POPLM Tutorial:
Updating Prince of Persia's Levels File

 

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

In this tutorial we will set your Prince of Persia to use the “Alternate1.set” level-set file.
“Alternate1.set” comes included with RoomShaker and is in the “Levels” folder within your RoomShaker installation folder.

If you are currently creating levels, turn them into a level set file now using POPLM see Tutorials: Creating Level Sets. This will backup your current changes so that you don't lose your changes.

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, this is the mode we will be using.

Using the drives & folders boxes, navigate to the folder that the Alternate1.set file is in. My RoomShaker is installed into the folder “E:\RS149” so I have navigated to the folder E:\RS149\LEVELS.

Notice that the path of the file is displayed in the “Selected File” box?. This box tells us information on the selected file.
Also, notice that the “Description” files (*.dsc) are hidden? this is to make the files box a bit cleaner and prevent accidental selection of the .dsc file instead of the level-set file.

From the Files box select the file “ALTERNATE1.SET”. Notice that there is now author and description information in the Selected File box?. This information is read from the file “ALTERNATE1.dsc” which was created when the level-set file was created.

Next, make sure that the file in the box marked “Output File” is your Prince of Persia levels.dat file. This filename is taken from your RoomShaker configuration file “Files.ini”. If this is not your PoP levels.dat then you need to setup your RoomShaker.

You are now ready to update Prince of Persia, from the main menu, select “Process” -> “Set Levels”.
Your Prince of Persia is now updated with the Alternate1.set level-set file. You can now modify these new levels with RoomShaker as well.