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Holly macarrony!!! I found why it didn't worked. It was because i was open the WRONG map file, i thought it was named temple.map but it was saved has temple2.map! I was opening the map with no lights so baddcog was right. Sorry if i wasted your guys time.

Yes i added lights, a parallel light and a light with the doom3 default texture ambient. On the editor the light works but ingame the map is all black. Here is it if some one want to test it. http://www.filesonic.com/file/frWiQ5o Is a small arena kind multiplayer test map so don't mind the looks for now

I Have a problem with this, i made my geometry on Modo 501 using a grid of 8, imported to blender and exported to .map with a face width 8 to match the grid and a size of 1.0, converted the Quake 3 .map to Doom 3 .map, it gave me errors on the textures and on the Quake 3 path but worked, DR opened the converted .map nicely and applied the caulk texture to all the faces and a player start at 0.0.0, then i textured and lighted the level and all looked fine in DR saved, used the doom 3 console to dmap saw no errors, started the map but it is totally black, even if i use the flash light i can't see a thing. I then decided to try DoomEditor (i really hate the navigation on the 3d view on it) to open the .map, the brush geom came totally black and when i used the real time render (F3) they became invisible, i can select and apply textures and they show again but even with the DEditor the ingame version is totally black!?

Blender can open collada files very well and also Maya and 3dmax with the opencollada plugin. BTW collada is starting to be the defacto file format for all 3d apps and game engines, there's even some game engines that only support collada files like the C4 engine, this does not mean that closed file systems like .max, .lxo, .lwo, etc will go away thou.

I have here a free zombie model that i downloaded from a site that makes automatic rigging to your 3d characters, i can't remember the name of the site now thou , but i'm certain the model is free to non commercial and commercial work, there's only a walk animation and the file is in the collada format .dae. You can download it here if you want it. http://www.filesonic.com/file/YDxs467

This guy has no clue on what it takes to learn how to master a new tool and on top of that master Level Design, a TDM mission developer is a Game Designer, Level Artist or Mapper and a Game-play developer all in one, and they also need to conform to a engine with modern tech that requires more work, we can't expect them to do a better job them a professional game company that has developers assigned to specific roles or even to T2 fms, their developers add more time to master the tools. BTW why is this thread still open and why this guy is still not banned from what i know of him is beyond me.

I did heard last night in a episode of DrHouse (season 6 episode 17, when doctor Chase is on the "Knight" house) the looked door sound that you guys use, or at lest something really really similar.

Argoon is not working per se on the mod he is giving moral support and ideas , the ones that are more involved in the making of this mod is a Russian modder (hero) called Harrison and Sir Random for the moment, we sure need more people on this especially doom3 coders.

You must be talking about the BOD fog effect, is a relatively simple effect and i believe idtech 4 already does that, about the lighting yes is funny that doom3 is praised has the father of real time unified lighting but in 2001 Severance already add totally dynamic volumetric lighting and shadows has also real time physics, and this game was made by a defunct Spanish company RebelAct, some of the developers worked on Jericho and Dante's Inferno. By the way if you don't know already there's a English modding forum for BOD here go there and say hi.

Guys another community that i also go to, is trying to revive the multiplayer part of the old Severance The Blade of Darkness game on the idtech 4 engine, but we have no experienced coders so we have some problems, first is how to make so If a monster gets within a certain distance of the player we check if contact is made with a sword between monster and player (how do you guys detect your sword is taking health from the guards? Is it using physics?). Second can you guys give us a rundown on how to import riggs to idtech 4 because our riggs are coming 90 degrees off. All help will be appreciated because we are really stuck on this. Lastly if exists in here some thief fan that also loved BOD we would love to ear from you. Most popular English BOD modding forum: http://www.arokhslai...asp?FORUM_ID=11

I'm not a DarkMod team member but IMO this part of the DM license is very clear.

Shadow volumes (Stencil Shadows) can't be patented period and there's many ways to render them, Creative only tried to patent a new way of doing them, for example Severance the Blade of darkness add real time perpixel/pervertex lighting and shadow volumes even before Doom3 and the Carmack reverse code in 2001, and if you only use shadow maps (that the majority of games use now) this patent don't even matters. BTW i find strange that being the patent invalid (because of prior art from nvidia) the id lawyers are stalling the release.

This is what the C4 engine developer said when asked about the creative patent. So i think id lawyers will give the green light to release the Source Code with the shadow system in.

Serpentine i think you are wrong about your opinion of the newton physics engine ODE is dead in the water and newton is still being updated, but i must say that newton is slower compared with the likes of bullet, PhysX or Havok but because it is more accurate and robust, newton is used in more them games also in scientific circles and so the developer didn't made any shortcuts, is physics calculations for real, for games, accuracy is not important so the other engines are full of tricks and shortcuts to be faster. For TDM Newton engine is like a match in heaven, it has all the necessary features even fracture support and is VERY robust, when i say robust i say that on newton is rare to see physic bugs like objects jumping like crazy or going trough the floor (Oblivion), and others. The penumbra guys liked it so much that they are using it again on their second game. A quote from a Penumbra developer about the physics on their new game.

Hello guys, POM (Parallax Occlusion Mapping) with self shadowing imo is the best technique to simulate real displacement mapping (taking out dx11 tessellation) but unfortunately it is a very heavy effect and in simple geometry more slow them using real triangles.

From the creators of Penumbra comes Amnesia - The Dark Descent their new Horror game this time more frightening them ever. To see the new teaser trailer and read about it here is a link for the game developers blog. Click me!!! Help the developers by spreading the news if you liked Penumbra and think they deserve it.

Not gona happen before the physics engine in idtech 4 (Doom3 engine) is completely changed by a better one like Bullet or Newton (Penumbra used Newton).

Don't know if someone already replied to this but on the normal map the hight is given from the blue component or channel so just invert the blue channel.

You need to put the pk4's on the fm folder inside the darkmod folder not doom3 folders, and them install the fm on the game menu, just click "new mission" chose the one you want and them click on install mission.

The site runs fine for me, it just takes some time to load.

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Ok you have your opinion, and i respect that, but saying it fits imo is wrong. It fists in doom3 not on the Dark Mod, why? Because when your ear it, it reminds you of Doom3 and so breaks the immersion. Nice to know

Hey guys nice update Now i saw that the player had some trouble to pickup the dead body, was that intensional? And please change the Doom3 dying sound it brakes the immersion, at least for me it does.

Afaik there is a option in the video options to use bloom, but for me it makes the world upside down.

Looks nice especially the water fall. About my model have you tested it ingame, to see if the engine culls the peaces that aren't visible? I would like to know. About polys, 7000+ for one peace is not much if 2 or 3 are rendered at the same time, you can also disable shadows for the terrain or have them baked in the texture just like they do in Quake wars.