MWE v0.8ß - THE FIRST Marathon 2 Texture Extractor/Installer!
Written By Ambrose111@aol.com. All rights reserved.
Introduction-
Thankyou for reading me! MWE is a Marathon 2 Texture Extractor/Installer. It has two purposes, 1) to extract the four texture sets (Walls 1, Walls 2, Walls 3, and Walls 5) from a Marathon 2 Shapes file and convert them into a Marathon 1 shapes file that can be edited with Pfhred 1.2 (or any other M1 shapes editor), and 2) to install modified texture sets from converted Marathon 1 Shapes files back into an existing Marathon 2 shapes file.
WARNING! - You can only convert M1 shapes files that were originally created by MWE! You cannot just convert the Bungie M1 shapes file directly! You must first extract the M2 textures from a valid M2 Shapes file, and then modify the resulting M1 shapes file, and then install those textures back into your M2 Shapes file. ALSO - When modifying texture sets, you must not add or delete individual textures, and you cannot add or delete color tables, or individual entrys in the color tables! Changing the size of the graphics collection even by one byte can cause very large problems!
To Extract The M2 Textures Into An M1 Shapes file -
1. Open MWE
2. You will see a dialog with 2 buttons; 'Extract Walls From An M2 Shapes File' and 'Reinsert Modified Converted M2 Walls'. Click 'Extract Walls From An M2 Shapes File'.
3. MWE will ask you for an M2 shapes file to extract walls from, and then it will ask you what to save the converted M1 Shapes file as.
4. MWE will convert the four M2 texture sets and save them in the newly created M1 shapes file.
IMPORTANT! - MWE saves the four texture sets as the first four shapes in the M1 shapes file! So texture set 1 (Walls 1) would be 'Interface', and texture set 2 (walls 2) would be 'Weapons in hand', etc...
To Install Textures Back Into And Existing M2 Shapes File -
IMPORTANT! - When MWE installs a set of modified M2 textures, it will install them over the existing textures in the selected shapes file, hence erasing the existing texture sets! You should really make a copy of your shapes file before messing with it.
1. Open MWE
2. You will see a dialog with 2 buttons; 'Extract Walls From An M2 Shapes File' and 'Reinsert Modified Converted M2 Walls'. Click 'Reinsert Modified Converted M2 Walls'.
3. MWE will ask you if you have a backup of your shapes file. If you don't, click 'Quit' and make one!
4. MWE will ask you for a modified M1 shapes file that was created with MWE.
5. MWE will ask you for a M2 shapes file to install the textures into.
6. MWE will copy the textures into the new M2 Shapes file, and... congratualtions! You have your own textures!
DISCLAIMER - Ambrose111@aol.com is not responsible for anything that gets screwed, mildly or seriously, due directly or indirectly to the use of this program!
