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Old 13-08-15, 08:01   #2
AkyV
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Sarcophagus

The method of the sarcophagus is the only one of methods from a to e that you encounter in the original TR4 game and Level Editor.

See this example in cleopal.prj Room111:

Lara goes to the sarcophagus. The player hits CTRL thereupon the sarcophagus-using animation (439) starts: Lara pushes the lid of the sarcophagus, leans in the sarcophagus and takes a small medipack out of it:






The setup is easy:

Place the items Lara will get from the sarcophagus, on a square. Then place the sarcophagus (it’s FURNITURE5 in cleopal.prj) on the same square to cover the pickable items. After that, place the sarcophagus lid (you can find this object as SARCOPHAGUS) on the sarcophagus. – Be aware: that side of the lid will be pushed by Lara where you can see the two black patches.

(You can open each sarcophagus only once, because the opened lid remains open “forever”. – And be careful: Lara puts something into her backpack at the end of her animation. So, if you want to use non-empty and/or empty sarcophagi on a level then you must re-edit the animation to make it useable for the empty ones as well.

For example, do that re-edition with a move - replacing the “putting into the backpack” part by that - that seems ambiguous: “Has Lara put anything into her backpack or has she just been scratching?”

Or you activate some special camera just in time so the player won’t see the backpack part of the animation when the sarcophagus is empty.)
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