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Documentation for the level pack tool
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kieranmillar committed Feb 17, 2018
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Drag with the right mouse button to scroll the view.

== Keys ========================================================================
== Level Packs =================================================================

Lem3edit comes with a Level Pack tool, selectable from the main menu. As Lemmings 3
levels are made up of multiple files, and these files refer to each other, manually
manipulating file names and locations is prone to error.

The Level Pack tool provides an easy interface to reorganise your levels. When you create
a new level pack, you can create it into an existing folder full with levels, and it will
ask if you want to pre-load the levels in the folder into the pack. For each tribe it will
look for level 1, then 2, etc and stop if it ever reaches a gap. If it fails to load in levels
correctly, you can always load them in later.

It is REALLY IMPORTANT that you do not attempt to manually move or rename or manipulate files
inside the directory the level pack is stored in, as the level pack editor works without
asking for constant confirmation, so it is very easy to accidentally overwrite or delete
a level that has been manually edited inside the folder.

You can provide your own names for each level in order to help you remember them.
But note that this is specific to the Level Pack tool, Lemmings 3 itself does not give
levels names like other entries in the series.

The .l3pack files are just text files. If you want to edit them manually, any text editor
can do it. The format should be self-explanatory.

Use Up and Down arrow keys inside the tool to scroll up and down through the level lists.

== Keys (Level Editor) =========================================================
s -- save level
q -- quit

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