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Glad I wasnt the only one thinking it would be nifty to have them

You can find the map etc over here : http://doom3.filefront.com/file/Megatexture_Technology_Mod;80169 From what it says you will just need to move the shader over and make sure materials are correctly defined. If you compress well I think it would be quite good for the ground texture. jcd might have some ideas/things to say about megatextures, worth poking him

I meant to imply that there was no change in performance - running the map with decals and without gives me no noticable change in performance on 4+ year old hardware. The timedemo result stays pretty much exactly the same. Something that might help you mock it up quickly is Aliencodec's Plantlife, it hasnt been updated in years but offers something between those modeling plugins to generate foliage - but aimed specifically at games and stand alone. It doesnt export directly to ASE/LWO, but it does let you make things quite painlessly and with a stop over in a modeling suite you'll have them in TDM I suppose. I only mention it as it has a module for generating large clumps of modeled grass with custom materials etc and can convert to billboards. Worth a look perhaps... I only recently started playing with it, but it looks somewhat promising.

Well, you havent really told us what you have tried... Its a bit hard to fix issues or give answers if we dont know more than the symptom. Did you have doom3 installed before TDM? Do you have the correct patch? Have you tried cleaning the configs as mentioned in previous posts? If you reinstall everything, does the problem occur on first launch? Can you find any logs? Anything interesting in them? Aaaaand beaten by Springheel

Well it depends on how many you think will be rendered at any one time. If you do the toad as a decal it should be fine. There are places on the training map that have 50 odd alpha blended decals out at the same time in a small area, performance barely changes. As normal patches there is a depth cull which is rather harsh, I'm not sure on the distance tho and it depends on how close the surfaces are. All in all, the only way to know is to mock up a scene, I'd use an existing map and just add an area of it - so that you can get some idea of a realistic performance overhead.

Just check that its fixed, I remember fixing it locally @Fieldmedic - what custom stuff are you trying to add? or was that just referring to the cabinets?

In the toolbar : Map -> Map Info Its displayed in the bottom corner Quiet a handy little thing.

The idea of a campaign at this time would be mostly to establish things like a link from player to character and to get some of the setting information into game, focus on the TDM side of things; not pretend to be Thief.

Yeah, noticed this a few days ago then forgot about it - will add it to the bugtracker if there isnt a ticket for it

I'm not too sure, but if doom3 allows full alpha for masks, you could emulate texture splatting with a material shader, tho it would not be 'paintable' in the editor if you know where you want to use it and you dont mind some work it would be possible and quite quick once you know what you are doing(as all you would need to is customise the mask and add a copy of the mtr) But then again, I dont know too much about masking in d3

They're currently all in title case, they can stay that way - I struggle to see a reason to use leading caps besides that its easy/lazy

Ani2Pov and other Assimp based apps(not that I know of any that support exporting ) are pretty good at swapping formats around - not too sure about materials tho

Hey there, To make your life a little bit easier I have changed the wiki page for missions to have sort by date/name/series etc. I can make something to convert dates to whatever your wiki user account has set as its date option if its still not enough... (I also added icons for the links, but they're rather ugly - feel free to replace them with better )

It was actually just released a few hours ago, you can find the download over here download and the thread there

Hey there quakis, As said, the issue is resolved in the next version. The problem is that one of the pillar models in the next room uses a texture which is... badly behaved! If you could try updating your graphics drivers from http://game.amd.com/ , you will most likely resolve the issue and fix up a few other things! If that fails I will guide you through fixing it by removing the offending texture.

I've been pondering this for a while - I think its a great idea. I dont really have the whole story side of things, but I can offer my help with mapping, texturing, technical issues and the likes. I could offer a repo or other service to share stuff between members etc. First steps are most likely finding someone that has ideas for the storyline, pitching that and seeing if we can get a few mappers together. The other quite important is someone that can do voice acting on a longish term, I think a lot of what the guys over at TTLG etc are missing is the rapport between player and character that come out strongly in the video/quirky comments of T1/2.

Anyhoo, we most likely should fork into a seperate thread for texture request/redo and leave this one for texture mistakes/problems; Been playing around with using normal maps that have been recoloured from raycast rendered ao/height maps, comes out with some pretty cool stuff for more chaotic textures like forest ground etc, gives a nice scale of depth for the lighting which I find very hard to do quick non-by hand maps, even touching up generated ones doesnt really look as nice. Tho these screenshots are rendered without the AO maps, still looks pretty cool I think.

One of the row edges is slightly darker, but besides that I cant really see any issues with tiling, they already look too untouched, I'll add some dirt and stuff. Also I dont really see the point of a top down shot, you'd never pave a horizontal surface with roofing tiles, since you know... not the best idea, the one at and angle provides a realistic 'standing on a soping roof' take, even in the direction which is worst to expose the bottoms! Will upload them later, and include the perspective corrected version at 2kx2k

Your monitor might be running at 75Hz, but Doom3 will run at a locked 60Hz which it uses as a tick rate, exceeding this wont really be possible and if it happens will result in strange gameplay consequences. Pretty much the closer you can keep to a constant 55-60, the better it is AA doesnt change much in d3, the lines are quite accurate and style of visuals in TDM it doesnt make sense to really go above 4-8x, AF is most likely something that most players would benefit more from as the textures in TDM are pretty damn nice and benefit greatly from it. It would be nice if we could get more information on minimum fps as that is the most important thing for TDM gameplay, too low and the AI starts to become a bit dumb it seems

About wall destruction etc : just be aware that you will have to try and use a few tricks, if too many physics objects come into contact they generally freeze in place, you might want to make them not interact with eachother for the duration of the fall or something like that. So if you do see things freezing, just remember the limit is fairly low

So, I sat down after finally deciding there was no real good source image for the style used in the orig and just started drawing it up from scratch freehand. After about 20 minutes of work it was actually looking pretty damn good - I never suspected it would look fairly good. I go to make some tea. The complex I live in's power dies and my ups is overloaded and as such does nothing to keep things running. I work in one layer and rarely save (both because I seem to be mentally challenged by clicking buttons). I love the 3rd world. Anyway, re-the randomness, yeah I will add in the vertical bits to seperate to single tiles later. The cropping issue you seem to notice is more that I do rollover seamless removal and as such really dont care about where things cut off etc as the texture should always be used to tile, and at worst could just be nudged into place Here's the texture fixed up a bit : single tiles I think the next textures that need some love are grass and perhaps a few skins for different leaves on the tree models, different leaf shapes and seasons would be pretty hot.

Tho those pictures dont really show what you mean, your actual texture does. I'll try make something a bit closer to that, need to find words to describe it to google ;/

EA sent me cease and desist letters for releasing some .def files for UO that allowed older clients to see new items using the old graphics, evidently that is somehow bad, I told them that sadly its impossible for them to own the numbers that identify items in the packets, they then got bored of going after me and spammed my host with takedown and DMCA notices, which while they couldnt really do anything eventually became annoying and resulted in the files just floating around random mirrors. They certainly do like to completely control any of their IP related things. Best of luck with that department :/

I'm sure it would - and if you can muster together a solid team Im sure good things could come out of sharing documentation and such. Now, finding a team is a different story, but I'm sure if you mocked up a few screenshots or something that you could generate quite a lot of interest!

Oh, I remade that texture a while back since I got rage at seeing it on every 2nd roof I never finished the normalmap, so there is artifacting at one side, but if you guys would like I can fix that up and release it to TDM/Mappers This was my source image, tho it doesnt seem that great - I spent a good while digging around google images and nothing else really came close at matching the old version.