HD Truck Pack Beta 1 by Cale
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WHAT IS THIS?

This pack of 6 trucks is the first step in my quest to upgrade MTM 2's truck roster to be more colorful and more accurate to the real life trucks which the stock trucks are modeled after. Each of the trucks included has been rebuilt from the ground up with new models and new textures to achieve this goal while still keeping trucks under the 1000 vert limit.

HOW DID YOU DO THIS?

The trucks are, what I guess would be called in vintage MTM 2 parlance, "semi-fiberglass", meaning the bodies have wheel wells with 3D modeled shocks, but the chassis are still primarily solid objects with textures conveying the framework.

WHY DID YOU DO THIS?

Two reasons. First, I've never been satisfied with how the stock trucks look in the game, in the best cases the colors are too dull, in some of the worst cases (Grave Digger) the model does a poor job of conveying the actual shape of the trucks. Secondly, I wanted to brighten up the game to make it more like MTM 1, which had inaccurately modeled trucks but brighter colors that make an impact.  I also wanted to make sure these trucks were playable on older systems - full 3D frames look fantastic, but can drive vert counts well over 1000 and cause graphical issues with the game.  With the stock tracks, you should be able to play these trucks with full graphics settings on, no issues.

SO TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHAT'S IN HERE AND WHAT'S TO COME.

HDBeta1.pod is the 6 trucks I currently have completed. These are BETA and may have small visual issues. Currently, the trucks are using the stock axles, but I have plans in the future to do a new standard axle.  All of the trucks have lights and use stock commentary files.  They appear in truck lists without any signifier from the stock trucks, so make sure you pay attention to which trucks you are selecting.  If you mount the pod at the bottom of pod.ini, the trucks should be the last ones listed in the Opponent selection screen.

Trucks in the pack include:
Bear Foot
Bigfoot
Carolina Crusher
Firestone Wilderness
Grave Digger (Listed as Grave Digger 7)
Snake Bite

I plan to include all the stock, non wrestling MTM 2 trucks long term. I also plan on doing a few trucks which the game did not include, as well as MTM 1 versions of the trucks, to make a sort of mid-90s pack.

WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG?

Because I have a job, a wife, and other things going on! Plus, I find the initial mapping stages tedious, so my motivation wanes at times.

CAN I HELP?

I'm reluctant to pass of some of the work to others as part of my goal is to have all the trucks have a consistent look, like one person made all of them.  However, if you have high resolution photos of any of the MTM 2 stock trucks from 1997-1998, I would love to see them! I'm finding some of these trucks were not as well documented as I would have liked. Also, if you find anything broken on these trucks, let me know! I can be found on the mtm2.com forum as Cale.

Thank you for Downloading!

-Cale Putnam

