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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.

Hey I just wanted to create a Thread where everybody can post his improvement wishes. I Personally love this mod. There are so many features in it, and because it is a mod created by a community, why not write what could be improved. My wishes are: Some special weapons. I loved T2X and the variety of weapons. Some really hard to find special weapons, like the confusion arrow or a special bomb would be cool. But they have to be very special, for example as a result of a side quest - or maybe a usable torch for easier killing the undead More enemies, I think there will be an improvement, we just got spiders and zombies, but a higher variety is always good. More (custom) conversation. Thats one of the main parts I'm missing - so much flair and atmosphere is getting lost without them. Also some comments from he main charakter would be nice. For example when a guard gets knocked out "hah, now who's the taffer" ... better AI when the hear a voice. They start looking for you, but most of the time I just sneak into another room or a higher area and just have to wait, they should at least get someone with a torch or call other guards for help These are only small parts of the game which could be improved and are only my points of view, maybe it's either not possible to create or it fits not in the design of TDM.

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.

https://youtu.be/fwJwNLRY4kg "I am not enjoying my journeys, its so cold at the moment I imagine the chill could freeze a candle flame into a fire-gem and ole scratch's tears solid to his stoney face. Suffice to say, I'll be happy to get out of these whipping winds. A friend has asked me to keep an eye on his place while he is out of town. That part of Bridgeport is quiet enough, but he has been having a few problems he would like sorted out. I will know more when I get there." Download Link: v3.45 - https://mega.nz/file/jFEh3AYC#6EwN8eJ0uaioddse4iBTbTs-YKDsHAr_oHx9M4LI4T4 Thanks:- - As always espect to the Dark Mod team and for all the hard work they put and continue to put into it. - Flanders for his excellent models and textures. - Special thanks to the people that answered my technical questions on the forum. - Beta testers: (v3.45) Mat, DavyJones, Keruah, Oldjim, Amadeus, (v3.0) Lowenz, AluminumHaste, Greyman, nbhormore, McPhisto, Lost_soul, Pranqster and the original testers! Info: An update of the original Christmas Contest mission for TDM 1.08. Now requires version 2.14 List of fixes: For version 3.0 - (19-01-2013) The Tavern has been tweaked for better path finding and the punter's all sit down better, the barmaid now has RITS and there is new tavern music The south city gate barracks has a new room to explore, you have to climb to get to it. The Hotel has been improved for better path finding. The hotel apartment has been redecorated and a couple of new things for the player to interactive with and look at. There is a completely new shop for the player to explore and loot. Applied Grayman's winter breathing script, so when Ai are outside they all breath hot breaths of air The Thief's hideout was raised and tweaked for better game play. All side alley's have been tweaked visually. The north city gate has been visually improved. I have added a few new locations for the player to climb to for loot The objectives, briefing and readable's have all been tweaked. All top facing external surfaces have snow texture applied (this took frikin ages...) Added frost decals to every applicable window (this also took frikin ages) I increased perf again through out the map And finally lot of the bugs and issue and request players had have been fixed and addressed. For version 3.45: have placed a bunch of Volumetric lights in LOD better setting there were over a dozen broken or leaking vizportals and or overlapping vizleafs. found and fixed numerous texture misalignment. tweaked the locations and the monster clip for all the sleepers, to try and resolve the ko-death issue. tweaked/edited all the NPCs in the tavern, and one or more them was alerting all the others. edited the first objective so it only triggers after you read the note. remove the drop start for the player, very old mapping method that is no longer required. added Volumetric light version of a bunch of light sources and placed them on LOD better. added a area wide fog light to the sewer system. made the wine shop basement less aggravating to enter. fixed the pathing issues between the gnd and basement in the wineshop. lowered the brightness of some of the lights that were overly bright. fixed some broken lights that had been poorly placed and never spotted when this mission was release. fixed a shed load of broken, misaligned, misplaced, or just plain wtf is that there bits of brush and objects. will update this list as I go. added a building façade behind the SE city gate lookout and made some roof a single FS to enhance the skyline. added some winterised trees from Scrooge FM. moved the window on the small room to the south west and made it an opener, as it had been blocking access to a piece of loot. fix a couple more random issues spotted by the testers.

I finished a small project today that made me want to quit my current game project and make a stealth game. Imagine if Thief had a second gem, a sound gem. It shows how much environment noise is there to drown your own footsteps. Then in addition to turning off lights and dousing torches, you have to turn on machinery, wait for thunder to cross a tile floor, etc.

A Collector's Errand So thebigh and I, have created a little tribute map in honour of Mircea Kitsune. The FM is set in the TDM universe with nod's to some of the gameplay elements in MK's own mission's. And the map itself was loosely based of one of thebigh's abandoned maps, which has then been heavily customised and had multiple detail passes into what you now see. The mission is small and and relatively simple, so shouldn't be too hard for most players. Enjoy and have fun Notes: - TDM 2.14 or later is REQUIRED to play this mission. - Build time roughly 65hrs. Download Link: - (v0.31) - https://mega.nz/file/2AskyBJD#K_sSxWKKt5x-UTOUd4GlKWobfFHVUdkDDgTn82r-t-k Credits: - thebigh - additional map work, textures and ALL the scripting! - MirceaKitsune - anthro characters - wellingtoncrab - new textures in tdm 2.14 - Jackfarmer - briefing video - datiswous - subtitles Voice acting: Bikerdude - Prankster thief, Grumbling watchman Gunmetal - Annoyed thief thebigh - Slacker watchman Ed the Djinn - Briefing voiceover Beta Testers: - datiswous - wesp5 - joebarnin

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

yeah the 2080 ti seems to become just as long lived as the 1080 ti was before it. the 3080 while more powerfull on paper only manages about a 5% to 10% performance increase in games. the 3080 ti manages 25% but is also quite expensive (actually had a bigger msrp than the 2080 ti) not to mention the pretty meh ammount of vram on all the cards. performance wise it still is neck to neck with a 5060 ti despite that card using multi framegen and sporting a much newer DLSS model. the latest DLSS enabler now also introduces multi framegen for the older 2xxx and 3xxx cards which does help quite a bit in 4K but the lack of vram is the big killer for these cards performance here. to see how much it is loosing due to vram try googling the 2080 ti mod that doubles the vram to 22 gb it is quite the eye opener . mine is the asus rog strix gaming OC model with tri coolers, its a rather beefy card so can be hard to fit in small cabbies as it is 34 cm's long. my newer lian li is the PC B25F which is a tool less cabby and one of the last mainstream alu cases they made. it is also the only model that unfortunatly sports some plastic parts (unfortunate because the plastic has a tendency of cracking after a few years) the drive case is located at the front and goes all the way up so cards greater than 30 cm cannot be mounted in it. the older lian li i have is full alu and actually smaller than the PC B25F but the drive case is located at the bottom so if you forego mounting any dvd drives in the lower brackets then you can mount the 2080 ti in it. only backside to the older one is that it has a tendency to become quite cluttered because it is so compact. there are pictures of my older lian li case in the cpu/gpu section and the PC B25F you can see here -> https://mobilespecs.net/cases/Lian/Lian_Li_PC-B25F_Black.html

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/

A famous painting is on display at the local museum. Steal it, of course! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An update, version 3, is now available (19 March 2025). The mission has a new look and feel (well, look and sound), thanks to the talents of @JackFarmer. Changes include: * A new briefing video (courtesy of @JackFarmer) * Several new ambient tracks that cover much of the map (again, credit to @JackFarmer) * Subtitles, provided by @datiswous (better late than never) * Several fixes for other little issues that were found since version 2 was released. The mission downloader has been updated with this version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An update, version 2, is now available: (use Version 3). This fixes many of the problems found by those who played version 1. Besides general clean up, the primary goal of this version is to Special thanks to Bikerdude, whose did a quick beta test of this version and whose suggestions I mostly (but not completely) implemented. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Now and Then Author: joebarnin Briefing video and ambient tracks: JackFarmer Date of release: 08 September 2020 (Version 2: 25 January 2021) (Version 3: 19 March 2025) Version: 3 EFX: Yes Requires: TDM 2.12 Author: joebarnin Gameplay notes Thorough investigation is encouraged. Scary AIs: No spiders, skeletons, undead, or ghosts. One live rat and one dead one. Makes use of the 'peek' ability, allowing the player to peek through a keyhole by leaning forward. The use of this ability is optional (it is never necessary resolve the mission). Thanks to: Beta Testers: Cambridge Spy, thebigh, JackFarmer, Amadeus, Kerry000, wesp5 Voice actor: Mike Components: Builder Compound models & textures - Peter Spy (dr.judym81@gmail.com) Museum painting lights - Grayman Gramophone with record - Goldwell & Epifire Custom ambients - JackFarmer Main menu screen & music - JackFarmer Ambients - Orbweaver Many many modules - Springheel https://freesound.org/people/LucasDuff/sounds/467697/ https://freesound.org/people/humanoide9000/sounds/422245/ Thanks to Springheel, Sotha, and Fidcal for their tutorials. I keep going back to them and I always learn something new. Notes Slight spoiler: Fun fact: I have released 3 missions, each almost exactly one year apart: Mission of Mercy - September 14, 2018 The Heart of St. Mattis - September 10, 2019 Now and Then - September 8, 2020. Not by design, it just worked out that way. So I guess look for my next mission in early September next year! Hints (contains spoilers)

So have anyone else been having this issue? If you dmap & map in the same session via an exec config "exec myfm.cfg" files in the console, TDM will eventually start having a regularly timed stutter that wont go away untill you close and reopen tdm.

I'm testing UE5's motion capture tools. For this test I recorded myself with just a single camera, no markers. It took quite a lot of manual work to clean it up. As you can see it's still far from perfect. Feet, hands, shoulder pads need manual adjustments. It's possible to combine inverse kinematics chains (IK) in legs and hands with mocap, that's why feet are nicely glued to the floor in the video. There's a small jitter when looking up close that's not in the original animation. You can see it in some other Darkmod animations, probably some math inaccuracy. edit: uploaded longer video

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

Sounds like at least some of the sound and particle effects are from the store: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153298&p=2537323&viewfull=1#post2537323 I wonder why the guy is so obsessed with Steffi Graf, by the way.

I have a small speed build mission that I need a some custom voice lines for. many thanks.

Ik quickly asked Gemini, the free google AI: This looks like a script for the Doom 3 / id Tech 4 engine (or a derivative mod like The Dark Mod), given the use of sys.getEntity, spawnarg terminology, and specific camera state integers. There are two critical logical errors and one undefined variable bug in this script that will cause it to break or fail to compile. Here are the fixes you need to make: ## 1. Define the Global or Local State Variable In cycleCameras(), you use currentCamera to store the active camera number, but it is never declared. If multiple functions need it, it should be defined at the top of the script. ## 2. Fix the Camera Power-On Logic Loop In toggleCameras(), when poweredOff is true, the script turns the camera entity on and checks if ( startsHidden(screen) ) { screen.hide(); }. * The Bug: By default, when a map loads, hidden screens are already hidden. If you turn the system off and then back on, the script hides the screens that should be hidden, but it never calls screen.show() on the one screen that is supposed to be visible. * The Result: Activating power turns the cameras on, but all screens remain black/hidden. ## 3. Fix the "All Screens Showing" Misconception Your areAllScreensShowing() function assumes that when the cameras are powered on, screen.isHidden() will return false for all screens. In id Tech 4, using camera.On() or camera.Off() affects the camera feed entity, but it does not automatically alter the spatial .hide() or .show() status of the screen brush/model itself. ------------------------------ ## Optimized & Corrected Script Here is the corrected version of your script with the bugs fixed: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SECURITY CAMERA CODE////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// string TARGET_CAMERAS = "target_callscriptfunction_camera_cycle";string TARGET_CAMERA_POWER = "target_callscriptfunction_camera_power"; // FIX 1: Declare the tracking variable globally so the engine registers itfloat currentCamera = 1; boolean startsHidden(entity e) { return ( e.getIntKey("hide") == 1 ); } boolean areCamerasOff() { float i; entity cameraTarget = sys.getEntity(TARGET_CAMERAS); for(i = 0; i numberOfCameras ) { nextCamera = 1; } // Show the next screen in the sequence for(i = 0; i < numberOfCameras; i++) { screen = cameraTarget.getTarget(i); float sequence = screen.getIntKey("sequence"); if (sequence == nextCamera) { screen.show(); currentCamera = nextCamera; // Update tracking state return; } } } ## What changed? * Removed the problematic areAllScreensShowing() function entirely, streamlining cycleCameras(). * Added screen.show() to toggleCameras() so the primary screen actually renders when you turn the power back on. * Added screen.hide() to the power-off sequence to guarantee absolutely zero performance draw while the system is offline. What specific bug or behavior were you encountering when you ran this in your map? It seems Gemini recognises even the scripting language, so I'm hopfull it could work, otherwise you start your own Gemini session if new errors pop up.

My old friend Andreas urgently needs my help. He asked if I could meet him at the Lion's Head Inn, our favourite retreat in a quaint part of the city called Mirkway Quarter. He’s got a small apartment nearby where he makes a modest living off paintings he sells to pompous nobles and the odd merchant. Not long ago, his wife Lily was hired as a servant at the manor of the local alderman, one Lord Marlow. Now she hasn't been home for days. Andreas went to the manor looking for her, but the guards shoved him into the gutter and warned him not to return. Andreas is certain that something bad has happened, and I don’t think he’s wrong. Gallery Authors’ Notes It all started many years ago when Shadowhide laid the foundation for a sprawling and convoluted city and worked with MoroseTroll and Clearing to create a macabre storyline to befit this medieval metropolis. At some point, however, the beast grew too large to handle, so he handed the keys to the City to Bikerdude and Melan. Together, the two worked tirelessly, passing the map back and forth, each playing to their respective strengths. Notably, Melan reworked the story concept, toning down many of its darker, R-rated elements. Eventually Melan, too, moved on in 2017, but by then large swathes of the community had become involved in this map’s development. Mapping work was contributed by Baal, Grayman, Fidcal, Ubermann, Skacky, and Flanders, while Destined, nbohr1more, and Obsttorte wrote story texts. Several scripts were provided by Grayman, Baal and Obsttorte, such as an elevator with scissor gates, a TDM first. Even after all this input, the daunting task still remained to transform what had grown into the largest TDM map ever made into a playable mission. Bikerdude hammered away at this for some more years still, on and off between other projects, until in early 2020 when he deemed it ready for public viewing. It was then that Dragofer and Amadeus joined in. In the months that followed, the trio reworked, finished, and polished the mission in nearly every aspect, fully writing out and editing the story as well as adding countless scripted effects and (with help from Bienie) many new readables. The good working atmosphere and pooled creativity brought forth several new secrets, of which the largest likely hasn’t been done before in TDM (hint: check the libraries). In the very end, the name “Fractured Glass Company” was drawn up to refer to everybody who was involved in creating this very special mission. Without the hard work of all these people, most of all Bikerdude and Shadowhide, this mission would likely never have seen the light of day, let alone become what you see here before you. The mission is, as Bikerdude puts it, a homage to Thief 1 & 2, and it’s our hope that you catch these vibes as you explore and enjoy this mission. Update 1.2 (released 04/04/2021) Update 1.1 (released 11/11/2020) Credits - Mapping: Shadowhide, Bikerdude, Amadeus, Baal, Dragofer, Fidcal, Flanders, Melan, Skacky, UberMann - Original Story Concept: Clearing, MoroseTroll, Shadowhide - Story & Readables: Amadeus, Bienie, Bikerdude, Dragofer, Destined, Melan, nbohr1more, Obsttorte, Shadowhide - Editor: Amadeus - Scripting: Dragofer, Baal, Grayman, Obsttorte - Voice Acting: AndrosTheOxen (Andreas), Joe Noelker (Player) - Video Editing: Bikerdude (briefing), Goldwell (briefing intro) - Custom Models: Bikerdude, Dragofer, Dram, Epifire, Grayman, Obsttorte - Custom Textures: Airship Ballet, Dmv88, Hugo Lobo - Custom Sounds: GigaGooga, Sephy, Shadow Sneaker, alanmcki, andre_onate, Deathscyp, dl-sounds.com, Dmv88, dwoboyle, eugensid90, gzmo, lucasduff, mistersherlock, qubodup, randommynd, richerlandtv, sfx4animation, Speedenza - Betatesting: Amadeus, ate0ate, Biene, Bluerat, CambridgeSpy, Cardia, Dragofer, Garrett(Monolyth-42), JoeBarnin, Kingsal, Krilmar, ManzanitaCrow, MikeA, Noodles, S1lverwolf, s.urfer Download Note: this mission requires TDM 2.08, which is now available for download. Please be aware that old saved games will no longer work after you upgrade to 2.08's release build. Note: it’s highly recommended to run this mission using the 64-bit client (TheDarkModx64.exe), since there've been frequent reports the mission won't load on the 32-bit client (TheDarkMod.exe). Both are found in the same folder. The mission is available from the ingame downloader. In addition to that, here are some more mirrors, as well as the official screenshots for anybody uploading this mission to a FM database: Mission: Google Drive / OneDrive Mission (v1.1, slimmed down version for 32-bit clients): Google Drive / OneDrive Official Screenshots: Google Drive / OneDrive Hi-Res Map: Imgur Links Secret loot & areas walkthrough by @Lzocast

1) Is it possible to remove "game saved" from the HUD when quicksaving? Small nitpick I know but I play all my games HUDless and like to get rid of every HUD element if there's no option to do so. The small pause in gameplay when quicksaving is feedback enough that the game saved. 2) Possible to replace the loot pick up sound with a custom soundfile? 3) Possible to replace the mission complete jingle with a custom soundfile? Any help would be appreciated!

Bug tracker: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=6676 Hi, I've noticed some light leaks that only appear when playing with shadow maps (as opposed to stencil shadows). I'll show two cases that I think are not simply errors in modeling/mapping, but rather may indicate a general bug with shadow maps. The first case can be seen in many missions: both of these bucket models allow light to leak inside them from certain angles when shadow maps are enabled (see images below). When playing with stencil shadows, the interiors of these buckets are fully shadowed as expected. I brought this up to some devs, but @Bikerdude found that the bucket light leaks couldn't be fixed at the shadow mesh level, and he suggested it was a general shadow maps issue instead. Hearing this, I realized it could explain a tiny light leak I had seen in my WIP mission. I decided to make a simple test map with similar brushwork to clearly show the problem. So, that test map is the second case: these grid-aligned worldspawn stairs leak light through the corners when playing with shadow maps (see image below). When playing with stencil shadows, the corners between stairs block light correctly (see image below): Out of curiosity I put the buckets in the test map too. The light volume is quite large (776x776x776), which seems to exacerbate the light leak (see comparison images below): I'm playing TDM 2.13 on Windows 11. The test map file is attached to this post if you're curious. Bug tracker: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=6676 smt.map

The TDM Unofficial Patch is a personal project of mine to modify some small details that annoyed me in the core game. It wouldn't be possible without many others, so thanks to the whole TDM community for discussions and help, but especially to friendly modders who directly contributed code for it, like Obsttorte, Dragofer, Kingsal, Goldwell, Destined, and snatcher! You can find it under the link below and while over the years there was little progress, in recent times many things have been improved that I never even thought of when I started and some might be worth to be included in the core game. https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/addons/the-dark-mod-unofficial-patch Version Changelog: ------------------ v2.4 16.06.2026 ---- Updated to 2.14 and packed mission changes into dedicated pk4 files. Added missing main menu music for Lucy's Quest, thanks to snatcher. Improved German translation and added several hard-set option lines. Swapped the in game menu objectives button with a quit game button. Added mission title to statistics screen and removed prefab changes. Made compass always stay visible behind the lightgem once obtained. Fixed frobing items animation for all items that was lost in update. v2.3 26.02.2026 ---- Updated to 2.13 and restored many mission names because of new list. Made reading newspapers look less bright and improved training map. Added any 10 minutes auto save game feature, thanks to chumbucket91. Removed invisibility potion as this is a part of the core game now. Added sortable inventory, thanks Snatcher, datiswous and nbohr1more. Removed numbers for non stackable inventory items, thanks Snatcher. Followed requests to restore map that shows Bridgeport is in France. Fixed bad text for flint in shop menu and added a shop flint image. Removed more ko alert immunities and NPC reaction to electric mines. Made keys droppable by default to make perfect ghosting achievable. Fixed reversed door handle in Vengeance for a Thief Part 1 missions. Removed Blow and Whistle for differentiation to Snatcher's Modpack. Added compass name, made it less bright and all tools not droppable. v2.2 23.12.2024 ---- Readded Whistle tool because font issues were fixed, thanks to Geep. Fixed possible problem with item taking animation, thanks Snatcher. Modified internals so the patch can be used with Snatcher's Modpack. Included fragile bottles which break on impact, thanks to Snatcher. Fixed bug with the William Steele 3 mission and invisibility potion. Renamed some new and updated missions for the alphabetical sorting. Reduced mission list font size and removed stripes, thanks Snatcher. v2.1 03.05.2024 ---- Increased torch glare by using new particles, thanks to nbohr1more. Packed non mission files into pk4 archive and updated mission names. Changed several subtitles that imply death if target is knocked out. Removed Whistle and Peek Door to make distinction to modpack clear. Unified frob distance of keys and other entities to the default one. Fixed inventory grid title color, position and cropped loot numbers. Updated final mission statistics, rogues and moors to work in 2.12. v2.0 04.03.2024 ---- Added names being shown on frobing bodies or items, thanks Snatcher. Resorted mission list including "A" and "The" in alphabetical order. Updated to version 2.12 and removed several fixes that are included. Moved helper options from the gameplay page to the difficulty page. v1.9 29.07.2023 ---- Removed statistics button from mission statistics, thanks Datiswous. Arranged mission statistics into groups and commented stealth score. Added blinking to frob highlight of loot and items, thanks Snatcher. Fixed cut off final_save name by hexediting the main TDM executable. Made the default frob outline black, thanks Snatcher and nbohr1more. Fixed inventory overlay when wearing magic glasses, thanks Snatcher. v1.8 13.04.2023 ---- Added peek through door keyhole skill, thanks Snatcher and Dragofer. Improved handling of lit lights that start unlit, thanks nbohr1more. Restored original holy water usage as a backup, thanks to Snatcher. Updated patch for TDM 2.11 and restored option to show frob helper. Changed some defs and script to make "Seeking Lady Leicester" work. Made mantling while carrying somebody possible, thanks to Snatcher. Corrected container bottom fix for jewelery boxes, thanks Snatcher. v1.7 20.08.2022 ---- Made loot icon change right back to last tool icon, thanks snatcher. Added new whistle player skill to distract NPCs, thanks to snatcher. Made more lights extinguishable and added info for 4 beta missions. Corrected container bottom fix messing up drawers, thanks Dragofer. Improved unlit behaviour of moveable light sources, thanks snatcher. Corrected lit lamps set to extinguished in maps, thanks to Dragofer. Changed western empire maps so the location of Bridgeport is vague. Added several major city names to the small map, thanks to Kukutoo. Fixed frobing animation not working with bound and carried entities. v1.6 23.07.2022 ---- Improved extinguishing oil lamps, thanks to Dragofer and Obsttorte. Added frobing animation, thanks to Obsttorte, Goldwell and snatcher. Fixed container bottoms and training mission chest, thanks Dragofer. Made doors open faster when running, thanks Obsttorte and snatcher. Added more player tools to training mission and improved text there. Fixed Holy Water doing no damage and Hazard Pay not starting at all. Made all five oil lamps in Sotha's "The Bakery Job" extinguishable. Added blow player skill to snuff out small flames, thanks snatcher. Changed Unarmed icon to make clear that the player always has a bow. v1.5 02.07.2022 ---- Created Invisibility Potion out of cut Speed Potion, thanks Kingsal. Increased arrow head shot damage to both living and undead enemies. Replaced slow matches with easier to handle flints, thanks Kingsal. v1.4 10.03.2022 ---- Replaced Frob Helper with dark Frob Outline and updated to TDM 2.10. Made electric mine stun elite guards too and improved mission names. Renamed mission installation/selection UI mishmash to "activation". v1.3 21.02.2021 ---- Changed flashmine to stunning electric mine and updated to TDM 2.09. Edited more mission names and made threefold candles extinguishable. v1.2 26.08.2020 ---- Updated to TDM 2.08 and fixed custom holywater script compatibility. Added Numbers Scroll showing stealth and loot info, thanks Dragofer. Edited more mission names to avoid truncated descriptions in menus. Added default keys info to training mission and repaired cut lines. v1.1 03.02.2019 ---- Moveable candles can be extinguished directly by frobing the candle. More blackjack immune enemies and inextinguishable candles modified. The key frob distance has been decreased to be that of lockpicking. Holy Water bottles must be thrown directly, but they do more damage. The controls settings menu additions have been updated for TDM 2.07. New mission names have been fixed to fix format and spacing issues. Added looking up and looking down controls for people without mouse. Pointed bad prefabs container open/close sounds to existing effects. Added version info to starting screen and edited some new missions. v1.0 06.05.2018 ---- Many enemies will not become immune to blackjacking when alerted. Oil lamps can be snuffed by frobing, thanks Destined and Obsttorte. The controls settings menu lists that "use" can work on held items. Mission names were syncronized between download and online lists. The controls settings menu lists that "frob" can get or drop items. Astericks were added to official missions to move them to list top. Minor text and format bugs have been fixed in some mission infos.

"Out of all the districts in Bridgeport, the Pagan Quarter is probably the second worst... it's certainly the last place I'd want to live. Sadly, I don't have a choice in the matter." It's with great pleasure that I present my third Dark Mod FM, "The Maybury Idol, Part 1: A Trip to the Museum" https://www.thedarkmod.com/missiondetails/?internalName=maybury1 This is the first in a planned 4-part series which is largely already plotted out to conclusion, and I'm planning to get started on Part 2 soon. Compared to the last FM I submitted, this one is a lot more linear and story-driven, but it also includes conversations and a mid-mission cutscene... which along with learning some basic scripting has really opened up a lot of possibilities in mission creation, and I'm looking forward to putting the lessons learned here to use in future. I'd like to thank everybody in the Beta Testing thread for ironing out the many, many wrinkles that came up and for offering helping advice in how to patch up the map's shortcomings: @Baal, @Cambridge Spy, @Bikerdude, @wesp5, @Bergante, @Keruah, and @tapewolf I hope you enjoy it.

To all devs - I am an Unreal Engine developer. While UE is heavily templated with macros galore, I do understand the underpinnings of it quite well since I have been studying their source code for the past 3 years. I am currently making some Editor plugin utilities to bridge the gap between newcomers to the engine, and the Engine itself. I have loved TDM since I first encountered it a few years ago, but I was honestly dismayed at how few fan missions were being created. That being said, some of these missions in the past year are incredibly well developed, almost to the point that it is amazing to think they were developed in an engine that is as old as it is. But I do believe one of the barriers to entry is that DarkRadiant is a bit daunting for a noob, and I would like to give it somewhat of a facelift to make it a bit more user friendly without affecting the underlying map generation and building processes. I also have some ideas on how to improve the rendering performance, especially in larger areas with many portals. I am going to implement them into my own local build to really flesh them out, and then submit for review and eventual inclusion to the build. I am certainly not gods gift to programming, and I am an admittedly terrible thief, but I do have quite a bit of development experience that I believe could be helpful to bring this along. Just want to give my 2 cents back to a project that has really kept the Thief idea going. Now to crack open some source and grab a beer... Thanks! JavaGod

Announcing the next installment of 'The Lieutenant' series: High Expectations! Never heard of this series before? That's because I just made it up. Actually, it continues on from my previous FM, In Plain Sight. You don't need to have played In Plain Sight before, but there are some references to it in the readables that might not make sense if you haven't (some of which will be spoiler-ish). "Follow the Lieutenant on his next mission to the City of Highborough" Mission Type: City Missions Beta Testers (thank you all!!! @wesp5 @Acolytesix @Shadow @Cambridge Spy @AluminumHaste @jaxa @thebigh @joebarnin @Mezla @snatcher @datiswous Extra credit goes to @Mezla for providing the idea behind one of the objectives! Notes: TDM 2.11 required You can explore most of the map from the start of the mission, but if you find yourself getting a bit lost or unfocused, just concentrate on the main objective Your objectives will become visible after you read your briefing in your inventory The map does not contain any secrets The only difference in the difficulties is the (optional) loot goal This mission has some replay potential built-in. Explanation below, but I suggest you read this only after your first playthrough: Spoiler warning!: Download links (v1.4): Proton Drive: https://drive.proton.me/urls/ZDTKN6DDM4#8Re0CpARxcbc Github: https://github.com/FrostSalamander/fsx/releases/download/1.4/highex.pk4 Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAB8qt Known Issues it appears that to some players keys bound to AI are unfrobable. I don't have a solution as I've never been able to reproduce it. As a mitigation, for these doors you can either lockpick them or an alternate key will be available. Other hints Atkinson/Burns objective This objective is more about rewarding the 'explorer' types. It's optional and requires you to find a lot of stuff to piece together the whole story of what happened. Most of these are not really 'hidden', but rather require a visit to most of the accessible areas of the map. If you have given up searching, then: Hotel Safe Combination hint: spoiler: What's going on with Brother Gregory? If this isn't clear, then read on: There's a wooden door in the prison that I can't open... hint: spoiler: