tomb5 using guide
February 20, 2023 ยท View on GitHub
Installing:
first time installs:
CD version:
- Open your TR5 CD in file explorer to view its contents.
- Copy over the listed files into the folder you have TR5 installed:
- Entire audio folder
- Entire data folder
- Entire fmv folder
- Entire screens folder
- SCRIPT.DAT
- <language.dat> (whichever language your game version is in, typically English.dat or US/UK.dat
- Get the latest release package that says "exe + dll"
- unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR5 folder, overwrite when prompted.
- Enjoy!
Steam/GoG version:
- Get the latest release package that says "exe + dll"
- unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR5 folder, overwrite when prompted.
- Enjoy!
Updating/Non-first time installing:
- Get the latest release package that says "dll only"
- unzip the archive and copy over the contents to you TR5 folder, overwrite when prompted.
- Enjoy!
New options menu:
accessible through the title options menu/pause options menu
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1. FootPrints:
- Toggles footprints on and off.
2. Shadow Mode:
Determines shadow shape
- Original: Original octagon shape.
- Circle: A flat semi-transparent circle.
- PSX: A faded circle similar to the shadow present in the PSX version.
3. Fix climb up delay:
- Fixes the 1 second delay for Lara's ledge climb up.
4. Flexible crawling:
- Toggles more responsive crawling with less freezes in Lara's moveset.
5. Cutscene skipper:
- Toggles the cutscene skipper. (Keep in mind, normal flybies are not cutscenes!) Skip cutscenes using the ESC button.
6. Cheats:
Toggles ingame cheats on and off. For inventory cheats, highlight the Timex-TMX.
- DOZY: Flycheat. During DOZY, pressing Action emits a strong white light, and pressing Roll turns Lara around faster than directional buttons.
- GUNS: Inventory cheat. Gives Lara all the guns present in the level.
- BITS: Inventory cheat. Unlocks the special features menu.
- ITEM: Inventory cheat. Gives Lara all the items (puzzles/keys/crowbar/unlimited flares, etc.) present in the level.
- SKIP: Inventory cheat. Skips to the next level.
- HEAL: Inventory cheat. Fills Lara's healthbar.
7. Bar Positions:
Changes the positions of the bars on the screen.
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Original: original PC bar positions

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Improved: improved PC bar positions

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PSX: PSX bar positions

8. Enemy bars:
- Toggles an enemy health bar on and off.
9. Ammo counter:
- Toggles a weapon ammo counter on and off.
10. Gameover menu:
- Toggles a PSX-like gameover menu after Lara dies.

11. Fog:
- Toggles volumetric fog on and off.

12. Bar Mode:
Determines the mode of the bars.
- original: original TR4 bars.
- TR5: TR5 bar colors.
- PSX: PSX bar colors.
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13. Crawl Tilting:
- Toggles Lara tilting while crawling on sloped surfaces.
14. PSX Skies:
- Toggles using the PSX sprite for the sky.
15. TR4 loadscreens:
- Toggles using original picture or new TR4 style loading screens.
16. Loadbar style:
Determines the style of the loading bar in the loading screens.
- TR4: big bar, like TR4.
- TR5: original small TR5 bar.
17. mono screen style:
Determines the style of the inventory/pause menu background.
- original: The original yellow-ish style.
- TR4: The TR4 black and white.
- Clear: Clear game screen as is, no color modification.
18. Loading text:
- Toggles the "Loading" text in loading screens. Note: TR5 loadbar style will ignore this option and never show the text. This is intentional and will not change.
19. Shimmer:
- Toggles the vertex shimmer effect.
20. Distance Fog:
- Controls the distance at which vertices start to fade to black. Note: this value is in blocks/squares, meaning a value of 12 makes the distance fog start 12 game blocks away from the current camera position.
21. ammotype hotkeys:
- Toggles the ability to switch ammo types through keyboard hotkeys.
22. look transparency:
- Toggles Lara going transparent when looking around.
23. static lighting:
- Toggles static lighting.
24. UW Effect:
- Controls the underwater dust effect.