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From my observation, there are several types of doors in TDM that are prone to “void leak”, through this you can also bypass locked doors! i ain't speedrunner & I don't know if this will benefit speedrunners. I once got a message from someone claiming to be a TDM speedrunner and they found this interesting. report has been submitted : 0006631: void leak / void traversal bug - The Dark Mod Bugtracker

I post for the first time since January with a detailed response about an important(ish) topic and I get a laugh reaction. Oh xolvix the laugh was a bit selfironical i do agree for the most part.

Yesterday when packaging an old FM in which I used this, I noticed the script was crashing the latest TDM version. This was caused by a variable name conflict, likely a default script later using the same name. I fixed that and updated the pk4 in the first post, since nothing else changed it's still version 1.1.

I raised a bug tracker for this also, a long while back- https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5158

If you want it done, you also need a feature request on the bugtracker

I don't recall seeing that much underground vegetation in TDM (lot of cave mushrooms though), looks neat.

Those look fantastic! But, keep in mind, light coming from the Sun or the Moon will be functionally parallel by the time it gets to earth. Unfortunately, I think parallel lights might have been removed from TDM.

Love block out views

So for comparison, this was the very first blockout pass -

"That crap" has far more up to date lighting and AA shaders... so yeah...

OHhhhhh that looks good!

Not only fan missions, all three official missions (Training , New Job and St. Lucia) have different ambient so yeah, ditch it.

Brightness, gamma and ambient. Brightness and gamma are user settings mappers can't (shouldn't) change. My opinion is that players shouldn't feel the need to change these unless real-life conditions change around them (day vs night, lights on/off, new monitor, etc). What mappers do in their missions is setting a single or multiple "ambient" lights to their maps. We can think of it as "the mood of the map or area". This ambient can change between zones: bright fullmoon outdoors, pitch black sewers, blue ghostly atmosphere, etc. My opinion is that players should be able to adjust the ambient of a mission based on their preferences or current mood (brighter or darker). You can try this yourself. Set your brightness and gamma just how you like it. Launch this mission, bring down the console and enter, in example: r_ambientGamma 1.2 The mission suddenly is a tad brighter and the light gem and gui/hud elements remain unaltered. Mind you, r_ambientGamma is persistent: you have to set it back to 1 when you are done with the mission, otherwise it stays at 1.2.

And again, you're shifting the blame. Obviously, Reshade doesn't perform very well with OpenGL. Stop using that crap, and play TDM without such layers which lower performance.

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An abandoned underground pagan temple...

TBH, I'd rather have FM authors adjust brightness so that it's uniform among missions, otherwise you have to adjust the settings for every single mission, and, you have no uniformity in the game whatsoever. Unless people really like to have to adjust their settings for every single mission. I surely don't. The Training mission should be a reference, because, there is a dedicated section where people adjust gamma/brightness. Otherwise that section is really pointless, and should be removed, when it's all over the place in the other fan missions anyway.

I use often games which I can play just in the browser. There are very good ones, eg. in Itch.io the StudioHammergames and others, eg. BlueCyber (Adventure, VR if you have), OpenLara, MDK, etc.

Well the so called rioters were actually pretty peacefull until someone started sending in marines and what not , so freedom of speech only applies to some people ? Ouch. Im not familiar with the governor but he seems like an ok guy from what i could gather, but stereotyping people based on thirdhand experiences mostly ends badly so no comment . As for the idea with a non government affiliated judical system i actually believe it would be better than what is currently at hand. Hell even in little denmark it is allmost impossible to get the government higher ups prosecuted for offences because they can just make it legal meaning 99% of judges dont even want to try even if the case is waterproof. Other than that and a somewhat overprotective attitude towards certain things it is not to bad here either. Beating up teslas though is in the wtf! territory. You might not like the man behind the company but the car did nothing to you so in that regard id be on the lock em up boat. But voicing your opinion should be ok for anyone.

Well, technically the issue is that it's built on opengl... otherwise reshade would run a lot better on modern apis.

I'm in Victoria, and it's not that bad here yet, but I see the way coppers carry on in QLD or NSW and I worry.

I post for the first time since January with a detailed response about an important(ish) topic and I get a laugh reaction. In all seriousness though, if one doesn't like DRM they have to be careful posting nowadays since a lot of people have a lot of time invested in games and platforms with DRM of various sorts, and any issues you raise with the game/platform these people will take as personal attacks against themselves, even though it was never intended. Not so bad here, but reddit and Steam forums? Good God. Bruh we both live in Australia, it's not that bad here with regards to the authorities most of the time. I mean it does depend where you live (I'm in SA) but comparing our cops to those in the US is like using a cheat code.

I've been testing out the Lossless scaling app as well, and I have to say it's providing excellent results scaling 1440p to 4k, so that may be another route for people who don't have access to DLDSR.

Alright settle down, I don't pick fights for no reason generally.

That's all fine in Germany, I suppose, where you can generally trust the authorities. But where I live I don't really trust cops not to falsify, doctor, or creatively edit the footage, or conveniently "lose" all the exculpatory stuff. That'd go double if I lived in America. My enduring image of the California "riots", which were actually mostly peaceful marches that avoided where all the paramilitary goons were hanging out, was of cops shooting an unarmed reporter in the back.