The tomb5 project

by Troye

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The tomb5 project by Troye is a decompilation project that, first and foremost aims to document and preserve the original source code and assets of the game, and secondly, aims to provide bug fixes and gameplay improvements in many sections of the game.

The project is fully open source, and the code can be used anywhere under the aforementioned license in the repository, along with credit.

Fixes includes:
- Re-enable a broken cutscene in Escape with the Iris
- Fix HK torso/head rotation
- Multiple fixes to Lara gliding and hair jumps in the Rome cutscenes
- Restore the full security breach cutscene, and the stealth cutscene audio, no external patches needed
- Fix Lara's position when interacting with multiple objects (pushables, crowbar door, etc.)
- Fix the bugged hand when throwing the torch in Ireland levels
- Fix hair going through neck when crawling
- Fix stiff hair when wading
- Fix the floating her behind Lara's back
- Fix camera when pulling out of water, and push/pulling blocks
- Fix multiple lara hand deadlocks after certain actions, such as falling from tightrope
- Fix Lara's flare hand while running, getting pickups, and airlock switches
- Fix Lara wading in shallow water
- Fix white mafia death animations
- Fix the tip of the HK not being visible in the inventory
- Fix the HK not being displayed correctly in Escape with the Iris
- Fix HK appearing in combine list
- Fix swipe card color in VCI levels
- Fix flickering of trapdoors if they open into another room
- Fix drawing of weapons on Lara's back
- Fix Lara's nose texture
- Fix problems with medipack hotkeys
- Fix Lara's mesh color in water
- Fix skies in all levels
- Fix lighting

Additions includes:
- Draw moon and stars in Ireland levels
- Add footprints
- Add PSX-like shadow
- Add duckroll
- Add missing keypad sounds
- Remove multiple frame/animation number restrictions from Lara's moveset to enable more fluid movement (ex: pull ups, crawling)
- Add proper FOV calculations from TR2Main (Thank you Arsunt!)
- Add weapon hotkeys

Please refer to the changelog for the full list of fixes and additions.

Some screenshots:

Original / tomb5:



Footprints and fixed sky in The Base:


Red swipe card in VCI:

(It turns green when the card is swiped. In the original PC version, it was always green.)

PSX-like shadow:

How to install:
Troye created a useful using guide to help you installing it.

Full credits:
Troye - Main programming and decompilation effort, project leader.
ChocolateFan - Huge contributions to decompilation, fixes, and new features. A cornerstone of this project.
thatguyfrombb - Huge help on documentation, and additional decompilation.
Raildex - Additional fixes.
Arsunt - For all his work on TR2Main, and being an inspiration for this project. A huge portion of the project skeleton was inspired by TR2Main.
Gh0stblade - leader of the TOMB5 decompilation project, without his project, this one would not have gotten anywhere.
zdimension - For all his contributions to the TOMB5 project, especially on the PC branch. His code helped them crack down a lot of the PC specific code mysteries.