Building a Game
Test installation
Test installation will turn downloaded repository into the working game. Test installation does exactly same things as real installation of Blood Omnicide. For each version of the game (PC, PlayStation, Demo) installation procedure is slightly different.
Blood Omen PC Version
- copy pill.big and all .jam/.vag files into kain_make/installscript/kain
- run kain_make/installscript/run_installationscript.cmd
Blood Omen PlayStation
- get a image of Blood Omen CD in IMG format and copy it to kain_make/installscript/kain_psx/kain.img
- run kain_make/installscript/run_installationscript_psx.cmd
Blood Omen Demo
- copy pill.big from Kain Sneak Peek Preview to kain_make/installscript/kain_demo
- run kain_make/installscript/run_installationscript_demo.cmd
Updating
This is second SVN command to deal when working with Blood Omnicide subversion. Launch svn update command regularly to get all latest changes on repository made by other users.
Textures DDS cache
Release version of the game contain all textures compressed in DDS format. This is done for both saving HDD smace and for lower VRAM requirements (Blood Omnicide with 32-bit textures requires videocard with 1GB VRAM, while compressed only requires 256MB VRAM).
To build DDS cache for all textures run kain_make/makedds/makedds_textures.bat.
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