nbohr1more

Thanks for the well-wishes! I feel I am mostly recovered. ( maybe the antiviral drugs helped hasten things ? ) Definitely glad I didnt suffer the fate of Physics Girl. The only lasting Covid impact for me is residual muscle discomfort in my right arm from the first vaccine dose 2 yrs ago.

ow :S yeah luckily only had one bout with that fella but was pretty nasty.

@nbohr1more, I'm glad to hear that you're well on the road to recovery and not suffering the worst of the long-term effects. Here's hoping each day continues to be better.

Excellent, thanks for posting!

Hey @nbohr1more Media page on website is borked:

https://www.thedarkmod.com/media/

(it looks like the Nextgen gallery plugin doesn't work anymore sitewide)

Edit: Ah somebody seems to be working on it now. I wonder why a description list is used though..

Having a lightbox + slideshow plugin would be a good idea.

Maybe it's also good to upload some more (recent) screenshots and/or other media? We could make some sort of competition and the highest ratest screenshots will be placed on the media page? This could also influx some more TDM play (of 2.11).

Congratulations!

(I find it odd that there isn't an open topic to congratulate the Team for the release).

Congrats - gonna test it out ASAP. Thanks a lot for your hard and constant work. It is great to see the game evolving further!

That was so cool to go through!

Very effective. There's Thief fans there admitting they never heard of TDM, and now they are trying it. So excellent.

Nope. Not that I can find. If it was there, they seem to have removed it.

Maybe specifically ask people in this thread:

Just an idea

If you know it was on a current site, you can try archive.org to see if they have it cached in a past snapshot.

Sounds like you're safe to me.

Everyone should probably be under-volting AMD anyway from what I've heard.
The story goes that they push the voltage up to ensure that bad silicon has a better chance of testing at the rated clocks so they will have more chips to sell. I'm sure it's an industry wide practice but I imagine consumers would rather that bad silicon get sold at lower prices with lower clocks (etc) than pushing all chips to the brink just so they can squeeze out 10% more high-end sales.

Do you remember the "AMD Killer" event? It's like Nvidia and AMD are trying to give the new Intel ARC very little competition to do that again, but...No, I really doubt it that this time one company or the other is doing an incredibly scummy (yet typical of every corporation) tactic to defile its competitors. This time, it's absurd incompetence from both Nvidia (4090 and 4070 Ti) and AMD (Not even the 7900's new thermals are good)

There's no need to undervolt, just set a lower power limit. The current is the killer if the physical problem is the overheat and not some capacitor/dielectric explosion (that's how voltage damage works, errors apart due to how undervolting practices makes computation/processing unstable)

unknown general material parameter 'lightAmbientDiffuse' in 'lights/ambientCube/cumbesky_mountain_sunset_caduceus'

in both TDM 2.10 and SVN. The ambient is missing, therefore no effect anyways.

Don't know what you've done or may have forgotten to include, but I cannot reproduce an ambient issue if there is no ambient

And next time, test map

lightAmbienDiffuse should exist in the latest SVN per:

I can create an alternate material with ambientCubicLight instead for 2.10 if you prefer?

This and .... a test map I really don't want to dig through tons of files to search for the issue, not to mention the loading times. And if you cannot reproduce the issue in a test map, then maybe it's the maps fault.

Hi, can you remove my vote for Hazard Pay ? I didn't finish the mission.

Can oblige.

That said, there is no need to fully complete a mission to vote on it. As long as you've played enough of it to reasonably assess it's qualities then voting on it is kosher. If an author chooses to hide all the best qualities of the mission until the very end, I would estimate that most players would not like that mission no matter how good the ending. Eg. Ideally, a highly rated mission will be fun from start to finish and will not force players to endure long "dry" areas devoid of entertainment.

Ah I see, apologies - it read at first like a continuation from the VL section as that was the last header - I thought each image was intended to show off a VL example from each contest mission. Apologies for the nitpicking.

No it's all good. Glad to make things a little more accurate

Yes, fireplaces and a FEW windows. Sorry I’m late to the game, seems you got it sorted. But yeah, I wanted more windows to have volumetric lights, but decided not to on those long hallways for performance reasons. That’s always a fine line. 
Anyway thanks for the article!

Lovely, unfortunately he was wrong at least once up to now.

http://www.thenation.com/article/181437/state-department-says-russia-invading-ukraine-should-we-believe-them

No offense but he seems to know what he's talking about but his conclusions are similar to Snowden and Assange.

Great work!

Thank you for doing this, and thank the rest of the team for getting 2.07 out the door! Not really using low end hardware anymore; the weakest thing I play on is a GTX770-4GB, but still.

Nice work.

Great job! That was very well written.

Thanks guys. Sorry for the grammar mistakes. I tried to get the article up quickly while my family was out on the town. I'll be updating it with a few more changes shortly.

I had a giggle at the pseudo-quote of me regarding low obstacle mantling. :-D Good article! :-)

Still waiting for more respondents here:

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19470-lowend-challege-get-tdm-206-running-on-the-oldest-and-slowest-hardware/

Oh wait... is this the version where lightgem was processed by capturing screenshot into a named pipe?

Yes. LOL.

Suprisingly, tdm_lg_split works really well in 1.02. To think of all the extra performance I could've had when playing back then...

So wait, AI vs AI? Or the player gets to challenge the NPC to an, "arms race"?

The player option goes down really hilarious in my head. xD

Oh, now I want both options! LOL! I was thinking of an AI vs AI arm wrestling contest with other AI gathered around watching them.

The effort is appreciated fella.

+1

I would personally love an A to Z tut. I still might have a guy set for doing my FM soundtrack so having extra knowledge to arm all the select audio bits would be wonderful.

The Location System is technically mentioned in the context of a blurb saying the ambient sound system exists. (I remember because I wrote it!) But not everything it does. It's a bit complicated for an intro tutorial, but if many people think it's important enough, maybe we can have section just for it and add the ambient sound & EFX.

Yes to stgatilov and Epifire, we're talking about fidcal's tutorial if you didn't catch it: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=A_-_Z_Beginner_Full_Guide_Start_Here!

That's pretty fantastic. I'd almost wanna try playing an FM that way just to see what it's like.

neat!

16 bit colors can also help.

Commited slider at rev 15227

I think it should be provided officially. It's easy to patch via the updater, right ?

Maybe bring it up in the dev forums?

If the Moddb stats are correct. We have doubled the largest 1-day visit count.

Nice!

My belated congrats on the v2.06 release !