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Old 26-01-19, 18:32   #24
Nicklander
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Originally Posted by Gh0stBlade View Post
There are many differences between tomb5 main and tomb5 decompile. Our project is not using injections into the main game binary like tr5main does. Tr5main is more focused on renderer enhancements for now.

This isn't another engine. It's the same original game engine Core Design used with zero modifications for now.

I'm not going to scrap my project after working almost 3 years on it for the lights of something else.

Nice try.
Yoyoyo chill. I didn't want to be rude. I apologize.

Ok so as far as I understood it, the most relevant ones are:
- TR5Main is a hack similar to TRNG but focussing on its TombEditor (will eventually become an engine some day)
- TR5 Decompilation Project tries to obtain the original TR5 engine code or at least smth very close
- OpenLara is a (completely?) new engine
- OpenTomb/TRE is also a (completely?) new engine, but kinda dead (?)

It's awesome that you are so dedicated to this project, but you need to understand that I and many other users on this forum are confused by the amount of engine-related projects going on here. This is mainly due to a lack of explaination and transparency, I really don't feel like going thru hundrets of pages just to understand what it's actually about and what progress has been made so far.

Also it's quite frustrating if you ask me, I'm following some of the development projects for years now and it seems like the teams working on them are splitting more and more. From the perspective of a level builder there's only focus on one point: An open-source engine that allows modifications and the implementation of new features. That's basically the end goal of all the 5 projects listed above. I understand that you all have different approaches to reach that goal but you may agree that it's not very effective working in such small groups. Things could be moving way faster if all the effort was put in a single project. There are countless examples of abandoned projects in our community, so far only the hard work put in Monty's Editor has actually paid off. Trust me, nobody here wants even more abandoned projects.

Anyways, it's really cool that you are so dedicated to the TR community. I just wanted to express my frustration about this whole situation and hope that we'll see results some day.

EDIT: Ok, I might have got this a bit wrong. It's nice to see that there's a Discord server uniting all of those projects.

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