Prince of Persia Forum :: View topic - Tutorial: How to create Irregular Linking

AuraDragon · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

CREATING IRREGULAR LINKING is a lot less complicated than what one my imagine, and in case anybody doesn't know, Irregular Linking (I.L.) is when you have one room connect to another that is not adjacent to it, Example :

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Suppose you want the player to be able to reach room 1, now you can't because they are not adjacent, but you actually can by using PRINCED (version 2.5 will be used in this tutorial). This nifty program allows you to do the 'impossible', which is making an endless passage, or what ever you can imagine.

THINGS REQUIRED:
Princed - (OFFICIAL SITE)
A Level.dat - (From the mod which you are inserting I.L.)
Prince of Persia 1

STEPS
1 - Now to make things simple you are going to need to unzip Princed, and place a copy of your Level.dat into the same folder as Princed.

2 - Start up Princed, and use the buttons (on your keyboard) 1 and 2 to find your level, 1 goes to the next level and 2 goes to the previous level, you start on level 1.

3 - Figure which room is the one you are going to make an I.L. and click on the funky shapes on the side of the box, which side you click changes which side you have to go through to reach to your new room.

4 - Type in the number of the room you wish to link to, figure this out by using the boxes. Smile

5 - Now SAVE (using S) and QUIT (using Q), now find that level.dat and move it to your Prince of Persia folder. (Or the custom levels folder in Starwindz' Total Pack.)

6 - Sixth and finally, test your map and see if everything worked, if not post on this topic, otherwise enjoy your I.L.! Wink

NOTE: I just recently learned how to make I.L. by searching this forum, and I only found a few words mentioning Princed, lolz.

THANKS TO:
King of Persia - For inspiring me to make funky maps. Wink

Jalal - For hosting my topic.
Princed Team - For making Princed.
Jordan Mechner - For creating Prince of Persia.

So... Any questions???
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LEARN HOW TO MAKE IRREGULAR ROOM LINKS
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