M2 Preview Shapes Plugin v2.0

   by President People


This plugin replaces some textures with those found in the Marathon 2 Preview.

The Marathon 2 Preview was released before the Marathon 2 Demo, and contains different textures, weapons and sprites than in the full game, and in some cases, the demo.  

I highly recommend that you use Marathon 2 Textures with this plugin.  Aleph One 1.0 also recommended.  


-- Special Thanks to Hopper for converting the M2 Preview Shapes to Aleph One Format

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Installation
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1.  Place the plugin inside your Plugins folder within the proper support folder.  If you don't have a Plugins folder, you may create one.  Your support folder is relative to your scenario and operating system.  

Find out where that is by following this link to the Aleph One Wiki:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/marathon/index.php?title=FileLocations


2.  Start your Scenario or Aleph One application.  

3.  Go to Preferences/Environment/Plugins to make sure the plugin is switched on.  

4.  Start a new game, and enjoy!  


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Plugin Contents
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Only textures are included in this plugin, and ones that were cross-compatible at that.  Replacement textures are listed below.  

Collection 17: Water Textures

002, 003, 005, 008, 010, 014, 015, 018, 020, 022, 027, 029

Collection 18: Lava Textures

010, 014, 025

Collection 19: Sewage Textures

015, 023*, 026 

Jjaro textures were certainly not included (as they were not yet created) and the Pfhor textures are actually the M1 textures with an M2 makeover.  

*Texture 023 replaces the small hexagonal tile texture.  There actually wasn't a replacement for this in the M2 Preview, so I made a smaller version of texture 026, so that the two wouldn't clash.


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List of Changes
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v2.1 to 2.2

- Ugh, texture 010 was incorrectly named after the Preview, in which it was bitmap 23.  Corrected.  


v2.0 to 2.1

- I'd forgotten to convert the new textures to DDS format.  They should work properly now.  


v1.0 to v2.0
- Completely replaced all bitmaps, using Hopper's converted M2 Preview Shapes (The screenshot method was worth it :))

- Added textures 002, 003, 027, and 029

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Links and Contact Info
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For more info on the M2 Preview, check out the Marathon Story Page:  
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/

Marathon 2 Preview section:  
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/Marathon_2_Preview.html

Check out Hopper's converted M2 Preview Shapes on the Pfhorums:  
http://www.pfhorums.com/index.php?showtopic=12942&pid=99607&st=0&#entry99607


Any questions or comments?  You can contact me on the Pfhorums:  
http://www.pfhorums.com/

Or you may find me on the Aleph One metaserver.  
