His life in ruins, Max Payne finds himself back in the NYPD. During a routine murder investigation he runs into Mona Sax, a woman he thought dead, a femme fatale murder suspect. She holds the keys to the questions that haunt him. But nothing is simple in the dark and tragic night of New York City. An army of underworld thugs stands between Max and the answers he seeks. His journey deep into his own personal hell continues.
If you want to create your own mods, levels or other custom content for Max Payne 2 you need this toolset.
Max Payne 2 can be extended by users by creating new game environments (levels) that can contain for example new weapons, characters or sounds. Basically everything in the game is modifiable in some way. These tools will allow you to modify much of the game.
MAX PAYNE 2 TOOLS READ ME
This document contains information about Max Payne 2 Technology and tools that can be used to modify Max Payne 2.
Although we encourage you to experiment making modifications to Max Payne 2, we recommend that users should be reasonably confident on how to use their PC, or have previous experience on making modifications to other games.
Introduction
Max Payne 2 can be extended by users by creating new game environments (levels) that can contain for example new weapons, characters or sounds. Basically everything in the game is modifiable in some way.
We recommend that you read the Getting Started section. It should help you understand the basic way of how Max Payne works.
There are a few tools that can be used for making modifications:
MaxED 2 - Max Payne 2 Level Editor
RASMaker2 - For creating MP2M files for distributing your modifications
ParticleFX - Particle Systems Editor
KFExport - 3dsmax5 Plugins and Scripts for Max Payne 2
All of the above programs are internal tools created and used by Remedy and as such has not been tested to fulfill the requirements of commercial software. The programs are provided as is and are not supported. Use at your own risk.
For program updates, FAQ's and more detailed instructions on how to use the programs, please visit Maxpayne.com
Installed Files
You should now have the following folder structure at "C:\MaxPayne2Dev"
3dsmax5_plugins
ExampleMod
Game
Help
Levels
MaxEd2
ParticleFX
Prefabs
Rasmaker2
Textures
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I keep getting an error "error loading database" could not open materials.txt. help!
me too! someone help me!
(Even if these are old, someone might find the answer useful)
You have to extract ALL of the data files to a folder, and just then use it as your database. Otherwise, MaxED will just keep telling you that it couldn't find certain files.
what tool sholud i use for making bullettime slower
Notepad :/
To anybody who has an error, install this to your directory then make a shortcut for it and leave the file in the MP2 Directory. Put the shortcut wherever you want to such as in another file or on your desktop to access it. I'm pretty sure this will work for everyone.
show us how to fix this error: can't find materials.txt error loading database
Mine too
Great program
install doesn't open please help !!!
is this work on windows 7 because my maxed2 could not open in my windows 7
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i get: Max Payne 2 installation not found. but thats false ...