Chapter Screens Hack
By Durandal
One lazy afternoon me and one of my best friends, ResEdit, discovered something. You can change at which levels the chapter screens appear! It was actually pretty simple, nothing more than the format of the PICT ID# you give the picture. Open the Shapes file up with ResEdit, and go into the PICT resources, where all the chapter screens are stored. If you're making a big scenario for Marathon, you can put your own PICTS in here, and give them appropriate IDs to show up at the right time. The format is:
100xx
x is the number of the level AFTER you want the PICT to appear (0 is counted as a level). This ID# MUST be 5 digits, so if you want the pict to appear AFTER the seventh level in your map file, you make the ID# 10006.
An exception is that ID#10000 will be shown BEFORE the first level.
You can have any number of PICTS appear after you win the game. You would number these as follows:
10100, 10101, 10102, 10103, and so on until you're happy.
See you next month!