Argh! My Eyes….

What would our weekly update be, without Sk8ers terrifc ongoing-story “Trespasser2”? So for all of you, who’ve been patiently waiting for the next part: read it here. Not familiar with the story? Read the previous chapters in articles section first! You won’t regret this!

Several Site additions

We were informed that people were having difficulties, finding all of the Contest entries. So for todays update, we’ve added each entry to the section they belong. While we were added, we also noticed that we forgot to update our menu for a while now. We therefore updated our links list and also added 2 new sections: the FAQ-Database(which contains several Tutorials and quickreferences to our Tools) and the Site-Database (which contains several forgotten website, we were capable of backign up). Each one of them have existed for quite a while now, but people seem to have problems with finding them.

If you’re happy and you know it, take a look

Again, Sk8er’s providing us with an all new episode of “Trespasser2”, our ongoing TresCom story. Liked the other parts? You’re gonna love this one… you can find it here. Or as always in our articles section among the other parts!

Minor fixes…

We noticed that our download section was a little messed up and even missing the latest new entry: “No Retreat”…. so we added that one and fixed the rest.

EA’s finacial results arrived

EA (owner of Dreamworks Interactive), has just recently released its financial results for 2003, stating that it’s now worth $2.957 Billion! You can read the full article here

Dinosaur_Neill shows off his works

Dinosaur_Neill, an artist, who’s been providing us with some great Trespasser artworks throughout the two years, is showing off his artwork. So if you liked his artwork here, take a look at his other artwork here. He even got some Trespasser artworks online. You can find it here.

News from Rolf Mohr

Well, we got back in touch with Rolf Mohr, a former designer at Dreamworks Interactive. (Rolf Mohr can call himself responsible for some of the incredible Trespasser models). And he has been working at a new project throughout the last few months: Machine phase . Even though he has not been responsible for the amazing 3d art this time, he helped on the script and the concept design. The movie has been released just recently, so take a look at the Trailer available on their website.

TresCom releases test level

Have you ever been interested in how the TresCom Ops develope new stuff for their levels? Well, you’re now getting the chance to take an exclusive look behind the scenes! With todays update, we’re actually offering you the infamous TC-Ops playgorund: the TC-Test level. Within you will find many unreleased objects and effects, which will most likely be used in the new trescom level: TC-Isle. Ever wondered if rain was possible, or scripted game animations? Simply follow this link and find out yourself

We certainly hope, that this will encourage all of you to restart work on some new levels. Happy editing 🙂

Another Unreal-Mod found

Trespasser seems to become really famous for porting to new game engines. We just recently reported about Trespasser porting to FarCry and Unreal and this week our forum member Darkraider stumbled upon a new one:

http://www.hillside.co.uk/glyn/mrx/drsmith/jurassic/jp.htm

All Unreal fans, shall better take a look at that one. I bet you’ll enjoy it!

Can I get a Woot woot?

Guess who’s back with another existing episode of “TresCom 2”, our TresCom story? Sk8er- that’s right. So head over to the new chapter here.

Jurassic Island evolves…

That’s right, our partner-site: Jurassic Island, has evolved to a higher level. The new features include:

Give them what they want

Another new exciting chapter of Sk8ers story: “Trespasser 2” has arrived. Read it here .

Gamespy merged with IGN

That’s right, our host: the Gamespy Network, has merged with another huge network: IGN. It was promised that this will not have any effects for hosted websites like us. Want to know more? Read the full article here.

Trespasser in Unreal?

Don Vercetti brought up these two links for us:

http://unrealed.myexp.de/index.php?P=info&D=429

http://unrealed.myexp.de/index.php?P=info&D=320

It are two single player episodes for Unreal Tournement.So if you feature the game: Play these levels and tell us what you think. If you ask me. converting or recreating levels of Trespasser into a new game engine sounds like a really cool idea… so please folks: more of that!

TresCom Story: a new start

Spino2aurus is making a comeback to our community and is bringing an all new episode of the “TresCom Story” with him.Many of you may have been waiting for this, so head over to it here .

Gamespy Titlefight

The official Gamespy titlefight of The Best Game ever, made it down to the final 32. So head over to the official website and cast your vote!

News from Bill Brown

Again, we’ve received some exciting news from Bill Brown, former composer of the Trespasser soundtrack. He’s been as busy as ever and published another great Cd of his: the official soundtrack to the Rainbow Six Enhancement : Athena Sword. For those of you, who are just as much of a fan of his as I am, take a look at his webstore today.

But this ain’t enough. He’s also posted a string Arrangement titled “Round 8 String” up on his site, which was featured in the movie Ali. And he’s also posted another great track from the game : Command and Conqueror: Generals , called : USA 8. You can download it for free. So make sure you listen to it today.

Bill’s Score to the upcoming game: Lineage II, has also made a nomination at this years G.A.N.G. Awards for :

Best Live Performance Recording

Best Cinematic/Cut-Scene Audio

Best Original Vocal Song – Choral

you can read the full article here

Turn off the darn TV!

Well, what can I say? Sk8er’s been heavily busy writing two new episodes of our Trescom fan story: Trespasser2. You shouldn’t be missing this, so head over to the new chapters here and here .

“No Retreat”

Our Forum member Nem has been working on a small series of levels for you: No Retreat. And for todays updated, he’s sent us a copy of his first part. You shouldn’t miss this… but I think that if these screenshots can’t get your attention, then probably nothing can:

If we got your interest, then download this neat level here.

Attention!

Sadly, we’ve been having several problems throughout the last few weeks, which we’d like you to know about:

*Server related problems:

Our host, the Gamespy Network, was victim of a serious Virus attack, spread through the Planetdoom mail account.So in order to get rid of that email-virus, they had to block their outgoing Email server. Leading to several problems for us. :

-Forum Registrations are currently not possible, since new members can’t receive the confirmation email. To avoid this, please create your account and email (paul@trescom.org), or pm (“madppiper” or remdul”) us. We’d need your account name and email-address to confirm and unlock your account. We know that this is an inconvenient way to deal with new registrations, but unfortunately this seems to be the only way possible.Gamespy stated that this may last for a few weeks, until they’ve solved their problems….

-We can not reply to any email at this state, due to the same problem. So please be aware of that, when writing an email to us. This doesn’t mean however, that you should stop sending us emails. We are still grateful for new stuff and your thoughts. So please keep the stuff coming. In extreme cases, we might reply with the following email address: madppiper@aol.com.

*Site related problems

You may have noticed several errors up on our site. We almost lost our latest news update and several other sites, hosted by the diehard server have been unreachable. Luckily, we’ve been capable of fixing these problems. There has also been a problem with several links on our page. So we’ve updated our links section to fix this.

*Several other problems

Unfortunately, we’ve also been having several other problems, due to which we’ve lost plenty of emails. So if you’ve sent us an email within the last few weeks and we didn’t reply to it, yet. Please send it again to paul@trescom.org. (just in case, so that we won’t lose anything) Thx!

Links updated

Yes, we’ve updated our links section and added a few new Trespasser pages (Trespasser Site B and Trespasser Spain). You should definately risk a look. There has also been a polish Trespasser website, but due to our current system errors, we have lost the link. So if any of your have heard about it, drop us a line: paul@trescom.org .Thx!

TC_Isle Alpha crawling your way

It’s true. the Alpha version of Tc-Isle is finished and availabe for all contest winners for download. (so if you’re one of the winners, drop us a line and you’ll receive the download link). For all others we’re proud to show you some new screenshots:

Trespasser Dinosaur Creator

And here it finally is: Trespasser Dinosaur Creator version 0.1.1.

Download it here (1.90 mb).

There’s a readme file included, make sure you read it or else you’ll miss some important notes. Also included is the raptor B-tribe file for testing, but TPDC eats every dinosaur exported with TresEd to the .tpm format.

TPDC doesn’t support editing of Anne herself yet, but you can experiment with that.

Have fun editing. 🙂

Trespasser Dinosaur Creator

As announced on the forums a new tool to create custom dinosaurs will be released very soon. The application is right now in beta testing phase, but as soon as the documention is done it’ll be released. Here are some screenshots to wet your appetite:

That’s right, the last screenshot also shows one of the critters you’ll encounter in TC-Isle. 🙂

The TresCom team congratulates the following participants:

1st place: Mickey’s ‘The Hunt’ level

2nd place: Dinosaur_Neil’s Trespasser Desktop Theme

3rd place: Scallenger’s Trespasser Soundtrack Website

4th place: The Odd Father’s Jurassic Park Role Playing Game

The TresCom Choice Award goes to: Asjad, with his ‘Optimized Rex’.

And for those who didn’t win anything; we enjoyed organising this contest so expect more of these in the future!

I just wanna read, man!

Another amazing episode of our “Trespasser 2”- story, has been released today by Sk8er. So head over to it here.

Recreating : Pine Valley

Another attempt of recreating this missing Trespasser level, which was orignially supposed to be shipped in the retail version , but then became turned into the demo level, is in developement. After many of us failed to finish an accurate version (even though the long running Pine Valley Site, has been having quite some successes and forthcomings), this new formed group of people, are trying their luck. We’re all wishing them good luck with this quite challenging task! To show how serious they are , they even provided us with 4 excellent screenshots… take a look:

If you got interested, then you may consider dropping them a line on their forum section.

Bill Brown I: Damn that restless boy!

Well, lots of news arrived about our dear tres-soundtrack composer Bill Brown. Looks like he’s really been busy over the last few weeks. He seems to working on a new film, titled: “the lady death”, which is scheduled for release on october 2004. Then his current project: Lineage II, is being released soon, so people who are pre-ordering it, will receive a special bonus, which includes the official Soundtrack Bill composed. But this isn’t enough for Bill, he also appeared as a guest artist on the final day of the 2004 NAMM Show and if that wouldn’t be enough he will also be speaking at this years Game Developers Conference! Now I really think that somebody’s got to come up with a way of stopping this man! 🙂

Bill Brown II: Congratulations!

I really don’t know how this guy manages all the stuff mentioned in the news item above, but he didn’t stop there. He also got married! So the entire TresCom staff and community is wishing him all the best! Congratulations to the lovely couple!