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Got my new painting skins and was seeing the following in the console before the map is even been loaded - Here is just one example - line 116: Missing decal name line 137: Expecting '{' but found 'portra'And the skin definition in question - skin 06portra { model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_m.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_l.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_tearable.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_m_tearable.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_l_tearable.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_s.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_s_tearable.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round_tearable.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round_s.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round_s_tearable.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_minature.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/painting_desktop_vertical.ase painting01 06portra painting01_m 06portra painting02_L 06portra } skin 07portra { model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_m.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_l.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_tearable.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_m_tearable.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_l_tearable.lwo model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_s.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_s_tearable.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round_tearable.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round_s.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_round_s_tearable.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting_minature.ase model models/darkmod/decorative/painting_desktop_vertical.ase painting01 07portra painting01_m 07portra painting02_L 07portra } As it turns out the engine dosen't like having numbers at the beginning of file names in either the kin or material defs, and I imagine it wont like them in other text based files the engine use etc.

Hey all! I haven't properly played the Dark Mod since 2.05 or maybe even 2.04 until now and I've noticed that whatever I do in game the center and LFE channels of my 5.1 sound system remain silent. In other words, the output is actually 4.0 (2 front + 2 rear speakers) rather than 5.1. Now, I am not sure exactly but I recall no problems previously - until the EFX update 2.06, I think. I even found my older post about extremely loud LFE channel here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/18741-really-loud-music/&tab=comments#comment-405277 As I understand, it is often made that the center and LFE channels are reserved for special sounds and not used often as the front speakers. For example, in Witcher3 center is mostly used for voices in the dialogs and the best way to check LFE is to use the aard sign magic. Or, in Skyrim it is known that LFE plays only when the dragon hits the ground. The first question is: do I have an issue with sound or not? Because maybe the sound output is ok and I've simply met no specific conditions utilizing the center and LFE channels? Minding my previous paragraph, I don't think it's EFX related but maybe the sound shaders simply changed since 2.05? This all brings me to another question: is there a way to check somehow in the Dark Mod wether the game outputs the sound correctly? About my setup now. I output sound via HDMI to Pioneer receiver with 5.1 setup. Everything works fine in modern games that provide 5.1 output support like the Witcher3 or Mortal Kombat 10 and 11. The windows sound configuration in control panel allows me to check all the speakers and it's fine. I have win 7 64 bit, OpenAl installed. The Dark Mod allows me to set 5.1 sound in options with no warning (I know that in other cases it gives a message like "your system does not support this sound configuration"). Please, help me to find out if anything's wrong with my setup and why my center and LFE channels are silent. Hate to start new threads but I didn't find anything related to my problem. Moreover, I feel the lack of sound-related discussions considering our community's interests.

I also feel you. I used to be a regular here in the forums, but since my son was born in 2022, it basically grunded to halt, although I still get the mails on threads that I wrote in. Ironically, your post in June about not having time got me back here and got me motivated to try and use some of my precious spare time to get some progress on the map I started years ago. I still have not been able to finish a map and want to change that, as long long as the community here is still active

Of course, it is one of the reasons for the decline of online forums, since the advent of mobile phones. Forums on a mobile are a pain in the ass, but on the other hand, for certain things there are no real alternatives to forums, social networks cannot be with their sequential threads, where it is almost impossible to retrieve answers to a question that is asked. has done days ago. For devs for internal communication, the only thing offered is a collaborative app, such as System D (not to be confused with systemd). FOSS, free and anonymous registration, access further members only by invitation, full encrypted and private. https://www.system-d.org

The devs didn't title this thread, and @datiswous said they're attempting to mislead people by using Russell's name and a retro style to make it resemble Thief, which is cynical. I grew up on forums like I'm sure anyone who likes a game from '98 did. I actually left the Discord immediately after joining it because it was more off-topic doom-posting than anything relevant to the mod. I thought the forums might be better, but it's mostly just grown men yelling at clouds and telling strangers how mature they are, and a few brave souls actually developing anything. Depressing place, I'll just stick to enjoying new missions every 6 months without an account.

True, but, 1. this thread is called "Western stealth FPS with Stephen Russell", and, 2. nothing you said changes anything for me. The gameplay still doesn't look like something I'd enjoy. And, if you really think this forum is cynical, then you don't visit forums much. Actually, the majority of the users are are pretty mature, unlike in other forums.

So giving it none of those tags, but making the AI invisible, silent, non-solid, and on a team neutral to everyone would not work? Oh well, it was a horrible inelegant idea anyway.

Hey, Every time I've try to use the Full Editor when PM'ing someone, and every single time I get an error. Whoever is in charge of the forum, is it possible that this could be fixed? Thanks Neon

OK, I was able to finish the script. For it's usage, you need two things. The script (obiously ): ase_export_blend.py.txt This material file: blendtexture.mtr.txt The texture defined in the latter is textures/common/blend. It uses the caulk editor image as I didn't replaced that, but it does not behave like caulk. You only need it to apply the blending effect. It does not get exported and don't need to be shipped with your FMS that use those models. As explained earlier, blending textures consist out of two textures, where the first one is marked with VertexColor and the second one is marked with inverseVertexColor. It could be vice versa, too. But for reference let's assume it is like that. To apply the blending effect, you just need to texture the appropiate parts of the later model with your blending textures. Then create some brushes textured with the blend texture and place them in a way, that all vertices that should use the second texture are included in those brushes. Note that vertices are not neccessarely the same on patches as what you can select in DR. The amount of vertices a patch has, depends on the tesselation. Every corner point of a triangle is a vertex. Note also that the script takes the AABB, the axis-aligned bounding box into consideration for checking whether or not a vertex is inside those brushes. So don't rotate them. Once you are going to export your brushes/patches as a model, make sure that the blend-textured brushes are selected, too. I will post some examples in this thread so you can see how to use it. Enjoy!

DarkRadiant does not care about engines at all, it only cares about file formats. Whether you can use DR with your Godot-based game will therefore depend on whether your game's assets are arranged in the same way as TDM. More specifically: Your game will need to read map data from the Doom 3 .map format. If it does not, there will be no way to save your map from DarkRadiant in a form that your game can access. Export to OBJ is available but if all you want to do is produce OBJ models then DarkRadiant isn't the right tool for the job (you should use a proper 3D modelling app like Blender/Max/Maya/LightWave etc). Your game assets will need a tree of .def files defining important entities to be placed in your map, including certain "fixed" entity types which are used directly by DarkRadiant itself. There will need to be a light entity defining light volumes, a func_static entity defining a static model, an info_player_start entity to define the starting position, a speaker entity to define sound sources, and probably several others. If these entity types are not defined, then built-in features like "Create light" and "Place player start here" will not work correctly. Your game will need a tree of .mtr files defining material shaders, referring to image paths which will be resolved to either uncompressed .tga files in a textures/ hierarchy, or compressed DDS files in a dds/ hierarchy. If these material shaders are not defined, no materials will appear in DarkRadiant. DR does not make any attempt to load "raw" image file hierarchies which are not referred to by material shaders. Your game will need to define a hierarchy of 3D models in ASE or LWO format. No other formats will show up in the model selector. These models can be stored directly on disk (there is no "model shader" tree required like with materials).

If the "mission fails as soon as stealth score turns non-zero," that would not be good for ghost players. They might need to find out "how" they failed and experiment to avoid alerting guards. They might need to take those score points as a "bust". They might need to take those score points to complete an objective. Then, mission authors would need to encode exceptions into their missions, which would be a lot of work (if they decide to do it at all). However, part of what makes ghosting challenging and fun is when mission authors do not create their missions with ghosting in mind. Please see: Official Ghosting Rules: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148523 Writing code for these rules would be a huge undertaking. Ghost Rules Discussion: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148487 Creating an official mode could alienate these dedicated ghost players, because it would clash with what is considered ghosting in the community. Including the Stealth Stat Tool mod in the official release would be more useful. Or, making the audible alert states of guards quick and easy to recognize could help as well. For these reasons, I don't agree with an official "Ghost" mode. If the dev team were to do it, we should consult with @Klatremus so we get it 100% correct or not pursue it at all. (This ghosting bit should probably be in its own thread.)

I can. In fact, I just set flag "solid" "1" on ASE model and it gives me collisions. I just figured maybe .cm collision file might have some benefits over direct per-poly collision with the ASE model. So I wanted to give it a try. After I asked original question, I did a lot of tests and I think it's just physics of AFEntity that give me issues and whether it will be .cm or material key or entity key, it wouldn't matter.