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Hello I currently tried to update the game to release version 214 but after a, by the way, very slow downloading process of about 15 minutes, I repeatedly get an error message about the hash value, when the game start to install. I tried installing with default settings as well as custom select the release 214. Both tries gives the same error messge. Could someone possibly help me with this ? Is there a way to download the complete installer manually somewhere, and run the installation process offline then ? Further the installer tells that it "was run as admin what is strongly discouraged" even though I didn't started it as admin and can't even stop it from doing so by itself. But that behavior was always like this, as I remember it right, and don't ever seemed to be a problem in the past. Greetings martin

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yeah pathtracing is the only thing nvidia still does better with the 5070 ti and i have a feeling that when the 6xxx series comes out AMD will kick them in the nutsack on that too with they're new model. nvidia seems hellbent on going the AI route only atm. id be really carefull if i were them, its not a good idea to put all your egg's in the same basket even if you are currently the most valueable company on earth it does not take more than the globabl economy crashing to ruin it. and with the wibes i get with the current US administration that may come sooner than we think. currently trying to save up for a 9070 XT halfway there but if prices increase again id rather wait it out (dont game as much anymore). been a while since i had an apple phone (well i still have my very old one but its useless with the apps we need as identification here in denmark). can still use it as a standard mobile but thats about it. my current is also getting long in the teeth but atleast the software is still up to date on that one (samsung S20FE).

I have committed my changes to SVN, now SVN works on the UTF-8 system. It reads all language strings from all.utf8lang file, and only reads old-style {language}.lang files for missions if the equivalent new-style files are not available. The core .lang / .map files are present yet, but will hopefully be deleted. In the end, I had to manually add some characters to utf8map to suppress warnings. They were not handled by the old engine: I simply remapped them all to the question mark. It seems that the majority of them come from language names, and I don't care if they look broken or have question marks. I have already stated my position about language names. At the current moment, .utf8lang uses the same format as .lang, but this is temporary. As I said before, this must be changed in order to not lock us into compatibility trap. The format should be a sequence of "commands", each command starting with a keyword saying which command it is. And global state should be kept to minimum (e.g. current language seems acceptable). In addition to the current "#str_{name}" placeholders, I'd like to add two more types of replacements for missions. 1) Plain-text replacements, i.e. replace "Not enough drive space to save the game." with "Não há espaço para salvar o jogo.", as I suggested before. This approach provides zero inconvenience for the mapper, but it rather unreliable. It becomes especially bad for short strings. This kind of replacements is not cheap to perform, but I think I know how to do it efficiently. The first version will do it with bruteforce algorithm, we don't have any plain-text replacements yet anyway. 2) Full-text + ID replacements, i.e. replace "Not enough drive space to save the game.#id_nospacesave#" with "Não há espaço para salvar o jogo.#id_nospacesave#". The #id_...# placeholders are stripped from the text by the engine even if translation does not exist. If translation exists, then the engine verifies the context around the placeholder and does not apply it in case of mismatch. This approach gives mild inconvenience to the mapper, since he can clearly see the original text but has to tolerance this annoying tag at the end. The mapper can even edit the text without touching the placeholder: the obsolete translations will stop working automatically. I have a feeling that plain-text replacements won't be enough for the missions, and hope that such extra "tags" can be used here and there to make it more reliable.

Author note: It's hard to believe it's already been a year since Act 1 came out! Well during this mission the player will be following Corbin into the Grimwood district to followup on a lead from last night (Act 1) .. the mysterious tablet! This mission is my first time including full EFX support as well as a HD briefing video file, additionally a new script has been added crafted by the talented Obsttorte which has loot flying towards the player when you pick it up. On a level design front I have tried to change things up a bit by really catering towards a number of play styles, this mission can be completely ghosted or you can use the tools at your disposal to wreak havoc on the citizens of Northdale. For the first time I have tried to create more sandbox environments which don't offer clear answers handed directly to you, so if you're having trouble figuring something out try a different method. This mission takes between 1 - 2 hours to finish depending on the difficulty you play on and how thoroughly you explore. I hope you enjoy your night in Northdale! - Goldwell Voice actors Fen Phoenix Goldwell Random_taffer Yandros Beta testers Amadeus Boiler's Hiss Cambridge Spy Chakkman Crowind Epifire Kingsal SquadaFroinx Custom Assets Andreas Rocha DrK Epifire Grayman Kingsal MalachiAD Obsttorte Sotha Springheel SquadaFroinx Purgator With special thanks to Epifire for creating a large collection of custom models, Grayman for helping out with coding, Kingsal for drawing the ingame map and Moonbo for his script revision on the briefing video. Available via in-game downloader MIRROR File Size: 417 mb EDIT: If you are having performance issues please consult this post by Nbohr1more which may address your issue http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19936-fan-mission-shadows-of-northdale-act-ii-by-goldwell-20190320/page-2?do=findComment&comment=436271

How you can help depends a lot on what skills you have. I can Record Video Recording "Let's Play" videos or simple walkthroughs of existing missions and posting them to Youtube is great exposure for the mod (see example .) Be sure to let us know so we can link to them. If you have some editing ability, Video tutorials, where you explain how the mod works, or how to use specific tools, would also be great. Video trailers, showcasing interesting places and features, are also great for publicity. An example is . I can Write Writing reviews for missions are always nice, especially if they include good screenshots. Not only does it give us something to post on other forums, but it makes mappers feel good when their mission gets attention (especially if it's positive). We have a collective thread to post reviews in: http://forums.thedar...s-walkthroughs/ Writing reviews of the mod as a whole, targetted an an audience that doesn't know much about TDM, is also very useful. You could also try offering your services to mappers to create interesting readables, or to proofread for their mission. I can Act and Record Audio We are always on the lookout for good quality audio recordings for vocal sets. If interested, you can pick a few different lines from this script: http://wiki.thedarkm...t:_Average_Jack and send the recordings to Springheel, who then writes a script based on the type of voice you have. I can Translate We could always use translations of our menu/hud into more languages. Also, only a few FMs are aavailable in more than one language, so there is a lot of work there, see the I18N Translator's Guide in the Wiki. I can Model Great! Take a look at the model request thread:http://forums.thedar...-requests-here/ and pick something that interests you. Or just post a, "Hey, anybody want a model?" thread in this forum and I'm sure mappers will get back to you. I can Animate Fantastic. We can always use more good animations. Our current character rigs use a Maya skeleton. PM Springheel for more info. I know C++ Have a look at our coding section in the wiki, pick an issue or feature from the bugtracker of the mod or the leveleditor, download the recent sourcecode release (or better ask for an SVN checkout) and get cracking. Make sure nobody is already working on that specific issue and feel free to ask questions. I can Edit Images We can always use completely new textures and/or improved versions of older textures. How to get started and how to import them into the mod. I can Take Photos Good quality photos of useful textures (medieval-ish building facades, dirt, rocks, wood, etc) are always welcome. The fewer directional shadows and higher resolution, the better. I don't have any skills Even if you can't do any of the above, you can still help out. Talk about TDM in other forums; share your (preferably positive) experiences with other gamers you know. Last, but not least, compliment people when you like their work. Saying "thanks", to a developer or, "I really enjoyed your mission" to a mapper will make their day. -------------------- I'll update this further as more things occur to me.

Hello and thanks for checking out this post. I'm delighted to announce that version 1.1 of my fan mission "Cole Hurst 1: Eaton" is now available to download and play. This post is spoiler free, so please don't avoid digging into the details below if you are interested. I'm just using the spoiler tags to organize this post a bit. Let me start by saying "thank you" to anyone who has either previously played - or is considering playing this mission. It really means a lot to me. I have been away for a while, but following a round of beta testing that took place some time last year, I've only just recently managed to finish this update. I'm slightly embarrassed by how long it has taken me to complete, but I wanted to make sure that the valuable feedback I received was all properly addressed. Mission description "Tonight, Eaton's wealthiest citizens will gather at Lord Mayor Zelmer's estate to celebrate the city's founding. Nobles, dignitaries, a famed musician, and even the Queen will pass through its gates. While the guests celebrate Eaton's future, Cole Hurst is looking for a way out." For those new to and/or curious about this mission: I guess I would describe it as a traditional heist-style mission - although with a couple of major plot twist along the way. It's a very large map and I think it should take most players at least a few hours to complete. Screenshots Changes in version 1.1 Countless additions and a large amount of smaller tweaks and changes have all made it into this release. I may have already forgot a few things, but here are what I consider to be the main highlights: * New secrets & optional side quests * Story tweaks and reworked readables * Subtitles * Difficulty tweaks and related changes * Stability fixes * Various cosmetic changes * Audio tweaks * TDM version 2.13 now required Contributions and acknowledgments A special thanks to all of those listed below. I'm sincerely grateful for all your contributions! Mission testers and technical support @nbohr1more, @stgatilov, @duzenko, @Acolytesix, @Dragofer, @JackFarmer, @Shadow, @Cambridge Spy, @wesp5, @madtaffer, @prjames, @suzy8track, @datiswous, @boissiere and @Bergante Story Kelly Hrupa Voice actors twhalen2600 (AKA @Benny_the_guard) and Kelly Hrupa

As a fan of TDM I've long thought that the use of reverb tends to be something of a weak point in otherwise brilliant missions with some regularity. The two biggest issues are using inappropriate settings (most often too long and too loud reverbs, the absence of reverb doesn't stand out as much) and sudden changes between two very different settings. This tool aims to help with solving at least the former. The primary goal is to make it trivial to control the most important Reverb parameters, provide short explanations about what they do, and provide a playground where the mapper can hear various sounds affected by the current reverb settings in real time, without touching the game or the map editor at all. After finding a useful setting, the parameters can be either copypasted or directly saved as an .efx file readable by TDM. This is already mostly done as an initial testing version - no loading of external sounds yet, instead the application uses a short white noise burst, which functions quite well for hearing the reverb. Another currently missing feature is that you can load the integrated presets, but cannot load your own .efx preset, it is currently a write-only application :). The secondary goal would be to provide some sort of a wizard, where the user sets up approximate room dimensions, how absorbent are walls, floors and ceilings and how much furnishing is there, and the wizard generates a plausible reverb setting for the room, which can then be finetuned. Another possible feature would be mixing of presets - the existing EAX presets shipped with TDM are not bad, but it might be useful to for example create a 50:50 mix between a castle room (too reverberant) and a living room (too dead). And I may try to make a simplified control of parameters, where one simplified parameter maps to multiple real parameters, because I'd say the EAX reverb is needlessly complicated as is, though certainly usable. This a testing version and it was pretty much entirely vibecoded. This allowed me to just do it and see if there's demand later. A zip file with the executable application is provided for windows, no binaries for linux yet. The application is free software, so source is availble and a build script for linux is included in the repository, but it has not been tested. The application requires the OpenAL soft library which contains the reverb effects to run (this is included in the windows zip file). Here's the windows download: https://gitlab.com/vozkaa/tdm-eax-reverb-editor/-/releases/0.1.0/downloads/tdm-efx-reverb-editor-v0.1.0-windows-x86_64.zip Here's the source: https://gitlab.com/vozkaa/tdm-eax-reverb-editor And here's a screenshot: Please tell me if you find this useful or not (whether in its current version or with all the proposed features)

edit: TL;DR: I've tweaked the .lwo exporter to preserve autosmooth angle Ahem. When I started writing this post a couple of days ago, it was supposed to be a "please help me, models won't smooth" kind of thing, but as I started taking screenshots and such for a comprehensive view of the problem, the question morphed into a "is there a hack to get .lwo's to export the way .ase's do", then to "how to get the same surface smoothing from Blender as you can get from Lightwave" and eventually to "does anyone around know python and blender enough to fix the export plugin". But then I fixed the addon myself, so it was almost as if there's no point to the thread. However, while googling around for a solution I stumbled upon a whole bunch of incomplete (1,2) or outright wrong (1,2) information, and whenever the question came up the issue was never really resolved completely. That might be because the problem isn't obvious, since a lot of exported models will actually end up correctly smoothed on export, leading one to believe wrong shading in rare cases is due to modeling mistakes / bad shadowmesh / etc. Point is, having the definitive .lwo smoothing post seems useful. Identifying the problem: Here's the mesh. I add an 'edge split' modifier (I use sharp edges while modeling the low poly, so I can uncheck the 'edge angle' option). I can now apply the modifier(s) and export to .ase (triple the mesh either in export options or in modifiers beforehand). The .ase looks alright in-game: Now I'll export it to .lwo using this script. Depending on export options, here are the results: If I also check "remove doubles", I'll lose all of the split (sharp) edges: (recalculating normals on export can be unpredictable as well, so clean up the model beforehand instead) Right about this point I start searching for a solution online, stumble upon this and try the renderbump hack. However, all it seems to do is weld all of the vertices back together at runtime and attempt to smooth the whole surface, similarly to "remove duplicates", but with no upper threshold. (to anyone possibly reading this in the future: don't forget to revert your changes to the materials!) Source of the problem: At this point I still wasn't sure if it's even possible to get .lwo's identical to .ase's, so I installed Lightwave. Naturally, it took some time to eventually stumble upon Surface Editor (F5), and the "smoothing threshold" contained therein. But then I just had to crank it up to 180 and export to "LWO2". That fixes everything in-game: So the issue is trivial, I just have to find a way to somehow pass on a smoothing angle through the exporter. However, the "auto smooth" option on the object data tab doesn't seem to affect anything regardless of angle. Long story short, after some hex-comparison magic, I home in on SMAN block in the exporter script: So what it actually does is set your smoothing angle to either 90°, 86°(??), or 0°, depending on whether you've chosen "idtech compatible", "smoothed", or neither. The solution: Now, I don't know Python and I don't know Blender scripting, so I can't say with full certainty that I didn't break anything. But I did cobble together a version of the script that seems to do the job. Here it is, mirror / do whatever you want with it. If your mesh has autosmooth enabled, and you've checked "idtech" or "smoothed" on export, your chosen autosmooth angle will now transfer to the surface in .lwo: I took the liberty of changing the default export options to what seems to suit TDM the best, you can just open the script in notepad and edit them to your taste. Wrapping up, there are still some mysteries I didn't solve, such as "idtech compatible" models taking up only half the size of models exported otherwise (including from Lightwave itself), there doesn't seem to be any visible difference in-game, at least in TDM. That "1.5 radian" in the code still makes me scratch my head. And I still don't know if the 4-8x size savings over .ase matter for in-game memory at all (but at least I know I won't have to edit the *BITMAPs manually anymore). Even after all this, the .ase still has just slightly better shading, but since the outputs of the exporter and Lightwave itself are now identical, seems safe to say it's as good as it gets.

============== -= 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 ============== Beta Russian Language Translations by @kalinovka Mirror #1: yandex.ru Mirror #2: Google Drive ============== *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:

you may be right. will be interresting to see what comes out of it all but something like cuda would go a long way when we look at the success it has been for nvidia. yeah the name might be rdna5 for the publick but underneath it might be udna1 tech wise that is what i meant when i said does it matter. quite a few people think they might newer take the crown from nvidia no matter what. but they also forget that they did actually conquer it several times in the past (performance wise anyway) so it will be interresting to say the least. cuda for one was nvidias biggest selling point. physx while nice because it could use cuda cores for hardware acceleration also made it a point in they're favor but was in some cases detrimental to game development due to game companies being locked in if they wanted to use these features. opencl took a bit of that strain off but was not used as often even though it worked fine. at times i wondered if AMD would go the way of 3dfx and all the other companies that used to make gfx chips. but they managed to cling on and even managed to make the chips they peddle the default in most consoles while also selling more affordable cards with really good performance. sure they lack a bit yet in the raytracing department but the 9070 xt actually runs that pretty well to in most cases (atleast enough to be a viable alternative). intel might also come out with something interresting at a point, but they are pretty far behind in the race. they're XeeSS framegen seems to be pretty good but they are still lacking severly in raytracng capabilities so only time will tell (they have good engineers though so i wont put it behind them to surprise us). matrox is still around also but after the massive fail with the parhelia cards they stuck to making cards for artists (strangely they stuck to the old DVI interface with 512mb DDR2 vram oh boy...) https://video.matrox.com/en/product/graphics-cards/m9120-pcie-x16/. it does not even have a WHQL driver for win10 but seems to be supported by many linux operating systems. so it does not seem like they will be a serious contender and are mostly relevant for historical purposes (matrox cards had excellent image quality). EDIT: they also have a 1gb vram model with dual displayports i noticed (still using DDR2 vram though sigh...).

God..... the sound effects used in this map are so much better than the default sfx for most missions. Picking up coins/loot, footsteps, and usable items is much more subtle and, well... better. I can't put it any simpler. The more low-key sfx feel much more in sync with the nature of the game. Please consider using these sfx as default, as the current ones, when compared with those of this particular mission, sound clunky, loud, and 8-bit in comparison.

Dear community, I've been working on porting The Dark Mod natively to FreeBSD. I'm happy to report that at this stage, I have a working thedarkmod.x64 and tdm_installer executables on FreeBSD 13 amd64 (x86-64) with SVN revision 9889 and 2.10 game files. I've been able to play through both default missions as well as several contributed missions. There were minimal changes required to get a working port, including: Fixing the build with Clang, FreeBSD's system compiler (committed in 9889 by Stephan) Fixing up header files and #ifdef's for FreeBSD (attached here) Fixing up header files for zipsync (attached here) Modifying the CMakeLists.txt to use FreeBSD system libraries instead of the pre-built libraries for Linux (working, but still cleaning this up before upstreaming the changes) I hope the portability changes will be accepted upstream. I'll also look to see which CMakeLists.txt changes would be appropriate to upstream, but it is not too much of a problem for me to maintain it locally for FreeBSD. Once most of the changes have landed, I also plan to create a package ("port") with a thedarkmod and tdm_installer binary. Regards, Kevin patch-FreeBSD2.diff patch-zipsync.diff

Looks like it's the same old script updated for latest Blender version. Just so you know, this vibe coded script below exports smaller files. It always bothered me that .md5anim files from Blender are three times bigger than they should. https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22528-md5-format-importer-exporter-for-blender-36/#findComment-508957

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

Can someone remind me which mission didn't start with an in-game map, but rather the player has to pick it up..? I ask because I am looking to place map inside a building, and only want to player to have the map at that point.

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s390/sirtaffsalot/vfat3_2015-02-16_18.15.48_zpsdf13cqmi.jpg UPDATE: This is now a Campaign Pack courtesy of Datiswous: https://www.thedarkmod.com/missiondetails/?internalName=vfatc What is The Complete Vengeance for a Thief Campaign? The Complete Vengeance for a Thief Campaign is a three part campaign with a brand new installment at the beginning called The Angel's Tear. The other two installments are the previously released A Pawn in the Game and The Art of revenge with new areas, additional story plus bug fixes and performance tweaks. What are the new areas in A Pawn in the Game and The Art of Revenge? Pics The Angel's Tear: New areas for A Pawn in the Game and The Art of Revenge: Download links: http://www.mediafire.com/download/c2p0myxp32hb8sb/The+Complete+Vengeance+for+a+Thief+Campaign.zip Installation instructions: Unzip the zip file and extract the three pk4s to The Dark Mod's FM folder. Load up TDM and play them in order. Thank you to the following: Bikerdude for help with visportals in the original A Pawn in the Game, visuals in The Angel's Tear plus all the mapping advice and tech support he has kindly provided me with over the years. Beta-testers for The Completer Vengeance for a Thief Campaign: AluminumHaste, Oldjim and Cookie. Beta-testers for the original A Pawn in the Game: Grayman, Bikerdude, Nbohr1more, Ppoe and Xarg Beta-testers for the original The Art of Revenge: Gnartsch, Obttorte, Lux and Jaxa. Everyone who helps me out in the Edtors Guild of this forum. Special shout out to Sotha, Grayman, Obsttorte and Bikerdude. Apologies if I've forgotten to mention anyone. The TDM team for providing me with countless hours of mapping and gameplay fun. Everyone who contributes anything to TDM to help make it the awesome mod that it is.

Adding rendering features that change the look of the game (or at least existing maps) and make asset creation even more difficult is not a good idea for a game that relies on the work of hobbyists.

exodus an upcomming sci-fi game. drew karpshym from mass effect is working with them woot!. Book by Peter F Hamilton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus:_The_Archimedes_Engine is a prequel to the game many more trailers on the main site but the octopus sniper i kinda like . game is produced by archetype a division of wizards of the coast (baldurs gate) which is kinda surprising since they usually are more into D&D style games. looks amazing too so im kinda interrested in how it plays.

I certainly can't either. Converting existing assets to metalness / roughness model would take a lot of work, but I wonder if it would be possible to use PBR and old Blinn-Phong materials at the same time. I imagine introducing PBR in any capacity will result in change of the look of the entire game? I can imagine some improvements to the current system. For example, you can do a pretty decent polished metal by blending in a generic cube map: Problem is you can't mask parts of the cubemap properly using an image mask. By the way, purely theoretically, some maniac could code-in a probe system, where during dmap or maybe even in real time an environment map is captured for each room, and then dynamically swapped in the material based on proximity Using cubemaps with blend add could be useful for non-metallic reflective materials - like eyes, or other wet surfaces. However it makes materials glow in the dark, which is a detriment in a game like this - although most maps don't do 100% black shadows anyway. You can't add fresnel effect to cubemap reflections, which is also important for non-metals. Fresnel effect could also be used for velvet or dusty materials. We don't have subsurface scattering shader. And there are other engine improvements I can imagine, like adding more screen-space effects (we have AO). Or new mesh formats, that for example support multiple UVs.

Hey Brams2! Welcome to the dark mod! And you're coming in with two lovely missions to play, as well. Great work on these! One quick note: before these missions get added to the mission downloader, it's usually a good idea to get them beta-tested first. I also played the second mission and fell out of the map: But yeah, I suggest you start a beta testing thread here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/forum/59-tdm-mission-beta-testing/

my only stint with a flight simulator was with one of the first from microsoft. sadly while i had no problem lifting off or even flying the model landing it was another matter (got everyone myself included killed) . i was pretty mortified as i allways wanted to be a pilot so i newer touched it again. but yeah it can be both boring and gratifying to work with, if you can pull it off. had some game ideas i wished i had the skills to make (sadly im no artist in regards to making game content) and even development soon exceeded my coding skills so it newer really came together. allways been a fan of mythos related games though good ones are few and far between, and idtech 4 with some modifications could probably make an excellent game engine for those kind of games. it would have to be modified for a more open world experience atleast (something like the stem engine from the evil within which was based on idtech 4). one i would have liked to recreate was dark corners of the earth, and i would have loved to make one based on the mountains of madness. many critisized that dark coreners of the earth had weapons in some maps which is kinda ok if you think of it as mainly a survival / horror game. but tbf it does not really ruin the game like many believe. think of it this way what use is a revolver against a shaggoth ? or even a starspawn of cthulhu (yep you will meet both in this game). the was a game based on the mountains of madness which looked really impressive (Edge of Nowhere), but it was VR only grrrr.

Any idea why this isnt playing in-game? Its was 29mins ling Ive since cut that down to 3 minutes, but still dosen't play.

forgot to mention the tool used to limit cores on game executables. its called imagecfg.exe easily findable with google. the format for patching is imagecfg -u game.exe this sets the game executable to uniprocessor mode = 1 core. then use imagecfg -a 0x01 game.exe to lock it to core 0 or imagecfg -a 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 game.exe to set affinity to cores 0 to 3 (overrides uniprocessor mode). the change is permanent so backup your original game.exe dark corners runs quite ok using only one core though so just use the -u switch.