Created by Beer Can (Aluminum Cylinder)
This is an absolutely spectacular "Space" landscape replacement for any Marathon Shapes file, in full and living COLOUR! The shot is a colossal sweep of the cosmos, as photographed by NASA.
A very, very simple StarScape, created by :: Beer Can ::, to replace Bungie's "Space" Landscape (#4 in the Shapes file) with something that looks more "immediate"...and also more like a night sky you'd see from the deserts of earth.
This is an absolutely spectacular "Space" landscape replacement for any Marathon Shapes file. The shot is a colossal sweep of the cosmos, as photographed by NASA.
This innovative map was probably the very first 3rd-party level I ever ran on M2 (back in 1996/1997), and it's still a fave. Looks GREAT in Aleph One, too...with the proper M2 Shapes, via Raul Bonilla's "M2 Shapes Shuttle for A1", or with the standard Infinity Shapes. Either way is awesome!
Presented to the community as a "whole", this is a set of test maps that really push the Aleph One engine, sometimes beyond the borders of reason, but all for a good cause. Excellent way to see just what Aleph One is capable of. Nice information to have, both as player and mapmaker.
On Bungie's "Grenade Launcher" sound: Having actually used a similar weapon "back in the day", I've always hated the standard "Grenade Explosion" sound in all flavours of Marathon. It's unrealistic, grating, lacks power. So I decided to change it. But, if you're not using headphones, the difference will probably not be as dramatic as you'd expect. Sound was created by combining the original Marathon grenade sound with a Dorf Bottle exploding (from Bungie's "Myth: TFL").
