AITD room viewer

This is a room viewer (and 3D model viewer) for Alone in the Dark series. It has been created mostly for speedrunning.

The following games are supported :

• Alone in the Dark 1 / 2 / 3 (CD-ROM, floppy, demo)
• Jack in the Dark
• Time Gate: Knight's Chase (CD-ROM, demo)

Instructions

1. You need to have the original version of the game installed somewhere on your computer (eg: from GOG)
2. Extract AITD room viewer archive in a folder (eg : on your desktop)
3. Create a new folder named "GAMEDATA" inside of it.
4. Copy the following files from the game to GAMEDATA folder :

• ETAGE00.PAK, ETAGE01.PAK, ETAGE02.PAK, ...
• CAMSALxx.PAK (Time Gate only)

Commands

Mouse	Description
Wheel	zoom in / out
Left button	drag map / select box
Middle button	reset camera zoom and position
Right button	show options menu

Key	Description
↑ ↓	change floor
← →	change room
W	reset last distance for all actors
Q	reset total delay (AITD1 only)
Shift + Alpha1	Timer 1 goes back 5 seconds (AITD1 only)
Shift + Alpha2	Timer 2 goes back 5 seconds (AITD1 only)
Esc	quit (only in fullscreen mode)

Shortcuts

Key	Description
D	display mode
F	camera follow mode
R	room's visibility
C	camera area's visibility
T	trigger's visibility
A	actor's visibility
E	show extra info (AITD1 only)
Page up page down	camera rotate
Tab	switch to model viewer

Put mouse on a box to highlight it.

• Light gray boxes are colliders which player cannot passthrough
• Blue boxes are colliders that player can interact with or used for actor instantiation
• Teal boxes are links between rooms and is used for pathfinding
• Red and amber boxes are triggers. It is usually used to switch from one room to another. It can also trigger other things like enemies, sounds, scripted sequences, ...

DOSBox

It's possible to view all active entities in the game, displayed and updated realtime from DOSBox.

To do this, simply play AITD at the same time room viewer is running. If everything is OK, you should view a white square with an arrow, this is player position.

Common issue: if AITD has been started with administrator rights, room viewer will not be able to see DOSBox process. To fix this, run room viewer with administrator rights (or run AITD without administrator rights).

Warp actor

When the game is linked to DOSBox, it is possible to change the position of an actor using drag and drop. Hold left mouse button while mouse is on an actor. Move cursor (keeping left mouse button pressed) and right click to warp (you can do this multiple times). Then, release left mouse button. It is also possible to manually edit position of an actor by right clicking on it or by pressing numpad keys :

Key	Description
4 6	move actor left / right
8 2	move actor down / up
7 9	rotate actor left / right
0	hold it while pressing the numpad keys above to update at a higher rate

Actor slot swap

When the game is linked to DOSBox, you can swap two actors slot positions this way :

• Highlight an actor
• Press X
• Type a number between 0 - 49 (with keypad or alphanumeric keys)
• Press Enter

Multi-monitor setup

It's not possible to have the viewer running fullscreen and at same time focus to be on another window (eg: the game itself). One solution is to play the viewer in window mode (by pressing Alt + Enter)

Building it from the source

You can use any recent version of but Unity 5.5.4p3 is recommended.

Model viewer

Installation

Copy the following files to GAMEDATA folder:

• LISTBODY.PAK, LISTANIM.PAK
• LISTBOD2.PAK, LISTANI2.PAK (AITD1 only)
• ITD_RESS.PAK (for palette)
• CAMERAxx.PAK (for palette, JITD only)
• TEXTURES.PAK (Time Gate only)

Commands

Mouse	Description
Wheel	zoom in / out
Left button	click on model and drag to rotate it
Middle button	move model
Right button	show options menu

Key	Description
← →	change model
↑ ↓	change animation
Shift	hold it while pressing ← or → to skip 10 models at once
Space	change model folder (Edward or Emily)
B	bounding box mode (default / cube / max)
Esc	quit (only in fullscreen mode)

Shortcuts

Key	Description
D	details high / low
R	camera auto rotate mode
E	show extra information
A	enable animation
X	export current model to OBJ format
Shift + X	export all models to OBJ format
Tab	switch to room viewer

OBJ export

To view models properly in Blender, you have to create custom shaders.

DaSalba has created a python script that automatically import the exported OBJ file into blender and create the necessary materials.