Fan mission tester and idea giver here

[c0mputer-fr0d]

As well as trying to work on the code I am willing to test any mission and give feedback. I've been playing thief games since I was 6 (20 now) , have played thievery quite a bit, have played many competitive fps games like counter strike,bf2 cod4 and analyzed the map design and strategic attributes of the maps therein. I can also help come up with cool ideas for maps too.

 

PS: do we have a teamspeak server or anything like that? We definitely should have at least a small one for people to get together to work on things.

[Lux]

#thedarkmod on an IRC server would be good too. Less intrusive, easy to comment if you don't feel like talking or are shy like me! (j/k I'm not shy ) Probably could even run a client on a phone.

Edited June 21, 2015 by Lux

[161803398874989]

There's several clients available for mobile phones, though personally I find IRCing on my phone annoying.

 

A host like Freenode sounds right up the alley of TDM, but from what I can tell they don't allow any new channels. As far as functionality goes I like Snoonet, but I'm sure there's other options out there. (Please no Quakenet)

[OrbWeaver]

Blitzed is a popular IRC network used for many Linux user groups in the UK. I'm sure if someone wanted to open a #darkmod channel on there nobody would object. However, don't be surprised if you don't get a huge number of users, since people working on the mod are in lots of different time zones and tend to prefer asynchronous communication methods such as forums rather than real-time chat.

[161803398874989]

Blitzed is a popular IRC network used for many Linux user groups in the UK. I'm sure if someone wanted to open a #darkmod channel on there nobody would object. However, don't be surprised if you don't get a huge number of users, since people working on the mod are in lots of different time zones and tend to prefer asynchronous communication methods such as forums rather than real-time chat.

I've got a client open most of the day, so you can expect me to be there.

[c0mputer-fr0d]

I'm making a server browser for tdm in the meantime while I figure out the doom 3 networking code. hopefully I can put a irc channel in the server browser like thievery has.

[Sotha]

I'm making a server browser for tdm in the meantime while I figure out the doom 3 networking code. hopefully I can put a irc channel in the server browser like thievery has.

 

Pardon my ignorance, but why does a singleplayer game need a server browser? Or are you making a multiplayer mod of darkmod?

[c0mputer-fr0d]

yea I'm working on making coop happen and then full on multiplayer someday.

[Sotha]

Wow! Best of luck!

 

I promise to make you a map for it when you get it ready!

[Agent Jones]

I've tinkered with the code trying to fix the multiplayer mode but it's a huge task, there's tons of bugs and memory leaks .
I'd rather work on fixing the spawn and objective system, getting one server to work, and only later add a server browser, an irc channel and everything else.

[c0mputer-fr0d]

Would you have time to show some of the stuff you've learned while tinkering?

[Agent Jones]

There's plenty of things handled by the local game which should be handled serverside...besides that, I can't get the player to spawn after loading the map, there might be some missing code in a function.
Maybe I should just start from scratch adding stuff on top of the D3 multiplayer code. I don't know.

[demagogue]

That was my thinking in this post too (http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17225-my-question-and-progress-thread/?p=373628).

 

Start out with the most systems stripped out. Get the spawn working. Then add things back system by system fixed to multiplayer. I imagine after the first few, the work might get easier as it starts becoming more familiar.