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I respect and admire that viewpoint and maybe that attitude is what makes this community so special. But realistically most people don't have time to play every mission, let alone even 10. I think for the community to grow (and thus more missions and more support) it would be paramount to have a rating system, so people less inclined to scroll through every forum post regarding outstanding missions don't get disinterested straight out of the gate. In this respect I see this as an opportunity to include more people into the community, not exclude content creators. I see the lack of a ratings system as a barrier to entry, and it would be great to remove that.

Hey guys, relatively new to the community here but I've been enjoying TDM for a few years now. I'm making my way through the backlog but it seems like you beautiful geniuses never quit! There's so many missions, and many of them are exceptional. I don't have time to go through them all and searching "Best Dark Mod missions" in google shows me results from 5 to 10 years ago. A lot of good stuff has come out since then so I was wondering - what are the best missions of the last 10 years? I'll give my favorites thus far. I'm a sucker for classic mission design and visual polish keep in mind - Sir Talbot's Collateral The Painter's Wife Iris Behind Closed Doors Written In Stone What are your favs of the last decade? The more replies the better, could use some solid data.

I just copied this information out of the .desktop file. It wouldn't hurt to clean some of those up though, the longer description was also there but might be a bit brief for a graphical package browser too. Not DarkRadiant specific, but I think you usually just have to install the Flatpak version of your system theme. For me (KDE / Breeze), I had to install https://github.com/flathub/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze and apply the workaround from the readme.

Ah that's the reason then. How much fun I have, how much immersion, Story, objectives structure, creativity with map design, amount of WOW-moments, how well it ages. For example In A Time of Need 1 looks really dated. A rating is a bit shallow, reviews are better for giving an opinion, but I usually give my feedback of missions in their mission thread, or the beta thread (when I beta test) on this forum.

Yeah on ThiefGuild TDM does seem to get ratio’d pretty hard in terms of number of votes on missions relative to T1/T2 and perhaps that says more than the aggregated score. I don’t care much for aggregated review scores really but it seems helpful to players and admittedly TG has been very helpful in navigating my extensive T1/T2 mission backlog as there was certainly nothing like it “back in the day” in terms of a nice searchable database when you were trying to find a mission to play. Based on the polls in release threads it seems like there is appetite to rate missions, but maybe players are just not aware of ThiefGuild. I put a plug to check it out and support TDM by rating some missions into my release thread - maybe it’s worth mentioning in release threads in general instead of relying solely on isolated forum polls.

Hello, i was quitelly follow the the dark mod missions and this forum for years. i had a lot of inspirations and pleasure sharing this time with the builders and inventors and i need to thank all of you, for the help in troubled times you provide at this site. i discovered this game in 2019 and in 2020 and 21 have a lot of time to play all (and this mean all) the missions. i just want to share my opinion in this topic. Personally i have a few mission that caught my mind, but i need to say that it is not important. The dark mod project is not a place for a contest which one is the best imho. Of course, every year may had a winner mission, but the definitelly winner is everybody who is capable to share a months long personal race of hard programming job for final upload of a new vision of this game and share it for free with the rest of the world. I know there could be few who have great ideas but few skills to run up a complete mission. And on the other hand there could be few who have all the skills but nowadays no ideas. For the past years i am really thankful all of you who can share any of these beautiful perceptions of alternative reality and wish a continuous hungry for seekness. May the builder be with you.

https://www.violationentertainment.com/temp/threedeescanseisbarosab1_prev.jpg I'm back again with another statue, as a thanks to the entire TDM team and community. Originally from here:- https://threedscans.com/vienna/eisbaer_und_seehund/ This involved putting into practice some new methods using primarily Blender and MeshLab, remeshing and getting an actual neat and curated UV unwrap (a lost art), useable geometry and even some new methods for getting decent LOD stages. Amazingly, I managed to get the LOD spanning from 22K down to under 500 triangles, which is a crazy threshold for this kind of process. It's all thanks to the UV map, I think, being able to keep UV islands in relative comfort while lowering the polycount. The geometry is still very "matrixy", in my opinion, but it's 1000X better than older remeshing methods I'd tried before. Just almost good enough for game development. Almost. Anyway, it is still a much nicer result than in my previous bake and I learned a lot. I spent about 7 hours cleaning out all of the little fleas (geometric artifacts from the original 3D scanning) from the normalmap, followed by some loving texture-painting and other manual adjustments. All textures are 4K but I expect those to be mostly downsampled, and I apologise for not making this engine-compatible out-of-box, but I doubt many of you will struggle. It already contains ASE and DDS files. All it really needs is MTR file, as far as I remember. Once again, all textures (mixed with the bake from the original 3-million triangle source) come from:- www.goodtextures.com License remains CC0 and hoping some of you find it useful:- https://www.violationentertainment.com/temp/threedeescanseisbarosab1.zip Cheers!