This tutorial will demonstrate how to delete objects from a Cyan Age in single-player Uru.
This will not work for Uru Live!
I don't know about you but when Cyan said Relto was to be my
personal Age, I took that very seriously. So it has always annoyed me that I couldn't go wherever I wanted on my own personal Age. Right next to the hut there is a path leading to the rocky point where the rocket was in Myst. For some reason, the developers decided they didn't want us to go there so they blocked the way. Feeling around, it is possible to discover the shape of an invisible object that blocks our way (a collision mesh). Also, the 3rd-person camera movement is restricted in this area. There is another such invisible wall near the waterfall, that prevents us from going around the mountain.
Presently there are two ways to go past these walls: in flymode, and by using a convoluted sequence of movements known as "Relto climbing", which may or may not work depending on your skill with the mouse and the performance of your PC (it also works in MOUL).
Not good enough. I want to walk wherever I want (what part of "Personal Age" doesn't Cyan understand?), so let's remove the stupid wall. This is not as simple as it sounds because currently (november 2007) it is not possible to modify a Cyan Age in Blender and export it back to Uru. Several things will be missing and the Age won't work. We will need to use several different tools to do the job.
The steps will be:
0- Preparation
1- Find the objects
2- Delete the objects
3- Recalculate the checksum
0- Preparation0.1 Backup the Uru file(s)
It is essential to keep an untouched backup of your Uru installation. I just copied the entire "Uru - Ages beyond Myst" folder to a different disk before modifying anything ( using Drizzle, installing off-line KI or any fan Age). For this tutorial, you need to backup two files named "Personal_District_psnlMYSTII.prp" and "Personal.sum" in the "dat" subdirectory.
0.2 Download and install PlasmaShop 3.x (including PrpShop) by Zrax
See instructions and download link here:
viewtopic.php?f=86&t=26390.3 OPTIONAL: Download and install Blender, the PRP plugin and other supporting items.
See the current list at
http://guildofwriters.com/wiki/Installing_PyPRP1- Find the objects (optional)1.1 Start Blender and import your Relto
Make a window into a scripts window. Use Scripts / Import / Pyprp / Single prp. Browse to the working directory you created in step 0.2 and select "Personal_District_psnlMYSTII.prp". Click on "Import .prp". The import process takes around 5 minutes on my P4- 2Ghz. Check the Blender console for activity, an insane amount of text should zip by. A successful import ends with "done in xxx seconds".
Make a window into a 3D view, and manipulate the view until you get something that looks like this: