Trespasser Level Editor (TLE) v0.01 Readme.txt
05/19/2001

WARNING: This is an alpha version.  It sucks.  Don't even bother using it.  If you use it anyway and raptors pop out of your computer and eat your annoying little brother, don't come crying to me.  

Okay, if you absolutely intend to run this program anyway, here's the basic information you'll need.

To start the program click on the start-menu entry: Start/Programs/TRES/Trespasser Level Editor.

This brings up a simple window titled "Trespasser Level Editor (Alpha)".  If you don't know what Alpha means, reread the warning above.

Next, click on File/Load or Save Game.  This brings up a new window titled "Load Trespasser Files : Form".  Click on New Game. A new window opens up titled "frmSource : Form".  Get used to this window, you'll see it a lot.  

The "frmSource : Form" window is used to describe every object in the game.  This includes all the audio, all the in-game objects (guns, trees, raptors, etc), all the textures, all the models, etc.  Get the picture?

For now, put "Trespasser" in the Name field, put "Retail" in the Description field, and put "Dreamworks" in the Origin field.  Now click Save, and then Close.  The "frmSource : Form" window will close returning you to the "Load Trespasser Files : Form".

Note that the Game dropdown box has filled with "Trespasser".  You are now ready to load the audio files from Trespasser into TLE.

Click on "Select File to Load".  A standard Windows file select window will open up.  It should open into the directory where you installed Trespasser.  If it doesn't, move to that directory.  Now click on "Menu.tpa", and then click ok.  The complete file path and name will appear in the "Trespasser file to load" field.  Click "Load File".  Depending on your computer, it will now take from 0 to 1000 seconds for the Menu.tpa file to load completely.  Once it completes loading, a window will pop up informing you of this.  Click OK to close the window.

To load the other TPA files, simply repeat the steps in the paragraph above.  It is important to understand that since this is an alpha version, I didn't include a nice pretty graph showing the loading process.  This means that Menu.tpa (which is very small) loads fast, and Stream.tpa (which is very big) loads very very very slowly.

When you are finished loading the TPA files, you can now play around with the loaded audio.

Close the "Load Trespasser Files : Form" by clicking on the "X" in the upper-right-hand corner of the window.  Most of the windows in TLE will be closed with this method.  Some of them have a "Close" button that you can use instead.  It won't matter which way you close a window.

About TLE's menu: For right now, don't try to use anything except the following:
1) Anything under FILE
2) HELP/Trespasser Secrets web site

Everything else is likely to cause an error.

To play with audio, click on FILE/Audio and then select either Export or "Import or Edit".

Export is working.  Edit works.  Import does not work.

Have fun.
