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If anybody is interested, I'm going to start a thread showing all the stuff for AA I've collected through the years. If you want any of it, let me know and I'll upload.

I would say the gameplay was different because of the community. 2.5 hits me as a group of whores playing on the same maps. 2.3 was the case with the same maps, although at times there might have been more variation, but the community was different, like I said the games were more random and unpredictable. There were clans but not everyone HAD to be in one. Of course, hard-coded there are changes in animation timing and settings are different.

I'm surprised and also let down at how well the site is doing. Activity seems to come and go. So without a "Play mAAp or I quit as Developer" rant, I would like to encourage new users, new threads and getting some good Moderators on-board. As the site stands, I would trust anyone currently registered with Moderator status so this is open to everyone. Here's what you gotta do to earn Moderator status:

Make 2 new helpful, informative or popular threads
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Get 2 new people to sign up and have 5 legitimate posts each

I'm not sure about WMP... Try this:
http://cdburnerxp.se/

First post updated with screenshot. Keep in mind it is an older theme so it may not work 100% with in-game whatnots.

Does anyone have it? I currently have the original DiRT and can't wait to get the new one. It's been looking pretty awesome with the effects but I saw a screenshot today that just blew me away:



I can't find anything wrong with it! No obvious polys, no low-res textures... Nothing!

It's called UnrealEd Publically, no. Only the 2.5 one was leaked/stolen. In my research, it is/was possible to do it for 2.3 but it involved some hacking. Something along the lines of exporting the resources to the free/student version of UnrealEd then building a map, compiling and then hex editing the map to work with the "paid" engine. There was also something about a bytecode converter which I looked into at one point but never found one for 2.3. There seems to be 2.5 and 2.6 versions though. I contacted iZi (original starter of this mayhem and aa-maps.net) about mapping on 2.3. He actually took the time to convert a texture to the free version of UnrealEd for me when I was first interested in all of this.

iZi's work:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/mAApPackFiles/facade.7z

I did have a decent amount of fun with a hex editor and the maps. You can change staticmeshes or just delete things altogether. Here's some simple stuff I did a while back:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/mAApPackFiles/2.3%20mod%20maps.7z

Also, I don't know what Crusade would think of this but I know he released a BUNCH of his work and sources on various forums and a lot of this stuff is super old... here's a huge collection of mods for 2.3 that I've collected over the years if you want them:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/mAApPackFiles/2.3%20Server%20Mods.7z

I also have hacks:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/mAApPackFiles/2.3%20Hacks.7z

Quote from a forum about making maps with the free version of UnrealEd:

Basically, you can make a mesh in 3d studio max, export it as ASE,
and import into UnrealEd, or open an existing meshes package in UTPT,
extract the mesh as 3ds, load in 3d studio max and export as ASE, then import to UnrealEd.

Assuming 2.6 or earlier...
With unrealed make a little map, make an interaction, make some actor in their
thats capable of loading up your inbedded interaction. Build and save the map,
run it throught the necessary bytecode converter. Open up with hex editor,
change the sixth, i think, byte from 01 to 00. This changes the licensee mode
stuff, so AA will actually load it. Save as a .aao then drag it onto your AA icon.
AA should load, drop you in that map, and load your interaction up for ya.
Quite ingenious in its simplicity.

If there's something specific you need or can't find, let me know. I literally have 7.29GB of AA stuff... and that's compressed with 7Zip. Enjoy


On a personal note.. AA 2.3 was and is still the best.

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