@mikta, I don't believe so but I could be wrong. I think the loading time does change a bit from level to level depending on what is being loaded. Not that there is much that can be done about it either way. Treellama did mention the idea of using other, more modern compression schemes for Alephone. Maybe one day such a thing will be implemented and have loadtimes improved while having everything not take a monster amount of space or looking like awful image compression. This is what the baked in version within the iOS release does as Trajan'sRow implemented a native compression format that iOS uses and then uses its own hardware for decompression.

@CzarStoat Does it actually loads all the resources and not just those required by the level?

It's working now, not sure what was causing the problem tbh. Thanks.

@Fire Cougar Not sure, still works for me in 1.11. Under Preferences, I would disable all other plugins and see if it works. Generally I only have a hud plugin like the XBLA one and a Music Plugin and that's it. You maybe loading the Freeverse sprites and CFP at the same time or something.

@mikta, there is a trade off. Either have the sprites be PNG and have the over all download be 700MB or uncompressed DDS for quicker load times and have it be over 3Gigs. A lot of people didn't like the size of the mod before. :\

Even the DLC XBLA/freeverse plugins crash the game, although the progress bar gets a little farther before hanging up.

Im guessing the recent aleph 1 update broke the mod because it crashes every time I try to load into a save or start a new game.

Is there any way to improve loading times? It wastes a lot of time when you have to make many attempt to complete a segment.

The XBLA one isn't much different from the original (Which was intentional Im sure). The original has a more dense star field and a more grainy look.

Ok. I noticed the “bulbous skyscraper”, but I remember the original old aleph one version having a better resolution. Or am I confused?

@Procyon, I'll be the first to admit skyboxes are a weakness of the XBLA set, but unfortunately they do work for me as is. And are a little higher res then the ones that come with the standard DLC set.
For sanity check this is what you are seeing correct?
https://cloud.joshpettus.com/s/3eaEenCySZr2Xts/preview


@Rocketman503 I list the differences in the description, though mostly it's much higher quality versions of what is in the DLC (as they came directly from freeverse with a lot of manual edits, and not ripped off of the XBox360) with some shader support.

The problem is that the skyboxes doesn’t seem to work. I tried using this with/without the DLC and there’s no change. Also tried by using the simplici7ty version alone and nothing happens.

And also the dlc alone.

Hey what's the difference between this and the plugins already in the game?

I just had a thought. Perhaps you are confusing this plugin with the DLC XBLA one? All this one is called "Marathon 2 CFP Super Plugin". If you see three folders for HD Monsters, HD Weapons and HD Textures, those belong to the DLC and should be disabled

The HQ walls and landscapes are already baked into the steam version of the plugin. On simplici7y I have everything separated as people who use simplici7y generally want more flexibility. But steam generally goal is make it as easy as possible so everything is baked in.

can you add this please: https://simplici7y.com/items/community-freeverse-plugin-walls-m2/

There is a zip file with only the XBLA HD landscapes. I try to use it by putting it in plug in folder, but doesn't work.