Petr Schreiber
31-10-2009, 14:13
Dear friends,
today I revealed one game from 1997 which made ma jaw drop 2 floors down.
I read article ( Fifty 3D milestones in gaming (http://www.geeks3d.com/forums/index.php/topic,698.0.html) ), I knew all the games which were listed there. Except one - Trespasser.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/trespasser-screenshot.jpg
It is game related to Jurrasic Park movie somehow from 1997 which features:
Large full 3D environment with vegetation
Real time physics interaction(!)
Real time shadows (!)
Inverse kinematics (!) based animation of dinosaurs
Rag doll physics (!)
First person view, but with character body modelled
I must say I was very heavily impressed - game 12 years old which has features of current cutting edge games!
The polycount is low of course, the controls little odd ... but the rest - very impressive technology.
You can try demo for example from here:
http://download.cnet.com/Trespasser-demo/3000-7563_4-10024401.html
and demo of datadisc (?) as last download here (but requires filePlanet account): http://trescom.org/index.php?page=downloads&mode=category&id=3
This is so inspiring! Imagine which hardware you had in 1997... this had to be gigantic programming challenge.
Petr
today I revealed one game from 1997 which made ma jaw drop 2 floors down.
I read article ( Fifty 3D milestones in gaming (http://www.geeks3d.com/forums/index.php/topic,698.0.html) ), I knew all the games which were listed there. Except one - Trespasser.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/trespasser-screenshot.jpg
It is game related to Jurrasic Park movie somehow from 1997 which features:
Large full 3D environment with vegetation
Real time physics interaction(!)
Real time shadows (!)
Inverse kinematics (!) based animation of dinosaurs
Rag doll physics (!)
First person view, but with character body modelled
I must say I was very heavily impressed - game 12 years old which has features of current cutting edge games!
The polycount is low of course, the controls little odd ... but the rest - very impressive technology.
You can try demo for example from here:
http://download.cnet.com/Trespasser-demo/3000-7563_4-10024401.html
and demo of datadisc (?) as last download here (but requires filePlanet account): http://trescom.org/index.php?page=downloads&mode=category&id=3
This is so inspiring! Imagine which hardware you had in 1997... this had to be gigantic programming challenge.
Petr