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To save you the trouble of looking for it, the link to the full text of Abelard's memoir is here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/abelard-histcal.html Aside from being helpful, I just enjoy the surreal aspect of linking to a 12-century tract as a way to "contribute" to a thread on the evolution of the eye. Gotta love these forums.

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=4341 Before it was with a stapler. Officespace?

Well, you'd get access to all the internal forums, so you would have a much better idea of what's going on and what models we need. Not to mention access to the mod itself. It would make it easier for me to assign projects for you as well. Looks great for the high-poly version. I don't know if you're familiar with the workflow for D3, but first you make a high-poly version which is used to create a normal-map, then you make a low-poly version (for something like this, probably 500 or less). The normal-map supplies all the details. Don't worry too much about making great textures for the model, I can always go over and improve them later.

I just browsed Doom3world and there I found this sad news: http://sapphirescar.marsmodule.com/forums/...opic.php?t=1652 Well, the link is to the SS forum, but I found it on D3world first, in case you are wondering. Saphire Scar announced that they will stop production on their mod, which means that yet another one of the big mods is down.

Just one thing though, can he assure that he won't disappear without a trace like he did back then? He was'nt on the forums for almost half a year. Not being an ass, it's just annoying seeing people join and then disappear.

Yeah he posted about applying a while back on the public forums, good to see he finally applied I remember those shots and they were quite good imo, he has my vote

http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108785 Some free app to help make plants.

See here for update on next due date http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=4285 I made some progress, I'm making a set up so that they can all be the right size according to the chart Spring made. Also I'm trying to streamline the workflow so it's easier to export models. Currently, you have to manually edit the MD5mesh files to point the each material to the correct entries in the mtr file (time consuming...), but I think I can set it up so this happens automatically on export.

Alright I'm going to make re-sizing the next thing I do. It's in my schedule. Check my todo list for update. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=4285

I'm having some problems too, everytime I want to Post or Preview in the Private Forums, a message occurs. Edit: forget it, it's resolved now (the server or the server does not like the term "g plus plus" (the compiler name with the actual plus characters)...)

I remember coming across glossmaps on the doom3world forums & they got it working I think . I need to follow up on that to see if they actually did get it working. I was wondering if speculars could be other than grey scale I'll experiment with those.

Well basically, having worked in companies before, I'm naturally mindful about saying anything about the project - because you're essentially speaking on behalf of the team, which you may not be in a best position to do. To be on the safe side, I don't consider myself that way at all, and leave it to NewHorizon. Never had a need to speak publically on the forums about it. Only to people I know personally. It shouldn't be too hard to realise you're speaking publically and use the "-like" and "inspired" suffixes.

I don't think that any laywers are lurking here right now (well I probably wouldn't know it if he is smart). But in worst case it might happen that the forums have to be opened for them, so you shouldn't assume that this is a safe haven where you can say whatever you want. If the intentions of the mod have to be proven in court, a judge might easily order that the forum has to be made accessible.

I think the reason why some people (including me) are so fussy about it, is that if we're not it might get used on the public forums (ours and others) and that might be trouble.

The Thief Universe is the single point of reference we are all familiar with, so it's only natural to refer to it in conversation. If you can imagine it there, you can imagine it in a Dark Mod universe. I used it to help try to drive my point home, since it wouldn't have the same impact or meaning if I said, "Imagine this hammer/gear in The Dark Mod!" Oh, forget it, why am I bothering. For any lawyers that may lurk in our internal forums and who may potentially whistle-blow us, I would like to take the time to clarify that any mention of "Thief Universe" is meant to be "Thief-like Universe." The Dark Mod aims to be a dark and moody stealth game inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. It is not Thief and will not be Thief.

You guys seen these for inspiration? http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108516

They do have a specific function (or nonspecific depending on your point of view). They can be used for meshes or walls which can't be said for the rest of tdm's textures, with a few exceptions. Sorry guys, but I'm going to rant . . . [rant] There's other reasons for pushing this idea though. A lot of people working on this mod do not have the skills to have a clean uvw map & this kind of urks me When I started looking at the textures for the models, I was astonished on how messy the textures looked, especially the characters. Another reason is I can't apply another skin to a model because the texture is model specific & if I don't like the look, I'd have to figure out how that modeler mapped the mesh & create a new texture and skin. With this idea, all I have to do is apply another gen* skin to it. The problem with a community mod is the skill levels of each person vary so the quality of the work varies. Some people submit textures that don't tile and others submit broken models. This causes grief down the road because someone has to take the time to fix these things which delays more important tasks. I can't imagine how much further this mod would be if things were close to being right the first time. For example, the character models are being redone so we can have facial expressions. This should have been brought to the table in the first place. Another thing that urks me are decisions that could have been made on certain features are not in the mod yet because people disagreed about it. UI design and the back story are a couple of those "features" that's been delayed due to disagreements. Either vote on it or just implement one of them until a concensus has been made.That's why most forums have voting features & I wonder why voting isn't utilized more often in this mod. I went against the design documents for the noisemaker because I didn't look that the design documents (I should have). But when I presented the new noisemaker design, the mod team liked it. That's one example of implementing something, without all the discussion/voting, that actually worked. It definately doesn't work all the time but it's something to keep in mind. *Good grief I have to stop complaining here, but here goes . . .* The Dark Mod is held in high esteem & high quality is expected by this mod. When those expectations are not met, people can be total asswipes: Sure were not going to please everyone but when any "pros" take a look behind the scenes, then we'll definately hear about it. I'm not saying GBM is a pro btw In short, I think we should be more consistant with voting proceedures because a lot of discussions so far have been counterproductive. Either that or just implement the damn thing. Don't get me wrong on community projects (or this one for that matter), I love them, but these problems rub me the wrong way. Sorry to keep being a thorn in the members' sides. [/rant]

For stuff like that I'd say just do a search on doom3world forums Bob. They've basically got a two year archive of exactly that kind of stuff.

Fair enough crispy. Basically Oddity sent me a PM calling me names and saying that the team members forums were slagging me off. I PM people when I want to know something usually game related, but sometimes I'm interested in the person. This seems to have annoyed some people. They should say that they are busy or prefer not to have PM's. Then it would be finished. However having a bitch in a forum where the person being bitched about can't defend themselves is below the belt. SO being a bit annoyed I decide to call Oddity some names in reply to his rude PM and am willing to call anyone else names too in defence.

Well the forums are dead anyway so who the fuck cares, you half arse. The reason why more people from TTLG don't come here or you guys don't get any help is because a few of you are so up your own arses. You're decent at what you've done, Oddity, but no way near as good as you think you are. D*ckHead

Way back, yeah, but it's changed. I've got a couple new ones, if you want replacements for the site (see internal forums).

Forgot to add the banner, @148 polys. For completeness: Edit: Also, http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?s=&am...ost&p=84195

Yes, oDDity is no longer actively making models for us as an official Team Member. He has moved on to some other projects so he can continue to push himself in new directions, as an artist of his skill should. His membership is still active however as he may contribute a model here and there in the future and he left us with his character templates so that all of our future models will still fit with the rest of the characters. As for 'individual opinion' not speaking for the team, that has always been in place. It's far too easy for someone in the community to say, "I HATE that mod because 'such and somebody' said something sucks...so the entire team must feel that way". Unless we voted on something in our development forums, it certainly wouldn't be considered a "Team Stance". Heh...even then, it's only the opinion favored by the majority of the vote. So, you see...there is never really any hardcore team opinion and it drives me NUTS when people base a ridiculous argument on something like that.

And here's after a bit of levels adjustment and a gaussian blur to add back in some removed sharpness (edit: duh, I mean smoothness). Decent results, I think? (compressed as JPG here of course) Compare to the first attempt: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?s=&am...ost&p=82172 Edit: as always, thanks for the guidance guys, you're a wealth of information.

I covered this a year ago in the documentation forum. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=2341