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usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-10-2001 11:49 PM ok, somehow i got the ICE AGE level to work and i played it..its pretty cool i must say. now ive downloaded Tower BRidge 2, Ancient Legends and Iron Horse and i am having trouble with all of them. i convert tb2(tower bridge).tom and click on the tomb raider icon to run the game. i click new game it just sends me back to the desktop. can anyone help me.??? ..cant there be some universal way to download all levels..not matter what they are? sometimes this really a hassle. ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
matt3k Junior Member Posts: 22 From:Grand Rapids , MI, USA Registered: Sep 2001 | posted 09-10-2001 11:51 PM Have you changed your script(s) back or modified them? IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-10-2001 11:53 PM i did exactly what it said to do. i made a back up of my script english files and a wav file....and i put the files in the right folders as i read them right from the readme .txt. i dont know what could be wrong ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
matt3k Junior Member Posts: 22 From:Grand Rapids , MI, USA Registered: Sep 2001 | posted 09-10-2001 11:56 PM You also re-compiled the scripts to data files then placed them in the trle folder. Right? That should work... at least to get it back to how the program was initially set up. IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:01 AM what do you mean by re comiling the script files. the readme said nothing about that. i made a backup of my last script file and overwrote the old one, which was probbaly ICE AGE. and then i put the script file from Tower Bridge 2 into the trle folder. hmm i dunno what i should do. i just found out i have two folders names graphics, but both of them are under trle and not on the same "level" so to speak as the other..you can have to go one more deeper in the files to get to the second graphics folder which inicidentally only had one file, so i just copied it over. i wish it was easier than this. sometimes it feels like it just might not be worth it. ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
matt3k Junior Member Posts: 22 From:Grand Rapids , MI, USA Registered: Sep 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:04 AM When you say script file do you mean the .dat file or the .txt file? IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:05 AM script.dat i made a backup of it....what should i do. ?? and how come i got ICE AGE to work..? thats weird. ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
matt3k Junior Member Posts: 22 From:Grand Rapids , MI, USA Registered: Sep 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:07 AM ..and the english.dat? ---or whatever language you are using? [This message has been edited by matt3k (edited 09-11-2001).] IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:08 AM i backed it up to.... ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
matt3k Junior Member Posts: 22 From:Grand Rapids , MI, USA Registered: Sep 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:14 AM OK then try this... 1. go to ms-dos (or dos. whatever) 2. find the script folder in the trle folder. 3. use this command: script script.txt 4 back out of dos and go back to the script folder in win. 5 3 new files should be there called: script.dat, your_language.dat and Strings.dat. 6. c&p all these files into your trle folder. ---or--- go to http://www.eidosinteractive.com/downloads/index.html then media and donload the wads there with the script.dat files already in it. I hope this helps. Good luck and let me know. IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:15 AM i remember now when i played the ice age, when i hit new game, i saw all these levels that i knew i had downloaded but none of them loaded. now after ive played ice age, i cannot find that long list anywhere. im just so confused. i wish i new what file or files i needed to sort all this mess out. ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
matt3k Junior Member Posts: 22 From:Grand Rapids , MI, USA Registered: Sep 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:17 AM E-mail me if you want the scripts as they were when you originaly installed trle. IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:18 AM *sigh* there just has to be a simpler way. i dont mean to be negative but that sounds like its just too much trouble. i will try it , thanks for your input and i appreciate it. i made a backup of my script and english ,dat files like the readme said...so...those dat files should have been replaced the the towere bridge2 files. thats my understanding anyway. ive got to go to bed but plz let me know ANYONE let me know what they think the problem might be. i will try all to see what works. thanks. ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 12:20 AM ill email you tomorrow, ive got to go to bed,. that sounds great. or you can email them to me at runninL8@hotmail.com, speaking of which its L8 here..and im going to sleep. see ya. *yawns* ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
Driber_IF Member Posts: 1036 From:Den Haag, The Netherlands Registered: Apr 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 02:02 AM usmsci, you are trying the level one at a time, aren't you? don't try to install all the levels you downloaded, this will not work or give huge problems what problems are you getting when trying to install/play Ancient Legends? and if you need the original script files, just download my original script backup tool on my site ------------------ Tomb Raider - Ancient Legends levels (2), walkthroughs, tutorials, wallpapers and other TR goodies on driber.cjb.net !!! new: the full release of the OBJECTS ARCHIVE is out !!! IP: Logged
Michael P Member Posts: 227 From: Registered: Apr 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 03:43 AM reading all of the above, it seems no surprise that by now we are all confused. And admittedly, when you are new to custom levels it may seem cumbersome when in fact it is not and you get well used to it over time. One thing you may want to watch is when extracting files from ZIP-files, sometimes they have a path attached and if you have the option 'Use Folder Names' checked and then extract to e.g. ...\trle\graphics\wads it will create a graphics\wads\graphics\wads and thus you will be converting the wrong TOM file. In general, you will need to understand the concept of what a PRJ, a TOM and a TR4 file is, that most of the times you need to play around with the script.dat and english.dat (sometimes also with script.txt and english.txt as described above) and recently with all those custom WADs often the TOM file does not come on its own but has a bunch of files with other endings as well, but as these go into the same directory/folder as the TOM file you do not need to worry about these too much. If you feel you don't want to worry about all this, the easiest way is to look out for levels that come as a TR4 file which simply needs to be copied into the trle\data folder, but of course these are also the biggest downloads (6 MB or more) Again, try to ask specific questions if it does not work, mostly it works best to ask the author via eMail. ------------------ HAPPY RAIDING! Michael. IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 07:52 AM ancient legends just pops up there when i run it , i selct new game, then it crashes. i couldnt figure out which site1 to convert. anyways maybe you can help me. ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged
usmsci Member Posts: 92 From:Hattiesburg, Ms, USA Registered: May 2001 | posted 09-11-2001 02:16 PM hey all, please read the comments on this topic and if you could help me any further or just give your input then lemme know ok? thanks ------------------ What would you do for a Klondike Bar? IP: Logged

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