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Title                   : Marine Skin Pack for Legacy
                          newmarin.wad
Date Finished           : May 20, 2000.  Actually this is still a work in 
                          progress.
                          *updated* July 23, 2000. Pistol marine added 
                          *Updated* March 10, 2001. Two new marine skins
                          added (chainsaw mairine and fists marine).
                          *Updated* March 8, 2002. Chaingun marine by
                          Anthony added to the pack.
Author                  : Boingo the Clown (a.k.a. Mark Quinn)
                          Chaingun marine skin by Anthony Cole.
Email Address           : [redacted]
Home Page               : www.geocities.com/boingo_the_clown/
Other Files By Author   : Monster Skins Pack for Legacy (doomskin.wad),
                          DeiM (coming soon!)
Misc. Author Info       : I am currently an animation student.
                          I have no life.  :-(

Description             : I was discussing with Thiery (Hurdler) the 
                          possibility of adding skins to Legacy that show 
                          the marine holding each of the different weapons,
                          and having Legacy switch switch between them so
                          other players will always see the player holding
                          the correct weapon.  To this end, I have started 
                          working on the neccessary skins.  I only have the
                          pistol marine and the shotgun marine so far, but 
                          this isn't the most important thing I am working 
                          on right now, so I can only work sporatically on
                          the skins.  I will be adding more skins as I am
                          able to, until all the weapons are represented.
                          I also plan to add a few other versions of the
                          DooM marine, such as the evil marine, and the imp
                          marine.  :-)

Skins included          : Fist Marine (punching) (Added March 10, 2001)
                          Marine with pistol
                          Marine with shotgun
                          Marine with chaingun (Added March 8, 2002)
                          Chainsaw Marine (Added March 6, 2001)

Additional Credits to   : id of course!
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* Type of DOOM or DOOM II file*

Graphic Addon Only      : Yes.
Other                   : Yes.  Skins
Required To Have In Dir : Legacy running either DooM or DooM II
                          (These skins may or may not work with some other 
                          DooM ports as well.)

* Play Information *

Map #                   : N/A.
Episode and Level #     : N/A.
Single Player           : Yes, but pretty useless in this case, because you
                          can not see the skins in single player mode.
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : Yes.
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : Yes.
Difficulty Settings     : N/A.
New Sounds              : None
New Music               : None.
New Graphics            : Yes.
Demos Replaced          : None.

* Construction *

Base                    : The skin graphics are repaints of the original id
                          graphics.  The shotgun marine uses graphics from
                          DooM's sergeant.  The pistol marine's walking 
                          sequence uses an arm and uzi (repainted as a 
                          pistol) from of one of the enemies from Strife.
                          The chainsaw marine uses the arms and chainsaw
                          from the chainsaw trooper from chainsaw.wad by 
                          Sam Diskie. (I am really not satisfied with these
                          graphics, and intend to replace them, or at least
                          repaint them heavily.)  The fists marine uses 
                          resized and repainted graphics from the Baron of 
                          Hell.  The punching sequence uses repainted 
                          graphics from the pistol marine.
                          Anthony Cole used the pistol marine as a base along
                          with the chaingunner from DooM II to create the
                          chaingun marine.
Build Time              : A few hours for the shotgun marine.
                          A litle over two days for the pistol marine (much
                          more repainting required)
                          Work still in progress.
                          Less than a day (total) for the chainsaw marine
                          (A hefty amount of repainting required)
                          A couple of days for the fists marine (Again, still
                          requires a lot of repainting.)
Editor(s) used          : Paint Shop Pro, Wintex 3.4, Wintex 4.2
Known Bugs              : Wood lice, Cicadas, Beetles, etc.,
                        - The pistol marine uses mirrored sprites for viewing
                          angles 6-8 in his walking sequence.  I should create
                          sprites for these views to keep the pistol
                          consistantly in the marine's right hand.
                        - The graphics "borrowed" from Sam Dickies's chainsaw
                          trooper look rather bad.  I will have to do a major
                          repaint, possibly replacing them completely.
                        - The far arm of the fists marine is incomplete, with
                          a large gap appearing in his arm in some of the
                          frames. 
                        - With the current moving frames, the fist marine's
                          punches look like rather wierd looking uppercuts. I
                          plan to change the walking sequence so that the
                          marine's right arm is raised similarly to the way
                          ninjas raise their weapon arms while running in 
                          anime films. This should give the marine a more 
                          forceful looking roundhouse punch.
May Not Run With...     : DooM ports other than Legacy (should run with ZDooM).

* Copyright / Permissions *

You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with
no modifications.  You may distribute this file in any electronic
format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file 
intact.  You may NOT accept money of any kind for this skin pack
or any of the skins contained herein. (Hey! I'm not getting any
money for this, so why should you?)

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* Where to get this WAD *

The Boingo Page: www.geocities.com/boingo_the_clown/  (DeiM section)

The Epidermis Emporium: http://members.fortunecity.com/doomskin/
(An older version currently exists there.)
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* Miscellaneous info *

March 10, 2001          : "Completed" the fists marine.  Major repainting
                          required.
March 6, 2001           : "Completed" the chainsaw marine. It is quite
                          usable, but I am not satisfied by the arm and
                          chainsaw graphics from Sam Dickie's chainsaw.wad.
                          The arms look terrible, and the saw suffers from
                          major perspective problems. I will have to do a
                          massive repaint to get this skin looking the way
                          I want it to.
July 23, 2000           : Added the pistol marine to the pack. Removed the
                          red patches from the shotgun marine's arms. It is 
                          probable that the pistol marine will require some
                          future modification before he looks the way I want
                          him to. The left arm is still in its rifle-holding
                          position, which looks rather strange without the
                          rifle.
May 20, 2000            : Completed the shotgun marine. I used the sergeant
                          as the basis of the arms and shot gun, of course.
                          Some red patches (blood) from the sergeant still
                          remain on the arms. I will have to remove these
                          patches at a future date.
