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  3. A Couple (practical) Ideas

    in The Dark Mod

    Posted

    A while ago, I asked greebo about the possibility of some kind of marking system. I was working on a hedgemaze map and I was thinking about the movie, "The Labyrinth". I said:

    Hey Greebo,

     

    In your expertise of coding,

     

    how possible would it be to create an item that when used, the player can make a drawing or a quick mark, to show hes been there before. I got the idea thinking back on that old movie, The Labrynth.

     

    Nothing too crazy like Half-life spraypaints, something that prehaps has a piece of chalk or something that you can manipulate, and when one end drags against the wall, it leaves a trail.

     

    I figured it would help make complicated places easier to navigate, prehaps it would only be available in select missions or something.

    And he said:

    Hi,

     

    I think it's possible to do this with the Doom 3 render functions (which are exposed to the SDK) to project a decal onto a surface, but I don't know if it's possible to let the decal stay forever. I never tried to use that function, that's why I'm unsure.

     

    I project this to be a work of a few days or maybe even more, it's difficult to say.

     

    --greebo

  4. Menu Problems

    in TDM Tech Support

    Posted

    This is a conversation I had with bradford28. First the FMs wouldn't show in the menu. I told him to create a folder and for the fms and he can now see them, however, the fms won't install.

     

    I don't know anything about how the menu/fm list works, so if someone knows how to help him, I'll relay it back to him.

     

    bradford28 Great to see the mod finally released! I've been waiting a long time. Well done to all involved. However I am having problems. I used the small downloader program yesterday to install the mod. It seemed to run fine. However I could not play it because no missions appeared in the list of missions. The training mission and another pk4 mission file are in the fms folder but neither appear in the list of missions. Is there a simple solution? I am thinking of now downloading the zip file version to see if that may work.

     

    Tels Did you put it into the "fms/training_mission/" folder? I think that wouldn't work, put it into the "fms/" folder or better into for instance "fms/chalice/" (each on its own) folder.

     

    bradford28

     

    You misunderstand. I did download one mission and it is in the fms folder with the training mission. However neither mission appears in the list when I try to start a new mission.

     

     

     

     

     

    Did you put it into the "fms/training_mission/" folder? I think that wouldn't work, put it into the "fms/" folder or better into for instance "fms/chalice/" (each on its own) folder.

     

    happycheeze Hmm, have you tried restarting your game? If they continue to not show up on the list, go to doom 3/darkmod/fms/ and create a folder for whatever fm you downloaded, so lets say for example: you downloaded outpost. Create a folder called outpost. Move outpost.pk4 into the folder. Open the .pk4 file with some sort of achiving program (like 7zip) and extract the following files: darkmod.txt, install_splash.tga, readme.txt and startingmap.txt.

     

    Now go back into Darkmod and see if it appears on the list.

     

    bradford28 Oh dear, there are definite problems with the menus. I did what you said and the two missions do now appear in the missions list. However when I click on one to install it I get a message that TDM launcher can not be found so I can't install the maps.Very frustrating.

     

    happycheeze

    bradford28,

     

    oh dear indeed. I remember on earlier builds people were having menu problems, but not like yours. I'll tell someone on the team who would be more knowledgeable in that area.

  15. This is going to be a fantastic mod

    in The Dark Mod

    Posted

    I absolutely love Dark Radiant. Its my favorite map making tool. I used to do a lot of Half-Life and Half-life 2 mapping, but after using DR, its hooked me :)

     

    After learning the ropes and getting used to it, you'll start to mapping pretty fast. Whether you have pre-made drawn out plans for a map or just go along with it in your head, its an amazing tool.

     

    Plus its opensource and always being updated :)

     

    I highly recommend trying it out.

  22. Any reason not to replace Vista on laptop?

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    Also a thing to note:

     

    When you install Windows 7, if you have vista pre-installed, it will be a seamless transition. I had vista on my laptop, installed the windows 7 beta and I had all my original settings, wallpapers, account name/password. It was like nothing really changed, except it ran better :)./

     

     

    Also, about sata drives, if you have a Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2), it will detect sata drives.

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