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"When the leaves change and the air is still, there is a quiet." -Lady Blackbriar -=| DISPLACEMENT |=- BY AMADEUS & WELLINGTONCRAB = DOWNLOAD = <( | )> -REQUIRES TDM 2.14- -JOIN THE BETA NOW- "Seek not the prideful sin that is perfection The Builder's light shines through all flaws. It is His wisdom to recognize a thing is done Before it is ever truly finished." -St. Edgar's Sermon of Rust LAMPFIRE HILLS... They say the woods around here give the tourists bad dreams, but I don't mind. I like it here. I feel like a piece of me belongs here. ... That it fits. DISPLACEMENT is a medium-sized traditional manor mission with a highly variable playtime. *2.14 provides a number of improvements to gameplay, performance, and stability. It is strongly encouraged to play on the latest 2.14 beta release. Join in testing now!* *Mods such as the “Unofficial Patch” and “TDM Modpack” are not supported by this mission and should be used at your own risk* https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissions/97429/displacement CREDITS: ADDITIONAL MUSIC: -AIRSHIP BALLET -GIGAGOOGA ADDITIONAL SCRIPTING: -DRAGOFER -OBSTORTTE -FROST SALAMANDER -KINGSAL ADDITIONAL ASSETS: -KINGSAL -TDASH -SKACKY -BIKERDUDE -GOLDWELL -EPIFIRE -STRUNK -SHANNEN ART -POLYHAVEN -TEXTURES.COM -SKETCHFAB CULTURAL HERITAGE CC0 COMMUNITY -LOISTE INTERACTIVE -COLINFIZGIG -CDMIR BETA TESTERS: -KINGSAL -GOLDWELL -MAT99 -FROST SALAMANDER -MIKE A -STGATILOV -STIFU -MARBLEMAN -DETEEFF -THEBIGH FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: -STIFU FOR HIS EFFORT IN FIXING THE NOTORIOUS STUCK AI AND ARROW CRASH BUGS. -STGATILOV WHO MADE A NUMBER OF 2.14 OPTIMIZATIONS AND BUG FIXES. -KINGSAL FOR PROVIDING SOME OF THE MAIN MENU GUI ASSETS -PURAH FOR ORIGINATING THE SETTING OF LAMPFIRE HILLS, REIMAGINED HERE, IN HIS THIEF FMS. -GUY-ON THE COUCH AND JAM61 FOR THEIR SILENT HILL COMMUNITY MAPS WHICH HEAVILY INSPIRED THE LAMPFIRE HILLS REGION MAP. -SPECIAL THANKS TO LOISTE INTERACTIVE FOR ALLOWING US TO USE ASSETS FROM THEIR GAME "INFRA." SOME ADDIITONAL DETAILED LICENSING INFORMATION: SOME NOTES ON PERFORMANCE: NOTE TO MAPPERS: MOST OF THE NEW ASSETS IN THE MISSION ARE INCLUDED IN 2.14

Miscellaneous asset fixes done: * More fixes in fonts and better support for Cyrillic and Romanian (post, 6642, 6661). * Added all missing mipmaps in DDS textures (post). * Fixed shop description of slow match (6629). * wood/panels/trim_wood_grunge_moulding_desat: fixed parallax confusion. * models/md5/chars/builders/guard/builder_armor material: brought back specularmap. * textures/darkmod/stone/brick/blocks_light_stained_trimmed material: fixed specularmap. * prefabs/doors/trapdoor_w-padlock prefab: fixed wrong particle (6662). * prefabs/mechanical/switches/wall_lever01 prefab: fixed frobbox of the lever (6060). * models/darkmod/architecture/doors/door*hinge models: fixed gaps in almost all versions (6671) [02]. * models/darkmod/furniture/wardrobe_open model and prefab: fixed clipping through frame (6272) [02]. * models/md5/chars/heads/female03_head_local and dds/models/md5/chars/heads/face_freckle textures: replaced (5545) [03]. * models/darkmod/readables/book_* model: fixed UV maps in sp1 and red1 versions, texture fix (6672) [03]. * prefabs/doors/curvedtop_door_96x48_3hinge_w-frame prefab: fixed hinge material (3212) [03]. * models/darkmod/readables/book_tome model: minor fixes [03]. * models/darkmod/containers/bucket model: gap fixes (6675) [04]. * models/darkmod/containers/barrel_wine model: fixed shadowmesh (6685) [04]. * New assets added: * atdm:ai_undressed_old_man_01: added new character model, including LODs, ragdoll, swappable head. * textures/darkmod/wood/panels/trim_wood_* material: added red variants. * textures/darkmod/wood/panels/panel_decorative_redder_grated material. * textures/darkmod/paint_paper/gold_pedals_* material: added RGB versions. * textures/darkmod/paint_paper/fleur_* material: added RGB versions. * textures/darkmod/stone/brick/red_worn_dirty_trim_wet material. * textures/darkmod/stone/brick/old_bricks_darkgrey_wet material. * models/darkmod/lights/non-extinguishable/painting_downlight model. * models/darkmod/containers/openable/safe_door_003_* and safe_wheel_003: added wall-in-safe door model and prefabs (6590). And there is a big set of assets added by @Wellingtoncrab and @Amadeus from the upcoming mission "Displacement". New models by TDash: * models/darkmod/furniture/beds/rustickingbed with skins DRustBed* * models/darkmod/furniture/seating/darmch1 with skins ArmCh* * models/darkmod/furniture/desk_pagan with skin JPagDesk2 * models/darkmod/furniture/steps_library with skin LibStepup1 * models/darkmod/mechanical/typewriter * models/darkmod/kitchen/wine_bottles_shelved*: versions A, B, C, D * models/darkmod/kitchen/whiskeyglass_silver * models/darkmod/kitchen/bottle_simple_* * models/darkmod/containers/crate_long_* * models/darkmod/containers/crate_simple* * trunk/models/darkmod/containers/wine_crate_03 * models/darkmod/furniture/cabinets/cupboard_* More models: * prefabs/mechanical/switches/red_button prefab along with models/darkmod/mechanical/switches/switch_redbutton* and switch_toggle* models and redbutton_glow* skins * models/darkmod/decorative/statues/bust_emperor_* model (and bust_emperess) * models/darkmod/kitchen/food/bread_loaf*: new versions 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 * models/darkmod/kitchen/food/croissant * models/darkmod/lights/non-extinguishable/streetlamps/streetlamp_iron_01 with skins streetlamp_iron_01_lit, streetlamp_iron_01_unlit * models/darkmod/decorative/trophy_plaque_* * models/darkmod/decorative/stuffed_hart* * models/darkmod/decorative/statues/statue_face_cover* * models/darkmod/loot/loot_golden_goblet* * models/darkmod/loot/loot_golden_vase_* * models/darkmod/decorative/ashtray * models/darkmod/decorative/cigar* with skins cigar and cigar_unlit * models/darkmod/loot/loot_crystalore* (and loot_rareore) New skins: * cabinet1_* for furniture: versions A, B, C * book_sp1_gold_crest for various books Stone, cobblestone, brick materials: * textures/darkmod/stone/brick/bricks_old_light* * textures/darkmod/stone/brick/blocks_sandstone_grime_trimmed * textures/darkmod/stone/brick/blocks_concrete_small_trimmed2 * textures/darkmod/stone/cobblestones/flagstones_bricks_multicolored* * textures/darkmod/stone/flat/tile_dirty_terracotta * textures/darkmod/stone/flat/tile_herringbone_grime* * textures/darkmod/stone/flat/tile_checkered_grime_tricolor* * textures/darkmod/stone/flat/tile_checkered_grime_small* * textures/darkmod/stone/natural/gravel_multi_color Other materials materials: * textures/darkmod/paint_paper/wallpaper_grunge_* * textures/darkmod/plaster/plaster_worn_painted_peeling_autumnal* * textures/darkmod/roof/rooftiles_clay_red_decorative* * textures/darkmod/wood/boards/planks_floor_* * textures/darkmod/glass/glass_brick_clear [03] * lights/watercaustics01 Note: [03] at the end of line means that this change appeared only in beta214-03.

I am attempting to enable native support for an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C controller in The Dark Mod 2.14 on Arch Linux. While the controller functions perfectly through Proton/Wine, the native Linux binary (which uses GLFW) fails to recognize it as a Gamepad, and my diagnostics via the official GLFW joystick utility confirm that the device is detected as a raw joystick but lacks a valid gamepad mapping. However, the SDL_GameControllerDB does have the mappings. So, I patched and compiled glfw to the latest db. Then, I built TDM from the github repo, with the prebuilt 3rdparty artifacts, but replacing the libglfw3.a file with the cone I compiled. The game runs, and I verified that the mappings do exist in the new tdm binary (using `strings`), but the gamepad still does not work. I am using the default DarkmodPadbinds.cfg unbindPad bindPadButton MODIFIER PAD_L2 bindPadButton PRESS PAD_A "_jump" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_B "_crouch" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_B "_mantle" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_X "_attack" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_Y "_inventory_use" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_Y "_inventory_grid" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_L1 "_lean_left" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_R1 "_lean_right" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_R1 "_parry" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_R2 "_frob" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_R2 "_attack" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_L3 "_speed" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_R3 "inventory_use '#str_02396'" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_R3 "inventory_use '#str_02395'" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_BACK "_objectives" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_BACK "savegame quick" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_START "escape" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_LEFT "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02392'" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_LEFT "_weapon1" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_LEFT "_weapon2" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_RIGHT "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02389'" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_RIGHT "_weapon3" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_RIGHT "_weapon4" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_UP "_inventory_prev" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_UP "inventory_hotkey ''" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_UP "_weapon_next" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_UP "_weapon0" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_DOWN "_inventory_next" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_DOWN "_inventory_drop" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_DOWN "_weapon_prev" The log printed is WARNING:Cannot detect SVN version! Make sure 'svnversion' command works in console on the build machine. TDM 2.14/64 #0 (Unversioned directory) linux-x86_64 Mar 15 2026 17:27:53 /proc/cpuinfo CPU frequency: 3988 MHz 3988 MHz Intel CPU with SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & SSSE3 & SSE41 & AVX found interface lo - loopback found interface tailscale0 - 100.120.168.3/255.255.255.255 found interface enp0s20f0u3u1u2 - 192.168.2.105/255.255.255.0 Found Intel CPU, features: SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 AVX TDM using AVX for SIMD processing. no 'darkmod' directory in exe path /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod, skipping WARNING: using hardcoded default base path Found 0 new missions and 0 packages. ------ Initializing File System ------ Current search path: [M] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/fms/written [M] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/fms/written/written.pk4 (1305 files - 0x9de52132) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/ [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_wood01.pk4 (466 files - 0xb5d97e73) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_window01.pk4 (405 files - 0x5a4b6ae6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_sculpted01.pk4 (475 files - 0x641965de) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_natural01.pk4 (156 files - 0xf890710d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_flat01.pk4 (328 files - 0xc3f6bde4) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_cobblestones01.pk4 (301 files - 0x65be47b7) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_brick01.pk4 (572 files - 0xc18893d7) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_sfx01.pk4 (69 files - 0x6589664a) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_roof01.pk4 (84 files - 0x674c51e1) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_plaster01.pk4 (171 files - 0x32092a6e) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_paint_paper01.pk4 (105 files - 0x914e90bf) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_other01.pk4 (155 files - 0xa089e601) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 (321 files - 0x8fc5a2a1) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_metal01.pk4 (525 files - 0x6a65e0a) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_glass01.pk4 (55 files - 0xb04853d2) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_fabric01.pk4 (63 files - 0x85b5a374) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_door01.pk4 (177 files - 0xb0130166) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_decals01.pk4 (477 files - 0x10205bc5) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_carpet01.pk4 (133 files - 0x8a6e585b) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 (657 files - 0xbdef74a6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_standalone.pk4 (4 files - 0xb3f36d20) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals_decls01.pk4 (341 files - 0xa359aaef) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals07.pk4 (1111 files - 0x67d07bcc) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals06.pk4 (714 files - 0x1b185378) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals05.pk4 (119 files - 0x6cf23214) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals04.pk4 (2895 files - 0xf145be9a) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals03.pk4 (743 files - 0xb3f2e0f1) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals02.pk4 (1299 files - 0x5092940e) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals01.pk4 (82 files - 0xf4d326b2) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 (621 files - 0x30bde7bc) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_sfx01.pk4 (995 files - 0xf105b273) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient_decls01.pk4 (8 files - 0xd81cf846) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient03.pk4 (24 files - 0xd28ca9ec) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient02.pk4 (163 files - 0x84efad22) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient01.pk4 (221 files - 0xd0561b94) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_prefabs01.pk4 (1028 files - 0x77ffb2d0) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_player01.pk4 (127 files - 0xd983fc45) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models_decls01.pk4 (101 files - 0x1ab99f09) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models05.pk4 (1218 files - 0xea685065) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models04.pk4 (557 files - 0x4bb19ec8) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models03.pk4 (639 files - 0xb2ccd08d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models02.pk4 (521 files - 0x5aab96c3) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models01.pk4 (2961 files - 0x33c2c906) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_gui_credits01.pk4 (49 files - 0xbff51863) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_gui01.pk4 (784 files - 0x707e9e6c) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_fonts01.pk4 (708 files - 0xfc83b727) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_env01.pk4 (224 files - 0xfc062cee) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_defs01.pk4 (199 files - 0xaa3f5bbf) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_base01.pk4 (208 files - 0xfd2650a6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_steambots01.pk4 (52 files - 0xdb1822f5) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_monsters_spiders01.pk4 (80 files - 0xc50c13ac) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_undead01.pk4 (55 files - 0x3a6634) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_townsfolk01.pk4 (104 files - 0x9256f66d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_pagans01.pk4 (10 files - 0x81066fb3) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_nobles01.pk4 (51 files - 0x9e9205b6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_mages01.pk4 (8 files - 0xdf3069bf) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_heads01.pk4 (104 files - 0x770aedf3) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_guards01.pk4 (391 files - 0x2806f655) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_females01.pk4 (172 files - 0xe680b6db) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_builders01.pk4 (91 files - 0xe5bbf58d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_beasts02.pk4 (229 files - 0x415e6e90) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_beasts01.pk4 (23 files - 0xba9da54c) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_base01.pk4 (9 files - 0xb1ce574) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_animals01.pk4 (82 files - 0x91388f45) File System Initialized. -------------------------------------- Couldn't open journal files ----- Initializing Decls ----- WARNING:file materials/bkd_blend_texture.mtr, line 8: material 'textures/common/blend' previously defined at materials/bkd_blend.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/bkd_lights.mtr, line 48: material 'lights/round_grill' previously defined at materials/bkd_lights.mtr:22 WARNING:file materials/bkd_signs.mtr, line 261: material 'models/darkmod/misc/signs/blacksmith' previously defined at materials/bkd_signs.mtr:209 WARNING:file materials/bkd_windows.mtr, line 96: material 'textures/darkmod/window/frame_ornate_wallsection_selflit' previously defined at materials/bkd_windows.mtr:17 WARNING:file materials/bkd_windows.mtr, line 112: material 'textures/darkmod/window/frame_ornate_wallsection_selflit' previously defined at materials/bkd_windows.mtr:17 WARNING:file materials/tablet_revenant.mtr, line 12: material 'tdm_spider_black_invisible' previously defined at materials/smoke_monster.mtr:128 WARNING:file materials/tablet_revenant.mtr, line 28: material 'textures/particles/revenant_smoke' previously defined at materials/smoke_monster.mtr:179 WARNING:file materials/volta_fx.mtr, line 306: material 'textures/darkmod/volta/volta_watersplash_large' previously defined at materials/kingsal.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 22: material 'book_sp2welli' previously defined at materials/welli_props.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 45: material 'book_sp3welli' previously defined at materials/welli_props.mtr:23 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 68: material 'book_sp4welli' previously defined at materials/welli_props.mtr:46 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 92: material 'book_sp5welli' previously defined at materials/welli_sp5.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/wood.mtr, line 120: material 'textures/darkmod/wood/boards/pier_platform_snow' previously defined at materials/tdm_pier_platform_snow.mtr:1 WARNING:file skins/bkd_models_architecture_modules.skin, line 1026: skin 'timber01_blocks_mixedsize01_litwindows' previously defined at skins/amd_architecture_modules.skin:19 WARNING:file skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin, line 16: skin 'roof_snow' previously defined at skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin:1 WARNING:file skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin, line 109: skin 'roof_snow_selflit' previously defined at skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin:89 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 6: skin 'book_sp2welli' previously defined at skins/welli_props.skin:1 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 13: skin 'book_sp3welli' previously defined at skins/welli_props.skin:6 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 20: skin 'book_sp4welli' previously defined at skins/welli_props.skin:13 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 27: skin 'book_sp5welli' previously defined at skins/welli_sp5.skin:1 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 9: sound 'crystal_bowl' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:1 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 22: sound 'cosmic_chaos' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:9 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 34: sound 'forest_sounds1' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:22 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 46: sound 'forest_sounds2' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:34 WARNING:file sound/bkd_water.sndshd, line 7: sound 'water_medium_running' previously defined at sound/bkd_enviromental.sndshd:19 ------------------------------ I18N: SetLanguage: 'english'. I18N: Found no character remapping for english. I18N: 1347 strings read from strings/english.lang I18N: 'strings/fm/english.lang' not found. Couldn't exec editor.cfg - file does not exist. execing default.cfg Gamepad modifier button assigned to 6 execing Darkmod.cfg execing DarkmodKeybinds.cfg execing DarkmodPadbinds.cfg Gamepad modifier button assigned to 6 execing autoexec.cfg I18N: SetLanguage: 'english'. I18N: Found no character remapping for english. I18N: 1347 strings read from strings/english.lang I18N: 'strings/fm/english.lang' not found. /proc/cpuinfo CPU processors: 4 /proc/cpuinfo CPU logical cores: 8 CPU core count: 4 physical, 8 logical HDD not detected: loading threads unlimited ----- Initializing OpenAL ----- Setup OpenAL device and context OpenAL: found device 'ALSA Default' [ACTIVE] OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, ALC3254 Analog (CARD=PCH,DEV=0)' OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, P235H (CARD=PCH,DEV=3)' OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, DELL U2723QE (CARD=PCH,DEV=7)' OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2 (CARD=PCH,DEV=8)' OpenAL: device 'ALSA Default' opened successfully OpenAL: HRTF is available OpenAL vendor: OpenAL Community OpenAL renderer: OpenAL Soft OpenAL version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.22.2 OpenAL: found EFX extension OpenAL: HRTF is enabled (reason: 1 = ALC_HRTF_ENABLED_SOFT) OpenAL: found 256 hardware voices ----- Initializing OpenGL ----- Initializing OpenGL display Borderless fullscreen - using current video mode for monitor 0: 1920 x 1080 ...initializing QGL ------- Input Initialization ------- ------------------------------------ OpenGL vendor: AMD OpenGL renderer: AMD Radeon R5 M465 Series (radeonsi, iceland, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.19.8-arch1-1) OpenGL version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.0.2-arch1.1 core Checking required OpenGL features... v - using GL_VERSION_3_3 v - using GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc Checking optional OpenGL extensions... v - using GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic maxTextureAnisotropy: 16.000000 v - using GL_ARB_stencil_texturing v - using GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test v - using GL_ARB_buffer_storage v - using GL_ARB_texture_storage v - using GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect v - using GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding X - GL_ARB_compatibility not found v - using GL_KHR_debug Max active texture units in fragment shader: 32 Max combined texture units: 160 Max anti-aliasing samples: 8 Max geometry output vertices: 256 Max geometry output components: 4095 Max vertex attribs: 16 ---------- R_ReloadGLSLPrograms_f ----------- Linking GLSL program renderTools ... Linking GLSL program testImageCube ... --------------------------------- Font fonts/english/stone in size 12 not found, using size 24 instead. --------- Initializing Game ---------- The Dark Mod 2.14/64, linux-x86_64, code revision 0 Build date: Mar 15 2026 Initializing event system ...902 event definitions Initializing class hierarchy ...173 classes, 1818432 bytes for event callbacks Initializing scripts ---------- Compile stats ---------- Game script memory usage: Files: 78 Statements: 26391, 1055640 bytes (32%) Functions: 1454, 190332 bytes (47%) Variables: 123376 bytes (31%) Mem used: 2426552 bytes Allocated: 1287060 bytes Maximum object size: 888 Largest object type name: weapon_arrow ...6 aas types game initialized. -------------------------------------- Parsing material files Found 0 new missions and 0 packages. Found 70 mods in the FM folder. Parsed 77 mission declarations. No 'tdm_mapsequence.txt' file found for the current mod: written -------- Initializing Session -------- session initialized -------------------------------------- Font fonts/english/mason_glow in size 12 not found, using size 48 instead. Font fonts/english/mason_glow in size 24 not found, using size 48 instead. Font fonts/english/mason in size 12 not found, using size 48 instead. Font fonts/english/mason in size 24 not found, using size 48 instead. WARNING:file /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui, line 191: wrong number of arguments for script command set: 4 instead of [2..2], maybe missing semicolon? WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing1 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture1] [decl: guis/assets/briefing1 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing1] WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing2 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture2] [decl: guis/assets/briefing2 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing2] WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing3 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture3] [decl: guis/assets/briefing3 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing3] WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing4 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture4] [decl: guis/assets/briefing4 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing4] Font fonts/english/stone in size 12 not found, using size 24 instead. WARNING:unknown destination 'BriefingAnimation::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:101 WARNING:resetTime target window 'BriefingAnimation' not found at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:102 WARNING:unknown destination 'BriefingAnimation::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:126 WARNING:unknown destination 'BriefingAnimation::notime' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:127 WARNING:unknown destination 'NextButton4::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:454 WARNING:unknown destination 'NextButton4::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:526 --- Common Initialization Complete --- ------------- Warnings --------------- during The Dark Mod initialization... WARNING:Cannot detect SVN version! WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing1 WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing2 WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing3 WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing4 WARNING:file /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui, line 191: wrong number of arguments for script command set: 4 instead of [2..2], maybe missing semicolon? 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For the people eager to play with the latest state of development, two things are provided: regular dev builds source code SVN repository Development builds are created once per a few weeks from the current trunk. They can be obtained via tdm_installer. Just run the installer, check "Get Custom Version" on the first page, then select proper version in "dev" folder on the second page. Name of any dev version looks like devXXXXX-YYYY, where XXXXX and YYYY are SVN revision numbers from which the build was created. The topmost version in the list is usually the most recent one. Note: unless otherwise specified, savegames are incompatible between any two versions of TDM! Programmers can obtain source code from SVN repository. Trunk can be checked out from here: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/publicsvn/darkmod_src/trunk/ SVN root is: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/publicsvn/darkmod_src Build instructions are provided inside repository. Note that while you can build executable from the SVN repository, TDM installation of compatible version is required to run it. Official TDM releases are compatible with source code archives provided on the website, and also with corresponding release tags in SVN. A dev build is compatible with SVN trunk of revision YYYY, where YYYY is the second number in its version (as described above). If you only want to experiment with the latest trunk, using the latest dev build gives you the maximum chance of success. P.S. Needless to say, all of this comes with no support. Although we would be glad if you catch and report bugs before the next beta phase starts

A Winter's Tale By: Bikerdude "One of the few pleasures I have as a man of the thieving profession is to return to my old home town for the holidays and relax in the company of friends and relatives. But a local lord has been going out of his way to making the lives of the locals a miserable." Notes: - TDM 2.12 or later is REQUIRED to play this mission. - This is my entry for the speedbuilding jam. - This FM should play on the vast majority of systems. I have perf tweaked this map with low end players in-mind. And have moved the globale fog/moon lights to the ‘ better’ LOD level. - min recommended spec (as per beta testing) Intel Core i7(3rd gen), nvidia 1030 4gb (GDDR5), will get you 60fps inside and 45fps outside. - Various areas will look better with shadow maps enabled (SoftShadows set to medium/high, Shadows Softness set to zero and LOD set to 'better'), at the possible expense of performance depending on your system specs. - this mission continues the imperial theme, with this being a border town slightly further out from the main imperial lands than Brouften. - build time roughly 130hrs. Download Link: - (v1.4) - https://discord.com/channels/679083115519410186/1310012992867405855/1310022631415746632 v1.4 changes: I have been tweaking the LOD levels through-out the map - - Snow fall has been moved to LOD low/normal. - world fog moved to LOD better. - fireplace grills to LOD better. - world moonlight moved to LOD high. Other tweaks - - reduced light counts in all the fireplaces. - reduced the length of the looping menu video background. - Some new assets Gameplay: - added more ways for the player to get around. - tweaked existing routes to make some easier or more of a challenge. - and added an additional option objective. Credits: Special thanks go to - - Nbhor1more, flashing out the briefing and creation of readables. - Amadeus, Help w/custom objectives, script work, proof reading, mission design & testing. - Dragofer, for custom scripts and script work for the main objective. - Baal, for additional tweaking of the main objective and script work,. - Beta testers: Amadeus, Nbhor1more, Mat99, DavyJones, S1lverwolf, Baal & Dragofer. - Freesound.org, for ambient tracks, further details in sndshd file. Speed Jam Thread: - https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152747

This has been a recurring issue for me over the past year or so and I'm finally fed up enough with it to make a forum post about it. I've not been able to find anything else with either a forum or discord search, so I'm hoping I can get some troubleshooting assistance here. Sometimes, on larger maps with lots of custom assets and/or scripting, when I'm attempting to load a save file the game just... hangs. At like 1% loaded, in the loading screen. This happens to me a lot with Seeking Lady Leicester, but also has started happening to my most recent playthrough of The Lieutenant 2. Some relevant notes: - I am on the latest beta branch, but this has been happening to me since at least 2.13, so I don't think its a beta-specific bug. - I'm on Windows 10. - Starting a fresh run of the map does not ever reproduce this problem (I can reliably fresh-load a map even when I can't save-load it), and it doesn't happen until I close the game and reopen it (so, if I start a new mission and play a bit, I can reliably load save files if I get caught or whatever. Its not until I save after a long gaming session and try to pick up where I left off later that I occasionally hit this bug). - Usually I get around this issue with a complete reinstall of TDM? But my most recent reinstall didn't do it for my playthrough of Lieutenant 2. - Once this happens to me, there's no way for me to close the game or go back to the main menu. I have to alt+F4 or Task Manager kill TDM. - When I'm loading a save or a new map and things are working correctly, I am unable to open the dev console during the load. However, when I get stuck in this bad state, the dev console is openable. I've attached a screenshot of the contents of the dev console just in case its illuminating, although there are no scary looking errors or warning text that I can see. If we want me to try any commands when I get into this state I'd be happy to poke around. Let me know if this explanation makes sense, or if there's anything I should try or any debug info I should poke around the game's folder for.

I have noticed that especially our gui textures (like the mainmenu / inventory grid parchment), but also some video assets like that "The Dark Mod" short-intro, are really low-res for this day and age. I was wondering whether we should explore offline AI texture upsampling? While I am not a fan of purely AI-generated content, upsampling is something that usually works really well and maintains the look and feel of the materials. Does anybody have any experience in this regard? Do you know of any tools for this? RTX Remix comes with AI texture tools, but I don't know in what capacity those can be used outside of the RTX Remix framework.

Mandrasola is a small sized map in which aspiring thief Thomas Porter steals some herbal products from a smuggler. The mission was created by me, Sotha and I wish to thank Bikerdude, BrokenArts and Ocn for playtesting and voice acting. Thanks goes naturally to everyone contributing and making TDM possible. This mission occurs chronologically before the Knighton's Manor, making it the first mission in the Thomas Porter series. Events in chronological order are: Mandrasola, The Knighton's Manor, The Beleaguered Fence, The Glenham Tower and The Transaction. The winter came early and suddenly this year. Weeks of strong blizzards and extremely harsh cold weather hit Bridgeport hard. With the seas completely frozen, a rare occurence indeed, most of the City harbor commerce has stopped completely. Vessels are stuck in the ice and no ship can leave or enter the City, resulting in the availability imported goods declining and their prices skyrocketing. One of these imported items is Mandrasola, a rare herbal product, which is imported overseas from the far southern continents. Mandrasola has its uses in alchemical cures and poisons, but mostly this substance is used for its narcotic qualities by commoners and even the nobility. The problem with Mandrasola is that excessive use is extremely addicting and the withdrawal effects are most grievious. Many are utterly incapable of stopping using Mandrasola and are transformed into quivering human ruins if they do no get their daily dose. And now this expensive and rare substance is running out from the whole City. Me and my fence, Lark Butternose, would love to grab this monopoly to ourselves: selling the last few doses in the City would probably be worth a fortune. According to Lark's sources, there remains only one smuggling lord who still has Mandrasola in stock. The problem is that this individual maintains an exclusive clandestine operation and only supplies a few nobles. Despite our best information gathering efforts we couldn't learn who the smuggler is and where he or she operates. Luckily we have an alternate plan. While searching for Mandrasola related information, we learned that a noblewoman called Lady Ludmilla is addicted to the substance and has paid high prices for small amounts of it. We also know that she has visited frequently someone in the Tanner's Ward waterfront, and since she goes to the area personally we believe she is visiting the smuggler. The plan is simple: I must monitor Ludmilla's most likely entryway to the Waterfront and then follow her to the smugglers hideout. I'd better be very careful around Ludmilla. She must not realise I'm following her or she probably won't lead me to her dealer. Hurting her is also out of the question. After she leads me to the smuggler's hideout, I can take my time to break in carefully and steal all the Mandrasola I can find. While I'm there it wouldn't be a bad idea to grab some loose valuables as well. I've now waited in the blistering cold for a few hours already. Looks like there are a few city watch patrols in the area to complicate matters... I think I heard a womans voice beyond the north gate. That must be lady Ludmilla, I haven't seen many ladies in these parts. I'd better get ready.. Links: Use the ingame downloader to get it. WARNING! Someone always fails to use spoiler tags. I do not recommend reading any further until you've played the mission.

============== -= IRIS =- ============== WELLINGTONCRAB TDM v 2.11 REQ Ver. 1.3 *For Maureen* -=- "Carry the light of the Builder, Brother. Unto its end." -Valediction of the Devoted "What year is this? Am I dreaming?" -Plea of the Thief Dear Iris, I am old and broken. When we were young it felt like the words came easily. Now I find the ink has long dried on the pen and I'm as wanting for words as coin in my purse. I can tell we are nearing the end of the tale; time enough for one more job before the curtain call... ============== -Installation- Requires minimum version of TDM 2.11 **Dev build dev17056-10800 (2.13) fixes several visual effects which have been broken in the mission since the release of 2.11. For that reason playing with that version or later is currently recommended** -Iris does not support mods or the Unofficial Patch- Download and place the following .pk4 into you FMs directory: Iris Download ============== *Thank you for playing. Iris is a large mission which can either take as quickly or as long as you are compelled to play. I hope someone out there enjoys it and this initial release is not completely busted - I tried the best I could!* *Iris both is and isn't what it seems. If commenting please use spoiler tags where appropriate. If you are not certain if it would be appropriate a good assumption would be to use a spoiler tag* *Support TDM by rating missions on Thief Guild: https://www.thiefguild.com/* ============== WITH LASTING GRATITUDE: OBSTORTTE - Whose gameplay scripts from his thread laid the foundation which made the mission seem like something I could even pull off at all. Also fantastic tutorial videos! DRAGOFER - Who built upon that foundation and made it shine even brighter! And whom also provided immeasurable quantities of help and encouragement the past couple years on the TDM discord. ORBWEAVER & GIGAGOOGA - For generously offering their ambient music up for use. EPIFIRE - Who lent me his fine trash and trash receptacle models. AMADEUS - Who was the first person who wasn't me to play the damn thing and provided his excellent editorial services to improving the readers experience playing TESTERS AND TROUBLESHOOTERS: AMADEUS * DATISWOUS * SPOOKS * ALUMINUMHASTE * JAXA * JACKFARMER * WESP5 * ATE0ATE * MADTAFFER * STGATILOV * DRAGOFER * KINGSAL * KLATREMUS - What can I possibly say? Playing this thing over and over again could not have been easy. Deepest thanks and all apologies. -=THANKS TO ALL ON THE TDM DISCORD AND FORUM=- ==SEE README.TXT FOR ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTIONS & INFORMATION== HONORABLE MENTION: GOLDWELL - If I hadn't by chance stumbled into Northdale back in 2018/2019 I would probably still be trying to get this thing to work in TDS, which means it probably would not exist - though more details on that in readme. ============== Boring Technical Information: *Iris is a performance intensive mission and I recommend a GTX 1060 or equivalent. I find the performance similar to other demanding TDM missions on my machine, but mileage may vary and my apologies if this prevents anyone from enjoying the mission.* *Iris heavily modifies the behavior of AI in the game, how they relate/respond to each other and the player. So they may act even stranger than they do typically in TDM. Feedback on this is useful - as it can potentially be improved and expanded upon in future patches.* -=- This is my first release and it has been a long time coming! If I forgot anything please let me know! God Speed. 2.10 Features Used:

Lately I have started to play some of the more recent missions and some of these have lots of "own"/unique textures. Is it okay to use these assets (from released FMs) in one's own FMs? I'm referring to models/textures and sound etc, of course not chunks of the mission geometry or blatant plagiarism of readables etc. I guess some people have designed or bought assets for themselves but is it okay to use these textures/models as long as there is no explicit note in a readme etc, that opposes such "borrowing"?

Here I'll post prefabs, models and stuff that mappers can use if they like.

Here's a .blend file with a Darkmod NPC rig: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-odjc8A54ED5qgO7pA01Nr59U2_2jFmL/view?usp=sharing set up to be used with this motion capture animation pack https://www.rokoko.com/mocap/free-mocap-assets It's a stripped down version of this Blender rig. Exporting works the same way. For retargeting you'll need to install this addon: https://github.com/Mwni/blender-animation-retargeting It works in Blender 3.6 as well as 4.5. Animation playback of longer files is waaay faster in 4.5 but the drawback is that md5 file exporter won't work with anything newer than 3.6. This pack contains different skeleton standards. This setup was made for Mixamo which seems to be majority of files. Import .fbx file with scale 48, manual orientation: x forward to match the Darkmod skeleton. When selected, keyframes of the imported animation will be displayed. Select armature_control. In the retargeting addon tab (in right panel), in 'Source' box choose the imported skeleton name. Load config file: Darkmod_male_NPC_mocap_Mixamo.blend-retarget This should pair up both skeletons. First frame in animations is a t-pose. Proper animation starts at frame 2. Typically animations start offset from the center. You can move the character to the center at the start of the animation simply by dragging armature_control object. Similarly, character model may be slightly below ground level. Move armature_control up to adjust. Origin bone in tdm_ai_proguard has constraints to follow the pelvis. Otherwise it would stay in center. Here's what happens when origin bone stays in the same place. This is idle animation playing: And here's what happens when origin bone follows the character: I found that in order to match imported skeletons I had to bend darkmod skeleton forward a little bit. That pose is saved as "tpose_mixamo" single frame animation. I don't guarantee that this is the best way you can do it. Perhaps skeletons could be matched in a more ideal way. Remember that there are bones for clothing in Darkmod, that aren't in the motion capture files and need to be animated by hand :)

This pinned thread's purpose is to collect links to all the discussion threads for new features to be added in 2.14: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23080-214-new-and-updated-assets/ https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23072-214-mirrors-and-remotes-resolution-and-optimizations/ https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23070-214-tdm-version-macros-and-x-ray-breaking-change/ https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23071-214-in-game-screenshot-as-menu-background/ https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23073-214-interactible-projected-decals/ https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23074-214-new-smoke-generation-system/ https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23088-214-beta-ko-non-elite-ai-after-flash/ https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22736-font-localization/page/2/#findComment-503417 As well as older Feature Collection Threads: [2.13] Feature Discussion Threads [2.12] Feature discussion threads [2.11] Feature discussion threads [2.10] Feature discussion threads

OK now the only difference between the current mission db now on the new package is that the new package has 2 more removed assets: Only in /home/user/darkmod_experiments/displace_214/displace/displace.pk4_dir/models/darkmod/furniture/seating: darmch1.ase Only in /home/user/darkmod_experiments/displace_214/displace/displace.pk4_dir/textures/darkmod: glass If you think it's worth removing them, I can do that but I think it's fine to err on the side of caution and leave them in the pack and remove them the next time you have a bugfix.

Thanks will take a look. The model may have mistakenly gotten culled when we were trying to pull out all the now stock 2.14 assets.

Now I have more mobility, something I didn't anticipate was replacing my PC with a laptop. But it seems like this is just a plan. Laptops with an RTX 5060 GPU (high TGP) are really out of my price range ($200-250 price increase). Those with an RTX 5050 have also gone up by $130-$160. I'm looking for a dual heatpipe configuration (definitely dual fans) That feeling when you ask a seller on an e-commerce platform and they tell you they've raised the price by $150-$200 from the original price via chat. All the product price tags feel misleading. The prices are intentionally not updated. I do hate bait and switch pricing By the way, I haven't heard of the brands Sager or Clevo in a long time. I wonder where they are now.

"My place is here, warm amongst the tarnished wood of high backed chairs and peeling leaves of gilded gold." -The Only You DISPLACEMENT has been updated to Version 6 = DOWNLOAD = *With the official release of 2.14 this version removes compatibility with 2.13* -The MSAA setting override has been removed as it is no longer required with 2.14 -Redundant assets available in 2.14 have been removed reducing the archive size by about 30% -Fixed an issue with a key item messing with the frob state of other doors -Improved the water caustic effects Thank you to everyone whose played so far and especially those who participated in the 2.14 beta!

not as such. but if a game starts to use things that only works with nvidias drivers then yeah it becomes a problem. AMD does in fact not have an issue when they follow the specs the issue lies with those who abuse the spec. hmm amd rewrote the opengl driver way back in 22 https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-significantly-improves-opengl-performance-in-windows-with-upcoming-22h2-driver.295864/ not sure about threading but i would wonder a lot if as part of the rewrite they did not look at that to. as a dane im all aboard on getting us the hell away from reliance on american software monopolies.

The Dark Mod 2.14 has been released! The Dark Mod 2.14 Stability Release A major focus for The Dark Mod 2.14 development cycle was fixing lingering issues seen with some of the larger 2.13 changes and to complete work started in 2.13. The new AI visibility feature in 2.13 was found to have a few issues with performance and object awareness that were not seen in 2.13 beta testing so many players reverted settings to the 2.12 mode. Now the feature is working better than ever with improved performance! A few longstanding major bugs were finally solved! Item Inventory icons no longer randomly show as stacked on top of each other in the HUD Frequent saving on large missions no longer results in AI getting stuck in walls or obstructions. The entity “suicide” script meant to cleanup unused objects has been fixed or removed from AI and Weapon animation cycles where it was causing random crashes. Tone-mapping is now only applied to the 3D engine so the menus remain legible regardless of what extremity the user configures in the game. ( We had this fix in 2.08 but it was reverted due to other bugs \ issues that it caused. Welcome back! ) Non-Elite AI can be knocked out after a flashbomb blinds them! The LOD menu has been given a new FULL option which disables all distance optimizations including ones not controlled by the LOD system. This is a pretty punishing setting on some missions but is offered for players who want a no compromises visual option if they have the hardware. It also serves as a debug option for visual anomalies are not LOD related and it fixes the brief portalsky bug when exiting underwater while swimming Guard transition animations have been improved! A new “Old Man” AI has been added! Menu GUI’s can now render a snapshot of the last in-game 3D screen. This is used to great effect in the new mission “Displacement” More Dhewm3 code has been ported into TDM and the Dhewm3 project maintainer has been actively involved in TDM development. Of note (other than some code stability changes), MD3 and MD5 animations fixes and improvements have been incorporated. Projected Decals are now light interactive! Footprints, blood splats, projectile holes, all can have normalmaps and lighting interactions! Geep has been hard at work contributing Font fixes to improve multi-lingual support! A very large amount of assets have been added, including many new POM enabled textures! * OPTIMIZATIONS Further optimization to the parallel model rendering code have been introduced. Now the operations broken into chunks and load-balanced better. More demanding missions like “Scroll of Remembrance” should run better for most players now. Mirror and Remote Render surfaces can now have lower resolution rendering ( this optimization was broken some time after 2.05 ) Portal distance closure now follows the LOD menu distance settings * * A detailed list of changes can be seen here: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=What%27s_new_in_TDM_2.14 To UPDATE, simply run the tdm_installer.exe file in your darkmod folder. Note that tdm_update.exe is no longer supported, but you can download the new installer from the Downloads page if you don’t have it yet. Please be aware that old saved games will not be compatible with 2.14, so finish any missions you might be in the middle of first! Also, some missions created prior to 2.14 may need to be updated so they will be playable in 2.14. Before upgrading, set TDM to use one of the built-in missions ( Training Mission, A New Job, Tears of St Lucia ) then use the in-game mission downloader to check for updates

Making an inventory icon isn't the hardest thing in the world, but it does add time and complexity to bringing props into the game. Just like anything there is an "art" to doing it well. Depending on how it is implemented just passing a model to the gui potentially saves development time and reduces the amount of assets which are both good imo. As is setting up 3d icon certainly didn’t save any time or effort. As amadeus pointed out it was/is a huge PITA.

Besides the usual (legitimate) excuses about this being an open source project run by volunteers who have other commitments, etc., I think one of the main things missing is a proper triage process and prioritized backlog for bug reports and feature requests. At least that's how a 'real' software project would work. But someone trusted by the dev team would need to volunteer for that role (if it's even agreed it's needed). Loads of issues get reported, but in different places (the bug tracker, or various forum posts, Discord, etc.). The forum is a nightmare to search, so things get lost as soon as they are posted. Some devs don't really read all of the forums unless they are tagged (again, I don't blame them not everyone has time to read every single post or hang around Discord 24/7). I make sure to log bug reports and feature requests in the bug tracker, so at least I can easily find them later. I think there is a better chance of someone seeing it there as well. Then you could maybe raise awareness of it by posting in the forums with a link to it. Unfortunately with respect to features and suggestions, nobody is really in a position to make any promises at any given time whether something can or will be implemented. It seems to need to reach some critical mass of internal discussion first, which sometimes only happens after some pestering occurs. If you look at the stuff that @Daft Mugi and @STiFU have implemented recently, they do a great job of making a case for their feature requests, complete with screen shots, videos, evidence from users from discord and forums, rationale with pros and cons. This helps a lot when trying to convince a group of people that your idea is worth considering. EDIT: I meant to say the non-responses can definitely give the impression of apathy and that's frustrating, but I think that would be a harsh assumption. IMO this forum or Discord are not suited to feature discussion. The rest of the world has moved onto things like Github issues which are way easier to have targeted, scoped discussions about particular bugs or features. And also to find them later.

@Bikerdudeto start have Skacky and Daraan both consented to their assets being included and licensed CC-BY-NC-SA? https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en I ask as Skacky's project does not include any license information, though I know he took these photos himself so we would just need consent from him. Daraan's pack includes a readme file which lists a few sources, one of which is CC0 but it also includes a free texture website and the unity asset store which would require carve outs in license.txt which I am not sure we would go for. Either way Daraan has clearly licensed some of the assets themselves. Do you know which assets are which and where they individually came from? I would suggest you update the material definitions to include the information or compile it in some other way. Looking at the assets themselves the mostly look quite nice. IMO in the skacky pack most of the flat stone textures read as a bit desaturated and lacking contrast compared to things like the wooden doors which look great.

Ah well, the classic and famous TDM forum discussion style. This post has really taken me back in time where there were page long arguments over multiple days until no one replied all of a sudden and the discussed feature gets ignored. We occasionally have had them too in the past years but my personal feeling is that the forums got much more quieter and people get to experiment on their own a lot more. Maybe that's partly because TDM is already final and feature complete by now.

This mod is actually one that I made, and it calls `saveGame` every five-10 minutes with an auto generated name. https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22647-quick-and-dirty-autosave-mod/#comment-499784 The save file I uploaded that we are looking at is not an autosave, and that mod has been compatible and functioning correctly for several versions now. It is, indeed, a tiny script-only mod. The checksum changed because I made the adjustment to the loading screen gui recommended in frost salamander's post earlier in this topic ( https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23119-loading-saves-just-hangs-after-closereopen-the-game/#findComment-506750 ). This mission is, flare box warning notwithstanding, bitwise identical to the latest version in the repo available to the mission downloader. Also, this issue was present before I followed that advice from frost salamander. I suppose I can go undo that change/redownload the .pk4 since it didn't fix the issue anyways. I will revert to a clean install of both the latest TDM beta and this particular mission, just to clear some red herrings out of our debugging work. Interesting! I'll go test this.

There's now an editable fan mission list on the wiki, for the sake of tracking missions made for The Dark Mod. Please read and follow the guidelines, and help keep the list up to date! Direct link, but also accessible from the wiki title page: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Fan_Missions_for_The_Dark_Mod Discussion of changes (format, policies, entries, etc.) can take place in this thread. --------------------------------------- There is also now a wiki page to track upcoming fan missions: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Upcoming_Fan_Missions Submissions, progress, and any discussion for missions under construction can take place here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/11639-upcoming-fan-missions/