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Old 22-05-18, 16:35   #11
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Unfortunately TRviewer does not work for TR5, as it only supports TR1 to TR4.
And TRviewer is a very useful tool.

Now if someone wants to redesign TRviewer for use in TR5, as we have some members that are really good at code editing on this forum, then please go ahead

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...still would have been nice to see the entire level as a whole (like in TRViewer)TRC levels looks very cut up, the rooms are all in bits - random corners of rooms and stuff (instead of being all one room)
For a visual look of the whole level, you can use 'Tombviewer' which reads TR5 levels ok. It is not going to give you any technical information, as its just a visual program.

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Old 22-05-18, 19:14   #12
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Well how did I make the above TR5 modified video then? he he

I agree with you that some TR tools do not work, because they do not have TR5 format/support, for example...TRviewer.

But most TR tools work fine on TR5, (NOTE that I use winXP and win 7 computers to get my TR tools working) for example.....
Fexinspect, Fexmeger, PixStr, TRtexture, 3D meta, Rview_50_R3, Hex editors, and many more TR tools.

As I said the only real problem is the existing bigger data files of TR5, which cause crashes and black screens if you modify them too much.

The other solution is to create a TR5 level from scratch, but there are only 19 custom TR5 levels on TRLE net for some reason, so were not as popular as TR4 custom levels.

Problems with modern computers not allowing some TR tools to work....

Some TR tools do not work on newer win versions, like the TR tool 'Scripter4', which works on winXP easy, but not win 7 or above. Maybe you have a more modern computer like win 10. Do the above TRtools work on it, for TR1, TR2, TR3 and TR4?. If they do not work for them, then they are not going to work on TR5.

I know that you can modify the levels but what i meant was the support is partial and not full support, so its not the size of the file it has nothing to do with that crashing, its just most of the TR5 stuff is unknow. this means that for the porgrams the can do some modification(like fexmerger) it will mess up the whole data and corrupt the level because there is no proper support. i hope that you understand me now.

but when we have a proper support then we can do any type of modification to TR5, just like in TR4,3,2,1


Scripter4 works fine on win10 64bit and 7, I think you need to install the WAD Runtime
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Old 23-05-18, 04:13   #13
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.....TRC levels looks very cut up, the rooms are all in bits - random corners of rooms and stuff (instead of being all one room)
They had to cut their rooms like that to fit the tiny PSX memory (like 2MBs). since the game doesn't render rooms that are out of sight.
must have been frustrsting
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Old 23-05-18, 18:26   #14
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....i hope that you understand me now.
but when we have a proper support then we can do any type of modification to TR5, just like in TR4,3,2,1
I understand that we cannot do full modding of TR5, and quite honestly hardly anyone does mod it due to the problems discussed and the difficulties of TR5 modding.

I just do not ever see it changing from that, as modders have moved on to new generation TR4 custom game's, that can do a lot more now than TR5 modding.
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Old 03-06-18, 23:30   #15
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Tomb editor is perfectly able to create working tr5 files. And script.dat is the same of tr4 but i need to check it. However i am working on something interesting about tr5 and i will explain this in a few weeks.
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Old 04-06-18, 09:48   #16
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However i am working on something interesting about tr5 and i will explain this in a few weeks.
Ooh sounds interesting, I'm looking forward to this...
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Old 04-06-18, 12:01   #17
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Really, if you want to try, Tomb Editor builds perfectly working TR5 levels. With Wad Tool, you can create a Wad2 for your level starting from TR5 levels.
Additionally, for trying this faster, Tomb Editor in the last updates can load compiled levels instead of Wads for placing objects.
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Old 04-06-18, 20:53   #18
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You said that TRC files are already too large - is there a maximum file size that the game can handle before it is unable to load any more data? Does anyone know if it's because of too many polygons, objects, floor+trigger data, or simply the file size is too large?
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Old 04-06-18, 22:40   #19
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Probably it overflows the game buffer. When TR5 is initialised, a buffer of 5 MB is allocated with standard C functions. Then, when loading a level or other things, a fraction of this buffer is requested. But if you request too memory, beyond 5 MB, the engine will stop doing allocations.
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Old 05-06-18, 06:57   #20
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Ah ok. So level size can't exceed 5MB? (well slightly less than 5MB because other small things will take up the buffer)
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