Lara's Croft braid utility is intented to add a braid model into .phd (Tomb Raider 1 file)
The TR1 (DOS and later Windows versions) engine doesn't support rendering of a Lara's braid. (Even though she appears with the braid in cutscenes)
The later open source indy projects (such as OpenLara) adds support for the it. However, it's using level resources and depends on the model to be in .phd file.
The utility adds the model into a .phd file.
run the utility and pass .phd file file
larasbraid level1.phd
if it's identified that the file specified is TR1 file and it doesn't have a braid model. The new file will be generated with the model added. The result is written into a file with a name modified to *-braided.phd (i.e. level1.phd would be written to level1-braided.phd) The original file is left unmodified
The utility requires Free Pascal Compiler (pretty much any available version)
fpc larasbraid.lpr
With some smaller adjustements (i.e. adding