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Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven/Unused Graphics

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This is a sub-page of Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven.

And you were just a scroll away from being fired too...
Oh dear, I do believe I have the vapors.
This page contains content that is not safe for work or other locations with the potential for personal embarrassment.
Such as: Models of dead and mutilated men.
Hmmm...
To do:
Check for more unused special portraits, decorations and textures.

Unused graphics

Unused Portraits

Interestingly most of the creatures (except for the Reactor and the Demon Queen) have their unique portraits. A few are used for a circus characters. Also the first portrait below shows a sprite of unused human enemy or peasant and a Skeleton portrait is based on an old, unused variant of this enemy.

M&M6 icons Npc645.png M&M6 icons npc601.png M&M6 icons Npc603.png M&M6 icons Npc604.png M&M6 icons Npc605.png M&M6 icons Npc606.png M&M6 icons Npc607.png M&M6 icons Npc608.png M&M6 icons npc609.png M&M6 icons Npc610.png M&M6 icons Npc611.png M&M6 icons Npc613.png M&M6 icons npc614.png M&M6 icons npc616.png M&M6 icons npc619.png M&M6 icons npc620.png M&M6 icons npc621.png M&M6 icons npc622.png M&M6 icons Npc623.png M&M6 icons npc625.png M&M6 icons Npc626.png M&M6 icons npc627.png M&M6 icons npc628.png M&M6 icons npc629.png M&M6 icons npc630.png M&M6 icons npc631.png M&M6 icons npc632.png M&M6 icons npc633.png M&M6 icons npc634.png M&M6 icons npc636.png M&M6 icons npc637.png M&M6 icons Npc638.png M&M6 icons npc639.png M&M6 icons npc640.png M&M6 icons Npc641.png M&M6 icons npc642.png M&M6 icons npc643.png M&M6 icons npc644.png M&M6 icons npc646.png M&M6 icons npc647.png M&M6 icons npc648.png M&M6 icons Npc650.png M&M6 icons npc651.png M&M6 icons npc652.png M&M6 icons npc654.png M&M6 icons npc655.png M&M6 icons Npc656.png M&M6 icons Npc657.png M&M6 icons Npc658.png M&M6 icons Npc659.png

Monsters

Alternative Acolyte of Baa

M&M6 AltAcolyte.png

Icons.lod contains alternative, yellow color palette for Acolyte of Baa. To see it in the game simply place pal165 file from Icons.lod in Bitmaps.lod.

Old Peasants Variants

M&M6 Peasant.png
  • M&M6 PeasantBlue.png
  • M&M6 Peasantyellow.png
  • M&M6 PeasantMGreen.png
  • M&M6 PeasantMBlue.png
  • M&M6 PeasantMRed.png

There are both male and female alternative Peasants in the game files. They can be found on the Arena on low levels of experience, male Peasant animation is also used for Q enemy in the Temple of the Snake. They don't seem to differ from regular peasants except for their models.

Alternative Skeleton Enemy

  • M&M6 Sprite SKL1ST0.png
  • M&M6 Sprite SKL1ST1.png
  • M&M6 Sprite SKL1ST2.png
  • M&M6 Sprite SKL1ST3.png
  • M&M6 Sprite SKL1ST4.png

Early variant of a Skeleton, however only his idle pose remains. An unused NPC portrait of the Skeleton is based on this model, not on the final one.

Alternative Broken Animation of a Bat

Among the sprites of a bat there are five unused animations with broken colour palette. Each one present the bat in one of five idle positions facing different directions. Here is one of them:

M&M6 Sprites BATST.gif

Diseased Heroes

Heroes affected by "diseased" condition has a set of appropriate portraits with dermatologic illness that can be found in the game files, sadly they're unused and replaced by portraits of heroes with "poisoned" condition.

M&MVI Icons GIRLA09.png M&MVI Icons GirlB09.png M&MVI Icons girlC09.png M&MVI Icons girlD09.png M&MVI Icons MALEA09.png M&MVI Icons MALEB09.png M&MVI Icons MaleC09.png M&MVI Icons MaleD09.png M&MVI Icons maleE09.png M&MVI Icons maleF09.png M&MVI Icons MaleG09.png M&MVI Icons maleH09.png

Trade Signs

Dark and Light Guild Trade Sign

YIN-ALL.png

The final game features only Guilds, that sell Light and Dark magic tomes of knowledge separately; however this graphic and one of the prerelease graphic is proof the developers were also planning to place a guild that sells both Light and Dark magic tomes.

Apothecaries

M&M6 Bitmaps apothpor.png M&M6 Bitmaps apothmid.png M&M6 Bitmaps apothrch.png

Potions on these trade signs suggests, that there were plans for a one more type of shop - apothecary, that sells potions and ingredients just like in M&M7 and M&M8. Here in order from poor to rich.

Blacksmith

M&M6 Bitmaps BLKSMPOR.png M&M6 Bitmaps BLKSMRCH.png

Poor and rich blacksmist signs - all the shops in the game uses averagely wealthy signs.

City Councils

M&M6 Bitmaps CNCILMID.png M&M6 Bitmaps CNCLPOOR.png M&M6 Bitmaps CNCLSPEC.png

Only Mist city council has one such sign, the rest remains unused

Poor Mercenary Guild

M&M6 Bitmaps Mercpor.png

Poor Tavern

M&M6 Bitmaps TAVPOOR1.png

Pirate Tavern

M&M6 Bitmaps TAVPIRAT.png

Taverns in Eastern Bootleg Bay Island and Northern Eel Infested Waters Isle are run by a pirate, however their signs are swapped - the first is using Goblin's tavern sign, second is using rich tavern sign. Moreover Goblins in Bootleg Bay city and Southern Eel Infested Waters Isle also run taverns, but don't use corresponding signboards.

Poor Store

M&M6 Icons Storepor.png

Unused Dungeon Entrance Icon

M&M6 Sprite ISECDOOR.png

Unused Containers

  • M&M6 Sprite CHEST02.png
  • M&M6 Sprite CHEST04.png
  • M&M6 Sprite chest09.png

These chests do appear in the game world, however graphics of their insides are swapped with other chests.

Early maps

The game contains early variants of Sweet Water and New Sorpigal maps.

First Sweet Water map variant Second Sweet Water map variant Final
M&M6 Icons OUTE3 XX.png M&M6 Icons OUTA1512.png M&M6 Icons OUTA1.png
Early New Sorpigal map Final
M&M6 Icons OUTE3 NW.png M&M6 Icons OUTE3.png

Unused Loading Screen

Release Unused
M&M6 Icons Loading.png M&M6 Icons Drag5.png

Unused Map Decorations

Collectible Herbs

Widowsweeps berries, Phirna Root and Poppysnaps have unique graphics of shrubs, from which the player could pick up potion ingredients.

  • Widowsweeps berries

  • Phirna Root

  • Poppysnaps

Old Fountain Sprite

M&M6 Sprites STA1A0.png

This sprite can be seen from different angles on an old promo screenshots. In the game files however only one frame remains.

Unused Pottery

M&M6 Sprites GOBLET.png M&M6 Sprites URN.png M&M6 Sprites URN2.png M&M6 Sprites POTERY1.png M&M6 Sprites POTERY2.png M&M6 Sprites TCURN.png

Stalactites and Stalagmites

M&M6 Sprites L1.png M&M6 Sprites mite2.png M&M6 Sprites mite3.png M&M6 Sprites mite4.png M&M6 Sprites mite5.png M&M6 Sprites stlmite4.png M&M6 Sprites stltite1.png M&M6 Sprites stltite2.png M&M6 Sprites stltite3.png M&M6 Sprites tite2.png M&M6 Sprites tite3.png M&M6 Sprites tite4.png M&M6 Sprites tite5.png M&M6 Sprites tower.png

Flags

7ks9nk.gif 7ks9ot.gif

There are red and blue flags on some of the world's towers and castle, but green and yellow are not present.

Unused Bones & Corpses

M&M6 Sprite SKLSPEAR.png 7ks9q7.gif

NSFW! Ideas on where to find it
M&M6 sprites corpse02.png Looks like a Bootleg Bay's Cannibals meal.
M&M6 sprites corpse12.png It's very likely that it's another Werewolves pray.
M&M6 sprites corpse13.png It's very likely that it's another Werewolves pray.
M&M6 sprites corpse17.png A dead adventurer that can be found in unused dungeon zddb10.blv.
7ks9jg.gif

Miscellaneous

M&M6 Sprites 3L STOL2.png M&M6 Sprites FLRSAK.png M&M6 Sprites Strwlg.png M&M6 Sprites Strwsm.png M&M6 Sprites HAYBALE2.png

Unused Trees, Rocks and Bushes

M&M6 Sprites MR4.png M&M6 Sprites Snoweed1.png

Hmmm...
To do:
Look for more decorations in SPRITES.lod, for sure there are still a few of them.

Missing Textures and Decorations

  • One of The Temple's of the Moon stone circles is lacking textures on it's upper facets (it's internal name was "d2wctrA"). It can't be seen during normal gameplay, however the other stone circles have proper stone wall bitmaps in this place, even though they also can't be seen.

  • Close to the Obelisk on a Hermit's Isle map there are placed two decorations, that don't have a proper sprite and during normal gameplay can't be seen.

  • There are also two unknown decorations beside altar in Superior Temple of Baa.

Miscellanous

Old Turn-Based Combat Hand Mode

M&M6 Sprites TURNMODE.png

Unused and Broken Water Walk Spell Animation Sprite

M&M6 Sprites WATWALK7.png

It's saved as the last sprite of the Water Walk spell animation, however it looks like it's unused and it's hard to tell what it was exactly going to depict.

Placeholders

M&M6 Icons PENDING.png

M&M6 sprites pending2.png

Placeholders respectively for equipment items and for adventure map objects.

Leftovers from Previous Games

  • The signature of Jon Van Caneghen (the creator of the series) from the fourth and fifth games.

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