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BactaTank Classic is a character creator and viewer for LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and LEGO Batman: The Videogame. This program is designed to preview the models as accurately as possible to the games. If you like this tool, and are able to support me financially, I would greatly appreciate it if you could throw me a few bucks here.
Welcome to the BactaTank Classic documentation. These docs contain a large collection of information and resources that are going to be very useful when using BactaTank Classic. Please read over as much as you can.
This table outlines which games are compatible with BactaTank Classic. It includes "classic" era LEGO games developed by TtGames/Traveller's Tales, as well as some of their other games based on similar revisions of the engine.
| Game | Can be loaded | Can be edited |
|---|---|---|
| LEGO Star Wars: The Videogame | ❌ | ❌ |
| LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy | ❌ | ❌ |
| Bionicle Heroes | ❌ | ❌ |
| LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga | ✅ | ✅ |
| LEGO Batman: The Videogame | ✅ | ✅ |
| LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures | ✅ | ✅ |
| Transformers: The Videogame | ❌ | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | ❌ |
Warning
Transformers and Narnia models can be loaded for viewing, however this functionality is extremely experimental and can result in crashing. These are only supported for viewing. (Transformers model versions need to be enabled for loading in the preferences).
Installing BactaTank Classic is as simple as extracting the contents of the zip file to its own folder, and running the executable file.
TtGames archive the game files into a proprietary format that uses a propreitary compression scheme. To unpack these game files QuickBMS is needed with the TtGames BMS script.
To unpack the game files, run QuickBMS, select the BMS script, then select all of the *.DAT files using multiselect, then extract to a unique location. Once extracted copy original contents of the game (without the *.DAT files) to the extracted contents of the game. Using Steamless you can get the original games to run outside of needing Steam. More info about extracting the games can be found here.
Note
Only the PC versions of LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga, LEGO Indiana Jones The Original Adventures and LEGO Batman The Videogame are supported by BactaTank Classic. It will not work on any other TtGames LEGO Game or the console versions.
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Paint.NET - an image editor capable of exporting DirectDraw Surface (
*.dds) textures. (Alternatives are GIMP and Photoshop with the nVidia Texture Tools plugin). - Blender - a free and open-source model editor. Blender is required when editing meshes since BactaTank Classic has a bespoke plugin made for it. Version 4.0+ is needed.
Installing the Blender Add-on is required if you want to edit meshes within a model. To install, in Blender go to Edit >> Preferences >> Add-ons, hit the Install button and select bactatank-blender-addon-v[version].zip. After installing you can enable the plugin and the BactaTank features will now be present.
Note
BactaTank Classic only supports loading *_PC.GHG files.
Note
The supported games will be referred to as their abbreviated forms (TCS, LIJ1 and LB1 respectively).
| Known TCS Un-Loadable Models | Known LB1 Un-Loadable Models |
|---|---|
ANAKINSPOD_GREEN_PC.GHG |
PHRHINO_PC.GHG |
ANAKINSPOD_PC.GHG |
RC_COPTER_PC.GHG |
BATTLEDROIDCOMP_PC.GHG |
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GASGANOSPOD_PC.GHG |
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GUNGANBALL_PC.GHG |
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LIGHTSABRE_PC.GHG |
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MINI_DROIDEKA_PC.GHG |
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NEWANAKINSPOD_GREEN_PC.GHG |
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NEWANAKINSPOD_PC.GHG |
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ROYALNABOOSTARSHIP_PC.GHG |
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SEBULBASPOD_PC.GHG |
| Known LB1 Un-Editable Models |
|---|
CLAYFACE_PC.GHG |
Note
CLAYFACE_PC.GHG loads just fine in BactaTank Classic but does not look right. Saving the model will cause it to break in-game.
Note
The *_LR_PC.GHG equivalent have been left out of the table, however they are not loadable/editable either.