Delphi 10.1 Starter Edition Free Until 9 Sep 16

EDIT2: Embarcadero now offer a free full featured community version of Delphi for non commercial use.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter 

EDIT: Looks like Embarcadero have extended the offer after 9 Sep 2016 so try the promotional link below if interested because it might still be active.
The non-commercial, feature limited version of Delphi 10.1 is available for free for a limited time.
You need to register with Embarcadero before downloading the web installer.
The main installation will apparently involve a 2.2 GB download.
Delphi Starter Edition is a good IDE for beginners interested in learning Delphi.
Windows 7 or above required.
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/promotional-download
Some discussion about it at
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,33792.0.html?PHPSESSID=lrhb3an0qjgqki5fejv42dgpq4

Metasequoia Script for Reference

RedRogueXIII has some Metasequoia Scripts on GitHub that can be studied to see how to create dialogs for your Metasequoia scripts.

https://github.com/RedRogueXIII/MetasequoiaScripts

The script shrinkwrap.py didn't work for me because for some reason the target object was not being set. I had to hardcode the target object. Since I had only one object in the target list I had to make sure I clicked on it for it to be set.

The script moves the selected vertices in a source object to the surface of the target object if a ray from the vertices in the chosen direction intersects a face of the target object.

The faces in the target object must be all triangles.

WIP: Mikoto animation to TRLE animation

Version: 1.0
Status: Released

Copy a TRLE animation frame to an XNALara pose

In this tutorial I will be using XNALara Posing Studio (XPS) 11.4 by XNAaraL from http://xnalaraitalia.deviantart.com/ and replicate a pose from a Tomb Raider Level Editor (TRLE) wad animation.

Translating Mikoto.exe to English

The English language version of Mikoto available in this post [link] is only partially translated.

Some dialogs still contain Japanese text which is displayed as Mojibake.



In this post we will endeavour to translate some of these dialogs to English.

Metasequoia Script - Read uklogo.pak

uklogo.pak is the file which stores the title graphic for classic Tomb Raider games (TR1 to TR5).



In this post I will write a script that reads the uklogo.pak file.

Create Component Icon in Delphi XE7 Starter Edition

Creating a bitmap icon for one of your own components is not explained in the Help documentation.

In fact Help confuses things in the Creating a New Component topic by mentioning how to specify the application icon.

The only post I could find on the internet that describes the process clearly is by Francois Piette at this link, http://francois-piette.blogspot.be/2014/02/howto-create-dcr-file-for-your-delphi.html .