Trespasser - incredible technology from 1997

**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 ), I knew all the games which were listed there. Except one - Trespasser.

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-...-10024401.html

and demo of datadisc (?) as last download here (but requires filePlanet account): http://trescom.org/index.php?page=do...=category&id=3

This is so inspiring! Imagine which hardware you had in 1997... this had to be gigantic programming challenge.

Petr

**matthew** · 01-11-2009, 08:36

I do have a vague memory of that game, I seem to remember the image with the dinosaur being featured in a PC magazine around the time it was released.

Some games that I think should have been mentioned in that list of 50 would be on the Amiga but I suppose everyone's got their personal favourites.

**Petr Schreiber** · 01-11-2009, 09:36

Hi Matthew,

that soccer looked great!
And hired guns were very cool too

I think the "square by square" movement is good way to preserve rich graphics while having almost zero work with collisions.

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Originally Posted by Karlsmith

Hi Dear Admin and all friends .. I am Karl . While I was browsing the net I saw this forum and thought to join.

I am looking improve my knowledge about web design and other related things ..

Hope to know you all in the forum ..