README

Description

Lara's Croft braid utility is intented to add a braid model into .phd (Tomb Raider 1 file)

The TR1 (DOS and later Windows versions) engine doesn't support rendering of a Lara's braid. (Even though she appears with the braid in cutscenes)

The later open source indy projects (such as OpenLara) adds support for the it. However, it's using level resources and depends on the model to be in .phd file.

The utility adds the model into a .phd file.

How to Use

run the utility and pass .phd file file

larasbraid level1.phd

if it's identified that the file specified is TR1 file and it doesn't have a braid model. The new file will be generated with the model added. The result is written into a file with a name modified to *-braided.phd (i.e. level1.phd would be written to level1-braided.phd) The original file is left unmodified

Building

The utility requires Free Pascal Compiler (pretty much any available version)

fpc larasbraid.lpr

With some smaller adjustements (i.e. adding $IFDEFs for ${mode delphi} directive), could be compiled by Delphi compiler as well.