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I've got a CTD that happens when using a atdm:combination_lock_small. The lock is bound to a safe door (atdm:mover_door). I can get it to happen every time by setting the combo correctly (which opens the door), then closing the door, then trying to spin one of the combo dials again - as soon as you do this TDM crashes. I cranked up logging. I saw one thing interesting, that didn't show up until the CTD: [game\BinaryFrobMover.cpp ( 533):DEB (FROBBING) FR: 5085] [safe_door1] FrobMover is locked This might be related to the crash because it's the last thing that is logged, just before all of the C++ destructor logging (which I assume is associated with the crash). E.g.: [game\Entity.cpp (1889):DEB (FUNCTION) FR: 5085] this: 327766FC [idEntity::~idEntity] But that's just a guess. Anyway, it was suggested that Obsttorte might be the right person to help me with this? I've got a simple test map that displays this issue. Or let me know if there's anything else I should try. Thanks. Edit - I've experimented with different spawnargs on the combination lock, trying to see if that changed behavior - no luck. Also, I found a different FM that used the same lock (and doesn't crash), and tried to see what it does differently, but so far I can't figure out why it works and mine doesn't.

As far as I know, it contains complete virtual memory contents of TheDarkMod process at the moment of crash: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wer/collecting-user-mode-dumps Maybe it has some stuff in the header (like OS build, CPU info), but I can't say anything for certain. It should not contain any data from other programs of OS, as far as I know. Note that kernel-level dumps are a very different thing: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/performance/generate-a-kernel-or-complete-crash-dump They indeed contains memory contents of OS and probably other programs, so don't send them to anyone untrusted (or just don't send them).

Oh, man. Well, thanks for putting in the time to make it crash. I thought that the TDM installer includes a debug build, but I was remembering wrong. Then, I thought the wiki had information about how to compile a debug build, but I wasn't able to find it. I'm sorry I can't help with a Windows debug build, so another dev will need to chime in here. Perhaps you can save a crash dump and send it to a dev? https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Save_a_Memory_Dump_for_debugging_Crashes

That's awesome that you found a way to reliably reproduce this crash! What steps are you taking while playing the game to reproduce the crash? If I can reproduce it reliably as well, I'll run a debug build and get a backtrace on Linux. I'm not familiar with Windows, but if you want to do the same, I'd look into running the debug build and getting a backtrace. And, perhaps try https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Analyze_a_Memory_Dump

It probably is more clear this way. Press "attack" at that moment and 5P is the last line in the console before the crash. Always. void weapon_arrow::Idle() { sys.println(" ***** 5 *****"); weaponReady(); sys.println(" ***** 5A *****"); player owner = getOwner(); sys.println(" ***** 5B *****"); // Switch to lower if weapon is not allowed right now if (owner.getImmobilization("") & IM_ATTACK_RANGED) { sys.println(" ***** 5C *****"); weaponState( "Lower", ARROW_IDLE_TO_LOWER ); sys.println(" ***** 5D *****"); } sys.println(" ***** 5E *****"); playCycle( ANIMCHANNEL_ALL, "idle" ); sys.println(" ***** 5F *****"); while( 1 ) { sys.println(" ***** 5G *****"); if ( WEAPON_LOWERWEAPON ) { sys.println(" ***** 5H *****"); weaponState( "Lower", ARROW_IDLE_TO_LOWER ); sys.println(" ***** 5I *****"); } sys.println(" ***** 5J *****"); if ( WEAPON_ATTACK ) { sys.println(" ***** 5K *****"); weaponState( "Fire", ARROW_IDLE_TO_FIRE ); sys.println(" ***** 5L *****"); } sys.println(" ***** 5M *****"); if (owner.getImmobilization("") & IM_ATTACK_RANGED) { sys.println(" ***** 5N *****"); weaponState( "Lower", ARROW_IDLE_TO_LOWER ); sys.println(" ***** 5O *****"); } // LAST PRINT OUT BEFORE THE CRASH sys.println(" ***** 5P *****"); // waitFrame(); sys.wait(0.0166667); sys.println(" ***** 5Q *****"); } sys.println(" ***** 5R *****"); }

@stgatilov I can reproduce this bug. TDM 2.11a. No mods. There isn't a specific mission, spot or situation but I identified some patterns and I eventually get the game to crash. In tdm_weapon_arrow.script I get the last print out in the console right before this sys.wait(). TDM then crashes. This perhaps doesn't mean much because many things are going on elsewhere at this point in time. I don't want to go the enable/disable settings route to further troubleshoot the problem: I can make the game crash. How do I get more more info for you from, I don't know, the binaries? Windows event log: Faulting application name: TheDarkModx64.exe, version: 2.0.11.0, time stamp: 0x63d6c10d Faulting module name: TheDarkModx64.exe, version: 2.0.11.0, time stamp: 0x63d6c10d Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x0000000000415e1f Faulting process id: 0x26f4 Faulting application start time: 0x01d9d66c90204ea7 Faulting application path: H:\GAMES\The Dark Mod\TheDarkModx64.exe Faulting module path: H:\GAMES\The Dark Mod\TheDarkModx64.exe Report Id: 3f3944ab-8451-4c1b-835a-11c984202c47 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:

Did a fresh install (deleted old files) of the new development build (dev16225-9284), worked like a charm up until I set my graphics to the following (https://imgur.com/a/ChxBGm2), downloaded almost 100 missions and restarted. The game now crashes before it can reach main menu. Hoping there's a log somewhere I can post to help.

Hello! Tracking down information on software and plug-ins that work with D3 / TDM can be a tough. So I have created a thread here where people can post what software/ plug-ins/ tutorials or other references they've had success or failure with in TDM. 3DS MAX 2013 64bit .ase - Default .ASE model exporter works. However you have to open the .ase file in text edit and manual change the *BITMAP line on each material to read something like: "//base/textures/common/collision" which allows the engine to read the correct material path. md5.mesh / animation - Beserker's md5 exporter/importers for 3dsmax. http://www.katsbits.com/tools, Importing and exporting works. The model must be textured, UV'd, with a skin modifier attached to the bones to export. PM me (Kingsal) for help with this. Imported models using the script will not be weighted appropriately, so this is not recommended if you are simply trying to edit existing tdm content. (Use blender instead) MAYA 2011 32bit md5.mesh - So far I've not had any luck with Maya 2011. I am using Greebo's MayaImportx86 for Maya 2011. I've got the importer working however I get a "Unexpected Internal Failure(kFailure)" and the import fails. This could be due to something finicky in Maya that I am not doing correctly. Will keep trying.. Blender 2.7 about - Blender is commonly used and pretty well supported on the forums/ wiki. Various versions may work as well - https://www.blender.org/download/ md5.mesh / animation Blender MD5 importer/exporter (io_scene_md5.zip): https://sourceforge.net/projects/blenderbitsbobs/files/ Sotha's guide Blender Male/ Female rigs by Arcturus - Here Edit by Dragofer: more links found in this post.

Bookmark everything you have an interest in. The Algorithm can still be useful for finding related content, but it can't be relied upon. As for the adblocking, I have different setups that are all still effective at blocking ads, and I spent no effort tweaking these. I usually don't use a user account. Maybe YouTube hasn't rolled everything out yet, IDK. YouTube does have alternate sources of revenue, such as taking a 30% cut of superchats, and 50% cut on channel memberships. For the ads it does run, mobile users block ads less often than desktop users and are probably considered more valuable by advertisers from the information that can be extracted about viewership. I don't think YouTube is particularly unprofitable, and Google is probably willing to run it at cost just to have a cultural behemoth in its pocket. Theoretically, the costs of running a video platform can go down if storage, computing, networking, and codec advancements counteract growth. Google also has advantages over upstart competitors, such as the ability to design its own transcoding chips.

In the mission after riding the lift out of the sewers there are two conversations. The first gives you several objectives. Its the one where they talk about the sword and the fence. The second conversation is a man talking about finding ruins on the grounds. The man from the historical society does all of his dialogue, but the guard does not say anything. After this conversation you get another objective but the game crashes. The mission used to work, maybe the new version broke the scripting? Here is the terminal output Restarting ambient sound snd_cleighmoor'(solitary_theme02_z) with volume -7.784369 Linking GLSL program environment ... NEW OBJECTIVE signal caught: Segmentation fault si_code 1 Trying to exit gracefully.. I am playing on Ubuntu 20.10

DarkRadiant 3.4.0 is ready for download. What's new: Feature: Allow Layers to be arranged into a Tree Fixed: Readable Editor displays "shader not found" in view Fixed: Undoing snap to grid with prefabs causes crash Fixed: Include doc in building instructions Fixed: Decal textures causes DR to crash - (textures/darkmod/decals/dirt/long_drip_pattern01) Fixed: Skin chooser: double click on materials list closes window Fixed: Selecting and deselecting a filtered child brush through layers leaves the brush selected Fixed: Material editor re-sorts stages on pasting image map resulting in wrong material stages list and wrong selected stage Fixed: Crash on start if engine path is choosen (Doom 3) Feature: Layers can now be arranged to form a hierarchy Windows and Mac Downloads are available on Github: https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant/releases/tag/3.4.0 and of course linked from the website https://www.darkradiant.net Thanks to all the awesome people who keep using DarkRadiant to create Fan Missions - they are the main reason for me to keep going. Please report any bugs or feature requests here in these forums, following these guidelines: Bugs (including steps for reproduction) can go directly on the tracker. When unsure about a bug/issue, feel free to ask. If you run into a crash, please record a crashdump: Crashdump Instructions Feature requests should be suggested (and possibly discussed) here in these forums before they may be added to the tracker. The list of changes can be found on the our bugtracker changelog. Have fun mapping!

I followed lophyte's 'flying corpse' Doom 3 tutorial and it worked perfectly. ragdoll (marauder1) bound to func_mover (thrower1), aimed at func_static (movepoint1) on other side of a func_fracture window with health=0. trigger_once calls corpse_move1, which is lophyte's script copy/pasted w. name changes: void corpse_move1 () { $thrower1.time(.4); $thrower1.moveTo ( $movepoint1 ); sys.waitFor ($thrower1); $marauder1.unbind(); } The ragdoll flies thru' window, breaking it, and falls to ground (as per last line in script). Yippee! So simple, for once. However, I can't load a savegame of the map. I reduced the problem to binding the ragdoll to the func_mover. That alone causes the problem.

There's a group of players who have meticulously tested and adjusted ghosting rules for The Dark Mod. Please see: Official Ghosting Rules: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148523 Ghost Rules Discussion: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148487 Why alienate an established group of dedicated players?

Ambient atmospheres are in my opinion one of the best parts of the Dark Mod experience, not just for getting a mission to have the right feel but also for inspiration and to have them playing in the background when creating maps. The more the merrier, so here's a thread to collect all the links to ambient music and environmental sounds that could have a spot in TDM's setting. Ambients from the TDM forums Gast's Eerie Lullabies Magnanimous Merry's Miscellanea Orbweaver's Dark Ambients Spadey's Ambients Radioteque's Ambients Kyyrma's Composing Ambient Tracks for Dummies - Kyyrma shows how ambient soundtracks can be made from a set of sounds. Also contains some of his finished ambients. Request for more interior sounds - this thread is a very productive community session where members came up with a large and good selection of new ambients. Uncle Peti's Sound Den Dragofer's Ambients - post #6 in this thread SeriousToni's Ambients - posts #8, 12, 15 and 19 in this thread Ambients from the TTLG forums Custom resources list Gigagooga's Ambients 1 - possibly the largest pack of ambient musics and nature sounds, all of them high quality. Gigagooga's Ambients 2 - this pack puts more weight on shorter swells/hits/pads to be layered on top of a subtle ambient. Gigagooga's Ambients 3 Yandros' ambient loop Sephy's Ambients - a large collection of ambient pieces, including many shorter ones which will be valuable for anyone wanting to try a layered ambience approach like in the Thief OMs and Full Moon Fever. Internet databases www.freesound.org - some of the better composers in my opinion are ERH and BrandonNyte. www.purple-planet.com - a large selection of all kinds of ambient and musical soundtracks to be used freely. www.darkwinter.com - an internet label that publishes a lot of dark ambient music under a Creative Commons license. www.endlessascent.com - sister website of Darkwinter for non-dark ambients. Youtube Asatru Dark - also has very nice reference images for outdoor stone memorials, statue arrangements etc. #4 Void by Raffaele du Marteau & #6 Dreaming of Nowhere by Raffaele du Marteau - possibly the most forlorn pieces I've found on the internet. Alacazam - a prolific Creative Commons ambients composer . Cryo Chamber - for-profit label for dark ambient music with a large selection on offer. Going by their Youtube comments they're fine with people using their soundtracks for games etc., although you'd probably need to buy the soundtracks first. Dark Ambient Mixed Session - as much ambient as something to have in the background while mapping.

Looking at the code, the originals were "pm_mantle_pull 750" and "pm_mantle_pullFast 450". The new "pm_mantle_pull" value is "400". A "pm_mantle_pullFast" value of "450" would be slower than regular pull, not faster. With both being set to "400", they are at least similar. Other than that, it's subjective and the feedback from playtesters was positive. Also, referenced internally here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22256-movementcontrols-settings-in-main-menu/&do=findComment&comment=489158

That sort of tone doesn't fly in our forums.

Replaying CoS1: Pearls and Swine on latest dev. If I kill one of the guards with an arrow and he falls in a particular position as he dies, TDM crashes. Reproducing is tricky but I managed to catch the crash message in the qconsole.log at least:

Sorry if this was already reported, but Ive experienced pulling back the bow and the arrow model just disappearing. The bow will still be there, ill fire and the projectile will still launch, but not arrow on the view model. Strangely it doesn't always crash when that happens. This was definitely already mentioned Just confirming the arrow disappearing, shooting, but then not crashing, which is odd. EDIT: Ill start attaching the debugger. I have lots of guards in the mission but none of them are using the urinate animation. Does it happen randomly somewhere in the code? I can just try adding 50 guards lol.

I have not read your wiki about the gui scripting, so sorry if this was already known by you and talked about, but if not, imo is always good to know that gui scripting language, can do a little more than what idSoftware used and talked about. Unless i failed to see where idSoftware talked about this stuff. I discovered this by accident, when I tried a few stuff that Doom Script supports, to see if they worked with gui scripting and they did. For example the gui language, other than #include also supports #define, just like Doom Script, thou in a more limited way, so you can do basic text substitution using #define like: #define COLOR_WHITE 1,1,1,1 #define WIND_HEIGHT 480 #define WIND_WIDTH 640 or more complex #define RECT_SIZE ((WIND_HEIGHT/2)-(320/2)),((WIND_WIDTH/2)-(240/2)),320,240 then used as: rect RECT_SIZE ----------- It also has basic support for pointers! using $ sign, example: transition "start_white::matcolor" "$Desktop::COLOR_WHITE" "$Desktop::COLOR_BLUE_07" "1000"; and other capabilities that I may be forgetting, have not messed with gui scripting for ages now. Thou i remember macro and pointers support was not free of problems, there's some idiocentricities with this stuff, for example macros using #define and defined in the global space, meaning outside the main desktop windowdef or any other windowdef, work globally and are accessible directly by name (just like in Doom script), but seem to work, only in some things, like "rect", "backcolor" and others but not in transitions, I remember having trouble with those, the only thing that worked well for this ones, was defining the "macro" in another way, like this and inside the main desktop windowdef: definevec4 "COLOR_WHITE" 1,1,1,1 Despite #define COLOR_WHITE 1,1,1,1 and definevec4 "COLOR_WHITE" 1,1,1,1 looking similar and apparently do the same thing, behind the scenes they seem to be handled totally differently. I don't claim to have tested this macro stuff very deeply but imo has potencial to make gui scripting life easier, but caution in the few tests I made, transitions using macros, were the most unstable GUI feature, they work the best inputting values directly, specially because those are separated by spaces not commas. Thou using pointers like I show above, even using colors defined using commas worked, sometimes... I think this, spaces versus commas, most be why macros and pointers were mostly ignored by idSoftware, most of their GUI's only use a "safe" subset of the GUI script language and I unless I missed it, I never saw #define being used in any of their gui's. But they do work in the basic tests I made, Gui scripters just need to be aware of the limitations.

I would use this massive list for any fan missions, it includes campaigns too: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148090 There are a lot of Fan Missions for the picking, I myself go for the lesser known ones and the short variety, because sometimes they hide a gem or two. Just like jaxa, I'm a bit outdated after the temporal retirement, but I do remember some amazing campaigns like "The Black Frog". If you intend to play The Black Frog, you should play the first two of the L'Arsene series missions, it's how I did it myself. Also, yes, L'Arsene are a fantastic series. The first mission of L'Arsene is a "rough draft", author was a bit new to Thief level making, but still great either way, after the 3rd you will see how his skill increased by a massive amount.

Unfortunately, TDM forum deletes the separator between the numbers. So I have to guess where one number ends and the next starts Also, user can rename screenshot manually, or push it through something that would rename it automatically. Thenwe won't see coordinates on screenshot address on forums.

tdm_show_viewpos cvar and screenshot_viewpos command: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22310-212-viewpos-on-player-hud-and-screenshots/

Hi! This is a manifest to install the installer as a flatpak. It contains the following: com.thedarkmod.TheDarkMod.yml - Flatpak manifest, easily readable. com.thedarkmod.TheDarkMod.desktop - Desktop file. You can right click on it in an app launcher and choose "Installer" to open the installer program. com.thedarkmod.TheDarkMod.png - Icon for .desktop file, can't use .ico for this. launcher.sh - Simple script to initialize installation directory and choose between installer or game. On first run the script will copy the installer to a sandboxed location under your user home (~/.var/app/com.thedarkmod.TheDarkMod/data/TheDarkMod), and then start it. The game will then be installed to this location. Afterwards, the script will check for the game launcher instead and run that if possible, otherwise it'll try to run the installer again. You can also open the installer by right-clicking on the icon and choosing "Installer", or manually by running: flatpak run com.thedarkmod.TheDarkMod install For the people using prime/optimus systems it should also default to running on the dedicated GPU rather than the internal when using the desktop-file. To test this app locally you need to install flatpak-builder and the org.freedesktop.Sdk runtime in flatpak. You can then build and install the package by extracting the zip, entering the tdm directory in a terminal and running: flatpak-builder --force-clean --user --install build com.thedarkmod.TheDarkMod.yml To get this app published on flathub you can submit it via the instructions at https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission. I've never submitted an app myself so I don't know exactly how it's done, but AFAICT, it should just be putting these 4 files in a git repo and send a pull request to the flathub repo on github. Feel free to edit any files as you see fit. The app name was based on the webpage URL, but maybe you want to change that or edit the capitalization or something like that. thedarkmod-221003.zip

Relax @Näkki, it's great to hear you enjoyed the game. My personal expectations were just a bit different when I read the Steam page, although the various trailers should have been a warning that stealth maybe wasn't the biggest priority of the devs. From the Steam page: "Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS." Also "Blood West is a stealth FPS inspired by the genre classics such as the Thief series (whose fans will be happy to hear the voice of Stephen Russell, the actor voicing the master-thief Garrett, returning here as the protagonist), S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, or - from the contemporary catalog - Hunt: Showdown. The gameplay rewards the careful approach: scouting the area, stalking your enemies, and striking from the shadows. Can you figure out a way to clear a fort full of ghouls and monsters without raising an alarm?" From my personal experience I think the game is predominantly Hunt: Showdown, a bit of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and a very small portion Thief. Stealth is very unforgiving and makes it almost impossible early game when there are various enemies around, but hey maybe I just suck at it. I don't see Deus Ex in it, unless the skill leveling is the Deus Ex part for you and then I have to disagree with you, as that seems like the trait system in Hunt: Showdown. Edit: What I also understood from the Steam forums is that the original VA was dropped close before the release of the full version and replaced by Russell with no real explanation from the devs why this was done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/specifications/ https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-4-b,6193.html https://www.anandtech.com/show/14581/raspberry-pi-4-launched-quad-cortex-a72-project-board-for-35-dollars https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi83.pdf Major improvements across the "board". The quad-core Cortex-A72 with other improvements is anywhere from 25% to 300% faster than the A53 used in the Raspberry Pi 3 . No eMMC but an SSD could be used with one of the two new USB 3 ports (booting from USB or Ethernet not supported at launch, should be ready within weeks). There are three RAM options: 1 GB ($35), 2 GB ($45), 4 GB ($55). The RAM is now LPDDR4 instead of LPDDR2. The 2 GB option is a bit unnecessary IMO and seems to be the least popular, as it's the model least likely to be sold out online (as far as I can tell). Ethernet speed can actually hit close to 1 Gbps (943 Mbps), up from 237 Mbps. There is Bluetooth 5.0 support but I haven't seen any testing related to that (I would love to use it for longer range audio transmission to BT 5.0 headphones). RasPi 3 cases are incompatible due to some port shuffling. There are now two micro-HDMI ports instead of one full size HDMI, so you probably need a new cable. The device can output to two 4K displays at 30 FPS, or one 4K display at 60 FPS (presumably two 1080p displays @ 60+ FPS, and so on). Although the new GPU has 4K@60Hz H.265 decode support, actually streaming 4K and even lower resolutions on Raspbian had issues in testing, that will hopefully be resolved with updates soon. LibreELEC developers have been working with the Pi Foundation for months to support the Pi 4, and have an alpha version out. Power draw and heat are up. You'll probably want a FLIRC case or something that can provide cooling. Power is now provided using a USB Type-C cable. Due to a screw up by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, some USB-C cables don't work. But the ones that do work should be the cheapest. Can it run TDM? The CPU and GPU are much better and the potentially quadrupled RAM could be a big help. The 4 GB version can be a legitimate desktop replacement for many users, albeit with some quirks.