TR engines and patches

All classic engines (TR1 through 5) offer the same capabilities seen in their respective games. With fan patches such as TR1X, TR2main, and the tomb patches, they are easier to work with due to some limitations being expanded. Below is a list of patches/engines that offer extended capabilities.

TR Engine Patcher (TREP)

TREP is used to patch the original tomb4.exe for modifications and some new capabilities by checking some boxes and changing some values.

TR Next-Generation (TRNG)

TRNG patches the original engine with new capabilities. Although its development has stopped, it is still being widely used today. It comes with many custom scripts and a reference tab to help you create custom events with no prior programming knowledge.

FLexible Engine Patcher (FLEP)

FLEP is an engine patcher that is compatible with TRNG. It also offers a wide range of modifications and new capabilities, and it is still being updated with new patches to this day.

TombEngine (TEN)

TEN is an engine built by the community. It offers modernized graphics and is able to utilize most objects from the classic engines. It allows programming events using a node editor that is built into the editor specifically for it. Although it is still in its Beta phase, it is constantly being updated and worked on.

Level editors

Tomb Editor (TE)

TE was created by a team of community members lead by MontyTRC. It is an editor built from scratch to run smoothly on modern systems. It is capable of creating levels for all classic engines, TRNG, and the only editor capable of producing TEN levels. It renders the previous editors completely obsolete.

Next-Generation Level Editor (NGLE)

NGLE was created by Paolone, a community member. It produces levels for the patched TRNG engine. It is superseded by TE.

Winroomedit

This is the official editor used by Core Design, it can produce levels for the TR4 engine. In this day and age, it is considered completely obsolete as other editors are capable of everything it can do.

Dxtre3d

This is an editor created by Turbo Pascal, a community member. It is able to produce levels for all classic engines.