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Hi there. My name is mrchallah. I'm working on a number of VidMaster challenges right now (in Marathon 2)... And it would be very helpful if I could sometimes gain a tiny bit of info on the levels (like how many of a certain type of enemy respawn... or where EXACTLY the starts are in a given level). ...

A long enough time ago I would have opened up the actual M2 levels in Forge and just... taken a look at the level! ... How do I do that in the modern era with Aleph One?

Could I even alter the level the tiniest bit?... Adding extra health cans to practice a difficult part perhaps?


Thanks for the advice,
-mrchallah

I think there's only 1 editor for it. Being Weland.

treellama did do everything for Aleph One. But no texture tool he did.

Treellama wrote Visual Mode.lua as well, actually. There’s also Vasara, a modification of the above by Hopper (one of the other main developers of Aleph One). Of course, both of those run within Aleph One itself, not within Weland – it would be a task of at least a year to rewrite the engine in a completely different language (Aleph One is written in C++, Weland in C#, and despite the similar names, C# has more in common with Java than it does with C++).

To modify the map the way you’re looking for, you’ll have to split the map with Atque, edit the individual levels to your taste, and then re-merge.

For more information, check the pinned threads in the Editors section.

(There’s also Forge+, but it’s not finished yet and won’t be able to give you some of the information you want. But it’ll probably be better than Weland once it’s done.)

He did?

Oh he did.

Thanks you two! That's super helpful...

Cheers,
-mrchallah