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I think im having the same issue from time to time. I basically always stay in noclip mode and I dmap from DR (via the game connection) edit: I don't use an exec config and im not sure what that is tbh. But I do have custom commands in my TDM shortcut such as - con_noPrint "0" and map mymap.map to jump into the current mission.

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

Another game breaking idea from the gray matter gargantuan, Guards noticing your shadow if it's being cast around a corner.

Not quite. It's a very small team, and creating such game worlds takes ages indeed. Gloomwood was first announced in 2020, and, it's safe to say that it already was in development for some time at that point. Now we have 2026, and the game surely will be in development for another 3, if not 4 years. How long will Bethesda take for the next Fallout? How long did Rockstar Games take for GTA 6? And, those are monster multiple hundred devs studios. You know what's deperessing for me about modern game development? That they have to put 90% of the work in visual fidelity. Seeing that a shiny surface is so much more important than gameplay depth is very depressing indeed.

Does anyone know Star Trek Deep Space Nine The Fallen? It's very interesting because the gameplay is a sort of action adventure, so not a direct shooter. (The game itself is for Windows, but can be played on Linux via Wine, the info in this topic is still useful mostly for Windows users as well)

"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

I think it is actually quite weird that we don't have a thread on graphics technology, yet. So, I would like to encourage you to share awesome new demos, talks, articles or papers about graphics technology here. I recently came accross this brilliant analysis of the rendering pipeline of "Rise of the Tomb Raider". I would love to see something like that for Doom Eternal, but so far, I could only find this rather superficial (but nevertheless interesting) review by Digital Foundry. Epic revealed Unreal Engine 5 today, which looks absolutely stunning. That Nanite-Technology will probably save game developers quite a bit of time. I do wonder, 'though, how the actually do it? Do they dynamically generate LOD-models? Also, does their Lumen technology require RTX?

Indie Game - Window/PS/X-Box I am not native English, but for my German ears the English voices sound very German. The voice acting in the German trailer is much better though...and ends with a much better statement! Anyways, looks promising and since @chakkmanintroduced me to the genre with "Arx Fatalis" (which I am currently playing), I think I will give this a shot.

How about adding the following config-line to your darkmod.cfg file, so you can store the FM folder somewhere else: set fs_ModSavePath "h:\darkmod/fms" More info: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20991-using-system-wide-file-locations/#findComment-462471 Or just move the whole TDM folder to the H-drive. Because the TDM folder is "portable", it keep all the files inside it, as stgatilov posted. (unles you change things in the darkmod.cfg file)

You can try to make a junction (aka softlink for a directory on Windows) for fms directory. Then F:\tdm\fms will transparently redirect all accesses to G:\my_fms, for example. But in general, TDM completely has a principle "everything is inside a single TDM root directory", there is no other supported way. I'm not sure what you mean by "native file handler list". Some in-game mission lists sort missions by release date, but in this case there is a small GUI element at the corner which you can click and change ordering to be "by name". Note that filesystem sees the codenames of the missions like e.g. "stlucia" which the game never displays. The game usually displays readable title, which is like "Mission 2: Tears of Saint Lucia". English language is full of articles, and there was some effort to automatically remove articles like "The" or "A" at the beginning of the title before sorting missions. Not that I like this practice...

Cralon: Btw. I saw one youtube reviewer saying that the demo was really bad, but this is also the first part of the game. So when you start playing the full game, you start with the worst part of the game and after that the game starts to become more interesting. Although certain aspects (combat, stealth) are still really bad.

With this Lutris script I am able to install the game from cdrom. It also succesfully installs the two patches: Best to make a copy of the disc and mount the iso I think. You have to download the YAML file and in Lutris choose for "Install from local install script". Then you have to point to that file. After install you might have to reconfigure the paths to the game locations. The install script assumes certain locations, but I found to be often wrong, so I had to alter the paths in configure window (tab "Game options"). If you run the game after it will ask for the renderer, then if you choose for Direct3D it will use Dgvoodo. This will work, but I found it would not support my screen resolution. I think it actually had only support for 16:10 aspect ratio, not 16:9. For this reason I would recommend installing the Direct X 11 patch and disabling Dgvoodo in Lutris configure game. Dgvoodoo does not work with the Dirext 11 mode. Then when you start up it will ask for the 3d Renderer and you choose for Other, which will give you option OpenGL and Directx 11. You choose Directx 11. If it doesn't ask for the renderer on start, you can set it via the in-game Options menu. Then in Options menu of game you can set resolution. You can also go into the console via ~ key and then typ "preferences". Then you can set advanced settings. For example in Renderer options, you can set Anisotropic filtering to 16 and Anti Aliasing to (in my case) 8.

It's possible that Linux/Proton is already better at handling old games than modern Windows. But I'll point out that even back in the day when the hardware and the games were contemporary with each other, it could take hours to get a game working because of some weird issue that wasn't easy to understand or research (early Internet). Some things are just hard.

To be fair, it's very complicated, very hard work, and very hard to make a living of it (I guess). I think you can be proud of what you achieved with your game.

I would like to add proof for my claim. So here is the source but its german. Here they claim that at least 10 people worked on the game over the span of 6 years. Maybe you guys understand now why I am so harsh. https://steamcommunity.com/app/4452590/discussions/0/807974817789658991/#c807974817789672952

Any chance Amd's FSR Framegen and scaling could be implemented in TDM? Seems it could solve a lot of problems with TDM being cpu limited on large draw distances, where if you can at least get 50-60 fps you can effectively get 90+ fps. There was a lot of negative feedback surrounding framegen on release (and rightly so), but improvements have accumulated to the point where the benefits significantly outweigh any visible artifacting or input lag, especially on slower paced games like TDM. I've tried Lossless Scalings framegen with initially good results, but I doubt it will ever be as good as FSR, and it currently struggles with dark scenes being a post processing effect. Maybe they could fix it if they offered post frame gen gamma correction in the LSFG tool, so you could set a higher brightness in game then lower it once the frame gen effect is applied. Thanks to Optiscaler, once the work to add FSR has been done, there's no need to do any work to add DLSS or XESS as well, not that it would be possible to add those without paying for them.

I've missed this feeling of being utterly enamoured by a game. It has been far, far too many years since the last time... I wholeheartedly wish that you guys are already working on Displacement II, or another new TDM mission.

Update on Asterfal The game was updated to 0030 today and I gave it a quick try. Its still really bad and amateurish. I managed to get deeper into the land as well to see how cities and npcs work. This is gothic 3 release quality here... After 6 years. Stay away from this game. The devs are wrong at the very core of the games design and their technical approach.

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.

The same thing I did in Bloodlines before we had the SDK. The id engines all have their entities in seperate text lists or files so you can change entity parameters, like location, angle or model there without touching the level geometry :)!

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

would ? perhaps " Angel-Loader " fix this Problem I think it starts Tdm from " Path to game executables " and choose Fms from a : " FM archive paths " P.S.: if that works (and if you use different TDM versions -> don't forget to indicate in the comments which TDM versions (and mods) you played the FM in ! otherwise the saves will probably not be available --- but you might only be able to address one tdm-exe, so you might also need multiple Angel loaders

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.

at one time there were literal hundreds we had a thriving community dedicated to work on the idtech 1 through 3 engines creating some rather unique ones along the way. these days only a few survived, but they are also pretty good. quakespasm is multiplatform but otherwise faithfull to the old look. behind the scenes the engine was updated immensly though with mouse driven menus, shader based rendering, and 64 bit support. darkplaces was a complete rewrite of the source code by lord havoc and one of the most advanced. sports bumpmapping, pbr, rtlights, glsl shaders, client side qc effects, shadowmaps, and quite a lot more. then theres engines like fteqw which is a multi quake engine that can play quake 1 2 3 and hexen 2. supports the same features as darkplaces but focusses more on online play and deathmatches but can also play singleplayer. has a built in feature for downloading mods like TDM does. QMB: was a port that originally was most known for its advanced particle system and neural network based bot matches. it has luma textures, colored lighting, high quality video capture, and cell shading. joequake was based of the original code but rewritten quite a bit. sports independent server client physics, ghost mode recording, browseable demos maps mods etc, a better mouse driven menu, high quality video capture, colored lighting, and supports most mods out there. list is pretty long so ill stop before it gets embarrasing but they all support HD textures as well and some of them can even use quake 3 models in quake 1 as well as skeletal models for some of them like fteqw and darkplaces.