammond Office to Lab
• Rope to Nedry's quarters (crates at bottom)
• For Credits:
  "Char, I'm sorry....
  there ARE invisible walls in JPDS. HA, HA!"
• "Dear Trespasser:
  Collect all the eggs in JPDS1 here to activate a special event."
  ---Must go in HRS lab

RepeatDelay text triggers identifying zone names.
==JPDS1==

• North Utility Shed
• Northern Swamp
• Swamp Shack - OFF LIMITS
• Visitors Lodge - Construction Site
• Infected Marsh
• The Plains
• Misty Mountain
• Mickey's Cave
• Comm. Station
• Crossroads Gas Station
• Raptor Valley
• Resting Place
• Mayan Terrace
• High Pass
• Old Forest
• Game Trail Valley
• Rex Nest
• Hunters Camp
• Still Forest
• Hillside Research Station
• Paleo Vegetation Zone - OFF LIMITS
• Hydroelectric Dam Compound
• Isla Dino
• Embryonics Administration Complex

Easter Eggs:

1. Special Hammond VO - "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. I was born on March 14, 1928. The mysterious John Hammond, shady investor, multi-millionaire, jovial mad scientist. We grew seven of them, the seven rulers of the island. An idea brought me awake one morning in New York, I didn't write it down. Something about Jurassic Park or God knows what." Placed where?
2. Collect dinosaur eggs at HRS lab - summon super-toxin rifle?
3. Winston/Crichton memorial
4. TresCom dedication
5. Halo weapon (Rex >_>)
6. Our rooms/cubicals in HRS
7. "There once was a solid defense
   On an island with assloads of fence.
   But before the destruction
   Became a deduction
   He still said they spared no expense."
   http://virenity.deviantart.com/art/The- ... d-87964375

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oh shi-
seems haaaard to accomplish in two weeks. *metroid scape theme*
ill see if i can do something, still i have some unfnished busines to take care offff

wonder who else will post here, besides james

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x333 owo hmm well I haven't added Rex to the usergroup yet XD I'll do that now.

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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]
...
"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

Well I'm starting to get really busy...and I don't konw about most of that. What do you need for the megaraptor? Also, what are the specifications for the sleeping rex? Two things I could possibly accomplish

Ah, well the megaraptor is mainly a point for me to go figure out how to use the mesh/skin you sent me way back when, when I get around to digging it out.. I'll let you know if I need anything from you on that (I was wanting to weld the verts and have it rerigged but we will see). As for the sleeping dino, yes I'd love if you could take that task off my hands. I need a sleeping retail T-Rex model; it's going to be sleeping in the cortyard of that Visitors Lodge from my last dev journal. I'm not sure yet if I want it to be the female or a NEW skin from your selection.. if you have an inspiration for what might look good in that environment (I'm thinking in terms of the vast array of ones you've already done), lemme know.. but yes, sleeping rex, please thank you

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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]
...
"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

Wow, that's a huge list! If there is anything I can do, please let me know. The Christmas hols have almost started, so I have more time available.


The sleeping rex sounds cool!

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Just tell me when to beta test:)

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Active project: Trespasser: Isla Sorna - Working on PH2-IT (and experimental BE-IT).

"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."

Ah Tatu, thank you, I will send you a PM when we're ready for that (assuming there's time ).

Matt, sounds good, hopefully I will be able to give you some stuff to do.. How's The Box coming?

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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]
...
"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

*Yawns* I suppose I better get my ass in gear now that I read that plot thread (Whopper of a thread that was)

Ammo system... okay that will need the ATX ActionType, and of course a few resources. I'll get a Minilev working, test it out (alongside the LandMines I had planned for PF) and send the files when they're ready.

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Sounds good.


Tasks completed in the past two nights:

• Darken pine leaves
• Revamp pine models/bark?

The revamping ended up being only redoing the Sequoia model (looks way better) and improving most of the pine textures. No bark mods were made.. IF there is time at the end of all this, I may make changes to the retail pine models, but otherwise I'm moving on.

Was 68, now 66


PS: Added new sublevel - JPDS~underbrsh (will be used for ***App height adjustment so that the regular foliage doesn't make things hard to see/select).

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->Tres2020 Starter Kit

"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]
...
"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

Ok...well I could possibly rerig the model for you, i've actually learned a LITTLE bit about it, basics of it anyway, enough to generally get a dinosaur moving. As for the T-Rex, I would say sticking with a retail skin would be the best bet, simply for time reasons, the retail meshes can take longer to skin because of all the different bmps. However I could do some slight alterations such as giving it closed eyes. Let me know.

Ah lol I did not even think of closed eyes! But yes for the sleeping rex, what I need is someone to use machf's instructions on getting the bone system to work in Max (OR GMax) for moving the limbs around, and position the bloody thing in a sleeping pose.. then I'll use that as a static model. Think you can handle that? Might be a neat little adventure.. GMax should do fine as long as you can export as TPM properly.

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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]
...
"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

hmmmm using the bones to move the limbs...I've never done that. So it's going to be something that wakes up? Is there some info on using the bones to move limbs that I could check out?

I got time:)

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Active project: Trespasser: Isla Sorna - Working on PH2-IT (and experimental BE-IT).

"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."

Yes tatu I meant time on OUR side lol, that is, time between a working beta level and release date.


How it works is we just have a static rex model in a sleeping position.. not CAnimal.. then the right triggered event(s) will teleport it away and replace it with an erect, grumpy T-Rex.

And perhaps this will refresh your memory:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6366&p=74776&hilit=gmax+bones#p74776
(note that we will NOT be animating it, just putting it into a single sleep pose)

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->Tres2020 Starter Kit

"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]
...
"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