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  1. I'm still hoping for player and guard footstep sounds to be redone someday. They seem a bit 'placeholder' to me. If I ever get a good microphone for recording, I will try to make versions that sound a little more realistic and pleasant to my ear and share thems for if others happen to like them, too. Unfortunately, spending money on that isn't a priority for me in the foreseeable future, sigh
  2. Oh, sorry, we're supposed to pick a Custom version. That's what you meant by selecting the version "manually". I don't do custom updates very often, so didn't realize that's what you meant at first
  3. The installer doesn't show "2.11a" for me -- just "release211". I assume that's okay, and maybe just a limitation of the installer window? However, after updating "from release211" to "release211", where it says 5MB will be removed, I click tdm_installer again, and it just shows the exact same system stats, with same Current and Final sizes (i.e., 5MB will be removed), etc. No matter how many times you run it, it says the current size is 4081MB and that 5MB will be removed. It's a little confusing, so thought I'd mention:
  4. I updated to 2.11 beta and tried to run TDM recently, but Norton blocked something from happening: I assume Norton is just being extra cautious. Am I right? It's okay to let the process run, right? If so, I wonder if something should be tweaked in the code before official launch to help avoid false flags by anti-virus programs at launch:
  5. Looks interesting. I'll try the demo, but I can tell in that trailer I'm definitely not going to enjoy the weapon/torch being held the way they area, and their bob animations being in parity. I hope there's a day when games stop covering so much of the screen with weapons/run fists and unrealistic bob/sway anims for them
  6. Okay, cool! Thanks for the link. I think this issue is similar/probably related: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5341 Looks like a couple folks are already keeping an eye on things there to help make sure it gets resolved
  7. I set FOV, but my view doesn't change to what I want until I pick something up (candle, fruit, etc.) I've set it to 130 here to demonstrate. The FOV doesn't change to 130 until I actually pick up the apple; then it just hard-cuts to that 130 FOV. As soon as I drop the apple, it reverts to basic/default FOV. I did some searches and didn't see this issue. If it's known, my apologies.
  8. I find the menu music quite loud and rumbling bassy and would like to be able to disable it completely. I try to disable here (see screenshot), but I think that probably only disables the piano/music box song theme. I still hear synth keyboard, bell hits, drum hits, ambient music type stuff going on. I'd like to turn it all off. If it only had quiet wind whistling noises, that'd be fine. It's all the ambient music stuff I don't want. It's jarring when you're playing a mission and have to go to the menus to adjust something like brightness. The ambient menu sounds loudly kick in For the longest time, I didn't give it much thought and figured it was just a bug that would get resolved. But now I think I've realized it actually just disables the piano/music box song and it was probably intended to be this way? If so, another toggle field would be great, such as, "Menu Ambience ON/OFF" Or volume sliders for "Main Menu Music" and "Menu Ambience" so we can choose our own volumes that we like... ranging from 0% to 100%. To be honest, if we had this level of control, I'd probably set both to like 10-15% volume rather than completely off. With their current loudness setting, I definitely want them both off.
  9. Oh, nice! Thank you. I'll do those, too. I see some other filter options not assigned a hotkey yet, so will experiment. I wonder if there's a Backface Culling option? I don't see one after trying all the filters. It's a handy feature in Maya's viewport when trying to work on something inside a room or when an area is blocked by building walls and such. Screenshot from the interwebz (backface culling enabled on right side): In DR, I remember wishing I didn't have to always be inside my rooms with the cam to see all the objects inside, etc. Otherwise, you only see this when outside your rooms: PS: Ohhh, I'm so glad I just found a camera option to disable far-clip plane! Having far-clip plane enabled and no backface culling before was a bit claustrophobic and cumbersome trying to navigate from room to room. I used to sometimes have to truck my viewport cam down a hallway so I wouldn't lose track of where I was So nice to be able to see all my rooms at once (please don't make fun of the low quantity of them)
  10. I'm hoping to jump back into DarkRadiant soon to try and continue a map I started long ago with Springheel's awesome training video series. I updated DR to latest version, and am excited to try the new 'live link' to TDM; which I don't think existed when I was working on my map. From the seasoned DR vets, do you have any keyboard shortcut/hotkey recommendations I should configure that are different than the defaults, or that I should add? And do you think it'd be detrimental for me to change my camera nav keys to WASD instead of arrow directional keys? (UPDATE: I now see mousewheel moves cam forward and back! That may solve my woes. I probably knew that before and forgot.) I'll put my previous question details about WASD camera nav in spoilers in case I need to ask it again in future. Any hotkey recommendations are appreciated. I watched a vid regarding the live link. I have a feeling a hotkey for Connection -> Tell game to reload .map file now would be very handy. Is there any way to set that up?
  11. I extracted the Windows TDM Installer zip to my Desktop; now I have a hash.txt file there. Should I move it to my 'darkmod' game directory, or delete it? I use Win10. Based on stgatilov's post, I can't tell if it exists just for the initial download, or if the TDM updater will keep using it in future TDM version updates
  12. UPDATE: See my EDIT note at very bottom of my post, as I have a solution that works for me. Will leave rest of post intact ---------- Oh, I now see I defined my inventory selection like this (or it's the default TDM setup); so it looks like inventory won't be an issue: However, for spyglass, readables, and object manip, I see no way to assign such a setup. So, in the end (in summary), I think it'd be great if someday TDM could have user-definable control mappings in the menus where I could specify the following: Spyglass Zoom (when active): Zoom In - WHEELUP Zoom Out - WHEELDOWN Object Manipulation (when holding an object out in front of you): Push Away - WHEELUP Bring Closer - WHEELDOWN Reading Texts: Previous Page - WHEELUP Next Page - WHEELDOWN In the meantime, I will try to find somewhere in config/pref files where I might be able to reverse these three actions on my own (since I know TDM updates don't happen overnight), and report back if I succeed; but if someone else knows exactly where, I'm all ears! ---------- EDIT!! I'm here to report that all is well from my end now. After reviewing DarkmodKeybindings.cfg, I made a hunch that maybe multiple actions shared my inventory wheelup/wheeldown choice in Settings (and thinking that might be what you were saying, Obsttorte). Sure enough, I reversed the setting (i.e., changed "Next Inv. Item" to "WHEELDOWN" and "Prev Inv. Item" to WHEELUP") and voila! My spyglass, object manip, and readables are now working as I'd expect them to! I wasn't aware before that all of these actions were tied to that one inventory preference. Inventory selection direction isn't really that big of deal for me; it's the other three that I was mainly worried about. This in-game behavior I'm seeing now harkens back to how I'm pretty sure TDM used to work for me; so I may have accidentally changed the inventory setting away from the TDM defaults at some point. It still might not be a bad idea to break off spyglass, object manip, and readables to have their own configurable settings someday, but I'm okay now.
  13. I find that the mouse-wheel in TDM does the opposite of what I want it to with: (1) the spyglass zoom, (2) pushing and pulling an object you're holding out in front of you, and (3) flipping pages in texts. I don't see a way to invert the mouse-wheel in the menus for these things. Is there a way? If not, can a way be added someday, perhaps? My instincts tell me to: Roll the mouse-wheel forward to zoom in with the spyglass; backward (i.e., toward me) to zoom out. Roll the mouse-wheel forward to push an object away from me; backward (i.e., toward me) to bring the object closer. Roll the mouse-wheel forward to go to last page; backward (i.e., toward me) to go to next page. But TDM is the reverse of these, and it becomes a conscious effort every time I try do do these actions when it should be purely intuitive/instinctual. Note: Using mouse-wheel to scroll through inventory items seems fine to me. I don't want that reversed. PS: I know everyone has their own preference... similar to how some people like to have Y-inverted for flight sims and some don't. So, I'm not asking to change it for everyone as a default. I just think an invert/reverse mouse-wheel option should exist in the menus, if it's not already there somewhere. Pretty sure other games have done the reverse of TDM for these types of mouse-wheel things, where it's been a lot more intuitive for me. I think it'd be safe to invert for all three of these things, but if you wish to instead separate them out so each action can be individually inverted by the player, that'd probably be safer -- to allow for maximum customization.
  14. It also crashes to Desktop for me mid-way through loading the map. Not sure what causes it. I installed it through the in-game map downloader and this is my first time trying to play it. I'm on Win10 with decent PC specs all around. EDIT: Will try the "TheDarkModx64.exe" executable per the OP, in case I wasn't already. EDIT 2: Yeah, that was it. It launches now (using x64 executable).
  15. I agree, Wesp5 What if each fan mission author could specify their own class-ranking values for their mission? A table that lets them manually specify the stealth score-to-career ranking relationships for their map? As well, over time, as more people play their mission, they could fine-tune that table based on player feedback; if there's a trend of people being outraged by carefully playing the hard or long map and getting "Clumsy Safe-cracker" for their ranking instead of, say, a "Nimble Boxman" PS: I propose any art that accompanies the class characterizations should have a shadow over the face of the character so we can't see what their face looks like.
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