Brilliant. I've been so hoping that someone would take on this challenge.

Hi all

Further to my posts last week, I've set up a website for the Tomb Raider Xtra project. Not much on there at the moment, but it has the samples of artwork most of you will have seen already. Check it out and perhaps leave a comment in the guestbook... 😀

http://www.resonantedge.com/trx/

Gambit

one word:

AWESOME!!!

MAN! It is amazing! Can't wait.

First texture pack released! (Kind of!):

http://www.resonantedge.com/trx/?p=news

Very nice looking. Now if only I had a copy of Tomb Raider, 😜

Gambit: really beautiful!!
Only it has a little glitch. On Lara's nose.

Yup, I know about that, see here:

showthread.php?s=&threadid=2578

Hopefully Paul can fix this in the next version of Glidos, as it's not a problem with the actual graphics, but the engine itself...

It will be fixed I promise.

Aaaahh! Your sites down. I want to play TR Extra. I'll try again tomorrow.

My provider seems to be having problems with all their servers at the moment. First time it's ever happened. Hopefully, it'll be sorted soon.

Don't get too excited though -- only the title screen has been completed so far!

I've just looked at your example screen shots. I think you've updated them: I was impressed before, but the ones you have up there now are incredible. I really didn't expect to see this done so well.

I'm looking at the corner glitch problem now.

I've fixed the glitch. It was a bug in OpenGLide. If you drop the attached new version into your Glidos folder, the glitch will go.

Cool Glidos, it works!

I can't wait to try out an actual level. Even if it isn't quite finished. Ooo, I can't wait.

Fabulous stuff. The best makeover project I've seen yet. How long is this likely to take?

Regarding this patch Paul, it does cure the 'black spots' problem, but unfortunately introduces some new ones:

1) Can no longer run TR in a Window -- if you deselect 'Full screen' when starting up TR, the game ends up runniing full screen but with a Windows border around it. With the old version, I got a proper Window the size I specified... this makes it much harder to develop textures because I can't now easily switch between TR and Photoshop to test textures.

2) When running in this mode, selecting the Passport makes the entire screen go black -- before, it just overlayed the game and you could still see the level in the background.

Hi Gambit,

1. You could try modifying your openglid.ini file like this:

CreateWindow=1
InitFullScreen=0

2. Seems like a recurring transparency / chroma keying issue 😀

Cool, thanks for the info -- that fixed it.