Good day to everyone in this new year. We hope you had great holidays and had a good time on any new years eve celebration you may have attended. We know though that not all celebrate in the traditional way, I myself (taurus) worked nighttime at the factory, and I'm sure there are some that did that too or simply just stayed at home gaming as the clock ticked by 00:00. Whatever floats your boat we still wish you a happy new year :D

So what more can we say? I suppose I could mention that we have some news to show too? I think you agree it's time for that :)

First out we have a few lab models. An stereo microscope, with an cold light unit.



Our second model is an egg crib.



The famous embryo cold strage tanks. It's still a work in progress. I must add more detail to the texture and make some tweaks. This one is already animated . Btw, all models in this entire newspost are created by me (taurus). Promise of models from Redeyes have been made for next news!



Leaving the lab we march out into the bush and find a fence. This one is one that keeps the somewhat smaller sized dinosaurs, like the Dilophosaurus, away from your children.



Something that also keeps dinosaurs on safe distance, at least the small and medium sized ones, is the Taser. Zapp! Zapp!


The last thing we have to show this time is a walk cycle I created for the T-rex. I recorded this from HLMV, so it's what you'll see ingame. I had to animate this in XSI and it's my first encounter with animation ever in this program so I hope you are not to hard on me. :o

We continuously try to find recruits to the project and have at least two new members for the time. SIR_halyavshik who will be our helping hand in mapping apart from what I do in this area. Jacob aka Jakeh111 is another new member we are getting help from, but in the sound department. He will be creating various sound effects we will need. Also we have continuously spoken to other potential recruits but we can't definitively say they are members at this time.

We've come out of the computer caves and have gathered some things to show and tell you this end of May.
Four new members are at this time creating some work for the mod and we are pleased to have them on because they are doing a very fine job so far.

Nicolas Kirsch aka Redeyes is currently looking over the weapon code and hopefully soon we will have our first fully functioning weapon working. It's been an area of low priority before due to main focus on prop & model creation but now that animations and coding are being fused together by help of Nexus and ChrisTanky (two of the new members) then we finally got the right recipe for this to get done!
Apart from that some modeling is in progress but that we save for another news-post.

Robert Olender aka taurus has been modeling and texturing for the most part and testing the Source engines limits... and reaching them several times way earlier in the tests than we hoped for but we will continue to make the best of the situation.

Here below we got some models created by Taurus:

Greetings to everyone in the new year. We hope your holidays were wonderful and colorful as the clocks hit 00:00 on new years eve.

This time we have a bit to say and a bit to show.

KIRSCH Nicolas aka Redeyes has been working his butt off with the coding trying to get an even better understanding of how NPCs work and we've had some really nice progress especially the last week. It's nothing we will show but I think it should definitely be mentioned. After all the interaction with everything living is a very important part of a game that doesn't really get that much attention, probably mostly due to it's format. Not really easy to grasp what his stuff below says, right?

(excerpt from ai_default.cpp)

void CAI_BaseNPC::InitDefaultScheduleSR(void)
{
#define ADD_DEF_SCHEDULE( name, localId ) idSpace.AddSchedule(name, localId, "CAI_BaseNPC" )

CAI_ClassScheduleIdSpace &idSpace = CAI_BaseNPC::AccessClassScheduleIdSpaceDirect();

ADD_DEF_SCHEDULE( "SCHED_NONE", SCHED_NONE);
ADD_DEF_SCHEDULE( "SCHED_IDLE_STAND", SCHED_IDLE_STAND);
ADD_DEF_SCHEDULE( "SCHED_IDLE_WALK",  SCHED_IDLE_WALK);
ADD_DEF_SCHEDULE( "SCHED_IDLE_WANDER", SCHED_IDLE_WANDER);

I would like to present you with our 3rd, or is it 4th, version of the T-rex. Why? You may ask. Well the story is this that people simply forgot to leave their models or don't finish them. Our second T-rex was missing nails and teeth and left in a pose we did not want to reset manually. The transfer of the texture didn't really go to well ether which resulted in some texture deformation. We did a new try, but this model was never finished because of lack of time so OLENDER Robert - taurus, took it upon himself to finish it. This meant reshaping the last T-rex by Regis (wrong reference images were sadly used) and then making a new sculpt for it and new texture. 3 weeks work non stop pretty much and so finally it was at this stage which is presented in the images below.

Also when there is a T-rex around one can also expect lambchop...  ehm, goat. Bääää :)
ROWNEY Joel aka BaRaDa is working on this model which still is a WIP.

Hello everybody! This month we have nothing to show officially as far as game content goes. We have an update for our homepage though which holds an RSS function which has been requested. CameleonTH arranged this for us.