MirceaKitsune

I've no idea why it only appeared there after I read your comment: I'm sure I looked everywhere ? Anyway I've finished it. The ending didn't trigger for some reason, I had to manually mark it as completed and the loot I found. It was very nicely done overall, quality mapping and very nice atmosphere: Would love to see more like this in the future!

Do I need the new version for the objective there to trigger? I looked in that area and didn't see anything in v1.0 yesterday.

Almost done, only stuck on one final thing apparently.

Saw the trailer on Youtube today and decided to play this early. Finished exploring and only the objectives are left. Figured I'd help by pointing out two obvious bugs I found:

Hey. I'm giving this FM a try, but haven't been able to finish it in a few days. Could anyone offer some help?

Sweet! I didn't know that, was sure it's a custom asset as I never saw it elsewhere. I love how TDM and those FM's are evolving, great work everyone ?

Not a problem: I was able to finish it and find many areas without running into them! Thank goodness for that

Pretty good FM overall. I especially appreciated the more modern elements to it, you used a nice mixture of themes and styles here. The only thing that was a personal annoyance is the presence of a mandatory objective involving killing the spiders: I have a script that removes them from all maps by default, due to having arachnophobia which makes missions with giant spiders very hard to play. I had to temporarily disable it to be able to complete the mission. Due to that I only shot them from a distance, then had to noclip through the basement area instead of doing the area normally. Still loved the FM... it's just a personal thing that made it harder to play.

Took me a few days until I figured out what was causing the crash by random chance: I'm using a custom pk4 which overrides def/tdm_ai_monster_spider.def and sets all spider entities to target_null. The reason being that I have arachnophobia and literally couldn't play missions that have giant spiders in them. Had that mod for years and it didn't break any other FM's, but for this one it's throwing that error instead. So yeah, not a bug... it was all on my end. As this is a good FM I'll make the effort to temporarily remove my patch and play it with the spiders enabled... if it's that bad I'm prolly going to noclip through the area they're in ?

Weird. I'll try a fresh config if nothing else works, also re-download the FM from the installer. No other mission crashes on startup, I've played dozens over the past month... including part 1 of this one; It must be something specific to this.

Oh wow... thanks again. Yeah I didn't change it manually, but my config is old like from the days of TDM 2.03 so it likely got set back then. Who knows how much FPS I was losing without even knowing, can't wait to see the difference later today.

I ran the updater script again, but as expected it tells me my installation is already up to date. I looked in the mission downloader too just in case, there doesn't seem to be any update to the FM marked with a * (I install them all from that menu).

Aha... thank you! I shall try that next time I play. Does it have any undesired side effects, like decreasing the quality of any effects or breaking other shaders?

I'm not currently playing to generate an useful condump, but here's my darkmod.cfg in the meantime: unbindall bind "TAB" "_impulse19" bind "ENTER" "_impulse51" bind "ESCAPE" "togglemenu" bind "SPACE" "_moveup" bind "-" "_impulse50" bind "0" "_impulse10" bind "1" "_impulse1" bind "2" "_impulse2" bind "3" "_impulse3" bind "4" "_impulse4" bind "5" "_impulse5" bind "6" "_impulse6" bind "7" "_impulse7" bind "8" "_impulse8" bind "9" "_impulse9" bind "=" "_impulse49" bind "[" "_impulse47" bind "\" "inventory_hotkey ''" bind "]" "_impulse48" bind "^" "_impulse0" bind "a" "_moveleft" bind "b" "_impulse27" bind "c" "_impulse23" bind "d" "_moveright" bind "e" "_impulse46" bind "f" "_impulse44" bind "g" "inventory_use '#str_02396'" bind "i" "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02391'" bind "k" "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02392'" bind "l" "inventory_use '#str_02395'" bind "m" "inventory_cycle_maps" bind "n" "toggle r_showportals" bind "o" "_impulse30" bind "p" "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02389'" bind "q" "_impulse45" bind "r" "_impulse52" bind "s" "_back" bind "u" "_impulse51" bind "v" "inventory_hotkey '#str_02397'" bind "w" "_forward" bind "y" "clientMessageMode 1" bind "z" "_zoom" bind "BACKSPACE" "_impulse0" bind "PAUSE" "pause" bind "UPARROW" "_forward" bind "DOWNARROW" "_back" bind "LEFTARROW" "_left" bind "RIGHTARROW" "_right" bind "ALT" "_impulse23" bind "CTRL" "_button5" bind "SHIFT" "_speed" bind "DEL" "_lookdown" bind "PGDN" "_lookup" bind "END" "_impulse18" bind "F3" "_impulse17" bind "F4" "savegame quick" bind "F5" "loadgame quick" bind "F6" "_impulse20" bind "F7" "_impulse22" bind "F12" "screenshot" bind "KP_MINUS" "loadgame quick" bind "KP_PLUS" "savegame quick" bind "MOUSE1" "_attack" bind "MOUSE2" "_zoom" bind "MOUSE3" "_impulse41" bind "MWHEELDOWN" "_impulse14" bind "MWHEELUP" "_impulse15" seta com_automation_port "3879" seta net_serverDlTable "" seta net_serverDlBaseURL "" seta net_serverDownload "0" seta mod_validSkins "skins/characters/player/marine_mp;skins/characters/player/marine_mp_green;skins/characters/player/marine_mp_blue;skins/characters/player/marine_mp_red;skins/characters/player/marine_mp_yellow" seta g_mapCycle "mapcycle" seta g_voteFlags "0" seta g_gameReviewPause "10" seta g_countDown "10" seta g_password "" seta g_rotoscope "0" seta g_testModelHeadJoint "Spine2" seta g_testModelHead "atdm:ai_head_citywatch" seta g_skipViewEffects "0" seta g_fov "90" seta g_showBrass "1" seta g_showProjectilePct "0" seta g_showHud "1" seta g_showPlayerShadow "1" seta pm_air_regainingSpeed "4" seta pm_air "1800" seta pm_modelView "0" seta pm_thirdPersonDeath "0" seta pm_thirdPerson "0" seta pm_thirdPersonClip "1" seta pm_thirdPersonAngle "0" seta pm_thirdPersonHeight "0" seta pm_thirdPersonRange "80" seta pm_bobroll "0.0015" seta pm_bobpitch "0.001" seta pm_bobup "0.03" seta pm_runroll "0.003" seta pm_runpitch "0.001" seta pm_runbob "0.35" seta pm_walkbob "0.3" seta pm_crouchbob "0.2" seta pm_bboxwidth "32" seta pm_crouchrate "0.87" seta pm_deadviewheight "10" seta pm_deadheight "20" seta pm_normalviewheight "68" seta pm_normalheight "74" seta pm_crouchviewheight "34" seta pm_crouchheight "38" seta pm_maxviewpitch "89" seta pm_minviewpitch "-89" seta pm_noclipspeed "200" seta pm_walkspeed "70" seta pm_stepsize "16" seta pm_jumpheight "48" seta g_enablePortalSky "2" seta g_showcamerainfo "0" seta g_damageScale "1" seta g_decals "1" seta g_doubleVision "1" seta g_bloodEffects "1" seta g_projectileLights "1" seta g_muzzleFlash "1" seta gui_CenterY "0.5" seta gui_CenterX "0.5" seta gui_Height "1.0" seta gui_Width "1.0" seta r_fovRatio "0" seta r_aspectRatio "1" seta ui_showGun "1" seta ui_autoSwitch "1" seta ui_team "Red" seta ui_skin "skins/characters/player/marine_mp" seta ui_name "Player" seta si_serverURL "" seta si_spectators "1" seta si_usePass "0" seta si_warmup "0" seta si_teamDamage "0" seta si_timeLimit "10" seta si_maxPlayers "4" seta si_map "game/mp/d3dm1" seta si_gameType 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pm_lean_toggle "0" seta pm_lean_door_bounds_exp "8.0" seta pm_lean_door_max "40" seta pm_lean_door_increments "10" seta pm_lean_to_valid_increments "25" seta pm_lean_forward_stretch "15" seta pm_lean_forward_height "0.4" seta pm_lean_forward_time "400.0" seta pm_lean_forward_angle "2" seta pm_lean_stretch "2" seta pm_lean_height "0.4" seta pm_lean_time "400.0" seta pm_lean_angle "15.0" seta tdm_reattach_delay "100" seta tdm_crouch_toggle_hold_time "400" seta tdm_toggle_crouch "1" seta tdm_footfall_sounds_movetype_specific "1" seta pm_mantle_pullFast_msecs "450" seta pm_mantle_maxLowObstacleHeight "36.0" seta pm_mantle_minflatness "0.707" seta pm_mantle_height "0.2" seta pm_mantle_reach "0.5" seta pm_weightmod "1" seta pm_push_max_mass "200" seta pm_push_heavy_threshold "0.15" seta pm_push_accel_time "1000" seta pm_push_start_delay "1000" seta pm_push_maximpulse "300" seta pm_pushmod "0.15" seta pm_max_swimspeed_mod "1.4" seta pm_crouchmod "0.54" seta pm_creepmod "0.44" seta pm_runmod 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Sadly this FM is unplayable in TDM 2.07 and likely needs to be updated. I get the following error when the map loads, taking me right back to the main menu:

https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5068 Sometimes, when going underwater, the shader responsible for blurring the view will shrink the image to roughly 1/4 of the screen (1/2 both horizontally and vertically) and position it in the lower-left corner, while leaving a jumble of textures to display in the background. This only seems to happen on rare occasions; My latest test suggest it occurs if the player has taken any damage and the health bar is showing up on the HUD. I'm running TDM 2.07 x64 on Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed) with the free video drivers (amdgpu).

Another very good FM. The mapping and atmosphere was rather unique compared to the vast majority of missions, I loved the design you went for! I only noticed a few minor issues, such as missing menu music (I hear a series of beeps when I start it up) and there's a space across the hinges of doors through which you can see the skybox when a door is closed. If licensing permits and the authors are okay with this, I'd encourage including this lovely skybox into vanilla TDM, as it's very high quality and sets a beautiful theme. Also the high quality textures for the objectives page, IMO they look far better than the current default ones.

Been trying to get back into finishing a FM I started years ago. I noticed one of the things that's taking me the most is adding and positioning entities and models on the map. This would be a good time for two useful newbie questions: Is there a way to tell DR to add an entity on the surface of the last selected brush? It tends to add it at the origin point, so I always need to drag it vertically to align it. Is there a shortcut to center all viewports to the currently selected item? A lot of time is wasted trying to find my selection in the 2D views. I'm hoping for something like the numpad "." in Blender, which focuses the view to the thing you currently have selected.

I got around to this pretty late. Really liked the FM overall: It took me a few days to find most locations, even if I only found 1/3 loot even so. Nice city to explore with a lot of vertical action. It's been 3 years since this part was released: Is there going to be a part 4 as well, or was this the last one? I liked the FM's in this series, especially parts 2 and 3.

I was actually thinking to suggest that as well; I always found it funny that if the player opens and closes a door, an AI looking at that door will never question "why does the door seem to be moving on its own"? But like others said, it needs to be thought out whether this would negatively impact the gameplay. In this case though it doesn't necessarily need to trigger an alert: If all voice actors are still around, I'd rather just see a voice added instead! Something like the AI saying "is someone at the door" or "why is that moving on its own", similarly to how they complain about lights seemingly going out on their own ?

Those are all good points I admit. I mainly thought of this from the perspective of "hey, I thought of an easy way that we could finally make this work... maybe it's something we could play around with, for the sake of making everything even more complete and realistic". When I work on a project I tend to want to implement cool things that might be useful, often times just to see that I could code them and get it working efficiently. Perhaps I got a bit carried away, though I'm still glad I shared this idea just in case it inspires something of use.

I've seen discussion on the matter before. This time I wanted to provide an actual algorithm idea, since IIRC finding a good implementation approach was one problem. It would make sense for this to be a separate option in the difficulty panel and disabled by default. Honestly even I might not use it if it proved too annoying! Still I think it would be a fun thing to have... even just to see how ingeniously it can be implemented, how well one could code accurate shadow detection with minimal performance impact.

I don't know the exact performance cost of tracing a line from point A toward point B and checking if it hits a solid surface. Typically those operations are simple, a modern CPU should be able to handle them acceptably... but it depends on the projection algorithm used for surface detection. If it proves too much we could add a delay to how often the projection is updated. 0.1 seconds would be ideal, though even 0.5 should be acceptable.

Note that there's an even better and more accurate way of doing this, though the alternative technique would be a bit more costly in terms of processing power: Instead of tracing just one line from the light source to the center of the player's collision box, we can divide the player's box and create a virtual volume of points at a given resolution (eg: 4 x 4 x 6) then trace a line from the light source to each of those points. Every line that hits a solid within the light's radius will spawn a single tiny cube at the point of impact, each of those entities acting as additional visual alerts to the AI for the player. As the player is taller, a good default resolution would be 4 x 4 x 6 (slightly higher vertically). Still this means tracing 96 lines in total, for every AI / player located in every light, and doing it each frame; Depending on how cheap the trace procedure is, this could put quite a bit of load on the CPU. We could reduce the amount of useless points by instead creating a flat 2D grid of points in the center of the player's box which faces the light source... this would give a far more significant result (less pointless duplicates) with less overall points. In fact we can do it even better! Just trace lines from the light source to specific bones on the player's armature. By default we can use the following body parts: L + R lower leg, L + R upper leg, L + R lower arm, L + R upper arm, pelvis, spine, torso, head. Only 12 traces and the shape of the model would also be represented as accurately as possible ? An additional benefit to using multiple traces is that each alert point can be adjusted based on how washed out the shadow is: If it's located in an area that's strongly lit, the shadow is harder to see thus the AI is less interested. And the more such triggers the AI is seeing at once, the faster their alert level will rise... this would make it so that smaller shadows are also of less interest, but if the AI is seeing a lot of shadowing at once it gets their attention even more.