Ah no actually: that was exactly the thing I was saying a while back I was thinking I may be able to do. Glidos intercepts the Glide commands. In the case of Lara, the texture being used is enough to work out what bits are being drawn. And there's enough info in the command to work back to the 3D coordinates (I think). So I could draw a replacement, perhaps consisting of several commands.

Parts of Lara are untextured, and might be a problem, though. In any case, this is so hard, I bet I never do it, and even if I did, the job of the modder would be extremely hard too.

One nice thing it would let us do is roughen the rock faces to get rid of the blockiness.

Oops. I'll get my coat...

There's some new randomised screenshots on the home page for TRX if anyone missed them.... updated caves stuff. I'm much happier with it now...

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

Yes, I'd missed them. Astounding. Those plants are amazing.

Heh, I tried loads of different things for that tall plant and nothing looked right. In the end, I photographed my prayer plant (Maranta leucoreura) from lots of different angles and painstakingly cropped out various leaves necessary to have it look vaguely like the original plant.

( Prayer Plant Pics on Google )

You can see why this is taking so long....

At some point, I think I might write a little tutorial for the site so you can see how I go about these things. But that's more time away from creating the actual textures...

And see that its worth the waiting.

Gambit37 wrote:

At some point, I think I might write a little tutorial for the site so you can see how I go about these things.

It will be definitely appreciated -- but first things first, the levels! 😁

Bit bored of texturing at the moment, so played a bit of TR3 for the first time in years. I'd forgotten how much I liked Lara's pose in title screen, so I went off and made a similar one for TRX:

I made Lara's face look more like the face 'll be using in the game.Does anyone like this, or do you prefer the current title screen, the one that's like the original TR but with the AOD lara face?

I like it very much (Lara's face is grate!), but it doesn't convey the TR1 spirit as much as the original title screen (or for that matter, your version of the original one). Concerning the latter, the AOD look doesn't really bother me -- but it doesn't have much in common with TR1, does it? I wonder if it would be possible to replace Lara's face with your much improved version for TRX... Mmm!

Yes, I'm still keeping my existing title screen for the main TRx project. I might offer this one as an 'alternative.'

I might have a go at replacing Lara's features in my existing title screen so that they match the in game ones. It's tricky though. While I'm great at texturing and manipulation, I'm not much of an artist, and getting my new eyes and mouth onto that face is tricky 'cos it's not straight on...

I found a high-res image of the original TR Title screen Lara and replaced my AOD Lara -- this looks much better. Not going to fiddle with the face though -- too much effort!

However, which lettering do people prefer? I had the TR style originally, then used a sparkly one to signify "new and improved" -- but I still quite like the original. Anyone?

I prefer the old lettering as well, it instantly reminds me of great times spent on this game (ok, that was on the PSX version back then ^^).

I like the rocky lettering too: its very TR1. But I like everything you do, so its not an issue for me. More than anything, I'd like to see you release some more stuff.

I love your first title screen - glitzy stuff is alkways an instant winner for me! - but the original lettering does seem to "sit" better with the original Lara in this new version. On another note.... the glimpse of Lara's new butt that you gave us elsewhere looks fantastic...is she likely to be revealed to us in all her glory anytime soon?

But I like everything you do

Aw, shucks. 😊 Thank you! And yes, you're right, It's more important to release the actual texture packs. Damn fiddly though -- I'm trying to get all the little bits and pieces of all the weapons and sprites done so that The Caves will be completed -- this will really help for the other packs as I don't need to do that work again.

Although, hgaving said that, the capturing of levels and working out which of the newly captured images relates to which new image is quite a frustrating and a very time-consuming task. I could move on and do the walls and stuff for other levels quite quickly, but would rather have every further pack utterly complete before releasing it.

Oh yeah, BTW: I haven't tested it, but I think you can put your master files in the Capture folder, plus a skeleton of the folder structure, then it should capture to your folders.

But one needs to know the captured folder names to put into the masterfile to begin with -- capturing an as yet un-captured level wouldn't work as you suggest unless one is psychic... 😉

Yeah, I'm talking rubbish.

Would it be possible to make Glidos extract textures from the levels so I wouldn't have to play through each map capturing old textures before replacing them? As I said earlier I've taking the lara model from TR2 and replaced the model from TR1 but now I have to play through each level and rename the custom texture folders to use them 🙁

Wow. Would you mind posting a screenshot of Lara v2 in TR1? 😀