NoTrespassing wrote:Draco wrote:There's already a Rex Nest in JPDS1, but little else has been decided about it other than the fact that there will be a mom, dad, and baby rex associated with it.
Okay here's a request regarding that area. I'd really like to have the dad Rex green and the mom Rex brown like in the movies.
I do believe that's the way it is in the retail game... just no baby rex. Anyway we've been hoping for new and interesting skin(s) for at least one of the pair.. it's not been decided yet as dino-design is one of the last things on the to-do list.
Microceratops wrote:I would like very much (for any of the three levels of JPDS) to see in the game a battle between a T-Rex and a Spinosaurus... That would be AWESOME!!
Me too. A Spinosaurus in a Trespasser level is long overdue. Well, maybe not
long overdue, but it's about time. And I'm sure we'd all love to see a T-Rex versus Spinosaurus fight in Trespasser. I'd like to have both dinosaurs have an even chance at winning, that way the outcome is always different and the replay value of the level goes up. It would also be cool to see the Velociraptors versus Spinosaurus battle (in which the Velociraptors won) that ended up being cut from Jurassic Park III reenacted in Trespasser.
Hmmm, hadn't herd of that one. But yesh - a Rex vs. Spino battle in Tres would be awesome, though can't be put into JPDS due to the plot. We really ought to start up that Raptor Battles thing again.. anyone feel like digging up the old thread for it? I still have a couple old arenas ready for it..
Draco wrote:I'll go ahead and tell you that you won't be able to kill the Spino (regardless of hitpoints), because it's the same Spino seen in JP3, and the game takes place before then, so we can't kill it.
Who says it has to be the same one from JPIII? There could have been more than one Spinosaurus on the island.
It's all part of the plot..
Also, I strongly suggest that a Spinosaurus be included in one of the JPDS levels and I'm sure many other TresCom members will agree with my reason for this. [...]
Nick3069 wrote:I think Draco said the Spino isn't going to be in JPDS1, but will be in one of the sequels.
NoTrespassing wrote:Nick3069 wrote:I thought the hole thing about JPDS was InGen's dark secrets.
It is. Did I say different?
Well, no not exactly, but you were saying that what Grant said about the dinosaurs not on the list should be in there, and that was the first thing I thought about when Draco said it was about InGen's dark secrets, so I think it's inevitably going to be in there.
Thanks for clearing that up, Nick, that's all quite correct.
NoTrespassing wrote:
Cool. Thanks for giving me that link. I'm more confident that DS will resolve the mystery Grant mentioned in JP3 and I learned a lot from that thread as well. But I have a few questions regarding the images below, and they're all ones I'm sure can be answered without giving anything away.
Glad you found the thread; it's a must-read for anyone wanting to find out what's been revealed about JPDS so far (though there are some parts you can admittedly skip through without missing anything..)
Isn't the raptor that's second from the right (also pictured below) a JP3 female raptor, not an alpha version of the JP/TLW raptors?
Correct. Some JPDS Team members said that others mind have a buff with this; the listing you refer to was once valid and is still technically in place but it's going to get a complete overhaul. Most of the final raptors haven't been imported yet due to texture palette availability, so I can't really provide an updated screen (plus we're keeping more things secret these days
).
Also the Bluish-Gray raptors all reffered to as Raptor B. Is this a re-imagined version of the Tribe B raptors from the retail game, or does it just mean that it's a fourth tribe of raptor that happens to be the second veriety Anne will encounter on this adventure?
Well first off, JPDS takes place in a universe entirely separate from that of Anne and Trespasser's Site B. As far as the island goes, it's a total reimagining based on the movies, with the holes filled in by info from the books, along with references and homages to other JP games.
As for that raptor being called RaptorB - it was the first raptor put into JPDS1, and as such, it was the TC_Isle raptor, just with new textures and nothing renamed, so it kept that name. The TC raptor looks more like Tribe A but is called Tribe B, since it was made from the tallest variation from the retail. Anyway though, I don't think it's going to keep that name in the final release.. the "blue raptors" were originally supposed to be the classic JP3 raptors, but we've since gotten a much better version from SI
and a new tribe that camos with the environments I had been sticking the blue raptors in, so it's a whole new set-up..
Also, is it just me or is the Parasaurolophus towering over the T-Rex? Parasaurolophuses were smaller than T-Rexes weren't they?
Honestly, I'm not sure about that. Considering that by JP depictions, a para stands up-right and a rex has its head down in hunting-mode etc, I think a para would stand taller than a rex; body mass is another question, but yeah you hafta realize, many herbivores were pretty damn big.. They were basically just eating and breeding machines.
But yeah, as someone else said, the rexes are a bit under-sized as well..
Pictured below is the Tribe B Dilophosaurus.
That's cool. It would be great if there was a Tribe C Dilo that was yellow with black spots on its back - this is how they were described in the Jurassic Park novel. Actually, this Tribe B Dilo looks kinda like a cross between the one from the film and the one from the novel. So if a novel-like Tribe C dilo was made, the transition from A to B to C would be pretty smooth.
That's not a half-bad idea, I'll take it into consideration.. SI, make note.
Second Illiteration wrote:As far as I know...some of those skins maybe be moot by now...
It's true. The male jungle raptors, IIRC, were already redone by SI.. As I said, the blue raps are out, and so is their blue female.. And yeah, I'm not sure what we'll do for a variation on Tribe A - we could always use the JP1 skin, but I was hoping to keep that for Nublar mods, as a sort of signature. We'll have to see, though.
Nick3069 wrote:NoTrespassing wrote:Also, is it just me or is the Parasaurolophus towering over the T-Rex? Parasaurolophuses were smaller than T-Rexes weren't they?
No, it's not the Parasaurolophus that's too big, it's the T. Rexes that are too small, but if you make the T. Rexes too big, then they can't eat you.
, good point.. We may be able to fix that, though. Some CEntityAttached work.. haha, shouldda tested that with RJ, oh well.
OMG! I've just realised that the RaptorJungle Female (AKA LJ raptor), Raptor Jungle and the Megaraptor use a recoloration of the JPOG raptor's skin.
Good job.