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Sooo some might or might not have wondered what happened to my 1.5WeekMod project... I got caught up on a certain SciFi Tres mod and it kinda killed my momentum for the project. May finish it one day... In the meantime, I've decided to switch the resources aimed at that project over to a primary mod. It feels good to have a single, major project going on, a la the good ol' days of JPDS.
My current main project has thus become "Site C", where the character explores the mystery of one of the other of the Five Deaths - Isla Muerta. You might think it is an InGen installation, but in fact, not quite.. Will be spilling updates/details as I go. First screen:
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This will be interesting. Can't wait to know more :D
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Hmm secret island, JP1 gate, muerta Spanish for death. I think I Know where this is going
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Ooh, this looks really good Draco. The atmosphere reminds of the early JPDS builds when the sky was not just all blue-ish fog. I can't wait for some updates!
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I like it a lot! Glad to see another big mod coming into play. I've considered doing a mod based on one of the other islands, but never really got past that thought. If you need anything, give me a shout. :wink: I'd be happy to do a bit of modelling if you need it.

Just a random thought - any chance of adding a JPDS-like health system to this? It's pretty quick to code and helps change-up the gameplay a bit.
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Thanks TI. Yes I am seriously considering a JPDS-esque health system for SiteC. One of the things I'm also doing with this mod is to sort of retrieve the puzzliness that JPDS lost from not having the Embryonics Administration accessible. Also I've been watching a Dino Crisis playthrough and thus decided to set this mod during the night. Stay tuned.
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One of the things I'm also doing with this mod is to sort of retrieve the puzzliness that JPDS lost from not having the Embryonics Administration accessible.
Interesting. So does that mean lots of backtracking to access new areas with items you acquire through progress in other areas? (Like Resident Evil and Dino Crisis)?
Also I've been watching a Dino Crisis playthrough and thus decided to set this mod during the night. Stay tuned.
Ah, great! I always sort of imagined the EA in JPDS to have been similar to parts of Dino Crisis.
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You got it... Also going to take a hint from machf and a certain youtube reviewer and try to keep the exploration from being boring/repetitive.
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Draconisaurus wrote:You got it... Also going to take a hint from machf and a certain youtube reviewer and try to keep the exploration from being boring/repetitive.
:D Great! The only advice I can really offer here is to make sure things are different each time you have to backtrack so that it still feels new. Some object teleportation triggers or show/hide could help change this, or alteration of lighting, fog, time of day, etc. :) Lots of unpredictability in the exploration could help as well, such as enemy spawns that have the Probability value or guns that only appear sometimes - sort of like in the game "Left 4 Dead". (ATX/CE's' randomized instance trigger works really well for random item locations). Doing this would also add to the replay value a lot.
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Draconisaurus wrote:You got it... Also going to take a hint from machf and a certain youtube reviewer and try to keep the exploration from being boring/repetitive.
Take a look at the version of Jungle Road that was recently acquired... the views are so amazing, that you don't mind walking and walking without finding anything relevant to the gameplay (by that I mean that path leading to the beach eventually). Wherever there's not much to look around, you place instead stuff for the player to find.

I wonder if that may be one of the reasons they ended up scrapping the Plains level... too many open, empty spaces without anything to keep the player's attention/interest?

Draconisaurus wrote:I am seriously considering a JPDS-esque health system for SiteC.
Hmmm... unfortunately, that was one of the things that made JPDS too "un-Trespasser-ish" and more like your generic FPS...
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I am seriously considering a JPDS-esque health system for SiteC.
Hmmm... unfortunately, that was one of the things that made JPDS too "un-Trespasser-ish" and more like your generic FPS...
I disagree, at least considering today's standards for games. Health items in FPS games are much less common, having been replaced by regenerating health. And the system in JPDS is more of a survival one than just collecting health packs ala Doom. Obviously that's an opinion thing though - I prefer to search for first aid rather than have my health recharge on its own since I find you can just sit and wait for your health to regenerate before moving into a hard section. With limited healing items, you might have to push through that hard section in order to heal at all! :?
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Draconisaurus wrote:I am seriously considering a JPDS-esque health system for SiteC.
Hmmm... unfortunately, that was one of the things that made JPDS too "un-Trespasser-ish" and more like your generic FPS...
I disagree, at least considering today's standards for games. Health items in FPS games are much less common, having been replaced by regenerating health. And the system in JPDS is more of a survival one than just collecting health packs ala Doom. Obviously that's an opinion thing though - I prefer to search for first aid rather than have my health recharge on its own since I find you can just sit and wait for your health to regenerate before moving into a hard section. With limited healing items, you might have to push through that hard section in order to heal at all! :?
Well, you can still use something else than a HUD to show health. Like a tattoo on the arm or something like that. I personally dislike any HUD element used in Trespasser. It feels so unnatural and weird personally, and completely removes the tattoo function, and ammo count voice overs, both that I like. It's a bit more fun when you don't really see your health points on screen all the time. You still don't have to use the generating health option, which is common in a lot of games today.

I agree with machf. The HUDs makes it feel more like the regular FPS, since you see ammo and health on screen. But yes, it is a personal preference.
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I can definitely agree with tatu making the point that the HUDs feel unnatural. Tres was supposed to be an immersive experience, so including a HUD sort of removes the feeling of seeing the world through the character's eyes. That being said, the tatoo isn't all that realistic either. If only we had a way to make triggers that respond to the amount of health the player has, you could instead have a system where Anne sounds more and more in pain, perhaps have some heart beating sounds and heavy breathing as she takes more damage. If overlays were possible without all their inherit buggieness, you could darken the edges of the screen as well to simulate loss of vision.

As for the ammo count - I have mixed opinions on it. I like that she counts down the ammo as it runs out, but what I don't like is when Anne somehow is able to determine that a Desert Eagle with a magazine that hides the bullets inside of it has a certain amount of ammo. I'd prefer it if she used the alternate ammo count ("feels full", "feels about half") for guns that don't have visible ammo since she would have no way of knowing exactly how many bullets are in said weapon. Now if she were using a weapon that she loaded herself with individual rounds, like a shotgun or a bolt-action rifle, the normal ammo count ("five shots", "four", "three"...etc) should be used as she knows exactly how much ammo is in the weapon.
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If only we had a way to make triggers that respond to the amount of health the player has, you could instead have a system where Anne sounds more and more in pain, perhaps have some heart beating sounds and heavy breathing as she takes more damage. If overlays were possible without all their inherit buggieness, you could darken the edges of the screen as well to simulate loss of vision.
Trespasser have an actiontype to allow images to be shown on screen. And I'm pretty sure you would be able to make Anne make a sound depending on health, through the use of fire triggers etc.
As for the ammo count - I have mixed opinions on it.
I'm pretty sure it is meant that she is checking the clip, but they could implement it back in the days, so to me it makes sense.
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tatu wrote: Trespasser have an actiontype to allow images to be shown on screen.
Unfortunately, I haven't figured out yet how to *remove* an image from the screen after displaying it... too bad the retail levels don't make use of that ActionType to find out more about it.
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