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About this mod
Red Christmas outfit for Lara in 2 versions: with backpack & holsters or without
- Permissions and credits
Santa Lara X-Mas
'Tis this time of the year again, when Lara slips into her tight red velvet dress and, just in time for the 1st Sunday in Advent (or, almost in time anyway...), she embarks on an adventure to travel the world, conquer snow, ice and various wild beasts, to come right to everybody's home, climb down the chimney and make people happy... :)
This mod dresses Lara in a cute little X-mas themed outfit with a red dress, a silly Santa hat and red/white sugar cane stockings.
Comes in 2 flavors:
The outfits replace the TR1_GYM and TR1_CLASSIC models in all 3 games. The mod uses minimal texture files and replaces Lara's TR1 gym outfit textures - hence it shouldn't interfere with any other game files and not cause any texture glitches.
Installation:
Mod Manager install (recommended):
Manual install:
[*** UPDATE II ***]
I added a new outfit variant: by request and in the spirit of Christmas, I made a version with bare feet. It replaces the TR2_ClASSIC and TR2_GYM outfit (with or without holsters & backpack) to not interfere with the previous outfit.
To install the new outfit variants, download the optional file and install after the main mod (overwrite existing files in game folder or inject via mod manager). The new archive comes without textures to save on file size, so main mod files will be required.
Have fun!
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[*** UPDATE I ***]
It seems I did a little woopsie... forgot to include one of the textures with the main mod. This texture is a reflection map which enhances the gold material on Lara's outfit. Without that texture, the metal materials (e.g. her belt buckle) will still reflect, but will pick a "random" environment texture per level. This will sometimes look ok, but also sometimes glitch. It seems that the original game can have individual reflection maps per level - but it's a feature that is not exposed in the vanilla game and it appears unpolished. The optional fix updates the gold material to a consistent reflection throughout the games.
To install the optional reflection fix, just copy the "1", "2", "3" folders into your main directory, or copy them into the mod folder of the main mod, in case you use the mod manager.
Disclaimer: the optional reflection fix uses a custom texture index which is not part of the vanilla game. Upside: it won't overwrite any original game files. Downside: it might confuse the load order of original textures, leading to texture glitches in some levels.
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A lot of time and effort went into making this, I hope you enjoy playing with Lara in this outfit. I had tons of fun making it and have quite some ideas left over, I might expand the mod with more outfit versions in the future.
Very special thanks go out to MuruModder's /MuruCoder's and Czarpos' work over at Tomb Raider Forums for reverse-engineering the files and developing the modding tools for all of us loons to explore our creativity!
'Tis this time of the year again, when Lara slips into her tight red velvet dress and, just in time for the 1st Sunday in Advent (or, almost in time anyway...), she embarks on an adventure to travel the world, conquer snow, ice and various wild beasts, to come right to everybody's home, climb down the chimney and make people happy... :)
This mod dresses Lara in a cute little X-mas themed outfit with a red dress, a silly Santa hat and red/white sugar cane stockings.
Comes in 2 flavors:
- Ready for adventure with full gear: backpack & holsters,
- For some calmer time hanging out at home: without backpack & holsters, belt only.
The outfits replace the TR1_GYM and TR1_CLASSIC models in all 3 games. The mod uses minimal texture files and replaces Lara's TR1 gym outfit textures - hence it shouldn't interfere with any other game files and not cause any texture glitches.
Installation:
Mod Manager install (recommended):
- Use motorboy1975's mod manager to conveniently inject the archive into the game, without overwriting anything of your vanilla install
- Play the game(s) and enjoy a cosy Christmas spirit!
Manual install:
- Make backups of your original game files (optional)
- Copy the folders 1, 2 and 3 from the archive to your game directory [...\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider I-III Remastered\]
- Confirm the prompt to overwrite existing files
- Play and enjoy!
[*** UPDATE II ***]
I added a new outfit variant: by request and in the spirit of Christmas, I made a version with bare feet. It replaces the TR2_ClASSIC and TR2_GYM outfit (with or without holsters & backpack) to not interfere with the previous outfit.
To install the new outfit variants, download the optional file and install after the main mod (overwrite existing files in game folder or inject via mod manager). The new archive comes without textures to save on file size, so main mod files will be required.
Have fun!
******************
[*** UPDATE I ***]
It seems I did a little woopsie... forgot to include one of the textures with the main mod. This texture is a reflection map which enhances the gold material on Lara's outfit. Without that texture, the metal materials (e.g. her belt buckle) will still reflect, but will pick a "random" environment texture per level. This will sometimes look ok, but also sometimes glitch. It seems that the original game can have individual reflection maps per level - but it's a feature that is not exposed in the vanilla game and it appears unpolished. The optional fix updates the gold material to a consistent reflection throughout the games.
To install the optional reflection fix, just copy the "1", "2", "3" folders into your main directory, or copy them into the mod folder of the main mod, in case you use the mod manager.
Disclaimer: the optional reflection fix uses a custom texture index which is not part of the vanilla game. Upside: it won't overwrite any original game files. Downside: it might confuse the load order of original textures, leading to texture glitches in some levels.
******************
A lot of time and effort went into making this, I hope you enjoy playing with Lara in this outfit. I had tons of fun making it and have quite some ideas left over, I might expand the mod with more outfit versions in the future.
Very special thanks go out to MuruModder's /MuruCoder's and Czarpos' work over at Tomb Raider Forums for reverse-engineering the files and developing the modding tools for all of us loons to explore our creativity!