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1 hour ago, esme said:Spoiler
Where is the key for the lab gate ?
SpoilerThat's Alchemist Gray's key that you used to get out through the vents.
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2 hours ago, Marbrien said:
The door I'm talking about is an external door, which has a short inverted L shaped path between itself and the blacksmith's external door.
Oh that! There is no key. That's the door most of the AI in the yard exit into after the show is over.
So congrats on finding all the keys!
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7 hours ago, Marbrien said:
1. There is a building adjacent to the blacksmith's with a locked door into the yard. Where is the key for that door?
That's Weezil's key. Once you've done the main quest the game world is totally open and there's access to several routes back to the start. One is to find Weezil's key and use that door.
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5 hours ago, esme said:
I just need to find this drop box or work out what I haven't done that triggers it
SpoilerThere are 4 drop boxes. Aeden's (first one, walking stick goes there), Gwyneth's at the farm (2nd, Aeden's note to Gwyneth goes there, as well as some items from Gwyneth's sidequests), Airmid's at the grotto, Alchemist Gray's at the lab.
Read the objectives carefully as each tells what dropbox to use. The drop boxes aren't hidden. To pass from the Gwyneth farm area to the Airmid grotto area you have to do the right thing with Smythe, as Gwyneth's quest objective says. Stuff that goes in Airmid's drop box is all optional, but does enhance the game if completed. It's essential to put Airmid's herbs in Alchemist Gray's drop box.
This doesn't really spoil much if people read it but it's best to use the spoiler flag. Thank you.
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18 minutes ago, tapewolf said:
I've reloaded and tried a few times, but it seems to be a persistent issue.
A triggering problem. Thanks. It happens rarely (in my playthroughs). I'll put it on my list.
Glad to hear that the portals did the job.
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21 minutes ago, nbohr1more said:
The 1.1 "fix" appears to be removing some think optimizations so that will lower performance further unfortunately.
Yes, it takes out the neverDormant=0 spawnarg globally, not just in the Belcher. Because I have no way of knowing where else the problem might occur, and on what machines.
Shadow's report does confirm stgatilov's diagnosis of the problem.
What I can't understand is how on the same machine Noble Affairs gets 175-200 fps most of the time. At the same video settings (maps, med soft shadows, everything else off) I get nothing close to that on my machine, and most of the time Lucy scores better. For example, on the dock at the start I get 45-55 fps as I rotate 360. In the first corridors I get 25-35 fps, and in the manor it's the same with spots going down to 20. Such variation baffles me.
Comparing with shadows stencil and soft shadows off, Noble Affairs gets 80-100 fps most of the time, which is pretty good. But half what Shadow gets. On Lucy with stencil and soft shadows off the increase in fps is much more modest.
I'm running v2.10. I'll switch to v2.11 dev build, although this problem doesn't happen on my machine, or is near imperceptible.
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8 hours ago, Marbrien said:
it was annoying
Yah, changing of the guard often takes thieves by surprise. That's why the taffers do it. Fortunately in this case they were half-assed when they did their change act and with the thief having prior knowledge of the layout it's rather a cakewalk.
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I have updated the download link to a version 1.1 that hopefully addresses the issue of AI immobilized in T-pose in the Belcher (and possibly other places). Version 1.1 will probably break the savegames from earlier versions (I''m not certain of that).
Apologies to everyone.
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10 hours ago, pwl said:
when I was in the Pub I could hear a bottle clinking it was under the foot of the man playing the lute
That's a wandering minstrel or troubadour, although in truth his home turf is the tavern made famous in King of Diamonds. So he's seen everything and I can't picture him being perturbed. When it came time to renovate the interior of a structure decorated with the Belcher's sign made originally by Springheel construction I believe, I'd just been hypnotized by the tavern in KoD, by the lighting and ambience, so I had that tavern in mind when I copy/pasted from Spooks' work.
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@esme @boissiere @Shadow @Marbrien @pwl
I don't get this scarecrows-at-the-Belcher glitch on either my PC or my laptop so my hands are tied without help. This glitch seems new so that narrows my hunches re. what might be causing it.
If anyone who has this glitch wishes to help out - it's asking a lot to be sure - could you send me a PM so I can send a link to a possibly fixed map?
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6 hours ago, esme said:
Is Airmids drop box the one where I drop the walking stick ?
SpoilerThere are 4 similar drop boxes in the FM.
1. You drop the walking stick in the box next to Aeden's hut "decorated by Airmid's sign" (mandatory objective) - the sign being the swirl. This opens the way to the manor. That drop box is now done.
2. The note to Gwyneth that appears after you drop the walking stick needs to be put (mandatory objective) into a drop box in the barn at Gwyneth's farm. Some other items (optional) go there as well.
3. After finishing the mandatory objective given by Gwyneth and crew a way opens that soon leads to Airmid's grotto where Airmid's drop box is located. What goes in that drop box is all optional. At the grotto you pick up Airmid's herbs to give to alchemist Gray.
NOTE: what goes into Gwyneth's drop box is to do with the farm, what goes into Airmid's is info/evidence intended to reach the Crown.
4. In the lab next to Gray is the last drop box where you put the herbs. That drop box is now done. Wait a sec and collect the goods from Gray and you're home free to return to start (if you gathered enough loot) or to explore further and finish off optional objectives.
I'm glad to see you're still playing it!
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F5 is default quicksave in a lot of games so it becomes an unthinking action.
So I've configured both F4 and F5 to quicksave, leaving F9 as quickload since that's also a common default and unthinking action. Hitting F5 to quicksave after completing a complicated gameplay and getting loaded back to the start of the qauntlet can be irritating.
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On 6/8/2022 at 4:11 PM, nbohr1more said:
The mission is up in the mission database:
@nbohr1more , a problem has been reported and I wonder if this FM could be taken off the database and I could retract the release until the issue is resolved?
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4 hours ago, boissiere said:
I've just had the same thing though only with 3 AI
The .jpg shows AI standing in "skinning" position with arms stretched out.
This isn't good. It doesn't effect gameplay in the Belcher because of the way triggers etc. are set up, but if it happens elsewhere it might break the game. Regardless, it's totally immersion breaking!
This isn't consistent. In esme's case it happened once but didn't happen again after a fresh restart. In your case different AI are effected.
@stgatilov I wonder if this erratic behavior could be produced by the spawnarg neverDormant=0 that's on those AI? It only happens on some AI with the spawnarg. There's been no report of the AI in the "yard" area (first area of the FM) behaving like that though the spawnarg is set on all of them.
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39 minutes ago, High John said:
Help please(!)
Look up. The ducts go in 3 dimensions.
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1 hour ago, esme said:
anyone else get this ?
Thanks for the report.
I've never seen that in my hundreds/thousands/millions of playthroughs of the area. There's nothing special about those AI or the area.
Do you know the cheats? Could you start a new game, open the console with ctrl-alt-` and type in noclip (enter) then notarget (enter). You can then quickly fly through walls to the belcher and check if it happens every time. noclip and notarget are toggles, so typing them in again will exit from the cheats.
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The Adventures of Thomas: Lucy's Quest
Author: gg
2022-06-20
Version: 1.1
Required TDM Version: 2.10 or higher
EFX: Yes==============================================================
Cautionary note:
This FM needs a strong CPU/GPU combination sufficient to play the more demanding TDM FMs.
Just as for many or most of the new FMs being released with the new gfx possibilities opened up it does a world of good to tweak the advanced video settings for the best combination of settings for your PC. For example, on my weaker laptop I set shadows as stencil and soft shadows off. On my desktop I set shadows as maps and soft shadows medium. Bloom off. Ambient occlusion off. Since the FM was built and extensively tested at these settings I believe either should produce a satisfactory experience.==============================================================
Sound Credits:
freemusicarchive.org music Aislinn04_-_Aislinn_-_Lovely_Maria
freesound.org klankbeeld_horror_1
freesound.org/people/CarlosCarty/sounds/522687/ om_aum_mantra_male_chant_bb
freesound.org/people/Still%20Frames/sounds/37720/ still_frames
freemusicarchive.org music The_Mind_Orchestra_Bruwynn
tecknic.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-mod-ambience-and-atmospheres Zack Bower Ancient_2, _3, _5. Solemn_1
freesound.org/people/Jagadamba/sounds/256006/ group_chanting_om_aum==============================================================
Thanks to:
The TDM/DR developers for producing such a beautiful machine.
The keepers of the wiki pages which are looking very good these days.
Sotha for his invaluable tutorial "The Bakery Job". This tutorial is a jewel.
Springheel for creating an atmosphere.
Bikerdude for... ideas how to do things and scale things.
Playtesters and advisors Dragofer, wesp5, datiswous, shadow.
datiswous pointed out some immersion breaking lighting faults, so I got the idea.
wesp5 gave me some good advice on how to tell the story - so it's more understandable.
Dragofer gave me some early advice on optimizing the mission, which gave me a couple of months work with results that are well worth it.
Dragofer wrote a script which optimizes CPU calculations of AI interactions. Shadow helped by testing the script, as well as testing other attempts at optimization. With the script in action only the minimal of AI interactions in the player's vicinity are called to be calculated. The script provides a general benefit but the results vary from computer to computer. The script targets a CPU task.==============================================================
Gameplay:
Notes attached to objectives contain essential information on gameplay, on who the good/bad guys are, on what the player must do, and why.
Mandatory objectives are linear, directing the player along a route to the goal. Optional objectives can be completed anytime.==============================================================
CAUTION:
spiders, rats, undead, necrophiles, cannibals,
psychotic thugs, and some generally unsavory characters.
No snakes, though. The spiders ate them.==============================================================
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or "The adventures of Thomas: Lucy's quest"
This isn't a short mission - it takes awhile to play through - and for a first run I'd like beta testers to play without cheats (no godmode flythrough, please!), so gameplay issues are put to the fore. I'd also like this beta test to be "closed" - so I'll start a thread in the beta forum but PM links to testers, if there are any takers
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@datiswous and the other kind souls willing to help, I apologize for being out of the loop for the past while.
Dragofer saw my FM and offered some advice which I've been following. Like some earlier advice from Cabalistic (which I followed, and finished - and it was a shitload of work), Dragofer's suggestions were global and required very extensive global changes to my map. Those changes are 90+% done - with corresponding global improvements. A very good learning experience indeed! That's what's been taking up my time. I've also been implementing volumetric lighting throughout - this lighting improvement is fantastic!
I want my FM to go straight to beta after this, and this should be soon. I simply haven't got it in me to do more global fixes.
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My timing was off on this one. Work on beta-testing is much more needed elsewhere as there are several missions for the contest alone.
So I apologize.
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On 12/13/2021 at 6:44 AM, stgatilov said:
Corrected OpenGL usage of clipping planes in shadow map generation.
Hey, now I can use maps in my WIP with no artifacts! Thanks for all your work, stgatilov.
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Excellent mission from start to finish. Played on expert mode and had a hell of a time finding the last two artifacts. Finally got them by repeating to myself: both Grayman and Jack Farmer can be sneaky as hell hiding stuff. The whole team of mappers and actors were pitch perfect.
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I like this effect. I suppose it's known that the volumetric effect is switched off when a save is reloaded?
I use stencil shadows. Generally with maps I get lights flickering on/off at distances 1600/1800 units from player as well as occasional nearby artefacts. In most missions this isn't a problem but in a few it is and in my WIP it breaks the game in too many places.
The volumetric effect is easy to use and with the entity spawnarg it'll be a breeze.
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19 minutes ago, Dragofer said:
export the brushes (or re-export the model) by placing them near the DR grid origin such that DR's 0,0,0 is where you want the model origin to be and unchecking 'Center objects at 0,0,0 origin'.
I thought that might be the case. I'll use your method and make R and L pairs. Thanks for the quick answer!
The Adventures of Thomas: Lucy's Quest
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Posted · Edited by geegee
You must've gone through Aeden's hut to get the key to the Hall. There's a drop box right next to the hut. Can't miss it. That's not Aeden's stick, it's Airmid's that you picked up in the hall.