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Anyhow, I'd still really like to be involved with the Beta. I haven't done much for TDM in a long time.

I'd very much like to be in the beta. I'm a Dev at Microsoft by day, but happy to lend a hand testing at night... when the work of a thief should be done. On a semi-related note. I have an oculus rift if anyone wants to work with me to integrate VR

Well I was married once and it ended when I came out as polyamorous and she wasn't having any of that, which I totally understand. Either way, I'm happy not being married again and have no desire to repeat :-P Good luck sir.

See first thing that comes to MY mind on this is, why not let her decide what to do about it instead of fretting about it? I'll grant that my world views are very different from most, especially when it comes to relationships as I am polyamorous. Her getting remarried just leaves me scratching my head thinking "people still do monogamy after divorce? wtf? Isn't that the definition of insanity right there?" So I guess I don't see why she can't just have both of you :-P. With that being said, if your reason for telling her is that you expect there is some chance in 10,000 that she will call off her wedding and be with you forsaking him, you're deluding yourself sir, and it's not healthy at all. If your reason is to clear the air and feel that you can maintain honest communication regardless of her marital state then by all means, tell her. I hope this helps! Edit: On a related note, if this woman DOES call off her wedding to be with you, I'd be seriously concerned about her mental and emotional state if she's so quick to jump out of an engagement... Just be aware that as wonderful as this woman, her crazies may not line up with yours (and remember, we ALL have our crazies.)

Reminds me of Amnesia the Dark Descent.

Where is that? It kinda looks like Avignon!

Any coders want to take a peek at the frob highlight code? see how tough it would be to use a different frob color for instance on loot? (just as a simple test of trivial/non-trivial) If not i'll take a peek myself.

which map? ToSL?

New Horizon's Minimalist mod (thank you ser!) Added very short range loot glint to TDM (frob distance only) which was nice, but still a little jarring to me, the above sounds ideal so long as the glint plays immediately upon mouse over and is mild. I think a quick shine glimmer shader or something would work well rather than a glint sprite that looks like some odd form of lens flare.

Springheel, I could certainly offer my services as a reviewer and for the popular maps, expert mode walkthrough provider ;-). Especially if you don't mind hosting them on the FM section?

hmm as for community stuffs, do we have an IRC channel? and if not, would anybody use it? I'd be more than happy to host an IRC server for tdm.

Sounds like a good place to start, one of my girlfriends is visiting and has taken an interest in game design, futzing about with Dark Radiant might be fun. I hope things haven't changed too much in the past decade of world design since the last time I did anything was counter strike mapping :-P

Well, I'm finally back in a position where I think I can help! My work situation changed and I'm no longer stuck on 60 hour stressful weeks. New job, new company, new hours, new found free-time! I'm out of practice with cpp, but I've been in the C# world for the past 4+ years, and know C really well as well, I'm sure I can lend a hand on crunching some outstanding bugs. I don't plan to do primary development tasks until I've cut my teeth on bugs for TDM, but I know I for one want to see some velocity back into TDM. Some things I think I can tackle. "Sleepers can become alert while asleep" "AI react too fast to missing objects" "Minimum reaction time for searching alert" "Add wind/current to the location system" I would need a mentor for the first bit, mostly to point me into the right directions and show me the dark mod's ropes, but I assume I could move into a larger role once I'm familiar with the overall design.

oh and by the way, I agree with the above, in game would be the preference, is there any recent news of Doom3 source?

Mmy ONLY gripe with this solution is I lose WPF, other than that, i've been meaning to play with GTK sharp, time to dig up \\REQUIEM and set her up on my kvm so that I can work in ubuntu I guess. *le sigh* and I do such beautiful work with WPF too :-/

I'm glad to see constructive feedback on all of this, and I figure this might be the case unfortunately. While I can develop in C++ platform neutrally, I'm not sure I can make the time commitment, whereas I can have a working application with most of the afforementioned features done in a matter of a dozen hours in C#/XAML. Either way, I'm probably making this tool for personal use (minus obvious hosting and downloading features), I'll probably post, maintain, and self host if there is community interest. @ Tels et al. I'm glad TDM is platform neutral and it makes me very happy that it is so. I just happen to be a Windows Fanboy for many reasons and so I choose to develop for .NET for the most part. Either way, I may spend my time more on mapping now, if I could only figure out DR :-P.

So here's my issue with what I have to offer: I'm a windows application developer, and a big fan of .net and of WPF. To that end, I'd really like to contribute small tools for windows users that could replace things such as the in game install/restart requirements (pulling it external) an external config tool (for straightforward simple config editing and merging) and an FM manager (install, delete, launch, etc.) In the case of the later, I'd like something that could connect to a hosted webservice and get a list of all posted FM's and download mirrors etc. I'm sure someone could mimic this tool linux side, but then again, linux users rarely fall into the "Hand holding" crowd when it comes to things like "file management" *shiver* Anyhow the drawbacks: -It's windows only. -It would require WPF, and therefore .net 3.5 framework to be installed (all vista and windows 7 systems as well as most windows XP SP3 systems already have this) What does the team think?

I kinda threw it out there hoping someone might pick it up as a weekend pet project, hell if I get time and a lot of energy, I might even do it myself, maybe it will be a good way to re-acquaint myself with the code.

Dema- Kudos on the best FM i've played since ToSL. The good: It was small enough that I really got to know the layout, but big enough to pack a lot of content and story into a short mission. The difficulty was well balanced, and the pacing was great. Choice of ambiance was flawless, and the visual storytelling *shivers*... Not gonna lie, this FM successfully creeped me out, and I'm not squeemish. You nailed the thief feeling with maybe a nostalgic bit of classic gothic horror, reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft and Poe. Now the bad: A few of the rooms were REALLY cramped, and for a building with rooms as small as they were, the cieling seemed a bit high, tho that may have just been my perspective. One of the best examples of this was the childs room were things seemed rather haphazardly placed without regard to actual living (such as the location of the nightstand O_O) There is some roofing bleeding into the interior of the attic of one of the homes (can't remember the name). There are a few small places where the lighting contrasts were too harsh in the streets.

I have a minor concern about the state of candles in TDM. Consider this a feature request, not a bug. Currently, toppled candles, and candles held upside down, remain happily lit, and the flame oriented statically with respect to the candle base. What I'd really like to see is toppled candles at rest (over 85 degrees from "upright") or candles held upside down (after playing with a candle at home this point is about 140 degrees from upright) to rapidly fade out over say... 3-5 seconds (simulating a candle being starved of fuel). If the player can right the candle before this time expires it would resume it's previous light level. One very good reason to fix this is currently, toppled candles do wierd things to environment lighting... not really casting light to anything but it's visible on the floor/table/your mom's texture. I realize this isn't a high priority, but it really would be nice, adds a bit to immersion, and does fix some visual wierdnesses. Last, I realize this particular request to be a longshot, but could the flame be "segmented" and arch appropriately if the candle is tilted? I assume this would basically be a ragdoll responding backwards to gravity.

Melan, I haven't disappeared, been playing it, and collating oversights, bugs, etc... I'll get back to you later this week... This map isn't exactly releaseworthy, but it's not bad by any means... there are a few "gameplay sticking points" that took me WAY too long to get past, all in all tho I've had a blast. By my 3rd playthough i'll be happy with it.

interested but that site is blocked from here for some reason, i'll sign up when I get home.

I really think this has the makings of an epic FM, I'd say pay homage to the Pagans and to Constantine's Manor. Wierd arcitectures, navigational puzzles playing off teleporters ( head north twice and then left twice link! ). If things get really tricky to pull off cleanly, CHEAT! You're talking about a steampunk universe of magic and metal! If modding magic doesn't work clealy, use the 'real' thing, spice up some hacky stuff by making it a visual element, whatever it takes, but I could totally see this being one of the best early FM's. Just trippy enough to be unsettling, just morbid enough to be creepy, just fantastical enough to be immersive, and all around good enough to be memorable. Really tho I'm thinking a direct nod to constantine's manor, but don't rip it off... Maybe the same sort of premise. Break into the mansion of a know eccentric collector who has a penchant for the exotic and rumors of the black arts in his family's history. But unravel a devious plot, maybe set the player up, maybe even use it as a teaser "prelude" for a campaign or something... Just some ideas.

I'm aware of what causes the issue , I'm asking if you're planning to have any more "natural" way to handle it?