Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness Restoration Project - Page 163

reborninshadow · 10-12-22, 16:08

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Originally Posted by eqagunn

I'm talking about Camera-Relative Controls (not Look Mode). The very first sentence of the tutorial says "To turn on the spot, use left and right directional buttons". With Tank Controls she would indeed rotate on the spot. But with Camera-Relative controls she instead starts to move in that direction. That is fine and indeed what you would expect of Camera-Relative controls, however instead of camera rotating around Lara, Lara should rotate with the camera, like it is the case in other games. Here is one example. One problem remains though. Whenever the game locks the camera, like it does at the very start when you climb the green bin, you are again left without the ability to rotate in the spot. So this camera-locking should be disabled.

Since other videos play fine, these 4 should be encoded the same way to remove the need to install something additional. In an ideal world the in-game decoder should be changed to x264/mp4 and all the videos re-encoded as such. Currently, FMV files are ginormous and double up the size of the game, which made me replace them with 5KB dummy ones. Also, not having high-quality sources to encode from is probably half the reason for the large size I guess.

So you mean you essentially want the camera of the tank mode but with the movement of the camera relative mode? Am I understanding that correctly?

I will also look into finding ways to make the FMV's work better in the future in terms of file format and size etc.

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Originally Posted by Chaos93

hello, how can i enter the louvre in this mod? it used to be after placing the charge on the gastank dive to the left in the tunnel in the water, getting out and going to the the sides to enter but now im kinda lost. any help is appreciated!

also if someone knows a walktrough or youtube link for this mod would be appreciated in case im stuck again ^^

The way into the louvre is exactly the same as the retail game unless you've encountered a bug or something. Can you not place the explosives? If that is the case, make sure you have the explosives in your inventory (saying this in case you started this level from TRAODSCU or something).

KIKO · 10-12-22, 16:09

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Originally Posted by reborninshadow

Just some screenshots of an earlier version of the first level with proper lighting and fixed textures. I found the lighting files that can be opened in the level editor for a slightly earlier version of this level so it should be mostly authentic

I will probably release this, the castle I showed earlier and a developer test level for people to mess around with (with more coming in the future), just keep in mind that they won't be fully playable like I mentioned before and this isn't a part of the actual mod itself.

I can’t wait for this!! Very exciting news.
Hopefully one day there will be a way to import and somehow “merge” this with the game itself.

Caesum · 10-12-22, 19:39

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Originally Posted by reborninshadow

So you mean you essentially want the camera of the tank mode but with the movement of the camera relative mode? Am I understanding that correctly?

If I understand correctly he wants something like in Harry Potter 2-3 games on PC. That moving camera automatically adjusts Lara's position so she's always facing the same direction. You can see how it works here:
https://youtu.be/_wFz8blGrRI

eqagunn · 10-12-22, 19:54

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Originally Posted by Caesum

If I understand correctly he wants something like in Harry Potter 2-3 games on PC. That moving camera automatically adjusts Lara's position so she's always facing the same direction. You can see how it works here:
https://youtu.be/_wFz8blGrRI

Yes Caesum! Tank you! Harry Potter movement is the way Camera-Relative Controls should be.

I have currently reached museum and getting frustrated quite a lot not being able to position Lara properly.

EDIT:
Missing textures in the museum vents.
Here is the savegame if anyone wants to take a look. Calling it quits as it's pointless to play like this.

reborninshadow · 10-12-22, 21:01

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Originally Posted by eqagunn

Yes Caesum! Tank you! Harry Potter movement is the way Camera-Relative Controls should be.

I have currently reached museum and getting frustrated quite a lot not being able to position Lara properly.

Yeah I get it now, I'll see if this can work better compared to the vanilla game.

If you are playing with a controller, you can push the left stick slightly to make her turn to that direction without running so that may help. If you are playing on keyboard/mouse with cam relative movement then you need to use the walk mode a lot when positioning Lara for jumps.

EDIT: You somehow missed a loading trigger so thats not missing textures. This is my fault though for selecting the wrong option on the latest EXE. To prevent this from happening again you can set the "Remove fade-in and delay on loading (on foot)" option to ON instead of FULL via the patcher from the Misc. menu.

eqagunn · 10-12-22, 21:27

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Originally Posted by reborninshadow

EDIT: You somehow missed a loading trigger so thats not missing textures. This is my fault though for selecting the wrong option on the latest EXE. To prevent this from happening again you can set the "Remove fade-in and delay on loading (on foot)" option to ON instead of FULL via the patcher from the Misc. menu.

Actually, the default executable in RP v1.2.1 has it as On, not as Full. I have it as On too.

However, the fault might be on my side. I have everything in your patcher enabled. A few more from Nakamichi's one too.

LateRaider · 10-12-22, 21:29

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Originally Posted by Caesum

If I understand correctly he wants something like in Harry Potter 2-3 games on PC. That moving camera automatically adjusts Lara's position so she's always facing the same direction. You can see how it works here:
https://youtu.be/_wFz8blGrRI

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Originally Posted by eqagunn

Yes Caesum! Tank you! Harry Potter movement is the way Camera-Relative Controls should be.

I have currently reached museum and getting frustrated quite a lot not being able to position Lara properly.

Oh, I get it now! You want Lara's body to follow the camera as you move it around in Camera-relative Controls. This way you can easily rotate in place to adjust her trajectory.

One question I have is, are you playing with keyboard and mouse or a controller? If you lightly push the Left Analog, you can still rotate in place. But it's not possible to rotate in Camera-relative Controls on keyboard and Mouse. Which has been a problem since its implementation, admittedly. We have been recommending keyboard and mouse players to use Tank Controls due to this, but I believe reborninshadow tests with Camera-relative Controls himself. (I'm the only member of the team who regularly games on PC using a controller.)

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Originally Posted by eqagunn

EDIT:
Missing textures in the museum vents.
Here is the savegame if anyone wants to take a look. Calling it quits as it's pointless to play like this.

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It looks like for this, the zoning transition broke somehow. This may be related to the "more seamless" transitions between zones enabled by default with the most recent 1.2.1 transitional update EXE. You can shut off the "push forward" aspect of this in the EXE Patcher linked to in the first post of this thread, and it will work fine. Sorry that you encountered this. I can show step-by-step how to enable it, if need be.

Do you have an earlier save to roll back to? I can pass you the saves we use for testing if you don't.

reborninshadow · 10-12-22, 21:30

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Originally Posted by eqagunn

Actually, the default executable in RP v1.2.1 has it as On, not as Full. I have it as On too.

However, the fault might be on my side. I have everything in your patcher enabled. A few more from Nakamichi's one too.

Ah ok

I'm pretty sure the only way this can happen is because of that option being on FULL though (well, or flying through the wall with cheats).

eqagunn · 10-12-22, 21:34

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Originally Posted by LateRaider

Are you playing with keyboard and mouse or a controller?

K&M

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Originally Posted by reborninshadow

I'm pretty sure the only way this can happen is because of that option being on FULL though (well, or flying through the wall with cheats).

My apologies. I remember not wanting to have it as FULL, but it somehow ended up being FULL. You know your stuff.

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Originally Posted by LateRaider

Do you have an earlier save to roll back to? I can pass you the saves we use for testing if you don't.

I've been only using quicksaves so this is the only one I have. Too bad there are no autosaves to load from them.
Well, if there is no way to fix mine, I'll gladly take one of yours then.

reborninshadow · 10-12-22, 23:02

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Originally Posted by eqagunn

I've been only using quicksaves so this is the only one I have. Too bad there are no autosaves to load from them.
Well, if there is no way to fix mine, I'll gladly take one of yours then.

You can also PM me your save if you want and I'll fix it.