From: Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.marathon
Subject: Re: Pathways Into Darkness Sprites (Partial Identifications)
Message-ID: <070420000539096024%petrich@netcom.com>
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 12:39:08 GMT
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Here are some identifications of ".256" resources in the PID shapes
file; I've decided to create a fairly complete list so I can have some
clues as to these files' contents; clues such as number of animation
frames and number of color-table variations.

Note: there are three main world-texture themes in PID:

Plain theme:
Irregular-stone walls
Plain stone pillars
Plain ladders
Bones

Crystal theme:
Triangular-stone walls
Crystal pillars
Crystal ladders
Mushrooms, puddles, etc.

Vine theme:
Rectangular-stone walls
Vine pillars
Vine ladders
Bones


and I represent some shapes ID's as 128 + something, that something is
the shape-set index in the map file's textures list.


128: Pickup items, dialog-box "PID" title, save rune, etc.; sets
overall color table
129: Nightmare, Greater Nightmare
130: Headless
131: Phantasm
132: Ghoul
133: Zombie, Ghast
134: Shocking sphere
135: Blue Meanie
136: Barney?
137: Demon
139: Ooze, Green Ooze
140: Wraith
141: Sentinel
142: Skitter, Venomous Skitter
148: ?
149: ?
150: Weapons in hand (some of them)
151: ?
152: ?
153: Plain-theme pillars (128 + 25)
154: Plain-theme scenery (128 + 26)
155: Plain-theme ladders (128 + 27)
156: Corpses (128 + 28)
157: Crystal-theme scenery (128 + 29)
158: Crystal-theme pillars (128 + 30)
159: Crystal-theme ladders (128 + 31)
160: Corpses (128 + 32)
161: Corpses (128 + 33)
162: Rat things (128 + 34)
163: Crystal-theme extra scenery (128 + 35)
164: Vine-theme pillars, ladders (128 + 36)
165: Corpses (128 + 37)
166: Lizard things, exploding pods (128 + 38)
167: Vine-theme scenery (128 + 39)
187: Pyramid-blowing-up cutscene?
188: ?
189: ?
190: ?
191: ?
192: Plain-theme walls (128 + 64)
193: Vine-theme walls (128 + 65)
194: Crystal-theme walls (128 + 66)
195: ?
196: ?
197: ?
198: ?
199: ?
200: ?
201: ?
202: ?

-- 
Loren Petrich
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