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As far as I know even Steam does this with some of the older games...

I believe this might be true, but GOG probably goes another route: my patches or in case it happens The Dark Mod are counted as "mods" for games, Bloodlines and Doom 3 respectively, for which GOG already has the distribution rights.

They have my Bloodlines Unofficial Patch there, even in the plus version, with no licensing issues.

Didn't Obsttorte make a keyring long ago?

Snatcher has much more knowledge of the game than I do, but if he can't find an easy way, you are right!

I took a quick look at the readable def files and couldn't find a variable that is used to set reading brightness.

I can take a look, but if it can't be done by some simple def file changes it won't be happening ;).

Also in almost all missions you have access to your lamp and could use it to read readables in a dark area.

Hm, maybe I should add the readables and tools to my patch as well. It's all about more realism anyway and I don't believe you can ever drop an item by accident, so it's the player's own fault if they mess their game up.

If you don't want to use my patch just to get this, PM me and I can explain what file you need. Also it would be very easy to make all player tools droppable as well, but I don't really see any sense in that!

While this is certainly true, saves exist :)!

I'll try to do this in my Unofficial Patch... ... and it seems to work fine. I updated my ModDB download!

I believe that Manipulate is supposed to stand for Rotate.

If this ends up in the core game and if Kingsal likes it, he could change his own missions and everything would be fine.

Again I suggest that once this is stable and has been tested, the integration into the core game should be contemplated as this is a much too fundamental improvement to just be available as a mod! Also you should contact the creators of the Volta missions to a) check if they didn't just fix similar things to what you did and would be willing to remove their work and b) if they even permit changing their missions as I know from my own experience that some mod author's don't ;).