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I took a quick look at the latest beta and I get a crash on selecting and then deselecting the training mission without playing it: "ReadFileFromZip: Couldn't reopen ... tdm_gui01.pk4" I had a similar error about tdm_ai_base01.pk4 when switching between missions. P.S.: It happens if I enter the mission as well. And there is no write protection involved. Also I agree with Snatcher that it should be "Start Mission" instead of "Next". If you buy items before missions you click "Start Mission", it should be consistent either way! Also I retract my comment on select/deselect. I forgot that it was like this before but once you select a mission in the list but it is not yet "selected", it came back to me why I changed that.

Complaint From Players The player must pick up candles before extinguishing them, and then the player must remember to drop the candle. The player must drag a body before shouldering it (picking it up), and the player must remember to frob again to stop dragging the body. The player finds this annoying or easy to make mistakes. For players who ghost, some of them have the goal of returning objects back to their original positions. With the current "pick up, use item, and drop" system, the item might not return easily or at all to its original position. For example, a candlestick might bounce off its holder. (See player quotes at the bottom.) Bug Tracker https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=6316 Problems to Solve How can the "pick up" step be eliminated so that the player can directly use or interact with the item where it is in the game world? How can so much key pressing and mouse clicking be eliminated when the player wants to directly use an item? How can candles be extinguished and lanterns toggled off/on without first picking them up? How can bodies be shouldered without first dragging them? Solution Design Goals Make TDM easier for new players while also improving it for longtime players. Reduce tedious steps for common frob interactions. Make it intuitive so that menu settings are unnecessary. Do not introduce bugs or break the game. Terms frob -- the frob button action happens instantly. hold frob -- the frob button is held for 200ms before the action happens. (This can be changed via cvar: 200ms by default.) Proposed Solution Note: Some issues have been struckthrough to show changes since the patch has been updated. Change how frobbing works for bodies, candles, and lanterns. For bodies: Frob to shoulder (pick up) a body. Second frob to drop shouldered body, while allowing frob on doors, switches, etc. Hold frob (key down) to start drag, continue to hold frob (key down) to drag body, and then release frob (key up) to stop dragging body. Also, a body can be dragged immediately by holding frob and moving the mouse. For candles/lanterns: Frob to extinguish candles and toggle off/on lanterns. Hold frob to pick it up, and then frob again to drop. Frob to pick it up, and then frob again to drop. Hold frob to extinguish candles and toggle off/on lanterns. For food: Frob to pick it up, and then frob again to drop. Hold frob to eat food. For other items: No change. New cvar "tdm_frobhold_delay", default:"200" The frob hold delay (in ms) before drag or extinguish. Set to 0 for TDM v2.11 (and prior) behavior. Solution Benefits Bodies: New players will have less to learn to get started moving knocked out guards. With TDM v2.11 and earlier, some players have played several missions before realizing that they could shoulder a body instead of dragging it long distances. Frob to shoulder body matches Thief, so longtime Thief players will find it familiar. Second frob drops a shouldered body. Players still have the ability to both shoulder and drag bodies. Compatible with the new auto-search bodies feature. Dragging feels more natural -- just grab, hold, and drop with a single button press. There is no longer the need to press the button twice. Also, it's no longer possible to walk away from a body while unintentionally dragging it. Set "tdm_frobhold_delay" cvar to delay of 0 to restore TDM v2.11 (and prior) behavior. Candles: New players will have less to learn to get started extinguishing candles. With TDM v2.11 and earlier, some players didn't know they could extinguish candles by picking them up and using them. Instead, they resorted to throwing them to extinguish them or hiding them. Hold frob to extinguish a candle feels like "pinching" it out. Once a candle is picked up, players still have the ability to manipulate and use them the same way they are used to in TDM v2.11 and earlier. For players who ghost and have the goal of putting objects back to their original positions, they'll have an easier time and not have to deal with candles popping off their holders when trying to place them back carefully. Set "tdm_frobhold_delay" cvar to delay of 0 to restore TDM v2.11 (and prior) behavior. Solution Issues Bodies: Frob does not drop a shouldered body, so that might be unexpected for new players. This is also different than Thief where a second frob will drop a body. "Use Inv. Item" or "Drop Inv. Item" drops the body. This is the same as TDM v2.11 and earlier. This is the price to pay for being able to frob (open/close) doors while shouldering a body. Patch was updated to drop body on second frob, while allowing frob on doors, switches, etc. Candles: Picking up a candle or lantern requires a slight delay, because the player must hold the frob button. The player might unintentionally extinguish a candle while moving it if they hold down frob. The player will need to learn that holding frob will extinguish the candle. The player can change the delay period via the "tdm_frobhold_delay" cvar. Also, when the cvar is set to a delay of 0, the behavior matches TDM v2.11 and earlier, meaning the player would have to first "Frob/Interact" to pick up the candle and then press "Use Inv. Item" to extinguish it. Some players might unintentionally extinguish a candle when they are trying to move it or pick it up. They need to make sure to hold frob to initiate moving the candle. When a candle is unlit, it will highlight but do nothing on frob. That might confuse players. However, the player will likely learn after extinguishing several candles that an unlit candle still highlights. It makes sense that an already-extinguished candle cannot be extinguished on frob. The official "Training Mission" might need to have its instructions updated to correctly guide the player through candle manipulation training. Updating the training mission to include the hold frob to extinguish would probably be helpful. Similar Solutions In Fallout 4, frob uses an item and long-press frob picks it up. Goldwell's mission, "Accountant 2: New In Town", has candles that extinguish on frob without the need of picking them up first. Snatcher's TDM Modpack includes a "Blow / Ignite" item that allows the player to blow out candles Wesp5's Unofficial Patch provides a way to directly extinguish movable candles by frobbing. Demonstration Videos Note: The last two videos don't quite demonstrate the latest patch anymore. But the gist is the same. This feature proposal is best experienced in game, but some demonstration videos are better than nothing. The following videos show either a clear improvement or that the player is not slowed down with the change in controls. For example, "long-press" sounds long, but it really isn't. Video: Body Shouldering and Dragging The purpose of this video is to show that frob to shoulder a body is fast and long-press frob to drag a body is fast enough and accurate. Video: Long-Press Frob to Pick Up Candle The purpose of this video is to show how the long-press frob to pick up a candle isn't really much slower than regular frob. Video: Frob to Extinguish The purpose of this video -- if a bit contrived -- is to show the efficiency and precision of this proposed feature. The task in the video was for the player to as quickly and accurately as possible extinguish candles and put them back in their original positions. On the left, TDM v2.11 is shown. The player has to highlight each candle, press "Frob/Interact" to pick up, press "Use Inv. Item" to extinguish, make sure the candle is back in place, and finally press "Frob/Interact" to drop the candle. The result shows mistakes and candles getting misplaced. On the right, the proposed feature is shown. The player frobs to extinguish the candles. The result shows no mistakes and candles are kept in their original positions. Special Thanks @Wellingtoncrab was instrumental in improving this feature during its early stages. We had many discussions covering varying scenarios, pros, and cons, and how it would affect the gameplay and player experience. Originally, I had a completely different solution that added a special "use modifier" keybinding. He suggested the frob to use and long-press frob to pick up mechanics. I coded it up, gave it a try, and found it to be too good. Without his feedback and patience, this feature wouldn't be as good as it is. Thank you, @Wellingtoncrab! And, of note, @Wellingtoncrab hasn't been able to try it in game yet, because I'm using Linux and can't compile a Windows build for him. So, if this feature isn't good, that's my fault. Code Patch I'll post the code patch in another post below this one so that folks who compile TDM themselves can give this proposal a try in game. And, if you do, I look forward to your feedback! Player Complaints TTLG (2023-01-10) Player 1: TDM Forums (2021-03-13) Player 2: Player 3: TDM Forums (2023-06-17) Player 4: TDM Discord (2021-05-18) Player 5: TDM Discord (2023-02-14) Player 6: Player 7: Player 8:

Tidings, I have an issue with a map I am working on where Darkradiant suddenly won’t open it without hard crashing. I was editing the map and had the game open in connection mode - everything was working fine - the map was compiling and loading fine - so I saved my work for the day and closed DR. I realized I wanted to do a couple of other things but now the map will not open and I receive the following error prompts: The map itself continues to compile and open without an issue in the game, so whatever is going on with the map file is not preventing it from working in TDM - simply I cannot open and edit it in DR. I had the author I am working with test opening the map as well and they are receiving the same error. They generated a program dump which is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19PiDR2x4uQPi3vELAqmbA4UH40724Yj4/view?usp=share_link Any ideas on this issue would be greatly appreciated as we are trying to finish up a project as quickly as we can!

I think it's good to make sure it's only happening in 2.13 and not also in 2.12. If it also happens in 2.12 it's probably just an (lod related) mission bug that the missionmaker (bikerdude) has to fix. I already send your post info to him (he's not on the forums)

Author Note: This is a brand new mission and a new entry into the accountant series. There are some different than usual puzzles in this FM, so if you find yourself stuck try to think about your pathway forward in a logical manner. And if you're still having troubles then pop by this thread and ask (preferably with spoiler tags). This FM is brand new and serves as the first installment in The Accountant series, a few years back there was a small prologue style mission released however I felt that it did not represent The Accountant series so I decided to go back to the drawing board and do a whole new mission that's larger, has a better level design and has a story that lines up closer to what I plan to do with the accountant series. The mission is medium sized and you can expect between 30-90 minutes to complete it depending on your playstyle. Beta Testers Captain Cleveland Crowind Kingsal PukeyBee Skacky SquadaFroinx Voice Actors AndrosTheOxen Epifire Goldwell Stevenpfortune Yandros Custom assets Airship Ballet Bentraxx Bob Necro Dragofer DrKubiac Epifire Kingsal MalachiAD Sotha Springheel SquadaFroinx Available via in-game downloader File Size: 233 MB - Updated to v 1.1 (01.06.2018)

Hey folks, I just started playing "No Honour Among Thieves" after doing the "A New Job" and "Tears of St. Lucia" and have found a crash bug of some sort. While I've since fiddled with my cvars, the issue first occurred with the settings I'd used without issue on the prior missions. I'm using the 2.10 release. Initially starting the game and starting the mission (or loading a save) works fine, but should video have to be reloaded (ie after death, or issuing a "vid_restart") I get a crash to desktop, every time. I was able to debug this down to heap corruption, but without PDBs I can go no further (I can't find or have no access to the "assets SVN" where these would be, based on the wiki). Please find attached various potentially relevant config files. I have a crash dump, and will try to edit a URL in to it after initially posting it (worried about anti-spam measures). Just in case, I've included windbg.txt output in the attachments showing what I can as-is. I've already ruled out r_useMultiDrawIndirect and r_useBindlessTextures (and so you'll see them on in the attached files, since they didn't seem to be at fault. (I have modified alsoft.ini, to force headphone stereo mode.) alsoft.ini autocommands.cfg autoexec.cfg Darkmod.cfg Darkmod.log qconsole.zip DxDiag.txt windbg.txt

While I wait for #4 with Discord, I'm gonna try HHCitadel again. That one has a lot more smoother game play now. The frame rates (earlier) were annoying, but now it's a lot smoother & not a crash yet HH Initialsation is the one with issues now tho. The crash to desktop took me by surprise tho. Right, now I remember where that was. In the Orb of Will area. The 1st zombie. I fired a fire arrow at it. It faltered, froze & then the desktop. After a restart & a lot of saves, I got past it... Ok. Rocket launch time

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So I got a Steam Deck (OLED) as well and installation of TDM is very easy with the default installer: Go to desktop mode (Steam button > Power > Switch to Desktop) Open Chrome and download the TDM installer It comes in a zip-file. Place it inside the "Home"-folder and unzip it. Use the installer to install TDM Go to Steam and create a shortcut to a non-steam game. You have to choose "browse" and have to change the filter to "All Files". Then select thedarkmod.x64 Look up the shortcut in Steam, go to properties and change the name. You can also change the image somewhere else. Go back to normal mode and you see the shortcut for TDM in your Steam library and it'll start fine. (Choosing for .x64 means you use Linux native instead of via Proton) Btw. you can open the keyboard with the x key. In-game you first have to press the Steam button and then the x key. In desktop mode the right touchpad controls the mouse pointer. The left touchpad works as a scroll wheel in certain windows.

I have installed F5-TTS with pinokio: https://pinokio.computer/ It's remarkable how fast this model is and how easy to use. Just find some longer voice clip and use it as reference audio. Under Multi-Speech you can upload more voice clips and give them tags/Speech Type Names, of use this for different voices alltogether, then simply start the scentence with {your tag}. {your tag2} etc. I took 4 clips from the moor tagging them soft, normal, angry and shout, then making them say the same line: YourCamel.mp3 It works very fast and the quality is very much the same as I got out of tortoise-TTS, but seems not as good in keeping the character of the voice.

When I click the book I get a crash to desktop. Happens both on 2.12 and 2.13.

Happy 15th Anniversary to The Dark Mod! As of October 17th. 2024, 15 years have passed since the TDM 1.0 release! In that time, we evolved to most or all of the features that players were asking for since the concept of TDM was first mooted in the TTLG forums in late 2004. Campaign Support, Soft Shadows, EFX Reverb, Multi-Core Rendering, Uncapped FPS, Ambient Occlusion, Subtitles, are among the roster of perennial requested things that have been brought to life by the development team in addition to the core Thief 1 \ 2 game-play items like the Lightgem, Rope Arrows, Swim-able water, lock-picking and ( of course ) advanced AI enemies. To commemorate this occasion, please join us in celebrating the Release of 5 missions for our 15th Anniversary Contest! . The Imperial Sword Bikerdude was encouraged to reclaim an abandoned version of his older mission and rework it into a new one. Now the formerly lost work is a glorious new experience with scripted dialog, special events, and a decayed imperial cityscape! . The Wizard’s Treasure Thebigh has made yet another bite-sized mission with a focus on quality game-play and challenge. The mission is extra impressive for the scope and visuals achieved since his decision to join the contest was fairly late compared to other entrants. . You Only Fly Thrice DeTeEff has continued his progression of high quality and complex releases. Another relative late comer to the contest, this mission is a tour-de-force of excellent game-play ideas and is quite handsome with excellent volumetric lighting and modular asset usage. . Volta 3: Gemcutter Kingsal has decided to release his long awaited Volta Series sequel to be included in the contest. DO NOT MISS THIS MISSION! . Pinnacle: A Test of Talents UncertainTitle and TwilitWitch decided to risk their first mission release to be included in the contest roster. The use of both modular assets and many custom models give this mission a familiar yet refreshing visual appeal. . Please join the celebration and vote in the forum threads for each respective mission based on their contest criteria ( Game-play, Story, Visuals ). . . The Dark Mod 2.13 “Developer Build” The Dark Mod 2.13 is still a few months away from release but we wanted to highlight the fact that a few more of the long requested changes have been added in the upcoming release! . Parallax Occlusion Mapping! In the above video, you can see a that TDM has finally incorporated the long requested effect. This wont be applied to all textures since there may be some problems with visual anomalies and performance but we are already preparing for a future where lots of textures use this new and more three dimensional surface effect. Better AI sight! While the AI have always been good at seeing the player due to the lightgem ( sometimes “too good” so we had to nerf their sight ), AI have had various challenges seeing things like bodies, missing objects, opened doors, weapons, blood, etc. This is because it is not practical to give all entities \ objects their own lightgem. Instead we have used very simple math to represent lights which don’t match shadow and light textures. In 2.13 a new sampling approach aims to improve this so that AI can better see ( or not see ) items and bodies in a way that better matches the actual lighting in the mission. Mission Search! There is now a search window where you can specify the mission author or title to help you find your preferred mission rather than scrolling through over 170 missions. You can also change how mission titles are rendered with either the original title or the title with prefix words like “A, The” moved to the end. Improved Training Mission! The Training Mission has been upgraded to include a Vine Arrow tutorial, a Slow Match tutorial, EFX Reverb, Volumetric Lights, and some performance optimizations! Translation Packs! Between TDM 1.06 and 2.0 Tels and the translating community started translating many missions but these translations required that the original mission be altered in a way that made it harder for the mission authors to revise. The meant that translation packs were in limbo being hosted by 3rd party sites \ forums along with their orphaned old missions. The translators over at the Darkfate forums came up with an solution by including not only the translation strings in the translation pack but also the altered map files, GUI defs, etc that had translation work done to them. This would leave the original mission untouched but allow translation packs to override some parts. We have gone through the old archive of these translations and have reworked them to work with the latest version of TDM (and the associated missions). Most of the translations are Russian ( due to the continued work of the Darkfate people ) but many of the early TDM missions also have German, Italian, French, etc translations too. Subtitles! Datiswous has been creating story subtitles for many of the existing missions in the TDM mission database. Most authors have incorporated these into their official releases, otherwise players can still add them to the FM folder. . Hidden Hands: Blood and Metal Campaign Just before the 15th anniversary entries were starting to arrive, JackFarmer released an enormous 5 mission campaign that continues his well regarded “Hidden Hands” series!

I would like the development team to consider applying the GPL3 licence to the following Text file which was created by @Tels, @Greebo and @Dragofer. tdm_internal_engine.mtr (darkmod>materials) The reason for this request is that it is a critical core file and without it the engine (when built from source) cannot launch at all. I would also like to query whether the following script files created by @Obsttorte and @Dragofer: tdm_audiograph.script tdm_camgoyle.script tdm_grandfather_clock.script tdm_safe_lock.script tdm_safe.script tdm_turret.script were intentionally released under the CC-BY_NC_SA_3 licence or if this was an oversight? I ask since all other .script files included with TDM (and which are all called by the engine source) all contain GPL3 headers while these files have no licence information at all so naturally fall under the CC-BY_NC_SA_3 licence. Additionally in investigating which text files are required by the engine depending on scenario (and while I understand that the number of developers who are no longer on the development team may affect how many of these files can be licenced) I wondered if these too may be open for consideration as to their licence? tdm_base.def tdm_soundprop.def cursor.gui mainmenu_background_custom.gui mainmenu_background.gui mainmenu_briefing_video.gui mainmenu_briefing.gui mainmenu_credits_background.gui mainmenu_credits.gui mainmenu_custom_defaults.gui mainmenu_custom_defs.gui mainmenu_debriefing_video.gui mainmenu_defs.gui mainmenu_download.gui mainmenu_failure.gui mainmenu_loadsave.gui mainmenu_main_ingame.gui mainmenu_main.gui mainmenu_message.gui mainmenu_music.gui mainmenu_newgame.gui mainmenu_objectives.gui mainmenu_quit.gui mainmenu_settings_audio.gui mainmenu_settings_controls.gui mainmenu_settings_gameplay.gui mainmenu_settings_gamma.gui mainmenu_settings_guisize.gui mainmenu_settings_language.gui mainmenu_settings_video.gui mainmenu_settings.gui mainmenu_shop.gui mainmenu_success.gui mainmenu_utils.gui mainmenu.gui msg.gui tdm_objectives_core.gui tdm_subtitles_common.gui tdm_subtitles_message.gui tdm_gui.mtr tdm_tables.mtr tdm_guis.sndshd all.lang english.lang These provide the foundation of a working base main menu. TDM's main menu also includes several undocumented commands (that neither show in listcmds nor listcvars) which are useful to know for anyone wishing to use the base source code. I have listed the .lang files solely because of the #StringNum associations, I appreciate that they are not truly required for the above to be a foundation. While looking into how far I could break TDM in removal of files, I came across this thread by @Fiver suggesting a Libre version of TDM: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22346-libre-version-of-tdm/ I believe that in that instance all text based files would need to be GPL3 licenced, leaving only videos, sounds, textures, models and the like as still being under the CC_BY_NC_SA_3 licence since remaking the files would likely result in most cases with near-identical looking files to the original. Thankyou for your consideration.

Hi, I'm trying to make some maps for dhewm3, but if I give the path where the game files resides it crashes. In my case the path is /usr/local/share/dhewm3/ This doesn't happen if I give it my working path but then I'm missing all definitions, models, materials etc.. ~/.local/share/dhewm3/ My system is Ubuntu 20.04, DarkRadiant 3.2.0 is installed from ppa This is the error: $ darkradiant SIGSEGV signal caught: 11 0: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/darkradiant/modules/libradiantcore.so(_ZN6applog15SegFaultHandler14_handleSigSegvEi+0x474) [0x7f7b3f2ebef4] 1: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x43090) [0x7f7b524ce090] 2: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/darkradiant/modules/libradiantcore.so(_ZN4decl23DeclarationFolderParser5parseERSiRKN3vfs8FileInfoERKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE+0x202) [0 x7f7b3f1abf32] 3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/darkradiant/modules/libradiantcore.so(_ZN6parser18ThreadedDeclParserIvE12processFilesEv+0x87b) [0x7f7b3f1b9f8b] 4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/darkradiant/modules/libradiantcore.so(_ZN6parser18ThreadedDeclParserIvE7doParseEv+0x20) [0x7f7b3f1bb140] 5: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/darkradiant/modules/libradiantcore.so(_ZNSt17_Function_handlerIFSt10unique_ptrINSt13__future_base12_Result_baseENS2_8_DeleterEEvENS1_12_Task_setterIS0_INS1_7_Resu ltIvEES3_ENSt6thread8_InvokerISt5tupleIJZN6parser17ThreadedDefLoaderIvE19ensureLoaderStartedEvEUlvE_EEEEvEEE9_M_invokeERKSt9_Any_data+0x50) [0x7f7b3f1d1e20] 6: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/darkradiant/modules/libradiantcore.so(_ZNSt13__future_base13_State_baseV29_M_do_setEPSt8functionIFSt10unique_ptrINS_12_Result_baseENS3_8_DeleterEEvEEPb+0x2d) [0x7 f7b3f1c6f2d] 7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x114df) [0x7f7b5268e4df] 8: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/darkradiant/modules/libradiantcore.so(_ZNSt6thread11_State_implINS_8_InvokerISt5tupleIJZNSt13__future_base17_Async_state_implINS1_IS2_IJZN6parser17ThreadedDefLoad erIvE19ensureLoaderStartedEvEUlvE_EEEEvEC4EOSA_EUlvE_EEEEE6_M_runEv+0xfd) [0x7f7b3f1ca13d] 9: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0xd6de4) [0x7f7b528e2de4] 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x8609) [0x7f7b52685609] 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x43) [0x7f7b525aa133]

Nice knowing you are looking at this. Btw when I made my own version of "namedEvent" gui cmd, I just copied the convention of other gui cmds like the "localSound" cmd, what I found is that it made the usage of simple nameEvents in GUI's very fast, with no need to mess with c++ and compile the engine. I think exactly the same reason quake 4 developers said they implemented it, thou like you said we don't know how they made their version. Perhaps is why I had some issues with my implementation when trying to call more complex onNamedEvents, so is something that needs to be well tested. Simple example of usage (the following code is untested and should be looked as "pseudo" code) windowDef Desktop { rect 0,0,640,480 backcolor 0,0,0,1 menugui 1 float "text_state" 0 onInit { // just in case ... if("Desktop::text_state" != 0) { set "Desktop::text_state" "0"; } } //*************** Events ************************* onNamedEvent ClearText { set "Text::text" ""; set "Desktop::text_state" "0"; } onNamedEvent SetText { set "Text::text" "Hello world"; set "Desktop::text_state" "1"; } //************************************************ windowDef Text { rect 240,41,165,110 visible 1 forecolor 1,1,1,1 text "" textscale 0.5 font "fonts/micro" textalign 1 } windowDef back_btn { rect (320-55),(240-35),50,30 visible 1 text "Click Me" textalign 1 textscale 0.3 font "fonts/an" onActionRelease { if("Desktop::text_state" == 1){ namedEvent "ClearText"; } else { namedEvent "SetText"; } } } }

Did a bit of further testing. Line: program ambientEnvironment.vfp is the only thing that makes it crash. So this code creates no crash: // TDM Ambient Method Related { if (global5 == 1) blend add map models/darkmod/props/textures/speedpotion scale 1, 1 red global2 green global3 blue global4 } { if (global5 == 2) blend add // program ambientEnvironment.vfp vertexParm 0 1, 1, 1, 1 // UV Scales for Diffuse and Bump vertexParm 1 1, 1, 1, 1 // (X,Y) UV Scale for specular vertexParm 2 global2, global3, global4, 1 fragmentMap 0 cubeMap env/gen1 fragmentMap 1 _flat // Bump fragmentMap 2 models/darkmod/props/textures/speedpotion // Diffuse fragmentMap 3 models/darkmod/props/textures/airpotion_s // Specular } (I edditted out "program ambientEnvironment.vfp")

this is a very impressive mission! I've gotten physically stuck a couple places, most notably in the wall of the cargo hold office with this one caused a crash, though maybe it was the quick load crash mentioned above when I tried to reload a bit back from it? I will investigate tomorrow.

Something wrong with the hosts? See following topic for the investigation. https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22663-cannot-download-dark-mod/

Maybe something is wrong on the hosts on that time? Others cant download it as well. https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22662-error-missing-end-chunk-0-193/

https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=6227 Cannot reproduce on rev 9985... moving forward Rev 10036 is good... moving forward Rev 10071 is good Rev 10071 with matching 16599 dev assets = good ( no crash ) ( maybe try to run the latest SVN with 16599 assets plus the blackjack patch assets ? ) Rev 10071 with 10107 assets = crash Rev 10072 = crash ( all testing was done with 10107 assets, if 10071 crashes the next step might be to revert assets too... that said, if 10107 asset changes are responsible TDM still shouldn't crash ) Rev 10073 = crash ( may need to retest 10071 ) Rev 10078 = crash Rev 10092 = crash Rev 10093 = crash Rev 10095 = crash Rev 10107 = crash Nothing in Rev 10093 should cause a crash like this. New backtrace seems similar to the old one but uses different hash lookup ? Thread 11 "thedarkmod.x64" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fffaf6bf700 (LWP 3026)] idDict::FindKey (this=0x80, key=key@entry=0x12e8bfb "pre_pickup_origin") at /home/user/tdm_src/new/piggie/darkmod_src/idlib/Dict.cpp:462 462 for ( int i = argHash.First( hash ); i != -1; i = argHash.Next( i ) ) { (gdb) bt #0 idDict::FindKey (this=0x80, key=key@entry=0x12e8bfb "pre_pickup_origin") at /home/user/tdm_src/new/piggie/darkmod_src/idlib/Dict.cpp:462 #1 0x000000000074f67a in idDict::GetString (out=<synthetic pointer>, defaultString=0x12995cc "0 0 0", key=0x12e8bfb "pre_pickup_origin", this=<optimized out>) Going back to 10092 to see if I missed the crash somehow. Yep, same crash there. Rolling back to an earlier one... Ran outta time. I will continue tomorrow ( unless someone else wants to build from source and bisect between 10071 and 10078 )

I want to make sure that you devs don't miss the conversation that was just had in the fan mission "Who Watches The Watcher". Some guy got a segmentation crash, and it's likely linked to the card playing default animations, where card entities keep getting destroyed over and over. More details can be found in that thread. Here is part of the guy's log: Instead of continuously destroying the cards, just have one card, turn it invisible, and move it back to where it is supposed to become visible again. This goes for all animations: Don't keep destroying entities if you have pointers aimed at them.

Noticed all of these only because I played TDM by doing the opposite of stealth to practice swordfights. None of these bugs appeared as long as I played the game stealthily. Should also note that I used Snatcher's Core Essentials @snatcher on and off, but your mod does not alter the AI anyway, correct? Bugs happened both ways. 1) AI freezes in combat - https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=6371 It happens a lot with auto-parry disabled. It never happened with auto-parry enabled. It never happened with some guards, while it happened many times with specific guards. They unfreeze when player dies, or when AI is forced to re-equip the melee when player returned from a spot that usually causes them to throw rocks. Also experienced behavior of them only slowly walking towards me at the pace of "hunched sneakily searching mode", attacking once finally in proximity. 2) AI may collectively lose the ability to hear any of the players noise caused by footsteps / landing. Still unsure of what causes this, but Lockner Manor has a good layout to get to the result. Just follow the right-most path and repeat the process of winning sword-fights with City Watch, and then jump around the next guard to see if they can hear you. If they can not hear you, likely nobody can. If they still can, just combat them too and you will likely have deaf AI by the time you have dealt with the 3 Watch Guards outside. In my experience, when they hear the death scream well enough to run to its location or start searching - the deafening did not work. 3) Helmeted AI does not react to (nor hear) players overhead sword strikes made directly on helmet, stealthily from behind. Not sure if the same issue as deaf AI bug, but happened at least once while it was active. (Lockner Manor) 4) (Moor?) AI may lose the ability to hear AND see player after nearby swordfights and after two slashes to bloody their face. (I may have also Moss Arrowed them to face). Any sword strikes I make simply go through their model with no audio of impact. Collision still gets player detected. (A Good Neighbor) 5) Crash to desktop when archer puts bow away to take out melee (while I may have collided with them on staircase). (Lockner Manor) 6) Crash to desktop when I shot a shortsword-wielding charging Noble. Sound of a deflected arrow played (same that you hear when shooting a stone wall), when I expected a flesh-hitting sound. (A Good Neighbor) 7?) Sometimes AI says "Ow that hurt" merely because I block their strikes. - Is this an intended feature? Do they take actual damage too? Anyway, I didn't find mentions about many of these issues. Reporting aside, if you want me to experiment with something or find ways to replicate - I don't mind updating this thread, as I plan to mess around with sword-fights anyway. Just posted this initial version should anyone want to chime in with similar experiences, and I wanted to know if some of these bugs could be mission-, or mod-specific. Maybe caused by much or unfortunately timed quicksaving / loading?

It's not impacting any existing mission (aside from an unreleased WIP), but I just want wanted to get feedback on the potion itself first. Datiswous was saying that they couldn't even boot up the test map without their game crashing to desktop. I included a pk4 in the OP that has a test map and all of the relevant assets. Thanks for looking into this!

Nice! @kingsal's Hazard Pay does not crash anymore while saving using a save room in Expert mode under Linux. Just tested.