COCOON-ED
ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR MOD


MOD NAME: NEWBORN ALIEN
AUTHOR: Thomas Wolff
MOD TYPE: Skins
INSTALL TYPE: C
VERSION (if applicable): 1B

DESCRIPTION:  This mod replaces the normal Alien skins with those reminiscent of the 'Newborn' creature at the end of Alien Resurrection.  Of course, the body types are nothing alike, but it's as close as we can get without a model editor.
Also, there are surprisingly few photos of the Newborn available as source material, so a lot of the textures were partly made up, and thus aren't as good as they could be.  That's why this is version 1, and future updates may feature better likenesses of the skin textures.
Note that this skin hides the tails of the Aliens it textures, and although you can't see them, they can still hurt.

A new addition to this is a replacement for the Alien HUDs (Tex27.ffl), which will skin the player's Alien hands to resemble the Newborn Alien, as well as the tongue.  Unfortunately, I've found a problem with applying transparency to the tail textures, which I hope can be resolved when Texture Infector 2 is released.  Until then, it has been made up to resemble the creature's tongue, about as best as I could do for now.

INSTALLATION:

Refer to the Install Type at the head of this document before consulting the instructions below.

(A) This is a sound patch which requires the ScreamEd utility to install. Simply run ScreamEd and select the "Install Patch" button. Locate the *.pep file that was included in this mod zip and select it. The new sounds/taunts should now be installed to the revelant fastfile and the original version backed up.

(B) This is a sound patch which requires that you backup the original fastfile (Snd##.FFL) which it will affect and replace it with the new one included with this zip. All fastfiles can be found in <drive letter>/Program Files/Fox/Aliens Versus Predator/fastfile. Once you have swapped the appropriate fastfiles around, simply run the game. Consult the Extra Notes section at the end of this document for information as to which files to backup.

(C) This is a texture/skin patch which requires that you backup the original fastfile (Tex##.FFL) which it will affect and replace it with the new one included with this zip. All fastfiles can be found in <drive letter>/Program Files/Fox/Aliens Versus Predator/fastfile. Once you have swapped the appropriate fastfiles around, simply run the game. Consult the Extra Notes section at the end of this document for information as to which fastfiles to backup.

(D) This zip contains .tga texture files that need to be imported into Texture Infector and from there into Aliens Versus Predator. The FFL files to where the new skins are to be imported are listed below in the Extra Notes section.

(E) "Other":



EXTRA NOTES:

Modifies Tex31.ffl & Tex27.ffl


NOTE: Before using this mod, you may wish to read the notes on AvP mod use at:
http://www.preditor.com/cocoon-ed
