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PyPRP

PyPRP is a free, open source plugin for Blender that exports ages for old versions of Uru (such as Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and Uru: Complete Chronicles). It was originally written by Almlys as part of the Alcugs project.

Getting PyPRP

Main Article: Installing PyPRP

You may download the latest stable version (v1.6.1) of PyPRP from the Guild of Writers, or you can always download an older version at your discretion. We recommend using the latest version because some of the older ones are plagued with bugs--our release quality has improved significantly over time. You will appreciate the difference.

You will also need the Offline KI to be able to test your age in-game.

Getting Started with PyPRP

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Archive

Blender 3D

• Blender
• The BlenderWiki is an excellent reference.
• Blender FAQ

Getting Started with PyPRP

• Workspace Setup (for Ahra Pahts, but the principles apply to any Age)
• Obtaining your own unique Sequence Prefixes
• Your first age
  • Beginners Tutorial: Your Very First Basic Age
  • Tutorial: Your First (real) Age
  • Video Tutorial: Creating An Age
• FNI (Fog) Settings
• Checking the scale in an Age
• What's New in PyPRP 1.6
• Updating older ages for use with new plugin features in PyPRP 1.0

PyPRP Tutorials

• Tutorials in the forum

Avatar Logic and Effects

• Ladders
  • Creating a Ladder (The long way)
  • Creating a Ladder (The short way)
• Creating Clickable Books (incomplete)
  • Adding a Journal or Linking Book [1] Link to Andy's Comprehensive Tutorial (some understanding of Age Linking Rules is required)
  • Adding Sketches to a Journal [2] Link to a forum thread
• Sitting Mods: Making benches and chairs
• Dynamic footprints
• Using Subworlds
• Controlling the Camera
• Rides and curvy animations
• Avatar Animations

Game Logic

• Beginner's Guide to AlcScript
• How to make an Object Clickable
  • Friendlier Making something "Clickable"

• Using SDL States
• Using Animations
• Saving Object Animations' States
• QuickScripts
• How To Make Your Objects Collidable
• Callback Messages
• GUI Dialog

Lighting

• Making lightmaps
  • Friendlier Making Lightmaps
• Adding projection lights
• Lightgroups
• Shiny Surfaces - external tutorial
• UV projection and Baking - external tutorial

Modeling

• Modeling a Ladder of interest
• Quick Ladders and Stairs with DupliFrames
• Normal Recomputation

Sky

• Skydome (links to that part of "Your first real age")
• electroglyph’s Seamless Skydome tutorial

Sounds

• Adding footstep sounds
• Adding Sounds I: Basics
  • Friendlier Putting Sound In Part 1
• Adding Sounds II: fading and 3D
  • Friendlier Putting in 3D Sounds and Triggered Sounds
• Adding sound for kickables
• Random Sounds In Your Age
  • Easier Random Sounds In Your Age: ALCScript Method

Texturing

• Detail texturing: Taking advantage of MipMaps
• Stencils
  • Using stencils to blend textures: Basics
  • Using stencils to blend textures: Cyan's method
  • Painting Stencils in Blender's Texture Paint Mode
  • Stencil Painting in 2.48
• Texturing a cube with two materials(draft, not finished)
• Animating Textures
• Adding video textures (Incomplete)
• Making Sprites
• Managing Transparent Objects
• Alpha Textures Removing Edge
• Proper transparency for leaves and grass
• Reflective Surfaces with Env Maps (Dynamic and Static)

Vertex Painting

• Using the Alpha Paint feature to blend terrain materials

Water and Swimming

• Adding swimregions
• Making some simple Animated Water
• Making reflective water (wavesets)
• Making Shore Foam
• Ripples
• Dynamic footprints and ripples

Miscellaneous

• Performance Optimization

Video Tutorials

• Video Tutorial: Creating An Age

[Advanced] Reference Manuals

• AlcScript Properties
• AlcScript Technical Manual
• Logic Scripting
• Soft Volumes (Or Softvolumes)
• Drawable Flags
• Troubleshooting FAQ