Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness Restoration Project

[reborninshadow]

Originally Posted by kelvinsecolo

Oh my ****ing god you did not just recovered the E3 180 turn around animation. Is it even possible to play with this in the retail?

The level looks awesome as well.

Well you can use these old animation files (this is from early 2003 btw) but they are very very buggy when used with the retail game so you can't really play through the game properly with them. The biggest issue is that none of the weapons work and they break the game.

[kelvinsecolo]

Originally Posted by reborninshadow

Well you can use these old animation files (this is from early 2003 btw) but they are very very buggy when used with the retail game so you can't really play through the game properly with them. The biggest issue is that none of the weapons work and they break the game.

Jesus! So it is the actual animation file we have seen on those E3 videos. Do you think there’s even a tiny possibility of “merging” (this is probably not the right word) the animations from this file with the retail one and recover that 180 Turn animation? I always thought it was more polished than the retail one.

If not, will you eventually release it so we could check it out? Id love that!

Also let me say congratulations one more time. You’re probably tired of hearing this but you just keep surprising everyone.. It is so weird that nobody found these things for the last 20 years and now you’re basically extracting a whole game out of AOD. Nice one!

[reborninshadow]

Originally Posted by kelvinsecolo

Jesus! So it is the actual animation file we have seen on those E3 videos. Do you think there’s even a tiny possibility of “merging” (this is probably not the right word) the animations from this file with the retail one and recover that 180 Turn animation? I always thought it was more polished than the retail one.

If not, will you eventually release it so we could check it out? Id love that!

Also let me say congratulations one more time. You’re probably tired of hearing this but you just keep surprising everyone.. It is so weird that nobody found these things for the last 20 years and now you’re basically extracting a whole game out of AOD. Nice one!

Thanks I really appreciate that

I'm not really sure if what you're saying is possible since I never really looked into how the animation files work so who knows? Would like to include it if it is doable though. I also really like the way she holds dual pistols in these animations, it looks more like TR1 - TR5.

If I release the animations as they are, it would probably be released alongside this level as a bonus or something like that since the animation file needs to be included inside a level GMX file.

[SLAYER]

Originally Posted by reborninshadow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4Tm-TCwsw

Here's something else I've been working on lately

Awesome! is this the real deal?

[Ruu11]

The famous Castle Kriegler map finally playable... I must be dreaming lol
Incredible work as always. Can't wait for what's next

[kelvinsecolo]

Originally Posted by reborninshadow

Thanks I really appreciate that

I'm not really sure if what you're saying is possible since I never really looked into how the animation files work so who knows? Would like to include it if it is doable though. I also really like the way she holds dual pistols in these animations, it looks more like TR1 - TR5.

Exactly! I knew I spotted a difference in that. That animation was used in those long Beta videos with 1 hour each that were posted by the official TR channel during the 25th celebrations.

One of the last few things I always wanted for AoD, was that old/beta run animation. Don't know if you ever noticed, but it's a little different than the one we have in retail as well. Did you spot it anywhere in those files?

If I release the animations as they are, it would probably be released alongside this level as a bonus or something like that since the animation file needs to be included inside a level GMX file.

Having these more polished anims running on retail would be the perfect world. If that's not possible it would be fun just to try them out, just like the beta version of Parisian Backstreets. I'm such a curious person about angel of darkness and I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people who would enjoy this too. For some people this could seem something minor, but for us it's almost like finding gold.

[Caesum]

Originally Posted by reborninshadow

4. Retail issue I'm pretty sure and don't know how it can be fixed (seems to not happen if you use the rifle)

Definitely retail issue. Happens to me constantly on vanilla.

[reborninshadow]

Originally Posted by SLAYER

Awesome! is this the real deal?

These are official assets if you mean that I added some basic lighting myself though.

Originally Posted by kelvinsecolo

One of the last few things I always wanted for AoD, was that old/beta run animation. Don't know if you ever noticed, but it's a little different than the one we have in retail as well. Did you spot it anywhere in those files?

Having these more polished anims running on retail would be the perfect world. If that's not possible it would be fun just to try them out, just like the beta version of Parisian Backstreets. I'm such a curious person about angel of darkness and I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people who would enjoy this too. For some people this could seem something minor, but for us it's almost like finding gold.

I have animation files from september of 2002 too but they won't work on retail at all. I technically have all animations in their raw formats (including E3 anims and earlier) but they can't be compiled to work ingame since we don't have those tools. Running anim is not happening any time soon, unless we get working tools.

[Mokono]

Originally Posted by reborninshadow

I currently only shared a hex edit to invert both X and Y in the 1.2.1 release post, I'll try to share another edit just to invert X or Y when I have some time to work on the mod later this week. In a future update I'll look into making the inverted options for the mouse work on controllers too as a workaround for this for the time being.

Thank you so much for being so attentive to people's inquiries and requests. I currently watched your work on Kriegler castle and it made me feel like Christmas arrived a whole month early.

It would be great if the next release included some tuning to the controller options (whether it's inverting Y axis or detecting LT and RT on Xbox 360 gamepad), but seeing these can be worked around, they are not necessary and probably would get in the way of the other improvements you have planed or are being worked on right now.

[-DEBUG]

Originally Posted by reborninshadow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4Tm-TCwsw

Here's something else I've been working on lately

Wow, I never ever thought I'd see something like this, this is amazing!

Also, I saw you've been able to make the 2002 beta Paris Backstreets map playable, are you going to release it? I'd really love to play it!