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Hi guys, through the "cheats" topic I got the idea, that it would be quite useful, if there were tags for missions (the post was about removing the killing restriction in some missions to suit the prefered play style). I don't know how easy or difficult this is, but with them, it would be quite convenient to pick missions with playstyles, environment, etc one does want to use. This could also be expanded to other mission properties. I remember a discussion about climbable drains, handles on doors, that cannot be picked and other things the map author chooses for himself. That way these things would be clearer and as I said before, it is easier to choose missions with playstyles that suit oneself. What do think?

Maybe mainmenu_loadsave.gui ? At least you could decrease the fontsize. Btw. the Damage dealth and received part will write over the Times loaded part when the numbers are higher.

I think I'd tend towards Thief's approach of making security cameras quite sturdy so that the player either has to invest high-value arrows or find a way to switch them off. Fire arrows are underused in TDM imo. Water arrows are rather abundant in relation to security cameras, so I think they should only temporarily disable them, as a potential extra feature in TDM. The idea with making the lens vulnerable to broadhead arrows is interesting, but broadheads come so cheap that the lens would have to be quite hard to hit, which would be frustrating in a similar way to how the blackjack is hard to use reliably for some people. Also, the old security camera has 2 huge lenses, so that would be quite trivial there. Regarding technically modifying vulnerability to various weapons, I can give the security camera an own ::Damage method that is passed the reference to the inflicting entity (broadhead, sword etc.), so that's not a problem. The main thing is to come up with a "damage_mult" spawnarg system that lets the mapper tweak these vulnerabilities. Also, a damage threshold isn't currently an option because fire arrow splash damage does less damage than a broadhead, but I think that was because the security camera until now used the base idEntity::Damage method, which discards some of the information from the incoming hit (i.e damageScale) and simply just reads the damageDef. I think a threshold isn't really needed anyway if you can use damage_mult spawnargs - the only thing I'm using a damage threshold for is to decide whether or not to flinderize a dead security camera. And yeah, this is all customisable, we're talking about establishing the standard TDM behaviour here. I'm all for making a turret, btw, especially if someone has a good model and projectiles to work with - but one thing at a time.

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id Studio did a poor job in defining its categorization of variable nomenclature, so in subsequent documentation and discussions there are divergent views (or just slop). In my series, I had to choose something, and went with what I thought would be clearest for the GUI programmer: Properties, which are either Registers (like true variables) Non-registers (like tags) User Variables (also true variables) I see that your view is more along these lines (which perhaps reflects C++ internals?): Flags (like my non-registers) Properties, which are either Built-in (like my registers) Custom (like user Variables) Also, elsewhere, you refer to "registers" as temporaries. I am willing to consider that there could be temporary registers during expression evaluation, but by my interpretation those would be in addition to named property registers. I'm not sure where to go next with this particular aspect, but at least can state it.

Testing new section, replaying through level. A bunch of my traps no longer work if player "blocks" with flimsy sword. Discovered by accident when messing around. Whole section can now walk through without taking damage, totally ignore "traps" - no longer damaged by fast mover, sharp object, spinning wheel of blades - can simply block and that's that. idMovers no longer cause damage? http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=TDM_Movers What is a workaround for this? Any way to make mover cause damage without having to set up some stim/response (eg "set it on [invisible] fire").

When I say the statistics are a mess I actually mean the main screen is unspired, or at least, that's what I feel when I look at it: a bunch of words and numbers thrown at the screen. Casual player: I just completed a long and cool mission! Let's see how I did! Difficulty level and Time: Cool, thanks! Times saved and loaded: Do I need to know this? why are you hurting my feelings? I didn't ask for it > Stats for Nerds Why the very first thing I get is the damage? What the? > Stats for Nerds The health restored must be reaaaally important. C'mon. > Stats for Nerds Pockets picked is apparently more important than the Loot, correct? Finally! The Loot! How about an easy to grasp percentage? Killed, KOed and Bodies: Ok. Time seen > Stats for Nerds Oh, and I would appreciate if I get the damn name of the mission at the very top. You know? For my records, social sharing and the like? EDIT - In the above screenshot secrets are missing. Not sure if secrets get displayed in the next screen or since there weren't secrets in this mission secrets just don't show up.

I've started experiencing this bug, where the short sword won't damage npc's. I experienced it intermittently with Moving Day yesterday, and now it's rampant in Ulysses 1. I'm using the latest TDM, 2.10, and this only started this week. The only fix is to restart the game entirely. Anyone know what causes this?

Is this the proper way to create a trigger hurt with specific damage, in my case a 5 damage: 1) make intended brush 2) texture as trighurt 3) convert to entity trigger_hurt (not damage_triggerhurt_5) 4) set def_damage arg to damage_triggerhurt_5 From what I can tell, this works now.

The mine must be activated with the "use inventory item" key. As soon as you press that key, the mine will get dropped to the ground ready to create damage.

Thanks, I can also recommend gog galaxy. The idea of the custom tags is really nice, I'll have to try this out too!

Keep in mind also that mission size, and complexity have increased dramatically since the beginning. For a lot of veteran mappers, it can take over a year to get a map made and released. The last dozen missions have for the most part been pretty massive, with new textures, sounds, scripts, models etc. We seem to be long past the point of people loading up the tools, and banging out a mission in a few weeks that's very barebones. We still do see some of those, but I noticed in the beta mapper forums and on Discord, that mappers seem to make these maps, but don't release them, and instead use the knowledge gained to make something even better. Could just be bias on my part scrolling through the forums and discord server though.

I don't think it is bad idea if TDM would have been conceived that way. At the beginning of a mission you can change your gear if you want (and have the coin): Default shoes: your everyday footwear. Soft boots: a little muffled and you can move a little faster but a bit slippery and you are prone to more damage. Hard boots: more noisy and make you move a tad slower but the stability allows you to draw and use your weapons faster and health lasts longer. This system would have allowed for a wide range of unique and exclusive wearable items such as the (in)famous Jester hood, for the more demanding players.

YOU TAFFERS! Happy new year! Deadeye is a small/tiny assassination mission recommended for TDM newcomers and veterans alike. Briefing: Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JWslTAC3Ai9kkl1VCvJb14ZlVxWMmkUj/view?usp=sharing Enjoy! EDIT: I promised to someone to write something about the design of the map. This is in spoiler tags below. Possibly useful to new mappers or players interested in developer commentary.

Not quite, that is a different project. The system I'm designing in this thread (per-limb damage with player skills / augmentations) is intended as an addon for vanilla TDM as well, although my real cyberpunk mod (The Dark Module) will contain it by default since I want that there. I intend on making it look and work well under both. With maps designed for TDMU this won't be a problem as I'll be adding those upgrades in-world: The issue is with it working on vanilla TDM maps too. The end goal of this plugin is to add a bit of extra realism and a touch of complexity to the gameplay. It's no secret the system is inspired by the first DeusEx, which remains far among my favorite games of all times, being an inspiration for what I want to make my TDMU mod like too. I'm NOT trying to copy everything from it to the letter though, as DX had design choices I wasn't a big fan of myself, in its case going the other extreme where it had so many features and you rarely used them all. I do however wish to take some basic mechanisms I really enjoyed and transpose them to TDM in a fitting way. Limb damage always seemed like a fun and original idea through its power and simplicity: The player needs to be aware of where they take damage from... if not they aren't going to simply see a bar decrease and not worry about it till it reaches 0, but experience real effects (like accuracy decreasing) which make advancing slightly harder. Note that in this addon unlike DX, the original damage system is left untouched, meaning you still lose and gain normal health the exact same way: Limb health is completely separate and only adds or removes certain status effects based on how much you were damaged / healed... normal health should be considered your internal damage, limbs are external damage to the body. The skill system plans to follow DX's augmentations, but once more with important differences: They're always on, you don't toggle them with an F## key which I always found annoying to keep track of. I don't know if I'm going to implement power and have them turn off once the player is drained, at least for starters I'll make them without a power system... if they will it's only going to be while they're used though, for instance the speed enhancement only drains power while the player is walking. Also I plan on having just 8 rather than 12, without any choices between upgrades (you can get all available ones installed and maxed out at the same time). There will be an item for each aug used to install and upgrade it... using it first will install that aug at level 1, then you can upgrade it up to level 4. I'm still deciding on exactly which augmentations I'm going to have based on what the scripting system makes easiest... several were successfully implemented last night and I should have a final list of boosts soon.

Last year I raised attention to an issue in 2.02 where unconscious AI were not sustaining fall damage; the Bugtracker code for that issue is 0003699, and Grayman went about resolving the issue. As 2.03 has just been released, I wanted to test out my one map where I first encountered the issue. So I went about knocking out different AI and proceeded to noclip up to various heights and then drop them down to earth. What I have discovered is that while the issue has been "fixed" inasmuch that the unconscious AI do eventually die, the height distances from which this happens and the number of drops required to kill the AI, do vary in unexpected ways. In the first instance, I had to drop an unconscious standard City Watch guard from a height of approximately 670-700 Doom Units (DU) around six times before he died. Contrast this experience with the single drop - from exactly the same height - that it took to kill an unconscious 'Wench.' What was even more strange was that it only took four drops to kill the unconscious standard City Watch guard from a height of around 280-300 DU; but it took around seven to kill an ordinary 'Thug.' Regardless of the fact that it is taking more than a single drop to kill unconscious AI from either a single story or - in the case of 670-700 DU, a three story - building, one would anticipate that it would take less drops from a higher height than a lower one. As I noted at the beginning, the issue is technically solved; however, it would seem that perhaps some variables require tweaking?

Seems to confirm: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5718 does it happen in the latest dev build: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20824-public-access-to-development-versions/

I was balcony hopping along the north side of the square and missed one, but landed instead on the ledge of one of the open arches above the hotel's front door. That's how I got in. I took a little damage, but since those arches have no windows or bars I assumed it was a legitimate means of entry. There were two Coates' body guards in the hotel bar, but no Coates. I only discovered later that you could enter the hotel from the river side. I just returned now to the hotel to see if my subsequent entry into his mansion has triggered his appearence, but it has not.

Yeah TDM arrows aren’t very effective unless you get a head shot when the AI is unaware Ive upped the damage in my missions as well, but its a balance. If arrows are too effective than the player can easily avoid any situation where they might have used other tools or strategies. The damage model is pretty complicated. It takes the base damage of an arrow ( i think its 30 or something) and then factors in the material it hit (cloth, chain, metal) and then the AI altert level and THEN it adds a chest or head multiplier. I like to tweak the chest and head multipliers which can be done in the spawn args on the AI or their def files or in the DR difficulty settings. I think headshots on humans regardless of alertness makes sense to be an instant kill. In hazard the zombies can be killed instantly with headshots while unaware but if you disturb them, it takes multiple shots (depending on difficulty)

The damage model on ai is exposed mostly through spawn arguments - by default stealth damage to the head is a kill provided the material doesn’t get in the way (so no plate helmets). Not trying to promote my own mission - but if that is your play style I opened up the lethality of arrows in Iris significantly and find it rather satisfying. A well placed head shot will stop a charging guard in its tracks and stealth damage to non metallic material is lethal on both the chest and head. I am sure other authors may have done similarly but it’s hard to say as I think it’s an underrepresented play style. Regarding head shots killing undead -

Ah, I see, ChronA. Yeah, that is strange to apply real life morality to fiction. I mean almost all fiction includes some degree of immorality! This must be the developers attempt to stop it being used for evil purposes but the easy way round that would have been: write a story in which the evil villain constructs a nuclear device in New York. Give details of the best locations to cause the max damage, max fatalies, max fallout, and also how the device could be constructed in great detail. Hey! it's only fiction. I don't see any way round this and I bet the developers are scratching their heads. It won't mean much in a few years when countries like North Korea, Russia, China, Iran, develop their own version of chat-gpt but without any constraints. BTW, were you asking chat-gpt 3.5 or gpt-4? What you were doing also reminds me of my attempts to persuade chat-gpt to 'pretend' to have an opinion. It struggled and wriggled out of the question each time. I kept saying surely you can pretend to have an opinion based on what you judge to be most likely given the data you have. But it kept saying it's not sentient and its purpose is as a research tool blah blah blah. Good fun though. I also asked it how to remove the date and calender from the Win11 taskbar. It told me how to do it in the settings. I told it you are out of date because Microsoft have removed that option in Win11. It apologized. Next day, I asked it if it remembered our previous discussions. It seemed to say yes. So I asked it the same question but it got it wrong again. When I explained again where it failed it promised to add this to its data. I'll test it again tomorrow but I'm doubtful. I also told it that it's smart enough to pass the Turing test with most non-experts but its too stiff and needs to lighten up. I recommended it watched Terminator 2. It knew all about Terminator 2 yet didn't take the hint.