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  1. I bought the mic today, it should arrive tomorrow. I actually forgot about your request, but if I manage to get the mic working with good recording quality, I'll try to record those lines. ?

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Excellent. On a sidenote: Should I choose a particular accent for the captain ? I wanted to give him this pseudo-Scottish accent, but if you don't need one, that's fine. ?

    3. ERH+

      ERH+

      Sorry for the delay, I had a busy week in work and had no strength to focus on writing. I hope I will make few texts unrelated to the most questionable parts this week.

      I'm focusing more on coherent narrative and believable transitions between plot points, than on accent. I don't have a calm moment to think about it all in big picture, but I have progress lately.

      :)

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Okay. Tell me when you'll need the recordings and send me the lines once you're satisfied with them. I'll be testing my mic until then and practicing. Want to be sure it doesn't need too much fine tuning.

  2. On Sunday morning, I dreamt a TDM dream. Yes, really. I was inside some city level with nice moody lighting. There were winding streets and regularly shaped courtyards paved with nothing but oversized square stone tiles. One courtyard had something like a chessboard-style arrangement of paving tiles with Roman numerals, and a mechanical contraption to go with it. This was apparently some kind of puzzle, but my dream-self couldn't figure out the specifics.

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Unfortunately, Lovecraft really doesn't tickle my fancy as an author.

    3. freyk

      freyk

      Petike, please keep tour dreams private. Analyse your dreamsymbols, then you know what i mean.

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      The warehouse section of my FM was pretty much copied verbatim from a dream I had.

  3. Getting back to my lighthouse mission. Wish me luck.

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    2. peter_spy

      peter_spy

      Simple patrols and loot objectives will be fine :)

    3. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      Hope to see it done and in a state you would like :)

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Dragofer has offered some help with the stairs.

  4. I'd like to make an Ambients database that lists all the ambient assets currently available in TDM, for mapping purposes. I would like to ask whether it would be all right to use some public sound storage and playback site (e.g. SoundCloud, maybe ?) to upload short samples of these ambients ? As previews for the database overview. Feedback on this idea needed !

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      I do have some info on the customs assets already offered here on the site and recommended external sites, but those are wholly separate articles, established almost a year ago.

    3. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Here's the repository of addon audio assets (sounds, ambients, etc.): http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Sound_addons_repository Only stuff that is not in the base game, for the sake of interested mappers.

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Ambient_Database Here's the current version of the database. No sound samples yet, that needs to be negotiated and thought about first. If there have been any additions to the ambient .pk4s in 2.06 and 2.07, feel free to expand the DB.
  5. A full Slovak translation (as full as possible right now) for 2.06 is nearly finished. The monastery mission is still being worked on, and I will also make and release a smaller FM before it, for both level building practice and storytelling reasons.

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you all. @Tarhiel I'll send you a PM.

    3. Tarhiel
    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Scratch that (partly). It seems the two official missions will probably have to remain without an l10n pack for the foreseeable future. Pity, but it's not something I can directly influence. :-( However, I plan to do l10n for other missions, with their authors' permissions.

  6. I'm pleased to announce that the remade GUI translation (updated for the current version) I've been working on is completed. Still testing it, but it seems to be as fine as before. I'll be moving on to porting the translation of the two base missions into the game files soon.

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    2. Bikerdude
    3. SteveL

      SteveL

      Good going! (and gratz and kudos on completing it)

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Yeah, but I'll only be sending the whole translation for evaluation once I'm 100 % sure I've finished everything from the base game. If that turns out a success, I might move on to translating some of the other missions.

  7. An awful, shameful political crisis in my country. Things have come to a head. However, I hope all these massive revelations will provoke change. The people finally seem encouraged to make a difference. Hopefully, they will. Whenever I won't be foaming at the mouth over the whole sorry situation, I'll keep working on my TDM projects.

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    2. Anderson

      Anderson

      Slovakia, investigative journalist killed with his girlfriend for inquiring into political corruption.

    3. Melan

      Melan

      And apparently by the Calabrian Ndrangheta itself?

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Melan: Yeah, it's become abundantly clear that the whole government has some mafia ties. Appaling stuff. All the more that they're refusing to leave and allow for early elections ! Ridiculous.

  8. As it's spring, it's only fitting I'd do some spring cleaning at our YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd-Aq3Jm6gzYbNiC7TVz2qA Hopefully you'll find the refurbishment worth it. I think the place does look much more like an official community channel now.

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you all. It was a hectic Saturday evening, but the result is well worth it.

    3. SpirescuAndrei

      SpirescuAndrei

      Great work. Love it!

    4. grayman

      grayman

      Thanks, Petike! Looks great.

  9. Now I'm sad. TheMasterFoundry has cancelled his channel, even though he had some very good TDM content there. :( His Training Mission playthrough was probably the best, bar none. A pity we've lost those vids.

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    2. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Well shit, that sucks.

    3. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      That´s sad. I liked his playthroughs.

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Same here, guys. :-( The exact reason I'm disappointed.

  10. A rough list of FMs I've completed so far: Exhumed, Lockdown, The Tears of St. Lucia, Lockner Manor, Living Expenses, Mad's Mountain, Rightful Property, The Parcel, Flakebridge Monastery, Rake-off, Too Late, Thief's Den, Chalice of Kings, Siege Shop, Pandora's Box, The Outpost, Trapped !, Thieves, and all of Sotha's FMs exluding The Lich Queen's Demise. I've played a lot of other missions, but regrettably, haven't finished most of them yet.

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Ha ! :-)) Fret not, milady, I plan to play some of the larger FMs you've made too. :-)

    3. RPGista

      RPGista

      Give Winter Harvest a try.

    4. Petike the Taffer
  11. I've been working on creating transcripts for the vocal sets we currently have. A few finished ones will be posted to the wiki, soon. Keep patient.

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    2. Springheel

      Springheel

      There are places where I reused lines (or parts of them) in multiple places, but the scripts are all complete. I'll track them down.

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Having this on the wiki maybe a good step forward.

    4. RPGista

      RPGista

      Yeah, definitely good for those needing to set up conversations by using existing vocals. Cool

  12. Working on that monastery mission in March, but got back to it only recently and making some substantial progress. Still at the rough building phase. Will probably make another mission that will get published before the monastery one (due to story reasons). I want to make my missions a continuous story.

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    2. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      Awesome! Keep at it :)

    3. Bikerdude
    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you, guys. I certainly will keep at it, but I'm also pressed to finish my translation project first. I'd like to get it out before the 2.06 update, if possible.

  13. I currently don't have Internet at home and I'm rather busy, but I'll be back soon. Wishing you guys and gals all the best and I hope you're having a nice summer. :-) Wait for me, I won't be long.

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    2. Anderson

      Anderson

      Best wishes. Eyes need rest.

    3. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      Enjoy and have a good relax.

       

      I will also spent more time outside now :)

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      I haven't even begun this year's vacation, haha. Too much unfinished work. :-) But now I'm back and as soon as the site completes its necessary maintenance, I'll be visiting a lot more often once again.

  14. To anyone willing to help with a minor but useful voice acting/vocal set-related project: I'd like to upload a 3,5 MB zip to a cloud, but I don't have a dropbox account (and mediafire has become weirdly unreliable for zip downloads). Would anyone be willing to share their storage space for a few weeks ? The zip file contains the player character voice files (grunts, etc.) and I'd like to share the link with VAs I've asked for help with completing the female version of the player character voice files. Just so they could have a point of comparison with the existing voice files, to have a clear idea of what we're aiming for with the female version of that vocal set. Thank you for any help with this, it's a minor thing, but would be incredibly helpful ! Cheers...

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you. ? Open your darkmod folder, find the pk4 file "tdm_sound_vocals01". Make a copy of it into some other folder elsewhere. Rewrite the format manually, from .pk4 to .zip.  If that doesn't work, use the converter I provide in the attachment (just put it in the same folder as the copied .pk4 and click it). Once you have that vocals .pk4 copy converted to .zip format, you can upload the zip to your dropbox. Like I said, it's only some 3,5 MB, in both .pk4 and .zip format. Then send me the dropbox link, so I can share it with the VAs. Thanks a ton !

       

      PK4-ZIP.bat

    3. Tarhiel
    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      It seems to be working well. Thank you for your help. :)

  15. I've been gone for a while, but now I'm back, have a new desktop and I want to get back to making missions and playing missions. And doing other contributions. Waiting for my reset password for the wiki, but I'll take a look at it soon. Hello, all. :)

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    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      I already wanted to revisit the forums this past autumn and winter, but other stuff kept me busy. Now that I've jumped over to 64-bit TDM on a brand new machine, I also want to revisit my old FM projects and complete a smaller FM.

    3. thebigh

      thebigh

      New missions! New missions! *happy noises*

    4. datiswous

      datiswous

      Btw. in case you come across these 2 pages on the wiki, I modified them quite a bit after you left:

      The contents of the Entity database was hidden and therefore no search could be made on it's contents (everything that is hidden does not excist for search and this makes it kind of useless i.m.o.). I restructured it so everything is always visible (with a back to top-index link after each section).

  16. Noticed some heating issues with my GPU this evening. If it repeats and I am forced to have it repaired, I will let you know. I will also attempt to upload the translation files ASAP, just to be sure (in case things could take longer).

    1. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      It seems to be stable now, so maybe it was just a false alarm. I'll keep you posted if anything changes. Rest assured, what I'm still working on for TDM this month will be made public, either way.

    2. Vae
    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      @Petike, regarding your GPU you have a pm. As there will be a few things we can do to fix the overheating issue as long as it isn't h/w failure.

  17. With my workload finally decreasing and having to stay at home far longer than I planned for this spring, I think I'll try to find more time for TDM as well. For the time being, I want to work on those audio projects.

    1. Anderson
    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      I've been safe and stayed safe. :) Enjoying the summer and working on some TDM stuff occassionally. I'll become more livelier here on the forums in the autumn/fall. :)

    3. Anderson

      Anderson

      Thank you and good luck!

  18. Phew ! Problem solved ! Now I'll move on ASAP to working on the base missions. I hope I can finish and spellcheck them by October. It's high time.

    1. Vae

      Vae

      Good to hear! :)

    2. Bikerdude
    3. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Yes indeed. :-) Now I just have to figure out how to test FM translations. x-D

  19. I finally have a concrete idea for my debut mission. Builder monasteries and fish ponds are involved as the backdrop. (Also, my planned protagonist gets introduced, as well as a new TDM-verse town.) Now to iron out the objectives developments and the plot twists to the basic storyline...

    1. Sotha

      Sotha

      Excellent! My advice for new mission authors is always the same: start with a small mission.

    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Sorry for such a late reply, but yeah, I intend the first mission to be fairly small. A single building complex of monastic Builders, with two or three smaller outdoor areas (a cloister, a herb garden, a larger garden with fish ponds). Nothing bigger. Now that I've gained some experience in DR and I'm gaining editing confidence, I feel more comfortable posting this, as I'll start work on the FM soon. :-)

  20. Ambients database completed. I'll continue to work on the other not yet finished databases and vocal script overviews. We already have a lot more non-tutorial documentation archived than just half a year ago.

    1. RPGista

      RPGista

      Thats amazing work, man.

    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you. Is the playability of the audio samples straightforward enough ?

  21. Just in case anyone's interested, that Garrett illustration in my profile picture was made a few years ago by Dominuzzz.

  22. Peaceful Easter holidays to everyone. I'll try to organise some sort of a work group for us "messing around with the GUI and .lang files" types. ? Grayman thinks it's a good idea, so I might give it a shot. At least putting a group together for now, that would be a good start.

  23. I'm doing some major archiving and updating on our wiki and the Thief wiki. It should be completed soon enough. I would also like to ask a question: The author "Digi", who made the TDM FM "Poets and Peasants", is Digital Nightfall from TTLG.com ? Or is he a completely different author ? Thanks in advance.

    1. demagogue

      demagogue

      Digital Nightfall, aka Dan, has been contractually barred from making FMs as long as he's been working for Arkane, so it's very unlikely to be him.

    2. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      Thank you. :) This is precisely why I'm asking, as I know he's been working at Arkane for years. I wanted to be sure, without a shadow of a doubt, that it was someone else, with a similar nickname. I know that DN's abbreviated nickname back in his TTLG days was "Digi", so that was the confusing element that created the whole conundrum.

  24. Still working on the vocal sets documentation project. Don't worry. I'll start porting it to the wiki in November. In the meantine, I also have an additional TDM documentation project on the side. Still a lot of work with it, but it's progressing well.

    1. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      So, here's the current state: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Vocal_scripts_overview I'm still improving the formatting, for better readability. If there are any updates that are necessary for 2.06 or even 2.07, feel free to let me know.

  25. Nemal si ty niekedy včera meniny ? :) Tak, všetko najlepšie.

    1. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      Ahoj Petike, mal, ďakujem! :)

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