
----------------------TOMB RAIDER--------------------------
-----------------------CHRONICLES--------------------------
-----------------The Philosopher's Stone-------------------
--------------------------BETA-----------------------------


----------------------made by 911--------------------------


STORY & CONCEPT
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Lara Croft goes on one of her first adventure. Her dear friend Jean-Yves asks her to meet in
his appartment in Rome where some events uncover bit by bit the secret place where the
philosopher's stone is kept. Jean-Yves tells her that it's not going to be a very hard task
but Lara Croft seems to think otherwise...

This adventure is a re-imagined version of the official release. Instead of having 3 seperate
levels, the set is composed of one big hub interconnecting the streets of Rome. 

Discover all new challenges, level mechanics, places to explore and riddles to solve within
new but also familiar and iconic environnement from Tomb Raider Chronicles.


LIST OF LEVELS
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1. Streets of Rome 
	Part of the hub

2. Underground Rome
	Part of the hub

3. Sewers of Rome
	Part of the hub

4. The Church
	Part of the hub

5. Trajan's Market
	Part of the hub

6. Rome Mayhem
	The level that ends the hub

7. The Catacombs
	
8. The Colosseum

9. Underneath The Colosseum
	
10. The Philosopher's Stone



SECRETS 
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Explore a bit deeper to found the iconic classic Golden Roses. They sure come with goodies most of the time.



THE CRAFT OF CROFT
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Classic "Chronicles" moves are added to the gameplay.

 	Swinging around bars:
	Jump to the bars holding the up cursor key and the action cursor key.
	Keep holding them to make Lara swing.
	Release them to let Lara jump ! 

	From ladder to crawlspace: 
	While grabbing a lader, just hold the up cursor key and the crouch
	
	Crawlspace roll:
	If you feel like a crawlspace is taking for ever, crouch back by hitting
	the space cursor key. Then hit the sprint cursor key to make Lara roll.
	She goes way faster that way.

	Rolling out of a crawlspace:
	When Lara is facing the gap of the end of a crawlspace, you can get out
	faster by holding the up cursor key and the jump cursor key.
	Lara will roll out of it.
	If the celling on the next room is too low, she won't perform it.

	Tight rope:
	Lara can walk on tight ropes. Just simply walk to the edge in front of the
	rope and press action. Hold the action cursor key and the up cursor key
	to make her move. If she looses her balance, press the left or right cursor
	key depending on the direction she might fall.

	Looking into shelves:
	You might see some shelves, go in front of them and press the action cursor
	key. Lara will search into it and might found some interresting quest items.
	Sometimes the shelves are empty.




KNOWN ISSUES
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	In "Sewers of Rome", there is a tightrope that you have to use. While using,
	sometimes the animation of Lara walking on the tightrope will 
	play but Lara won't move, like she's stuck. Just keep pressing the up cursor
	key and she will eventually move and get unstuck. I don't know what caused 
	this. The pipe she's walking on has no collision so it's a mystery.

	As this is a BETA version of the game, you can found the "PlayAnyLevel" script
	just in case there's a game-breaking bug that I haven't found. I have no time
	or motivation to polish this game but I still wanted to share this first
	version with everyone since I worked a lot on it. 




PROGRAMS USED :
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NGLE
Wadmerger by Michiel
Strpix by Turbo Pascal
T_Builder by IceBerg

CREDITS:
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TRC Wads made by Core Design, extracted and made useable in TRLE by Rardraider
TR4 wads made by Core Design, some retextured with TRC textures. 
TRC Textures made by Core Design, extracted by Anurag
TRC crossbow by Core Design, extracted and converted by Ggctuk2005
TRC dog extracted and converted by Tomo
Swingpole, rope, laser head and Hydra by magplus
waking up from fall made by Core Design extracted by Snapper
Shootable bell by kookee_1223
working valve switch by kurtisandlara
Roman boss downloaded on LaraLevelBase.org help from Tomb Raidering to make it work
Bird switch extracted and converted by Mike Quahe
Beta TR5 textures found on Core's winroom edit pictures (raidingtheglobe)
Easter Egg  static by Jliboy
3D hands while holding guns, new pistol + uzis models looking actually like the ones in the inventory by MrNiceGuy
workers ennemies by Dinne
Rats by DieBasis
Standing animation, sitting animation and earthquake animation by SrDanielPonces
TRC load&save icons extracted and converted by Richard_BA
roll in crawlspace, roll out from crawlspace, ladder to crawlspace, stumbling thanks to Titak tutorials
stumble animation by Geckokid
Cogswitch setup by SrDanielPonces, retextured with Core Design TR5 textures
TR5 Skeleton in TR4 slot + TR5 skeleton animating by Tifa Nazah


SPECIAL THANKS:
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To the TRLE community and all of the TR fans that extract, create and made everything easier to build levels !
To Dinne who helped me a lot with the cupboards.
To Mulf for helping me getting out of an "animation loop hell" with the birdswitch
To the players who downloaded my level set.

This levelset was not made by and is not supported by Core Design Ltd, Eidos Interactive, Crystal Dynamics
and Square Enix.
