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lost_soul

lost_soul

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For example, in Living Expenses, the guards just stand there and don't patrol. If I get their attention, they just stand there, shout at me, and only attack if I get close. Sometimes they shake their sword, but they don't throw anything or come after me.

 

This only seems to be a problem on some missions, and I've never seen spiders or undead fail to do their jobs. :) The spiders and undead patrol and attack me just fine. What's with the guards?

 

I'm on Ubuntu 10.4 64-bit.

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Springheel

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Ok, that means something has gone wrong with that mission, and there is no pathfinding information for AI to navigate with.

 

The map needs to be "dmapped". I'm in a rush so can't fully explain how to do it right now, hopefully someone else can chime in, or you can try searching for the term "dmap".

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jdude

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What you will want to do is open the .pk4 file and find the maps folder. Unzip the maps folder to your main mod directory and take note of what the map name is. It will end in .map. Start TDM and go to console and type dmap shadowopt 2 ___(NAME OF MAP)____ Then let it do its thing for a while. Go back into your TDM folder and copy and paste the new map files, including all similarly named files, into the .pk4 and then delete them out of your maps folder. This should get it working again.

 

*BTW: Is it possible to dmap a map that is already in a .pk4? I'm guessing no.

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Fidcal

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I'm not sure. In any event I think I would possibly just extract the map file or maybe the whole maps folder and delete the aas, proc, and cm files before dmapping.

 

This is a Linux problem and I can't help wondering if it affects all Linux users all the time? If not, why not?

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LEGION

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I play since 1.01 and never had this problems. (using WinXP Pro 32-bit)

 

@jdude:

What do you meant with 'AI got out of date'?

 

I just loaded Living Expenses and the guard at the beginning was patrolling fine, just for your info.

 

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stumpy

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maybe windows blocked the file, if you right click on it and select properties, it might say in the properties that the files been downloaded and windows has blocked the file, you are given the option to unblock it, so you should unblock it, if its blocked.

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Baddcog

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I've only had to dmap one DL'ed mission. That was Heart, and I don't think anyone else had to. And it wasn't because of aas out of date, it didn't really give me any trackable errors. But once I did it fired up every time.

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