#custom levels

[lady-trent]

Tomb Raider Community Advent Calendar 2025

My favourite season is upon us - The Tomb Raider Community Advent Calendar Season! Happy Christmas Time everyone!

[ozzni]

@kloonissmall beat level 1. surprisingly, the final room was the easiest, because it was so chock full of enemies that I barely even had to aim. most of my deaths were from swordsmachines right behind a door. I really liked how you used the Idols to let the player take in a room before the fighting began, and to give a concrete objective in every room: [PUNCH IT!] Gonna need to remember to stop using the Piercer as my default revolver so I can rack up those style points. The only gripe I have is the vents, because most of the grates were visible, perpendicular to the camera, while the last one was comparatively hidden by being on the floor. Other than that though, I loved it. Good work!

[queenofskytown]

SETTLE A DEBATE FOR ME LMAO

BRUTUS PRIME, FROM THE PRIME SUPPER (AN ULTRAKILL MOD)

WOULD ESTROGEN HAVE:

SAVED HER

MADE HER WORSE (AFFECTIONATE)

MADE HER WORSE (DEROGATORY)

DONE NOTHING TO HIM

Voting ended onJun 29, 2024

even if you don't know this character at all just guess. and yes i tried to take a square screenshot and ended up making the photo half boobs. whatever

second post here and third post here

[cogmonkey]

My Crash Bandicoot level editor

Here's a long post about a project that has been consuming my life for the last 4 years! A thing that will let you make custom levels in a Crash Bandicoot game! Let's see if it's worth Tumblring about!

Backstory: I love the Crash Bandicoot games, and the first in the series has always been my favourite game ever. In 2017 the original PS1 trilogy was remade and released on PS4 as the N Sane Trilogy and a year later it went multiplatform - including PC. I've never been a big fan of PC gaming and although I've always been a bit of a tinkerer I didn't have any serious experience with modding at that point. I had even less experience with coding (none). But the PC release of this remake came during an extremely rough period of my life. I had been searching for a while for some kind of distraction from the situation I was in, to help me get back on my feet. So I started to experiment with breaking the game in interesting ways and somehow became the N Sane Trilogy modding guy without really meaning to. And it did turn out to be a big part of my recovery too!

The first thing I figured out was custom music, and once I had the process down I wanted to automate it which lead to my first ever experience of writing "code" in the form of a .bat file. All it really did was insert a few bytes into the start of the right kind of MP3 to make it work in the game but until this point I didn't even know what a byte was so it felt like a major achievement to me.

Not long after that, I worked out how to move objects around within levels. I wanted to try doing the same thing I'd done with the music by creating a tool that would make it easy for anyone to change the positions of things like crates and enemies. I never even considered trying to make a full blown level editor, having only just learned the basics of the Windows command line.

But my quest to avoid having to find a way to create some kind of GUI took me to some strange places. I got as far as having another .bat file that used the Windows debugger to hack into the game's memory while it was running so that you could actually see what objects you were moving where, when I decided that it was getting a little absurd and there was probably a better solution.

Still not knowing what I was doing and just trying to find a simple way to display a set of points in 3D space, I ended up playing around with Unity. It took a lot of googling and trial and error but once I was able to turn a list of coordinates into a visual representation of how objects in a level file were laid out I decided I wasn't going to find anything easier. I didn't fancy trying to create the UI part of the editor from scratch within Unity though so I downloaded Visual Studio and cobbled together a Windows Forms application for the 3D view to live inside. As I was able to use C# (whatever that was?) for both components it seemed to me like a perfectly sensible thing to do.

Hindsight tells me that this was just as ridiculous as the debugger version but it worked well enough initially that it's remained as the basis of my level editor ever since.

I did restart the whole project again after a few months of work on that version. As I spent more time on it I learned a lot more about how the game worked and once I properly understood how the level files were structured I had no real way to implement that with the code I had already written that was based on mostly guesswork. But by now there were a few more people taking an interest in modding the game and new tools like model converters were appearing. So I would have needed to start again anyway if I wanted to ever have something that actually looked like a level editor rather than a swarm of unidentifiable boxes floating around in an empty space, which was still the best I could do at that stage. So that's when I started on the current iteration.

I've now been working on this version for about 3 and a half years. That may be longer than the N Sane Trilogy itself took to develop but it can do a lot more than just move objects around now. A couple of years ago I released an example custom level that I created entirely within the editor, a remake of the first level of a different Crash game:

I also put together some concept levels for an idea I had about a different approach you could take with a Crash Bandicoot remake:

These may give the impression that the level editor used to make them must have already been pretty complete by then but there is a reason why I haven't released or even made any more levels since those ones. The whole development process has been a lot of testing things under one narrow set of circumstances until they work, and then trying to generalise across the ~100 levels in the game. Or at least getting as close as possible before hardcoding in a few exceptions because of how much inconsistency there is in how the levels are put together. But it's only really in between each cycle of replacing that placeholder code that there emerges something that is slightly useable. So it's been a while.

Thankfully I am in the final stage of that now. For version 1 at least - some of what I'm doing now I'm already planning to undo later, because I'm still just aiming for something that works before I even start to worry about trying to make something that's good. I've given up on trying to find new ways to describe how much time I've spent on this. But you can hear me saying stuff like that, and get a better look at the history of this project, in the occasional update videos that I've made over the years.

Maybe I'll squeeze in a another video before it's done, or maybe I'll incorporate a brief progress update into some other more interesting video instead. But either way I'll probably Tumblr about it some more. So please feel free to use my ask page here if you have any questions or anything. I will try to be better at not ignoring them than I am with Twitter replies and YouTube comments! Maybe!

PS if you want to get custom music in your game or you want to make simple custom levels or other mods you can do all of that with this other thing I made called Alchemist.

[ilariacroft]

Some screenshots from the work in progress of my next custom level!

[todcheni]

okay i know i usually just reblog posts about fandoms im into but,,,, guys help

i have an oculus quest 2, right?

very epic, has beat saber and everything.

but the problem comes in when i want custom songs but are unable to, well, download any because

i don’t have an oculus cable to connect to my computer

my computer would most likely explode if i download a level

and i can’t find my downloads inside of the quest 2.

tumblr please help i just want to play two trucks by lemon demon

[thecrofttomb]

Screencap via tartancroft's walkthrough video

TRLE | 5 Adventures to Try: Easter 2021 ✨

Happy Easter, Raiders! We wanted to do something a little different for the Spring holiday this year and, given that we haven’t featured custom levels in a very long time, we thought about doing just that and ended up selecting a basket-full of fun TRLE adventures for you to play.

All games are casual and more laidback so you can relax and have a nice classic experience. Even though some of them might not look Easter-themed, they all have that cozy and peaceful atmosphere this time usually brings. Below you can find some details of each level, a download option, and links to the hosting pages where you can read reviews about them, walkthroughs, and more.

Hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday. Happy raiding! 🎮

In order to play, download your chosen level set, unzip the compressed file into a separate folder, and run the executable (usually tomb4.exe). That’s it, no installation required!

Do note that some of them include a readme file so make sure to read that first before starting the game.

Weekly Business - Tuesday

by Titak

*Follow-up to Weekly Business - Monday.*

While testing her racing skills on the motorcycle, Lara digs up the entrance to a new cave beneath the racetrack. Lara has to get rid several animal enemies and set some things in motion before she can get to the scrap of paper, with a map drawn on it: X Marks the Spot.

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Aspidetr Easter Time 2011 - The Rainbow Eggs

by Ranpyon

Lara is hosted by a friend, Amy, to spend a short vacation for the Easter time in her house on a Pacific lake. When she arrives there, Lara finds out a legend: it seems that seven magic eggs exist, named the Rainbow Eggs that, if united, they can lead to a wonderful treasure. Moreover, it seems that two magic eggs have been already found. Lara, enchanted by this story, begins the search for the remaining eggs...

Note: There are 6 secrets as bronze, silver and gold eggs. If it happens to be in Italian, replace the “Italian.dat” file with the “English.dat” file in the Script folder.

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Aspidetr Easter Time 2017 - Runes of Dawn

by Sponge

Lara Croft has decided to spend some time by the seaside. Some of the locals there have a lot of yarn to tell about hidden treasure that is supposedly right at the coast where Lara resides. Indeed, Anglo-Saxon remnants are scattered throughout the area, so Lara is excited to do some exploring - until she suddenly realises that she must have dropped the keys to the house in the toilet! Help Lara search the house for spare keys and explore the caves and tombs around the area.

Note: There are five secrets to be found (5 golden eggs).

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The Eastermansion

by l.m.

It is Easter. At Easter people search, as everybody knows, Easter eggs. Same this year, and Laras's friend has come up with some special ideas. In her villa she has thought of many riddles to make the search a little more difficult. Lara herself may select the degree of difficulty even. In fact, there are not many Easter eggs, but they are well hidden. Will Lara get to find all of them?

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Aspidetr Easter Time 2014 - On the Paths of Forest

by Greywolf

Lara is exploring the Casentinesi Forest, searching an ancient Etruscan temple and artifacts on behalf of a museum.

Note: There are 7 secrets (Easter Eggs).

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For those living inside a tomb, TRLE (short for Tomb Raider Level Editor) is a set of game development tools based on The Last Revelation engine created by Core Design and was released alongside the PC version of Tomb Raider: Chronicles back in 2000. TRLE has quite an active community which has evolved the original editor and built companion tools to expand its limits.

For more levels, info, and resources visit trle.net and Aspidetr.

If you've enjoyed this, do let us know so we can continue featuring more levels! Feel free to send recommendations of your favourite level sets.