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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/

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 forget to mention some of it (perhaps even significant changes that has escaped my memory entirely), 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

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.

"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

oh it is perfectly capable of running on old hardware that was not the point. small systems like the one you described can indeed run on pretty old stuff but is pretty lacking in regards to gaming or overall functionality. there was one which was written in assembler it could load a full desktop from a floppy and only required 4 mb ram, sadly it was neither compatible with linux dos nor windows as the guy who made it wrote the kernel himself. I think the only game that got ported to it was doom (the dos version). a good deal of modern linux versions do run on old hardware as well but performance is pretty meh and an old windows version would easily overtake it. the sad thing is with the advent of 64 bit optimizations went out the window it does not really matter if a developer today knows how to get the best performance of say a 32 bit linux OS when all his dependencies are developed by people who dont really care about such anymore.

Another procedural animation I've been playing with. There is already predefined "look at" event in the game. When I set up NPC to look at the path node it was a little buggy. Anyone tried to set up NPCs looking at player? They do seem to look up when they throw stones. tdm_ai_head_tracking_humanoid.script

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

Take a look: You know what drew my attention? Around 1:10 he says something similar to "it's mission based but at the same time it's very sandbox in nature. Every mission you are given a huge map to explore and no particular path is forced". Does that ring any bells? Looks like a nice game

I frankly would have been p***ed off if they would have changed the level geometry in the Tomb Raider remasters. Especially considering the controls and movements were made with fixed units in mind. They had a hard time implementing the modern controls because of that. There are some things which are not possible with the modern controls. I'm a bit split regarding the Thief Gold remaster though. I don't really think it is as necessary as the Tomb Raider remasters, for example. TFix works fine. For Tomb Raider, the fact alone that you are not restricted to 30 FPS like in the original games was a huge advantage of the remasters, not to talk about the graphical improvements, widescreen support, and a lot of bug fixes. You pretty much have that with Thief Gold and TFix already. In the Steam forums, they mentioned the advantage of having new people getting into Thief, but, I don't think it will be that many.

I have no idea why some people think a remaster of a 30 year old niche game is supposed to be a "cash grab"... People can't think anymore, I tell you. And people also don't honour work and effort anymore, and the necessity to create money, when you do something for a living.

I like both! Wasnt there a button for this game specificly to switch between the graphics?

Most of the geometry is exactly the same. It doesn't affect how the game works.

The same happens if you execute "kill Streetwalker", and will probably happen on any map for any AI that is completely removed from the game. Your threads holds entity reference and uses it all the time, and when the entity dies we get this warning.

Google A.I. says there is no new campaign included, for what it's worth: https://share.google/aimode/vdfonEYYeNcKGbV5J I have no idea what Stephen Russell's involvement is about either though. I wondered about that as well. Hopefully they didn't add more babble to the original game...

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.

So any idea why I cant get these rising bubbles to show in-game..? its showing in DR just fine.

Hello, I hope I'm in the right forum today, and I apologize if I'm not. I've been playing FM IRIS for the past three days without any technical issues and am about halfway through the game. Since yesterday, the game has started crashing in a specific situation. Always at the same spot. Once I managed to skip that part, the game continued running. After I shut down my computer yesterday and booted it up again today, when tdm starts up—after the loading bar finishes—the screen goes black and returns to the Windows desktop. No error message. If I completely restart the game, everything works perfectly. The mod is fantastic, but I’ve spent a lot of time on it now and don’t know if it will crash again after three days if I start playing it again. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I couldn’t find any clues in the FAQ. The tdm version is 2.12/64 #10651 Thank you very much DESKTOP-USer.txt

This topic is intended to give each other tips on how to make TDM work well on DIII4a on Android. Githubpage: https://github.com/glKarin/com.n0n3m4.diii4a Android Package https://github.com/glKarin/com.n0n3m4.diii4a/releases https://f-droid.org/packages/com.karin.idTech4Amm/ Installation: download tdm 2.12 full package from moddb, extract the "darkmod"-folder, create a folder on the storage of your device, give it the name "diii4a" move the "darkmod" folder to that folder. Download the apk from the releases page, install the apk, accept the storage permissions. Running the game: open the app, select the profile for TDM and hit the start game button. After this you get a black screen and wait some seconds (8 or 10) until the tdm menu appears. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLQTV8PZ-Q

NTC should be used on everything next-gen, but it's up to the developers. You can use the old way of compressing textures alongside NTC in the same game, for example if there's some artifacts you're trying to avoid on a specific texture. Sony may also have a feature on its servers allowing the console to download only the set of textures/assets it needs. For example, a lower quality texture pack for the PS6 handheld vs. the PS6 console. NTC will work on RDNA2, Nvidia itself tested it, but it may be slow. And if you turned it off but the developer went big with it, maybe 24 GB VRAM fills up. I'm just speculating, we need to see some real world use to figure it out, and that will mostly be years from now.

Wow, this is amazing and will be fantastic! From time to time I look for new missions on ladyjo1 or ttlg.de (most others actually don't seem to be interested in offering new missions) so this will be a wonderful address to look for overlooked topics. (It will be interesting to see whether the renaming will make it difficult to recognize whether a mission is already with me or not) As far as I have looked at it, they are currently only listed (following your link). If you download them from there: do you then have to sort them manually? (into your own folders) or maybe does "AngelLoader" recognize where they belong? The discussion with Konrad gave the impression that they are sorted according to game and release year. In addition, it is not yet stated for the resources/objects which game they belong to (maybe this doesn’t matter for T1, TG, or T2, but certainly for TDM/DarkRadiant). Do you know if this will be done in the future? Thanks for the information (quick into favourites) P.S.: Could you please tell Konrad - For newer missions, it will be important to know whether the new T2Fix_1.28 is needed ( ? do older missions now work with T2Fix_1.28 - or are 2 installations still required ? )

Physics and particle engines are slowly being implemented inside "Geometry Nodes".

I don't think NTC will be a problem. All signs point to Neural Texture Compression being frequently used by game developers targeting next-gen RDNA5-based consoles. This could include a PS6 handheld with a relatively weak (checks notes) 16 CUs RDNA5 @ 1.2-1.65 GHz, and 24 GB LPDDR5X. But RDNA5 will have massive AI performance gains over RDNA2/3/3.5. My gut tells me the 6060 will be fine for most things, as long as they give it 3 GB GDDR7 modules for 12 GB on 128-bit bus.

I'm trying to install the game via the installer, but the download always times out and thus stops. PROGRESS 35.80% : Downloading "http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4"... [curl-res] ret:28 http:206 Warning: Timeout for request with 6 segments of total size 4207551 on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 554-4527 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out465.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 8973-11629 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out466.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 12547-14792 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out467.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 18858-21897 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out468.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 28077-552364 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out469.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 552365-1076652 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out470.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 1076653-1600940 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out471.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 1600941-2125228 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out472.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 2125229-2649516 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out473.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 2649517-3173804 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out474.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 3173805-3698092 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out475.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 3698093-4222380 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out476.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 -r 4222381-4223110 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out477.bin [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_carpet01.pk4 -r 0-181088 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out478.bin PROGRESS 35.89% : Downloading "http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_carpet01.pk4"... [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 -r 0-3206616 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out479.bin PROGRESS 35.90% : Downloading "http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4"... [curl-res] ret:28 http:206 Warning: Timeout for request with 7 segments of total size 3207317 on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 -r 0-386666 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 10 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out480.bin [curl-res] ret:28 http:0 Warning: Timeout for request with 1 segments of total size 386767 on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 -r 0-32767 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 30 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out481.bin [curl-res] ret:28 http:0 Warning: Timeout for request with 1 segments of total size 32776 on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 -r 0-4095 -Y 1000 -y 10 --connect-timeout 30 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out482.bin [curl-res] ret:28 http:0 Warning: Timeout for request with 1 segments of total size 4097 on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 [curl-cmd] curl http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 -r 0-4095 -Y 1000 -y 60 --connect-timeout 60 -A "tdm_installer/1.13" -o out483.bin [curl-res] ret:28 http:0 Warning: Timeout for request with 1 segments of total size 4097 on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 ERROR: Repeated timeout on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 Warning: Showing error message: Repeated timeout on URL http://darkmod.taaaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release212_from_release211/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 It always stops here or at a cobblestone texture file. Is there maybe an other mirror or has anyone got any other ideas? I'm running the newest version of the installer (v1.13) and I'm on Linux Mint 22.2

I dont have any experiences controlling tdm using a gamepad on this app. I use the display touch buttons and during the missions i only walk around a bit. But have you tried combining the joypad settings on the settings tab "controls" and gamepad settings ingame? (On that menutab, it reads that gamepad must be configured in-game.)

Ray-marching shaders are very heavy on GPU and IMO totally impractical for games. Depending on the resolution they can eat more frame time than the entire game without them.