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Hidden Hands: Blood & Metal Available via TDM Mission Downloader ============================================================== Title: Hidden Hands: Blood & Metal Filename : hhbam.pk4 Author: Jack Farmer Date of release: 01.09.2024 (Version 1) - 14.09.2024 (Version 2) - 28.09.2024 (Version 3) - 28.11.2024 (Version 4) - 25.07.2025 (Version 5) EFX: Yes Subtitles: Yes ============================================================== Hidden Hands series: I - Initiation II - Vitalic Fever III - The Lost Citadel IV - The Anomaly V - Blood & Metal ============================================================== Jack Farmer: mapping & drafts, briefing videos Amadeus: revision/editing of all texts for readables, narration and dialogues Joebarnin: custom scripts & prefabs and trouble shooting Datiswous: subtitles for all conversations, broadcasts, recordings and thief comments Dragofer: consultation for scripts, models and trouble shooting =============================================================== Beta testers: Cambridge Spy Mat99 Bergante Joebarnin wesp5 grodenglaive TheUnbeholden Acolytesix CrisiusXIII Release testers: Mat99 AluminumHaste =============================================================== Voice actors: AndrosTheOxen (all missions) Bikerdude (mission 1 and 2) Boylag (mission 1) Goldchocobo (mission 2, 3 and 5) Malasdair (all missions) Mary-Anne Stanke (mission 4) Narrator (mission 1 and 4) Purgator (mission 1 and 3) scodysk (mission 4) the double dutch king (mission 3 and 5) Xander Grant (mission 4) Yandros (mission 2 and 4) ================================================================ Pilfered items: - roulette wheel and alien model with thanks to Goldwell (taken from "AC II: New in Town") - pagan woman character and a select building facade with thanks to Fidcal (taken from "Heart of Lone Salvation") - skybox in mission 4 taken from Sotha's "TP: The Transaction" - mission 3 ("Down we go.") previously known as "The Cloister" - taken from the abandoned "Crucible of Omens" campaign, mainly created by the Dudes (JDude and BikerDude) and some other legacy missions makers ================================================================ New assets: - radio model and skin by Epifire, prefab produced by Bikerdude - several technical drawings provided by wellingtoncrab - keypad designed & coded by MirceaKitsune - flying bats designed & coded by STRUNK ================================================================ New sound fx / music: - factory and machine noises by inspectorj - machine sounds by lupalenzuela - rocks_falling_in_cave by unidentified contributor from freesound.org - vinyl_record_pop by joedeshon - ambient_battle_noise by pfranzen - distorted-wolf-howl by hail_pinson - roaring_sea by allthingssound - slideshow_projector by andreaskg - whistling-in-cave by retroguy23 - scary-ghost-wolf-howling by brainclaim - "Rivercare" by Adrian Wilaert - "Leave Her Johnny" by Roger McGuinn used under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ All other new ambient tracks & sound fx created by Jack Farmer, occ. with gigagooga sound samples ================================================================ Special thanks go to: @joebarnin, who completely altruistically analyzed many game bugs, provided several clever scripts and even played through the initially very buggy game twice. It was an ordeal not even described in the first Builders book! Jeff, thank you very much! @datiswous, who, despite the enormous scope of the game, did not let himself be deterred from creating suitable subtitles for all dialog, comments, briefings and recordings. A truly monumental task! @Mat99 & @Bergante, who tried out things I would never have thought of and showed me once again that I absolutely have to take part in the next brain function enhancement surgery! ...and finally our friend, the incredible @AluminumHaste, who dared to do another detailed run-through at the end of the beta testing, which allowed for several more improvements and polishings. ================================================================ Thank you everyone at Fractured Glass for consultation and help in general! ================================================================

A set of some 200 missions is a lot to sift through to find what one likes. I never used your site but if it provided functionality to search missions for parameters like approximate playtime, series v standalone, and tags like undead, spiders, mansion, city, etc, then it sounds plenty useful. Can the functionality be incorporated into the main web page? Perhaps even integrated to fetch underlying data from the wiki (so that trusted editors can keep the parameters up to date)?

hmm its actually rather advanced and unfortunatly a bit of a pain to setup. one example is hrtf (headphone surround) which requires mapping sound locations with a tool they provide. https://deepwiki.com/kcat/openal-soft/5.3-gui-configuration-tool lists a good deal of which steps needed. for all other cases it is probably better to ask on the github forums for it. attached my own config for dhewm3 which sounds somewhat ok. drop it next to the dhewm3 executable. if you feel up to experimenting you can add your own settings to it alsoft.zip

Back to the on-going translation effort. Here’s some general observations and lessons learned while translating the main readable. Recap This readable, mentioned earlier, has an all.lang entry of: [English] // Readables in airpocket.xd: "#str_fm_airpocket_xd_sheet_appointment_to_service_pg1__title" "Appointment to Service\n" "#str_fm_airpocket_xd_sheet_appointment_to_service_pg1_body" "\n\nHEAR YE ALL, that the Bearer is found Fit to Serve, and appointed to the Rank of Ordinary Seaman, aboard the Merchant Ship Esmerelda, by Authority of the Shipmaster, Captain Riggs.\n\nThe Appointee serves Under the Direction & at the Pleasure of the Captain & Officers. By the Law of the Sea known by all, while Aboard, Violations of Duty will be Judged & Punished by the Captain & Those carrying out his Orders. Thievery, Mutiny, Assault, & Other Gross Breeches of Order will be met by Flogging or Death. At Successful Voyage End, the Appointee on Discharge will get the Agreed Wage recorded in the Ship's Log, less any Deductions.\n" "#str_fm_airpocket_xd_sheet_appointment_to_service_pg2__title" "Further Instructions\n" "#str_fm_airpocket_xd_sheet_appointment_to_service_pg2_body" "\n\n\n\nAs agreed, the 2 new crewmates will bunk in the galley, and share the sea trunk nearest the door in the mess.\n\nCaptain Riggs\n" As stated earlier, this text, stripped of #str_ IDs, tabs, and quotes, was given a long directive context prompt and fed into ChatGPT for forward-translation into all the TDM languages. For verification, individual language results were then back-translated (without additional prompt context) into English using Google Translate. Google Translate was also the preferred choice for spot patch-ups. Results were Good Overall Across languages, most sentences appeared to roundtrip-translate quite fine. Some languages (e.g., Turkish) needed more patch up, perhaps due to less AI training or just a greater sentence-structure differential. I did not stress-out about how well the officious over-capitalization of the original was carried over into the translation. Forward-Translation Problem #1 – Piecemeal Translation and Naming Consistency In order to keep this exploration tractable, at the outset I subdivided the collection of English #str_ into various groups (e.g, inventory items, character names (including shouldered), readable, briefing, etc.), and arranged to translate each group separately into all languages. The downside of this is that the subgroups end up with different names for the same thing. This is not unusual IRL, but not real desirable in a game. So, for instance, a key (inventory item) labeled “Mess” (for the door to the ship’s eating place) often has multiple correct nautical translations in a given language. When the word “mess” in the readable is translated, the AI may choose a different one. So patch-up is needed to make the references match. (Future projects might well benefit from a more holistic use of AI.) This problem also affects ranks and titles of persons, about which more next. Forward-Translation Problem #2 – Nautical Ranks and Titles left in English ChatGPT, when translating “...appointed to the Rank of Ordinary Seaman”, almost always left “Ordinary Seaman” in English. And would only sometimes translate “Captain” into a target language. (For a quick look at some suitable nomenclature, type this - “EU commercial nautical deck department ranks in all EU languages - into Google Search and see what the AI provides.) Furthermore, when “Captain” appeared in the readable as a title, e.g., “Captain Riggs”, ChatGPT liked to leave it unchanged. There are two ways to think about that: ChatGPT thinks “Captain” is a first or nickname. ChatGPT thinks that the rank of Captain (and perhaps the surname) implies this is an Englishman, so the rank should be left as conferred by the governing authority. It would be easiest for me to just leave it as “Captain Riggs” throughout. But I’m not really trying to imply Riggs is English, and would think translated immersion would be better if the title was also translated. (I haven’t yet decided which way to go.) Forward-Translation Problem #3 – Lost Nuance affecting a Proximity Clue The last sentence of the readable refers to “the 2 new crewmates ... share the sea trunk nearest the door in the mess.” The English implies that this trunk is *within* the mess. In retrospect, it would have been better to phrase it that way (perhaps I will in the end product’s [English]). Translations into some languages kept this implication; others just said something like the trunk was “near the mess door”, so could be outside the mess. This is a bigger problem than you might think, since the areas involved are underwater and chaotic, so search is difficult. I will do patch-up retranslation where needed.

Fujitsu is still putting Blu-ray drives in laptops – and people in Japan still want them | TechSpot I've heard somewhere that Blu-ray discs are quite durable for cold storage. On the other hand, having this disc with content that is not affected by DRM is perfect. we totally own that thing. i don't want to contantly rely on internet or subscription for the sake of watching movie. As for durability : So far, I've always been targeting M-DISC, which is claimed to last hundreds of years or more. Some Blu-ray writers/readers even support M-Disc (but I don't know the reader/writer on this laptop). I really want to buy a BDXL M-Disc. Then came across a thread discussing “fake” M-Discs: This is what made me reconsider m-discs, high grade BD-Rs, or archival grade DVDs. All game save data is usually backed up to the cloud on Steam or GoG. but I always worry about accidental loss of save games in cloud services. I imagine what it would be like if these game save data were also stored on this storage medium. However, I prioritize scanned documents, photos, and videos that I feel have value so that they are safe and can be viewed again in 20-30 years. For videos with sentimental value, I think It's not enough to just have a regular video recording. It seems like we need a 3D laser scanning service (or maybe something like photogrammetry?) with a non-disclosure agreement for interior/exterior scans of the residence that will become a memory (if we move out for example) and a way to convert it so it can be viewed with VR. Professional 3D scanning cameras are really unaffordable (don't even look at the prices of the BLK360 or Matterport scanners). These 3D scan files will be stored on the aforementioned disc media. For now, the most affordable option is a smartphone with LIDAR. I'm not sure if VR devices like the Meta Quest 3 with its scanner are effective or not. Regular video or 360-degree shots are still reasonable options. The LTO 7/8/9 tape reader/writer is extremely expensive; I couldn't afford it. I could only afford to buy the data cartridge (I know this is aimed for enterprises). The learning curve doesn't seem too steep.

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By "IP", I'm thinking you mean my machine's address (not intellectual property). Yes, if an AI was not privacy-preserving, and actively monitoring for and reporting IRL criminal activity (likely many are), and misconstrued what I was doing, then I see your point. For my particular FM, the phrases don't really imply any criminal acts, just clues. This is not the case for all FMs. In those cases, when untrustworthy AI systems allow rich prompts, it's probably a good idea to specifically indicate you are writing for a fictional mission within a PC game. Also, the activity itself, translating into a fixed suite of multiple languages, is probably not something an actual criminal enterprise would do. Talking in the forums about your FM under development would also show that your intentions are not real-world crimes, and I'd like to think ward off all but the most wrong-headed prosecutions.

============== -= 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:

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There are currently nearly 200 missions to the game. That's a lot. So I made a list of the ones you shouldn't miss. If you're a beginner, do not start with the best missions. Play a few others first to learn how the game and controls work, and how you can use some items to interact with objects on the map. You will appreciate them more that way. Tastes vary. My subjective assessment is based on how enthusiastic and interested I was during the mission. Generally, I appreciate the unusual circumstances. If I felt lost too many times or needed hints to solve the plot, those were clear disadvantages. I don't like the needle in the haystack type elements. (Secrets are fine.) The list isn't a quality line. I don't want to add precise ratings, that's not the point. I have a message for those whose missions didn't end up here: Don't worry. Others may judge differently. In any case, some missions may be added here with some editing. A few didn't make it here only because of the obscure wording in the descriptions of objectives. Give me tips if you think something is missing from the list. 200 missions are a lot, I might have skipped some gems. BEST MISSIONS -A House of Locked Secrets: Very funny, diverse and memorable, sometimes nonsensical. The best mission. 4 hrs -Seeking Lady Leicester: It's probably the second best mission, but I won't argue with anyone who ranks it first. Knowing how to rotate items is essential to play this mission (middle mouse button). 6 hrs -Volta 2, Cauldron of the Gods 2.5 hrs -Volta 3: Gemcutter 3 hrs -Penny Dreadful 1: The grail of regrets 1.5-2 hrs -Penny Dreadful 2: All the way up 3 hrs -The Painter's Wife: A monumental mission. The size doesn't mean this is the best one. -Hazard Pay 2 hrs -Now and Then 5.5 hrs -Black Mage 3 hrs -Requiem: The mission is excellent and imaginative. But it's painfully difficult to move without being noticed at certain points. 4 hrs -Crucible of Omens: Behind closed doors: Excellent mission, the only problem is that it's difficult to navigate between the different parts, and it's hard to find your way back to places. Having a route back to the first part, which could be opened from the later part of the map, would have helped the flow. 5 hrs RECOMMENDED MISSIONS -Iris I hesitated a lot whether to put this in the list of best missions. But the first part of the mission offers so many options, it's rather a caricature of the genre. And the environment isn't very good either. Less would have been more. The second part of the mission is much better. I appreciate the innovative element. 7 hrs -Chronicles of Skulduggery 0: To Catch a Thief -Chronicles of Skulduggery 2: A Precarious Position 2.5 hrs -Chronicles of Skulduggery 3: Sacricide: Good, traditional mission but the story is too black and white. -No Honor Among Thieves: The end isn't satisfying, but otherwise this is a good mission chain. 5.5 hrs -Shadows of Northdale act 2. 3 hrs -The Last Night on Crookshank Lane 4 hrs -Penny Dreadful 3 -Mother Rose Funny. It's not for beginners! 40 min -A Score to Settle -Sir Talbot's Collateral -Talbot 2: Return to the City 1.5 hrs -Talbot 3: Fiasco at Fauchard street 1.5 hrs -Thomas Porter 1, Knighton Manor: Good jokes. -Thomas Porter 2, The Beleaguered Fence -Thomas Porter 3, Glenham Tower -King of Diamonds -Accountant 2: The code is good. -Golden Skull: 30 min -Vengeance for a Thief 1-3 -The Factory Heist -A Good Neighbor -Snowed Inn -Langhorne Lodge -Heart of Saint Mattis 3-4 hrs -Perilous Refuge 2.5 hrs -The Hare in the Snare: Part 1 -Rightful Property -Alberic's Curse 1.5 hrs -A Night in Altham: A strange mission. 9 hrs -By the Cookbook 1 hour -Wizard's Treasure 1 hour -A Night to Remember 1.5 hrs -Lord Edgars Bathhouse 1.5 hrs -Last Offering: How much you enjoy it depends largely on what equipment you choose at the beginning. 1 hour -The Rift: Quite cool, but the music isn't on the ambient channel so it's not possible to make it quiet. 1 hour -Briarwood Cathedral 1.5 hrs -The Threepenny Revue: 45 min -Mission of Mercy 1 hour

Greetings everyone! I recently got into TDM and am already having a lot of fun playing through and ghosting missions. However, coming from Thief, I am mostly relying on the rules and my experience with that game, while there are clearly differences in how TDM works. Right now, there is talk in the ghosting discussion thread on TTLG to amend the ruleset and include clarifications pertaining to TDM. So I wanted to drop by and ask: is there an active TDM ghosting community already and have any rules for this playstyle been developed? I would also like to ask someone to take a look at the draft of this addendum to see whether everything looks correct: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148487&page=16&p=2473352&viewfull=1#post2473352 Thanks!

Any thoughts on Outer Worlds 2? I'm enjoying the game so far after some tinkering with reshade, I reduced saturation by -500 and the environment and characters look way more natural, less straining to the eyes and overall more digestible. Gameplay is all over the place but you can customize your character to whatever you want it to be

Seems quite interesting, maybe a bit rough around the edges. Available on Steam.

There are more than 7.000 AI out there, specialized for any task. But yes, privacy is important, also for TDM, it's not because the game, but about those from the user, yours, if you use it, also not so nice if dialogues from TDM, with an criminal content of an thief or murder, which are in the game, is spreaded in the web with your IP. Naturally preferable OpenSource and free to use, like Apertus. even commercially. https://huggingface.co/spaces https://dang.ai https://www.futuretools.io https://www.futurepedia.io Always read PP and TOS !!!

I don't like multiplayer games, I'm old and i like to desconnect sometimes with a good game, playing in own conditions and rythm, but nowadays good singleplayer games, like TDM, are turning in rare gems. In the past I loved MDK, naturally Doom, Prey also was nice, Dark Messiah, great Portal, from guys contracted by Valve, because of an by these created Student game, Narbacular Drop from the Digipen Academy, which was the game idea on which was based Portal. DigiPen apart offers tons of all kind of student games of any genre for free, a lot of these are also on Steam also for free.

Does anybody have a working gui overlay using a camera image? I'm thinking about changing the player's perspective like in a horror movie: suddenly you are looking at yourself from a window above the street, from behind a curtain. You control the body but game becomes a third person perspective for a moment. I have problems with setting the camera image as gui overlay.

Announcing the Release of 'Requiem' for The Dark Mod! Download Download the latest version of the Dark Mod here: http://www.thedarkmo...wnload-the-mod/ Download the mission here: Mediafire: http://www.mediafire...u89/requiem.pk4 Southquarter: http://www.southquar...ons/requiem.pk4 Fidcal.com: http://www.fidcal.co...ons/requiem.pk4 Create a folder in your Dark Mod install with the path "darkmod/fms/requiem" and place the downloaded .pk4 file inside. When you load up The Dark Mod, the mission will appear on the "New Mission" page. Requiem can also be found directly using the in-game loader. Gameplay Notes While this mission is playable in TDM 1.8, for an optimal experience please download and play in TDM 2.0 (or higher). Most inventory items in the game can be dropped, so no need to carry them around after they are no longer of any use. Note that If you use noclip or other console commands while playing, there is a good chance that you will break the intended flow of gameplay. Credits Mapping and Readables: Gelo R. Fleisher Voice Acting: Goldwell Additional scripting: Obsttorte Additional textures and assets: Flanders, Sotha, Grayman, Springheel, Bikerdude, Obsttorte Additional map optimizations: Bikerdude Testers: Bikerdude, Obsttorte, Gnartsch, AluminumHaste, Baal, nbohr1more, PPoe Custom Soundtrack: Leonardo Badinella - http://leonardobadinella.com/ Additional Music: Lee Rosevere - http://freemusicarch...c/Lee_Rosevere/ Marianne Lihannah - http://www.funeralsinger.net/ Vox Vulgaris - http://www.last.fm/music/Vox+Vulgaris/ A note from the author Hi all. While I've been involved in indie game development for a while now, I'm first and foremost a writer. My most recent project has been a novella that tries to capture the visual feel and tone of the Thief series (you can find the link below). As I was writing, I found myself playing a lot of Thief and Dark Mod fan missions, and got to thinking that maybe I wanted to make one myself, as a companion piece to the book. When I finished up writing, I had a bit of down time and decided to take the plunge. Having never done any serious mapping before, my plan was to make a small mission that I could bang out in a month or two and call it a day. Well, as sometimes happens, the project got a little bit bigger than I had planned. Ten months, and lots of elbow grease later, Requiem is finally ready for you to play. I'd like to thank everyone who helped pitch in to help make Requiem come alive, from those who took the time to answer my many questions on the forums to those who actively contributed to the FM. I especially want to thank Bikerdude who served as my mapping mentor, and Obsttorte whose clever scripts really turned what was in my head into the game that you are playing. Above all, I want to thank you for downloading and playing Requiem; I hope you enjoy it. Links of Interest Author's Blog: http://gfleisher.blogspot.com/ Companion Novella (Amazon): http://www.amazon.co...k/dp/B00BYEW02M Companion Novella (Smashwords): http://www.smashword...oks/view/298956

Stupid question: I usually play with my headphones on, connected to the front audio port of my computer. Sometimes, I forget to switch to the front audio port from my speakers' output before I start TDM, and, the game's audio comes from my speakers then. In some other games (not all), I can switch to the front port audio using Microsoft's gamebar, Windows key + G, and then select the audio device there. In TDM, while ingame, this has no effect. It doesn't do anything before you restart the game. Would it be possible to make it switchable ingame? I get that that is not highest priority, but, it would be somewhat of a comfort function, not having to restart the game for switching the audio device.

I have translated the game into Catalan and I have the .lang file. What can I do now to send it to the creators so they can put it in the game? Please I need help!! Thank you.

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

Maybe some of you have the same sort of situation and haven't found an aswer for the pointer appearing in the centre of your tdm game when switching to an other computer and back, and have to quit and restart the game for it to go away ... I just found a solution!: I hooked up another mouse (both logitech now, so maybe that matters .. dunno) to my game computer and just left it on top of the case .. only to keep saying to the game computer: I'm a mouse! Now I can play TDM and switch to mij low wattage internet computer, use my main mouse and keyboard, switch back and don't have the annoying pointer in the middle of my game : ) It will probably work for other games with the same issue.

I've been replaying WellingtonCrab's magnificent Iris again (I always find something I hadn't seen before), and I was reminded of a puzzle I have never been able to solve: accessing the paper sitting on the horizontal post. The slanted roof is un-mantleable, and I have never found any rope arrows in the game, so I am at my wit's end on this one.

@I.C.H.I. What I wrote in the previous post would apply to motion captured animations too. In the end they are just a bunch of keyframes, not magic. You'll be happy to hear that we already have one mocap animation in game already: It's so heavily edited though that it might as well be original. Motion captured anims still need to to be heavily edited. They generally need to start and end on the same pose, unless you're doing a cut scene. Animations need to fit arbitrary criteria set by the game, like a predetermined speed. I was told for example that running needs to feel like sprint, when actual in game speed is that of a jog. Current TDM skeleton is different from a typical standard animation skeleton. It was made in a proprietary software and it took me a lot of effort to retarget it to a rig in Blender. I made it based on imported md5mesh file. Perhaps retargeting the original rig inside Maya would be an easier task. A lot of bad animation is driven by game systems. The reason why NPCs will sometimes rotate 180 degrees while playing some idle animation is just bad code. The reason why rotating animations look like shit at the moment is because origin bone is driven by code and the speed simply doesn't match the animations. Well that and the animation is horrible. Changing rotation speed in code breaks combat, so I'm trying to make animation that matches the code, which is a hack. Feet still slide because of blending. Without blending it looks like this: There's still some jittering going on. Any idea why? For details I invite you to internal development forum. Another example is combat where torso and legs are independent. Combined with crappy animations it makes probably for the most robotic looking part of the game. A lot of it is just bad art. The default idle animation is just crap. The pose is unnatural, weight is placed on the leg that has a bent knee and is moved back and on top of it has a weird rotation. That's not a relaxed pose, but because it's the default, all other animations need to start and end with it. At least the mechanical looking sway of the idle anim à la Mortal Kombat could be fixed at some point. Ideally all characters should be ported to a standard rig like Rigify or Blenrig. The rigging itself wouldn't even be the worst part for me. It's setting up .def files and articulated figures (AF) that's the most tedious part. You're expecting a lot from a community who refuses to switch to high dynamic range rendering, even though that shit is already implemented in the game waiting to be used. I might experiment with mocap more at some point, but I encourage you to try it on your own. When I started working on this mod I new nothing about 3d graphics. Three years later I had a horse completely modeled, textured, animated and with proper rag doll in the game.

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