POPLM Tutorial:
Creating Level Sets

 

This Tutorial assumes that RoomShaker is setup correctly on your system See Tutorials: Setting up RoomShaker & POPLM.

In this tutorial we will turn your current levels into a level-set file, a level-set is a Prince of Persia levels file containing all 16 levels.

With your level saved, load Prince of Persia Levels Manager (POPLM).
Note: RoomShaker has a link to POPLM on the toolbar, you can click this button and POPLM will open up.

POPLM defaults to Update POP mode but we are going to create a new level set so we need to select “Mode” -> “Create Levels Set” from the main menu. This changes POPLM into level-set mode.

Using the drives & folders boxes, navigate to the folder that you want to save your level-set file in. I have selected the folder E:\RS149\LEVELS.

Allong the top of the form is the output folder, notice that is the same as the folder that I have selected with the drives & folders boxes?.

Type a file name in the box marked “Output File Name”. I have chosen the file name “Tutorial.set”, you don't have to add a file extension as POPLM's default extension is “.set”.

Notice that the folder name bar now includes this file name as well?. This line indicates the full path & file name of the output level-set file.

Make sure that the file in the box marked “Input File Name” is your Prince of Persia Levels.dat file, the default is the levels file defined in your RoomShaker Configuration file “Files.ini”.

In the box marked “Levels File Description”, enter your name into the box marked “Author”. Enter “Levels Manager Tutorial” into the box marked “Description”.
This information will be saved with your level-set file for POPLM to display for reference when updating Prince of Persia.

Select “Process” -> “Create Level Set”. POPLM will create the level-set file allong with a description file.

POPLM Output (Output_File = Your Filename)
Output_File.ext	Level-set file ( .ext = your file extension (default is .set) )
Output_File.dsc	Level-set description file

This description file is a small file that contains the description information. If present, POPLM will display the information when the level-set file is selected in update POP mode.

Now you are free to update your Prince of Persia with other level sets without losing your new levels. See Tutorials: Updating Prince of Persia's Levels File

OK, thats the end of the tutorial. When a levels file is completed you should always turn it into a level-set file, this way you can give the levels a short description and put your name on them, it is also a great way of backing up the levels so that you can replay them at a later date, even while creating another levels file.