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seems there is a new version of newdark out https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153456 version 1.29 the hwtl version supports shadowmaps postprocessing effects (bloom etc) and other nifty stuff. this one done by le corbeau himself. the hwtl version gets rather spooky with dynamic shadowmaps on . EDIT: ah just noticed it was posted earlier lol.

I took a brief glance at the gettext/po system, and editors like poedit. This is very much in the Linux world, so a bit squirrelly for me. But some thoughts... RE (1). It would probably be way easier to just convert the all.lang[English] to en.pot (utf8 encoded), then further extend to other language .po files using existing all.lang [language] sections 2) Yeah, further add with poedit (or AI) 3-4) Agree. Don't need to generate .mo locale-specific binary files. (Existing windows methods to do this seem to require foreign-language locale available on mo generation machine; OK for teams of real translators, not for AI). Instead, engine reads utf8 po files directly. How to use existing #str? I can think of 2 ways (gotta run, more later)

Looks like at least some other Frenchies have access to it: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152974

Hi team, I've come back to the FreeBSD native port that I was working on and have some patches that I would like to upstream. What is the best way to submit patches for consideration? Is there a public tracker/email list, or is it best to post patches somewhere here on the forums? Thanks!

yeah the render work alone would be a big project. was updated to use a dx9 renderer from the old dx7. that is not to say that it could not be improved but it would be a massive undertaking. the leak is also rather hard to build i only managed to build parts of it .

Oh my God, this is where I should pretend like I have never taken part in this conversation. I definitely don't want to implement anything like an editor. If we are talking on this level, then the only viable solution would be to take some common localization format which supports the subset that TDM uses and then use existing editors. For instance, it seems that GNU gettext can be used, it is based on full-text replacements. Then the whole pipeline should be like this: We need to maintain some code that runs through core/FM and finds all strings that are worth translating, then writes them to POT file. It was done in C++ at Doom 3 times, then that code was commented out and Perl code was written in its place. I suppose it is necessary to have something like this anyway if we want people to translate missions... Translators use available software which support gettext/PO format to generate per-language PO files in UTF-8. PO files are put into strings/ (core) or into mission strings/fm (mission). TDM engine parses PO files natively along with .utf8map files and fills its internal 8-bit database. If I'm not mistaken, gettext normally replaces complete English plaintext with local text. I suppose we can just put our #str_omg placeholders as "original English text" into it, and thus support both placeholder replacement as we have now and full-text replacement as I suggested for 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)

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.

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

its actually amazing but i think we are near a point where ram will become obsolete. if not for the problem that flash memory has a limited lifespan. pcie/nvme bus speeds are getting quite near what ram can manage so its not unthinkable that if they can fix the problem with flash memory having limited write cycles we wont need ram at all anymore. unfortunatly this seems to be a physically impossible task at least with the materials we use today. some experiments have been done with other storage types that showed promise but i havent heard news on them for many years so it may have flopped. one idea would be to use liquid crystal elements as storage modules, but it would take quite some development time for these to become fine grained enough for serious storage capacity. it would fit in rather nicely with optical processors though . (i should hurry and patent that idea i think ). EDIT: DAMN someone beat me to it https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/liquid-crystal-for-high-density-data-storage/

The still ongoing Windows 10 topic sparked my curiosity why people do not just switch to Linux. But users of other OSes are also allowed to vote.

I just added this to the browser-css for https://forums.thedarkmod.com (locally) .ipsDataItem_lastPoster, .ipsDataItem_stats, .ipsCommentCount, .ipsType_light.ipsType_small.ipsType_blendLinks, span.ipsFlex-inline, .ipsDataItem_category {display: none;} /* Less number stats distractions */ Giving a less distracting result:

Looks like we need one of these. Use this to post images or teasers of whatever you happen to be working on at the moment. Sharing feels good, and can inspire other people to keep working on their own maps. Use spoilers if appropriate!

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

============== -= IRIS =- ============== WELLINGTONCRAB TDM v 2.11 REQ Ver. 1.3 *For Maureen* -=- "Carry the light of the Builder, Brother. Unto its end." -Valediction of the Devoted "What year is this? Am I dreaming?" -Plea of the Thief Dear Iris, I am old and broken. When we were young it felt like the words came easily. Now I find the ink has long dried on the pen and I'm as wanting for words as coin in my purse. I can tell we are nearing the end of the tale; time enough for one more job before the curtain call... ============== -Installation- Requires minimum version of TDM 2.11 **Dev build dev17056-10800 (2.13) fixes several visual effects which have been broken in the mission since the release of 2.11. For that reason playing with that version or later is currently recommended** -Iris does not support mods or the Unofficial Patch- Download and place the following .pk4 into you FMs directory: Iris Download ============== Beta Russian Language Translations by @kalinovka Mirror #1: yandex.ru Mirror #2: Google Drive ============== *Thank you for playing. Iris is a large mission which can either take as quickly or as long as you are compelled to play. I hope someone out there enjoys it and this initial release is not completely busted - I tried the best I could!* *Iris both is and isn't what it seems. If commenting please use spoiler tags where appropriate. If you are not certain if it would be appropriate a good assumption would be to use a spoiler tag* *Support TDM by rating missions on Thief Guild: https://www.thiefguild.com/* ============== WITH LASTING GRATITUDE: OBSTORTTE - Whose gameplay scripts from his thread laid the foundation which made the mission seem like something I could even pull off at all. Also fantastic tutorial videos! DRAGOFER - Who built upon that foundation and made it shine even brighter! And whom also provided immeasurable quantities of help and encouragement the past couple years on the TDM discord. ORBWEAVER & GIGAGOOGA - For generously offering their ambient music up for use. EPIFIRE - Who lent me his fine trash and trash receptacle models. AMADEUS - Who was the first person who wasn't me to play the damn thing and provided his excellent editorial services to improving the readers experience playing TESTERS AND TROUBLESHOOTERS: AMADEUS * DATISWOUS * SPOOKS * ALUMINUMHASTE * JAXA * JACKFARMER * WESP5 * ATE0ATE * MADTAFFER * STGATILOV * DRAGOFER * KINGSAL * KLATREMUS - What can I possibly say? Playing this thing over and over again could not have been easy. Deepest thanks and all apologies. -=THANKS TO ALL ON THE TDM DISCORD AND FORUM=- ==SEE README.TXT FOR ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTIONS & INFORMATION== HONORABLE MENTION: GOLDWELL - If I hadn't by chance stumbled into Northdale back in 2018/2019 I would probably still be trying to get this thing to work in TDS, which means it probably would not exist - though more details on that in readme. ============== Boring Technical Information: *Iris is a performance intensive mission and I recommend a GTX 1060 or equivalent. I find the performance similar to other demanding TDM missions on my machine, but mileage may vary and my apologies if this prevents anyone from enjoying the mission.* *Iris heavily modifies the behavior of AI in the game, how they relate/respond to each other and the player. So they may act even stranger than they do typically in TDM. Feedback on this is useful - as it can potentially be improved and expanded upon in future patches.* -=- This is my first release and it has been a long time coming! If I forgot anything please let me know! God Speed. 2.10 Features Used:

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

Did you know that the Winchester Mystery House officially offers a virtual tour, which includes photospheres similar to something like google street view and a digital floor plan (that looks from the screenshot like a 3D scan)? It's paid, but just 9 USD for lifetime access. I for one would love to play a mission in something like that. I know there may be issues with the tour's terms of use (haven't checked), though I doubt that recreating the floor plan from scratch, which would have to be done anyway, could be legally limited in any way. And I know that most people like creating missions to materialize their own ideas and not copy something that exists... But it's the damn Winchester Mystery House and I'd love to walk around it and rob the place. Or more likely just see fragments of it used within some mansion mission, because I assume the whole thing as is would be a nightmare for AI.

hmm yeah most problems with microstutters are related to when the card has to use system ram to hold texture memory so a slow ram type will definatly cause problems. with ddr5 or higher the speed of the system ram is much closer to vram speed allready. so it wont suffer as much. it wont alleviate the problems completely but it definatly helps. the only real gripe i have with pcie 5 is that most boards only allow x8 speeds, but i guess this is due to stability problems at x16 speeds and this might be corrected in the future. it is also a bit of a concern with nvme drives as these get rather hot at such speeds (needs active cooling allready) and we all know the tradeoff with small high speed fans cause rather annoying noise problems hehe.

The RX 9050 4GB supposedly fares much better than you might expect when used with a PCIe 5.0 x16 connection, which by default it doesn't come with in the only pre-built to ship with it. PCIe 5.0 x16 is a whopping 8x the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 x4 of the similar RX 6500 XT low-end card, and that's apparently allowing it to use system memory as VRAM much more effectively. So while that's a heavily disabled junk card, having the full 16 lanes could help such budget cards in the future. Similar observations were made about the RX 9060 XT 8GB, but it's more dramatic in this case. PCIe 5.0 is locked to AM5 and DDR5 in AMD's case. The card that was tested has been shipped off to Australia for Hardware Unboxed.

it is tempting allthough i had actually hoped to use it in my other PC instead of the 3070. but that card is probably a lot harder to sell because of its only 8 gb vram. i need to noodle a bit on it but yeah i can actually afford the 9070xt with the cash i get for the 2080 ti so i might. guess the other PC will have to live with the 3070 .

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

I don't know what the opinions on LLM coding are around here, but I think this would be a good candidate for vibecoding, as a standalone app of course. EFX preset standards are unlikely to change for some foreseeable future, so maintainability is not a big issue, the goals are well defined, the library already exists... I may actually do it just to see if it works. My qualification here is that I do have a pretty good sound system, I have a bit of experience with music production including reverb and audio as a whole has been a big hobby of mine for more than a decade. Regarding the buttons and sliders, no, you really just need a few controls for reverb specifically. OpenAL allows you to abuse the reverb algorithm using other parameters or their nonsensical combination to create various weird effects, but for "standard" room sound even with various uncommon rooms you only need to control a few parameters within specific ranges. However... I think this is still going to be necessary, although the above app should contain some live guidelines as well, something like "the reverb length you selected could broadly represent a room of this size" or "the high frequency damping you selected is quite strong, which could represent a fully furnished room with carpeted floors". But while OpenAL effects should not be dependent on the soundcard, their perception is heavily dependent on whether you use headphones or loudspeakers, how neutral their sound is and what's the acoustics of the room you're sitting in, in real life. Plus people often just have no idea what realistic reverb in a room sounds like, it's quite difficult to judge without any experience. Both of these problems are equally significant and I would guess that most mappers are going to suffer from both at once to some degree. So if we really want to make this work and push people to use better effects, I'm convinced that something a good example map with fitting presets for various archetypal rooms is absolutely necessary as well as the tool. I have no idea if there's real demand for any of this, but I'll try to do a proof of concept interactive reverb app to see if it's reasonably low-effort and then we'll see. I would love TDM to sound better.

damn this was hell to put together... the be quiet case only has space for a 240 aio up top and mine is a 360 so i had to pull the front fans and mount the 360 there. my dev machine i actually had to move to the lian li lancool III which was my gaming machine due to the front panel connector being the new type and i dont have a breakout cable for it. so now my gamer is located in the be quiet case my dev machine was relocated to my lian li gamer (luckily the 2080 ti fits fine in that one) and the old lian li PC-B25F is in use as my retro gamer. had to muck about with the ssd's so i left one in my dev machine for a few games together with two mechanical harddrives and one nvme. the be quiet case got fitted with 2 nvme's and 2 ssd's. i had intended to use an old kingston ssd for the retro setup but the connectors broke so it's thrash sigh... instead i had to use a mechanical harddrive as the system disk with an usb stick for ready boost (still far from ssd speeds). i also replaced the 3070 rtx in my streamer and moved it to the be quiet case, the streamer now uses an amd rx 5700 xt (works fine for that). so next project is getting a 240 aio for the be quiet case and moving the 360 aio back into the lian li lancool III case. getting the damn thing of the ryzen 3700x was rather harrowing as the cooling paste glues so tight that you literally rip the cpu out of the socket (the liquid freezer II model i have can not be wiggled so there is no way to avoid it) luckily no damage but ouch. then ill need a few more ssd's to max out the lancool but with prices as they are atm this might take some time.

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