Server Downtime

As you may have noticed have we been facing a long server downtime for the last 2 weeks. This was caused by a serious security breach on one of the dynamic Gamespy servers. This lead to a server shutdown by our host Gamespy , in order to repair the servers and establish further counter-measures.

In the meantime we redirected the trescom.org domain to the diehard server,at which we established a tiny forum. (Remdul coded this one over night, thats how much we love you! hehe)

Right now we are trying to get everything back into place and to re-organise our files. So it may take some time until we can go on with the usual updates. So please bear with us. We’re doing our best to fix the errors.

An extra note on Trescom Isle: Due to this accident, we were thrown back by two weeks in production. So we are discussing a new release date right now and will let you know the following days.

New Board Section Opened: Trespasser Article Database

A new forum section has been started. The Trespasser Articles Database will be updated often with new articles almost every day. Be sure to check them out and rate them on how interesting you found them to be.

TPDC Version 0.2 coming soon

Yes, a new version is underway. Improvements include:

• added other camera views (left, right, top etc.)
• triangle outline rendering
• anti-aliased lines
• vertex culling (hides vertices behind geometry)
• unassigned vertices are now shown in green
• select double vertices, allows you to keep ‘hard edges’ in models
• configurable vertex size (increase size to make selection easier)
• improved “new dino” wizard
• load and save weights, allows you to edit the model outside TPDC without having to re-rig it again
• numerous bugfixes

Here are some screenshots:

The Definitive Trespasser: Level One

Ladies and Gentlemen…Boys and Girls…lend me your rears…*cough*…I mean…ears…

Someone known as “John Parker Hammond” has decided to become John Parker Hammond, and hence, take our beloved Site B and rearrange its genetic code and lysine contingency! Thats right…Site B has been newly improved…its faster…its scarier…its more realistic…its bigger…its better than ever! And, Hark! Where shalt we begin first than with the first level itself: The Beach! The other levels are offline and it will take Nedry a few hours to reboot the system, some minor systems may go off and on, its just something…

Does anybody want a soda? Oh, nevermind…

So go ahead to this link to download the level! And, Hark! Here are some screenshots straight from the level itself! That John Parker Hammond must be some kind of billionare to have someone actually photograph the place, am I right?

Oh, and if you haven’t looked at our other levels, or you for some odd reason are like Dr. Malcolm and you think direct download links are just ‘utter chaos’, then go visit our level download page here.

Trespasser composer Bill Brown’s status is growing

Bill Brown, the beloved composer for TRESPASSER is steadily growing more popular as the years go by. Personally, I am not sure why it has taken him even this long to get noticed. Ever since I heard the music he made for TRESPASSER, he has shown some extreme potential. Even Spielberg commented on his talents positively. Now, all very recently, Bill has some interesting projects that will hopefully draw more ears toward him.

According to tvguide.com, Bill is the composer for the new CBS series CSI: NY. He has also now done the soundtrack for a movie called Lady Death which can be purchased at Bill’s site on DVD here.

For sound clips and other news about Bill Brown, please visit his site here. Come on… you KNOW you want to…

PC Gamer Interest in Trespassing Continues.

Trespassing, a FarCry mod, is an attempt do recreat Trespasser on a newer game engine. PC Gamer had already released a previous article on the mod and now it continues to promote it. Here you can see the new article.

Project Pine Valley Rises From The Ashes

Mickey is having another shot at rebuilding Pine Valley. According to this announcement , new members are being recruited, so if you are interest that’s where you need to go.

As if that wasn’t enought, Mickey has once more updated the Pine Valley site with new interesting information. Keep an eye out for the site as more exciting updates have been promised.

Pine Valley Finally Updated.

Mickey, newly appointed webmaster of the Pine Valley site, just came back from a long absence and has already updated the site! We can be sure that the site will be updated much more often now, and hopefully we’ll see the Pine Valley level released some day soon.

Sidhe Interactive Offering Scholarships For MDS Game Diplomas.

Not really Trespasser related but still: Sidhe Interactive, a growing game development company and home to TresEd creator Andres is offering Scholarships in the value of 4.000 NZ dollars ( around 2.700 American Dollars) for those who plan on studying on Media Design School’s Graduate Diploma of Game Development. If you are interested in this offer, check the official company site here.

After the grand and powerful Remdul, a TresCom member, left his Operation Genesis fansite “Project Genesis” due to the all-mighty task of TC-Isle production, for one year and a day, the site was not updated by anyone… until now! Thats right, our member Tyrannosaur Matt has taken the reigns of this big horse and has begun to take on the tasks of maintaining it! You don’t believe me, do you? Well why don’t you check out the updated news page right here! Boo yah!

Now lets all thank Tyrannosaurus Matt for his great task undertaking and find the errors of our ways.

Now… your looking around… your smiling, having a good day… when you look up, and… *aghast*… now you see it! Your amazed! You can’t believe it! Its terrible, but you can’t you look away. You open your mouth to scream but your paralyzed with fear. If only you could scream… scream… throw your arms across your face and scream! Scream with your might!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

THAT’S what is going to happen to you when you see the brand new additions to the Trespasser universe! Here at the elite team of TresCom, we have produced an astounding new array of creatures, some of which we are revealing to you today! Now! This very instant! As we release these terrible new beasts into the virtual world we have spent our very lives pondering in, rest assured, there are more where this came from! These top of the line dinosaurs are spared no expense (except for time and effort and… oh you know).

So now I present to you, Spitter and Parasaur… the eigth AND ninth wonders of the world!

New webmasters apointed to Project Genesis and Pine Valley sites

Remdul decided on who is to mantain work on both Projects. Therefore, Project Genesis, a site dedicated to the modding of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis game now has TyrannosaurusMatt, a forum poster as new webmaster. The Pine Valley site now has Mickey, current leader of the lattest attempt to rebuild the Pine Valley level as webmaster.

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is coming. After many months of hard work, Tc-Isle is finally going through final preparations for the long awaited release of the beta version. Expect to see the Tc-Isle Beta released Mid-October!

Here are some delicious renders for your viewing pleasure:

Update on ‘The Outpost’

Another level calls itself back from oblivion: “The Outpost”. Yeah, thats right. Slugger send me a short message saying that he’s done with all the terain and most areas and is now working on the ‘Outpost’ itself and on the t-scripting (programming puzzles in Tres). Overall he gives it a 70% completion. He send some more images along, enjoy yourself:

‘Four Towers Extended’ available for download!

Ha, I bet you wouldn’t have thought of this happening so soon. As a matter of fact: I was being suprised big time. TptDac must have worked tripple-time to complete this one since our last update and made it now available for your download. You can find it in our download section as always…or grab the files right here!

Captain, I wish I could read!

Yeah, all of us who can’t read are extremely unfortunate, because todays update on Sk8er’s TresCom 2 is extra spicy. I’ll better keep it short, these two new chapters are hot!

Chapter 16 Chapter 17