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I guess mission authors should refrain from adding these grime decals now that we finally have SSAO.

Most mission authors create a connected series of missions with a continuous story. Checkout the William Steele Series by Grayman, the Shadows of Northdale Series by Goldwell or the Thomas Porter Series by Sotha. There is also the No Honor Among Thieves Campaign by GoldChocobo.

Those screenshots create an incredible classic-thief vibe! I feel home right away!

Thanks for sharing your workaroung. I guess this could help @imaginaryboy for the time being.

Ah ok, I was not aware of that. That's quite a bummer, actually! What course of action would you suggest, @stgatilov?

You could try the 2.08 beta and check if the issue is still given with the borderless-fullscreen mode, which you can enable in the video-settings.

What was the problem? Looking at the diff, aren't the mathematical operations the same as before?

That looks so American! Everything is so rectangular and symmetric.

Saint Lucia?

Build an actual cage of monster-clip, so that extremities can dangle, but there is no chance for the body to get away?

Just out of curiousity, I searched the web a little for. I expected it to maybe be available in the future, since they recently relaxed the rules on nazi symbols here in Germany. However, I was surprised to find out that this game seems to be hard to come by not only in Germany. Maybe a licensing issue?

I've been using the free time due to the corona-lockdown to finally learn OpenGL. Graphics programming has been on my bucket-list for quite some time, so I had a lot of fun learning this! However, the inital motivation to learn OpenGL was actually to add Bloom back into TDM. As you probably know, the mighty @cabalistic has beaten me to it, which is pretty damn good, because my first try at Bloom yesterday was really bad!! I ended up integrating his bloom into my testproject.

Hi GAREWOLF, welcome to the dark side. You are right, your PC should be able to run TDM with ease. How many fps do you currently get? If you don't know, you can enable fps display via the console. To open the console, press ctrl+alt+tilde (they key below escape), and then enter com_ShowFPS 1. Here are some questions for you that should help us narrow the problem down: You said that soft lighting leads to the performance issues. I assume you mean soft shadows. Does it also happen on other soft shadow qualities or just on highest? Does it also happen with the other shadows implementation Do the performance issues happen on all maps or just a specific one? Can you post your darkmod.cfg? What version of TDM are you running?

Incredibly detailed article about how to render a frame in Rise of the Tomb Raider. I will have to study the bloom shader in more detail for inclusion in TDM. https://sudonull.com/post/3405

Maybe fly around the map using noclip with various r_show* cvars enabled, to see if you can identify the issue? I am at a loss. I hope one of the veteran mappers / engine coers pops in soon.

Did you also try changing some graphics settings and see if the effect persists? Critical settings are softshadows, stencil shadows or shadow maps, r_useFBO.

Maybe some moderator should move these posts about videoscreens into a separate discussion, as people might find the information useful in the future and will find it better this way.

Just FYI, Ubisoft now also gives away games over the course of the month. This list is not yet complete. More are to come: https://free.ubisoft.com/

Custom tdm_player_thief.def or tdm_sfx_movement.sndshd in you mission?

Both are already in place. Did you actually play with sound enabled? You can find more details here: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4992

I have addressed both issues. The changes should be in the next beta release. @kingsal, @lowenz, I actually had a quick look into mobilizing the player during the shouldering animation, but apparently it is not easily possible because the player actually clips through the floor and allowing regular movement during that leads to the player falling through the floor. Sorry guys, this cannot be changed without creating a completely new type of viewport animation, which is way besond the scope of this beta-phase. However, I made sure that you can actually disable the animation via pm_shoulderAnim_msecs = 0.

I just realized that immobilizing the player is actually not OK while the player is in mid-air. Sure, this is a very rare corner case ("grabbing an AI while in the air"), but playing out the animation and then dropping on the floor is really weird. It also still feels kind of weird, that the player view cannot be adjusted while the animation plays out. I will have to revisit the code.

Oh wow, yes, that's a huge gain in loading time. My loading time for Saint Lucia in 2.08 Beta 1 decreased from 0:28 min to 0:17 min when run from my regular HDD. Wow! Just out of curiousity, I also copied the game to my lightning fast m2-SSD and surprisingly, there was no difference in loading time: It was 0:17 min again! Tried it numerous times in both cases, to verify. I conclude, that hdd access are not the bottleneck in regards to loading time.

Yeah, I know. The way I understand it, you'd need Mipmaps and stream the higher resolution mipmaps later. I just figured you might be interested in this.

Player's movement is locked for example while mantling and just like in that case, it makes sense to immobilize the player here: Lifting a 140 kg guard is not an easy task, so you cannot move while doing it. And as I said above, this is also meant to balance shouldering vs dragging because shouldering is so overpowered that nobody ever would use dragging (which has been discussed here and in the linked thread). With this brief immobilization, there is a small disadvantage when using shouldering, so the player might consider rather dragging a body than shouldering it in some situations. Anyway, if you don't like the feature, you can just disable it via the pm_shoulderAnim cvars, as I already said above.