Just a suggestion T.I.; don't shoot for perfection, I'd like to play this level before I
kick the ol' bucket!
Unfortunately this level seems to be my attempt at doing perfection in every single little nook n' cranny. However I do have another small project on the side I've worked on a fair bit which might see the light of day before the 22nd Century as it's not as heavily detailed.
Cool raptor image. Looking now, it seems possible as the inspiration for TLW Utah Raptor toy.
That big Utahraptor toy is from JP Series 2 actually
. But there are a lot of striped Raptor toys from the original JP series as they seem to have been trying to recreate a simplified version of the JP1 Raptors.
I'm with TI on this one... Hand-placement I enjoy for select areas to make them stand-out.
That was my philosophy going into this level initially until I realized that I wanted
every area to stand out!
That TLW brown raptor reminds me of the long-clawed raptor from the beta (is that on the main site still?).
I could be wrong but it looks to me here that an actual image from the first JP film was photoshopped into the texture for the pre-release brown raptor.
Taking a look at that texture and comparing it to my references of the JP and TLW Raptors, it does look like the Tres Raptor is based on the JP1 Raptors rather than the TLW brown Raptors. Here's a comparison, TLW on the left and JP on the right:
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The stripes are more defined on the TLW Raptor - JP1's has the grey spread out a lot more. Compare the grey on the neck of the Tres Raptor texture to the movie images - looks closer to JP1. The face as well, TLW's has more highlight between the grey parts. So it looks to me like the early Tres Raptors are actually JP1 Raptors! I think this is understandable as the brown Raptor is not especially obvious in TLW, considering the animatronic of it barely appears (in fact, I don't think it's actually in the movie at all). The brown Raptor in the Ops Centre scene is only ever depicted in CGI form - it's the one that falls off the roof past Sarah. I thought this was the potential "green" Raptor though now it looks more like the lighting of the scene is what gives it that tone, but it seems more clear now the actual CGI model is grey-brown like the animatronic.
Here's the screenshots I was looking for of some pre-alpha Tres Raptor renders.
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These two both look like more completely original depictions of the TLW Raptors, both of which have obvious differences between themselves and the movie designs. Might have to recreate the brown version as I really like this 'leopard' pattern. The tiger version looks a lot closer, but the stripes are quite different in shape and size.
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A much more accurate version of the tiger Raptor. This one looks the closest of any of the Tres development material overall, moreso even than the final version - it's possible these textures are directly lifted from studio images.
Also just found this one of a tiger Raptor with apparent blood on its "lips", probably from having devoured a hunter. Pretty cool detail!
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