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  1. Sotha

    Mapper tip: When you have an area you have no idea what it should contain, fill it with crates, barrels and junk. Call it "storage." Problem solved.

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    2. ERH+

      ERH+

      Oh shit, I have to add pallets to my 174 crates. But what about forklift, do they had them in dark ages? WAIT THERE ARE PALLETS IN TDM.

    3. Melan

      Melan

      The mysteries deepen! What are the Keepers (who don't officially exist, of course) trying to do with these... "pallets"?

    4. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      Their prophecies tell of a cult of engineers in the future who will develop machines capable of moving anything stacked atop them. They're simply planning ahead, way ahead.

  2. Sotha

    *grumble* gonna walk up those stairs and say you sir give me my resignation...*grumble*

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    2. Lux

      Lux

      Weiji

      When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters.

      One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

    3. Melan

      Melan

      Here is to a great new job!

    4. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      Belated good luck in a new job!

  3. Sotha

    *Close DR* No mapping tonight. Tonight, I'll be playing! So many cool sounding new missions, what to choose.... Only a grayman mission will suffice. :)

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      I suppose that could be next. "Home again" was fantastic, but after 2 hrs of careful sneaking my head is spinning. Focusing so hard for two hours straight is quite an exertion.

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      Played it. Really good one.

    4. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      Thanks :) I'm well into building Part 2 now so hopefully that will be just as engaging :)

  4. Sotha

    Attention! Tomorrow could very well be the day when you first realize you are not getting any younger. Thank you for considering this possibility.

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      'Tomorrow' has turned out to be the most miserable day of the last three months. Thanks for the early warning!

    3. grayman

      grayman

      Free beer tomorrow.

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      On the other hand...

       

      The transient nature of everything is actually quite comforting.

  5. Sotha

    In Soviet Russia... Crimea conquers YOU!

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      Well that and the US didn't annex the entire state of Guantanamo, only held onto its own base when Castro came in. If that's all Russia did too (its bases are also under treaties) then the comparison would work better.

    3. 7upMan

      7upMan

      It's far easier to completely control the island of Crimea as a whole than just one city - Sevastopol. I don't like the whole ordeal either, starting with what happened in Kiev or even going back to the events in Kosovo, which serve as a justification for what is happening now.

    4. vvGarrettvv

      vvGarrettvv

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Do6t8llXU
  6. Sotha

    Gah! My new graphics card came with a coupon that gives a free game. Of course it has to be redeemed, right. The requirement to get the game was to use shop.ubi.com and install something called Uplay. Yugh. What a piece of shit. I feel dirty and filthy.

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    2. MacD11

      MacD11

      Uplay is the worst experience someone can have at the moment when it comes to game distribution programs. If GFWL was still around though, it would be the 2nd worst really.

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Gather round boys and girls and I'll tell you of a time when hardware came with games on a disk, in the box! It was so amazing because you were able to start playing in <5 minutes! Sadly, it was not meant to be.

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Yep, remember those times. I wish that legislation would force the manufacturers to give the consumer the possibility to choose which DRM platform they will attach their gift game to. I would have happily added a new game to steam.

  7. Sotha

    Why do you persist in your loneliness?

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    2. lowenz

      lowenz

      There's an old track by Schiller about that:

       

      When everything has left you

      You are alone

      When you left everything behind

      that's Solitude

       

    3. Viktoria

      Viktoria

      I know that track... and the words are perfect, yes.

      I like Schiller... got into them more after seeing the beautiful Sarah Brightman perform "Smile" with them.

    4. kyyrma

      kyyrma

      Silence the discord!

  8. Sotha

    Why do you persist in your loneliness?

  9. Sotha

    Ha! Those city watch folks are such pigs! I've been making a hugging/kissing animation. In my test a atdm:ai_citywatch works with a atdm:ai_whore. They hug and look all cute and when they stop the city watch says coldly: "move along!" and digs his nose. And wipes his nose on his coat! A true gentleman who knows how handle ladies! :D

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    2. PranQster

      PranQster

      We'll have to have a comedy mission contest some day.

    3. PranQster

      PranQster

      Add a drunk-falling-down-stairs animation to the guards and we'll be set.

    4. vvGarrettvv

      vvGarrettvv

      sounds pretty normal...

       

  10. Sotha

    Urinating AI is finished and available. Enjoy! http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/14969-sothas-animations/page__view__findpost__p__329579

    1. rebb

      rebb

      What a pisstake ;)

    2. Diego

      Diego

      Now players will not onlyget spit on while hiding, they will be pissed on too!

  11. Sotha

    Whiskey, like the Get-out-of-jail-free card, are best used sparingly. When utilized in circumstances most gloomy, the effects are marvellous. Like vacation in a bottle.

    1. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      "Vacation in a bottle" I like that! :)

    2. Professor Paul1290

      Professor Paul1290

      I enjoy whisky (or whiskey) from time to time.

      That said, personally I avoid drinking on gloomy days as alcohol tends to make them more gloomy for me instead of less.

    3. jtr7

      jtr7

      Yeah, if only the people who can handle their drink would self-medicate with it. Sheesh!

  12. Sotha

    Whee! Rebb fixed the Spotlight Anomaly! Fantastic news!

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    2. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Really? Holy F*** <3 Rebb

    3. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      So this is an update for Dark Radiant?

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      TDM, of course.

  13. Sotha

    So, I was irritated by a fly that constantly hunted me today. I picked up a flyswatter and started hunting it. Of course it disappear. I found myself thinking about the proguard vocal set saying "Where would I hide, if I were a fly? Only so much places to hide and I have the time to check them all out."

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      I suspect notarget...

    3. Obsttorte

      Obsttorte

      Or noclip :D

    4. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      "Sotha, I suspect notarget..." LOL

  14. Sotha

    Hah! While animating my floor sweep, the first time I got a big improvement in the sweeping, the proguard sweeped the floor and said: "AH, it is perfectly now."

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      Whoa, did you pick out that response?

    3. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      Well it looks very awesome Sotha! :)

    4. grayman

      grayman

      I love it when the AI do that. I had a noble lady walking next to a pagan in one test. The lady said, "Oh, that is verrrry dirty." And the pagan then decided to spit, as if in response.

  15. Sotha

    Please stand by for immediate FMR.

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    2. Springheel

      Springheel

      Congrats! Is it 2.0 compatible? I don't think I can bring myself to play 1.08 anymore.

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      Grayman said he was playing with 2.0. I dunno, maybe it works. Are the zombies working yet?

    4. Springheel

      Springheel

      Yes, as long as they don't have anything def_attached to a joint

       

  16. Sotha

    So I was testing my WIP yesterday. There is a mission critical AI I needed to find. Noclipped around and could not find it. It was on RIT walk somewhere I had forgotten I had put a waypoint. Even now the RITs keep surprising me.

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    2. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Do we have a tracker for when the AI escape TDM and take over your PC yet?

    3. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      This is getting serious! I just played Jagged Alliance and suddenly one of your guards walked by. Scary!

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Yep. Scary it is. Please don't tell anyone about the AI specifics. I'd like it to be a surprise when/if I get my WIP released...

  17. Sotha

    Gotta love the modular build style. While drawing ingame maps, I realized it would be logical to have an extra corridor junction. Then I just smacked a corridor module into the hole and BAM! Ready corridor junction! It just fit there.

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    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      After this punishment I really should rename my Nick into NotSoSeriousToni xD

    3. Obsttorte

      Obsttorte

      @Sotha: Just to get back on topic, it may be useful to start a thread were you share your experiences gathered with this approach. Something like a "how to".

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Yes.. Once I get my WIP out and cool off my burnout levels, I'll need to write something about Modular Approach and Video Briefing Creation tutorial.

  18. Sotha

    NASA's asteroid snatching video tutorial. Try to ignore the cheesy scifi ambient music... http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=161659311

    1. Springheel

      Springheel

      Is that an _untethered_ spacewalk???

    2. STiFU

      STiFU

      That soundtrack makes me wanna replay ascendancy. :)

  19. Sotha

    Dammit. Didn't remember selecting ambient musics was so big and difficult task.

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      I got it from this guy: http://www.youtube.com/user/alacazam

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Ambient track placement has always been one of your strongpoints Sotha. "The Transaction" is still one of, if not the best sounding TDM missions.

    4. Sir Taffsalot

      Sir Taffsalot

      I think that sometimes the best ambient tracks are the ones you dont notice. Their job is to enhance the immersion and not necissarily stand out.

  20. Sotha

    Whoa! TDM bugtracker looks very GREEN. Many issues have been fixed like the notorious "sleeping AI falling through the floor" -issue. Thanks Grayman and Springheel and everyone else keeping up the good work!

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    2. Springheel

      Springheel

      I was quite excited to find out grayman fixed that bug. The sheer number of improvements he's added for the next update are amazing.

       

    3. Sir Taffsalot

      Sir Taffsalot

      My thanks to everyone working behind the scenes and making this the great mod that it is.

    4. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Thank you to everyone for continuing to support this amazing mod! If I wasn't so lazy I'd contribute more, but alas, I suck.

  21. Sotha

    How do you know when it is not the right time to do work at home after a working day. When you are so tired you almost accidentally delete your work-stuff folder. :-o

    1. Springheel

      Springheel

      !!

  22. Sotha

    You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike! Or rather... Will be.

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    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      pictures!!!

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/14469-quick-caverns-recipe/
    4. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      cool =)

  23. Sotha

    Suddenly the portcullis from the floor below raises through the floor: the mapper painted themselves into the corner.

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Quoted from the best-selling book "Dark Radiant, The Game"

    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      Sounds like a job for impromptu stairs or a hallway shift.

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      I think I'm gonna drag the portcullis somewhere else. Shouldn't be a problem as there are a couple of spots where it can go. But still I laughed at myself how I managed this with all the planning etc.

  24. Sotha

    Malloc errors? Long loading times? Use the following in your darkmod.cfg: seta image_downSizeBumpLimit "256" seta image_downSizeBump "1"

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    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      What does this exactly do?

    3. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      It lowers the Normal Map resolution to 256x256 from whatever resolution it currently is.

       

      Since most normal maps are blurry, this doesn't hurt visuals as much as lowering the diffuse resolution (depending on texture of course).

    4. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      ah okay thx!

  25. Sotha

    Got hooked on DX:HR. Interestingly, TDM has far better AI. DX AI often seems like robots on rails: maybe they should read our wiki entry on RITs?

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      Deus Ex had always been a broad game. The stealth was never as good as Thief, the combat was never as good as Unreal, etc., but it had a little bit of everything. Same goes for DX:HR.

    3. Diego

      Diego

      In its core, stealth gameplay is puzzle. Stripped from its context it's actually a pretty boring gameplay of avoidance and synchronization.

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Hm.. "Boring gameplay of avoidance and synchronization." That means including some random elements should enhance the experience, don't you agree?

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