solarix95/lbaworld

LBA World

C++/Qt-based Toolchain for LBA1 + LBA2 (Little Big Adventure, Adeline Software, 1994)

Features

1. CLI-Utility "hqrpak": extract or create HQR (HighQualityResource) files
2. Utility "flaplayer": Viewer for LBA1 cinematics (*.FLA)
3. Utility "lbaspriteviewer": LBA1/LBA2 2D-Sprite viewer (SPRITES.HQR + SPRITRAW.HQR)
4. Utility "lbamodelviewer": LBA1 3D-Models viewer (BODY.HQR + INVOBJ.HQR)
5. Game-Engine "lbaworld": LBA-based games (WIP)

First steps

1. Buy "Little Big Adventure" on steam
2. "I'm on Linux: can't download LBA1 from Steam": No problem, buy it first on steam, then download LBA and/or LBA2 with "steamcmd"

$ sudo apt-get install steamcmd
$ steamcmd 
Steam> @sSteamCmdForcePlatformType windows
Steam> login <your-steam-account>
Steam> force_install_dir lba1steam
Steam> app_update 397330 validate
Steam> force_install_dir lba2steam
Steam> app_update 398000 validate
Steam> quit

see also:

• https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD#Linux
• https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app&q=lba

3. Dependencies, Download, Build + Run (Ubuntu 16.04)

$ sudo apt install libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
$ sudo apt install qt5-default qt5-qmake libqt5opengl5-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/solarix95/lbaworld.git
$ cd lbaworld/flaplayer
$ qmake && make -j8
$ ./flaplayer --lba1base=<dir-to-lba1-data>

e.g.
$ ./flaplayer --lba1base=/home/<yourname>/.steam/steamcmd/lba1steam/resources/LBA_FILES
$ ./lbaspriteviewer --lba1base=/home/<yourname>/.steam/steamcmd/lba1steam/ --lba2base=/home/<yourname>/.steam/steamcmd/lba2steam/

Milestones

• HQR-Reader (a very basic milestone :))
• FLA-Player inluding sound (*.FLA: LBA cinematic clips)
• LBA1 Model Viewer including animation keyframes
• LBA1 Sprites
• LBA2 (Raw)-Sprites
• [] WIP: LBA2 3d-Models
• Understanding Body -> Animation -> Actor -> Character -> Scene -> Scripts , ...
• Proper 3D-Layers (SceneGraph)
• ...
• LBA3 (what else)

Bugs

Other ressources

• blender-lba: https://github.com/vegard/blender-lba
• twine-e: https://github.com/xesf/twin-e
• lba2 remake: https://github.com/agrande/lba2remake
• LBA1 Files: http://lbafileinfo.kazekr.net/index.php?title=LBA_1_files