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Changelog of 2.11 development: beta211-08 (rev 16770-10264) * Fixed crash when minimizing TDM on Windows (post). * Added HD carpets (thread). * Fixed player getting delayed and lower damage on high fall ending with mantle (6231). * Removed wrong LOD stage in atdm:env_ragdoll_commoner_female. * Reverted addition of default "map of" inventory item. * Made it easier for modders to substitute invgrid parchment background (6241). beta211-07 (rev 16758-10258) * Fixed extinguished candles stim-lighting each other on game start (6223). * Added menu settings for sheathe toggle, and changed default (6232 thread). * Saint Lucia mission improvements (thread). * Fixed GUI warnings in New Job. * Renamed "New Missions" to "Missions List" in main menu (6230). * Fixed initial difficulty highlight on Objectives screen (6229). * Fixed Objectives title slightly cut off on low text scale (6234). * Added mansion01 window assets (6235). * Fixed normal map of turquoise_uneven (6222). * Allow user to tweak pm_noclipspeed (6237). beta211-06 (rev 16739-10248) * Saint Lucia mission improvements (thread). * Fixed rare crash during melee combat (6225). * Fixed func_peek crash on Linux (5553). * Fixed bottle crash in "Pearls and Swine" (6227). * Fixed textures of cheapbeermug (post). * Fixed warnings in book_ornate_gothic readables (post). * Fixed minor issue in broad phase of collision detection. beta211-05 (rev 16727-10239) * Fixed rare NaN blocks from volumetric lights on AMD driver (post). * Fixed rare thin holes in geometry on low "render scale". * Fixed major performance regression in "r_shadowMapSinglePass 1" mode. * Added subtitles to New Job mission (5914). * Fixed subtitles hidden during CameraView type of cutscene (6197). * Fixed last character of subtitles occasionally clipped away (5914). * Fixed missed alert count if player hides into darkness during guard's combat startup (6211). * Added blueprint assets by Dram. * Fixed UV map in bwindow01_frame model (6217). * Allow female guards to sleep on floor (6208). * Dmap messages about PlanarGraph and EarCut now include 3D world position. * Some minor rounding changes in text placement in GUI. * Restored value of pm_bobup from 2.10. beta211-04 (rev 16714-10226) * Fixed wrong lightgem values briefly after game load/start (6088). * Fixed alert counter for civilians immediate alert (5286). * Some main menu text made translatable (2960). * New assets: Precursor "ancient" loot by Kingsal, galleon wreck, gothic cabinet, grandfather clock with new clock scriptobject, pagan menir (standing stone statue), pair of large marble lion statues, feather duster prop * Make sure all newly created door entities have the right rotate value set (5051) * Fix missing normalmap for audiograph, fixed shadowmesh for armchair_victorian_02.ase * Various small asset fixes (missing faces in LOD stage of boiler02_med.lwo, mangled stairs in galleon.lwo, gaps in spade models, normals on desk2 and desk3 models, UV issues on various other models) (3771). * Improved resolution for shield_goldarms texture (4894). * Added "looping" keyword to looping clock ticking sounds. * Exclude female pagan materials from release builds. beta211-03 (rev 16689-10219) * Avoid copying of large array on AMD, fixing a terrible performance regression (thread). * Enabled Frontend Acceleration = r_useParallelAddModels by default. * Fixed error when same decl file exists packed and unpacked with different case (post). * Don't crash TDM if automation port is occupied: warn, retry, and disable instead (thread). * New Job: the mission is no longer unfinishable if you guess the safe combination without visiting the Lord's room + visportal fixes. * Ambient world prefab: expanded light radius from 1K to 10K. * Added currency pack, cobblestone pack, furniture pack and tiling treasure hoard texture * Added wall mounted locks, improved sofa and leather ottoman * Added star wallpaper * Block CMake build without setting build type (post), fixed CMake + MSVC build. beta211-02 (rev 16670-10208) * Fixed bugs with counting number of alerts (5286, 6186). * Fixed bugs in in-game and savegame screenshots (link). * Disable GL debug groups to fix performance on some AMD drivers. * Added a lot of new assets from Epifire's missions (6188). * Added and refactored locks/safes by Obsttorte, Epifire, Dragofer. * Added book skins by Wellingtoncrab. * Fixed missing wastebasket material in Hazard Pay (link). * Support r_skipAmbient and r_skipInteractions in new backend. * Added spawnarg call_used_action_script on frobable movers. * Fixed definitions of ambient lights with normal-dependent color (6090). * Fixed KOBoxSize not being restored for the sake of blackjack. beta211-01 (rev 16656-10189) * Many improvements in new volumetric lights implementation + added cvars (5850, thread). * r_softShadowsMipmaps: fixed render scale, fixed screenshots. * Faster shadow volume generation with BVH, more cvars and tweaking (5886). * Optimized stencil shadows: turbo shadow vertices are static on GPU. * Improved solidness / visibility logic on models (6175). * Added spawnargs allow_idle_anims and allow_random_headturning. * Avoid sound amplification due to negative sound loss spawnarg (5913). * Fixed weird glitch on game load (6149). * Removed one frame of latency from "com_smp 0" mode (5875). dev16650-10157 * Volumetric lights reimplemented: dither pattern removed, performance improved (5850). * Added audiograph entity and assets. * Fixed shader compilation with r_softShadowsMipmaps on some Linux AMD GPUs (post). * Fixed bug in new frobstage_xxx material macros (5427). * Massive frobstages refactoring in materials: new macros are used now (5427). * Trace model: limits increased and refactoring (5887). * Massive cleaning of prefabs, automaton station script fix (6013). * Fixed rotten_paper_nancy_hand GUI in world view. * Perfume bottle model uses smooth shading, lampion skin fixes. * Some cleanup: idRenderMatrix memory alignment, face planes in SEED model clone, Elbrus FFmpeg compile fix, old shaders disabled. dev16629-10139 * Added implicit generation of frobstages and simple customization macros (5427, thread). * Added support for OBJ models (thread). * Fixed chandelier_gas4 model (6125), improved wooden chest prefab sounds (4206). * Optimized silhouette preprocessing during model loading. dev16625-10132 * "Light from above" behavior applies only to lights of ambient_world type (6090). * Major changes in normal-dependent ambient shading (6090). * Optimized FixGlobalTJunctions in dmap, restored vertex grid snapping (6085). * Updated "Tears of Saint Lucia" mission with EFX and other fixes (thread). * Replaced algorithm for assigning shadow maps resolution. * Fixed a brief wrong frame with X-ray (6109). * Added getCurInvItemCount script function (6096). * Fixed old rendering backend. * Slightly better culling due to fixed depth bounds computation. * Added textures/darkmod/window/metal_irregularpanes_moonlit_bright (6119). dev16617-10107 * Major changes in ambient/interaction shaders for more consistency (5828, thread). * Major changes in blackjack knockout behavior (4289 thread). * Optimized stencil shadows with antialiasing by using scissors (5851). * Stencil shadow shadows tile-based culling optimization (6076 thread). * Added wiki article (link) about Tracy timeline profiler; thread names fix, print version. * More asset changes to fix warnings, added "load all assets" test maps (6019). * Added teleportArea command, which allows to find area by number (6083). * Refactored ambient interaction shader, deleted unused ambientRimColor (5828). * Fixed overflow crash in idAASBuild::GetFaceForPortal. * Enabled GL debug groups by default, fixed borderless FBO mismatch warnings. * Added transparent grate textures (6089). * Fixed textures/common/mirror. Known issues: * ambientCubicMap broken yet, will be restored in future (6090). * Visual look has changed, mostly with stronger specular. dev16599-10071 * Fixed startup error on: Night to Remember, Cole Hurst 1 Eaton (5845). * Shadow maps refactoring: now volumetrics work if stencil shadows are selected (5880, post). * Fixed SSAO on new AMD driver (post). * Ensured that mission decls silently override same-named core decls (5766). * Fixed order of operations in expressions in materials and GUI scripts (6026). * GUI scripts: do not block autoupdate for window registers referenced in scripts; fixed vector component indexing, allow expressions on the right side of Set command (6028, thread). * Major refactor of objectives GUI: checkboxes no longer empty on failure screen (5852). * Added pm_mantle_tilt_mod cvar to tone down mantle movements. * Fixed noclip while shouldering a body (5244). * Fixed textures/skies/cubeSky material (5218). * Fixed items frobability in cabinet prefabs (6025). * Hundreds of fixes for core asset issues that were detected by a new systematic procedure. There should be far fewer broken assets and console warnings. Ongoing process (6019). * testmap command no longer sets developer mode, saving us from some warnings. * Started refactoring of interaction shaders (5828). dev16574-10036 * Add Dragofer's fully mapped ship prefabs, vintage lamps set, barouche carriage and camgoyle sentry turret with power source (4687) * Added BVH-based interaction culling for large meshes (5886, thread). * Added warnings for wrong GUI code, fixed them in core GUI (5869, thread). * Fixed leaning against non-axis-aligned door (5899). * Fixed skin of non-rotating security camera (6004). * Tweaked inlining and optimization, new debug builds Fast/Editable. * Disabled multiple rendercopies for warping materials (post). * Created materials for previously unreferenced textures, now available for use (5563, 5178) * Fixed 50 skin-related, auto-detected bugs that were generating console warnings (6019) * Female mage legs are now textured (5994) * Adjusted LOD offsets for atdm:nature_pine to avoid popping (3987) * Wooden torches now have burning/burnt tops (1293) * tdm_grass_clump and tdm_wildgrass particles no longer render fullbright (5689) * Added inclusion guards to all core script files (4427) * small_round_furnace_openable.pfb fixed with regards to model gaps and door origin (6018) * Fixed underwater_bubblesbubbles particle (5198) * Fixed burnt log end cap texture alignment (4896) * Added unlit and moonlit versions of textures/darkmod/window/ornate/round_spokes01 (5857) * Added specularmap to rivet_strip01 textures (5999) * Restored plain_robes skin for mages, pagan_orb_effect particle, fix windows in tudor building4 etc. (5690) * Fixed models that made use of missing materials (4390) * Diffusemap for wallpaper_ornamental_01_red now matches its normalmap (4798) * Hardwood materials now use wooden footstep sounds (4988) * Fixed skins for 6-candle chandeliers and nails (5900, 5217) * All fence_spike_01_tall models are now solid (6010) * Fixed typo in shouldered manbeast name (5877) dev16519-9985 * Now AIs think once per frame on low FPS when several game tics are modelled (5992). * More responsive crouch toggle (5973, thread). * Added "absence_alert_increase" as correct implementation of "absence_alert" (5987). * Allow drawing up to 4 postprocessing surfaces, as long as draw order is right (thread). * Missions can be sorted by date in in-game mission downloader. * Added getAnimRate/setAnimRate script events (540). * Fixed lean-peeking sound not always stopping when player goes away from door (5899). * Fixed wrong sounds of func_fracture after save/load (5363). * Fixed scorch and smear01 decals (5970). * Fixed fx/sparks effect, set "triggered 1" for newly added effects (5034). * Fixed startup image/sound warnings on some AIs (5993). * Fixed joints warnings on zombies (5466). * Fixed "screw" skin not showing in DR on appropriate models (5217). * Fixed for frobability in kitchen_cupboard_openable.pfb (5989). * Added editor images for panel_halfcircle_walnut and panel_vase_polished_walnut. * Bumped maximum number of edges to 1 million for stencil shadows, added overflow warning. * Fixed debug cvars tdm_ai_opt_forceopt and tdm_ai_opt_forcedormant 5992). * Tiny optimization: memcpy is now using streaming stores only at vertex cache. * Removed support of bindless textures (5891). * Extracted tdm_package and removed tdm_update source code (5076). dev16498-9944 * Updated Tracy library, hopefully fixed running on Windows 7 (post). * Fixed crash on loading save done while elemental is dying (5845). * Implemented multiloot on holding frob button (5984). * Crouched state does not affect player speed on ladder/rope (5961). * Crouch-toggle takes effect on keydown rather than release (5973). * Added setviewpos to screenshot filename (5819). * Show estimate for total number of pickpockets on end-mission screen (5678). * In-game downloader: show asterisk/sharp at the beginning (5842). * Trigger entities now work on AI which stands still (5319). * Added setObjectiveNotification, which allows to change objective silently (5967). * Added script functions to add/remove frob peers (5976). * AIs notice destroyed fracture entities (5978). * Enabled frobhelper by default (post). * Fixed some architecture skins by Nort. * Fix graffiti materials (5930). * Now default quicksave/quickload are F5/F9 (post). * Minor optimizations: SSE in idRenderMatrix, cache "drunk" spawnarg. * Looped bind does not cause crash, although behavior is undefined (post). Known problems: * Night to Remember, Cole Hurst 1 Eaton: cannot start missions due to hard error. * Painter's Wife: killing elemental should cause hard error (mission fixed). dev16487-9919 * Fixed saving/loading JPEG crash on Linux (5881). * Fixed wrong sound on strafe right (5554). * Major refactoring and optimization on LOD system, LOD entities no longer "think" (5944). * Improved time distribution of stims and LOD checks for more solid performance. * Optimized creation/destruction of script threads. * Optimized idClip = broad phase collision detection (5954). * Reduced size of Linux executable back from 24 MB to 18 MB by removing globals. * Now in-game downloader prints URL of download to game console. Known problems: * Won't boot on Windows 7 dev16485-9903 * Optimized iteration over active entities by switching from linked list to array. * Fixed bow sometimes not working on savegame load (5928). * Allow headbob cvar changes to persist between sessions (post). * Player speed modifiers (like pm_runmod) are no longer archived (post). * Applied Clang build fixes by @Partmedia (post). * Fixed "testVideo withAudio" command. * Fixed unbounded brush AAS warning by trying to process each edge of brush once (5648). * Use double precision for winding splits in dmap and collision. * Reworked FFmpeg player to not use deprecated functions, fixed protocol warning (5881). * Fixed 2GB overflow in printMemInfo. Known problems: * Won't boot on Windows 7 * JPEG saving and loading crashes on Linux. Setting r_screenshot_format to "png" may help... dev16481-9881 * Updated Visual C++ from 2017 to 2022, build game and idlib as on VC project (5820). * Updated all third-party libraries (5881). * Render scale does not affect main menu GUI. * Optimized compass rendering: don't copy depth buffer. * Fixed debug polygons not showing up. * Don't draw debug lines in subviews. * Don't open game console by tilde if com_allowConsole is 0 on Linux (post). * Moving GUI slider with mouse now results in discrete increments. * Restored code for 16-bit colors (via r_fboColorBits cvar only). * Game console bottom line gets thinner on smaller console font. * Added tuneDown command to quickly ender very low graphics mode. * Added r_fboScaling cvar which allows to change Render scale filtering to nearest. * Avoid purging/reloading all images on Alt+Tabbing in Windows. Known problems: * Won't boot on Windows 7 Changelog of earlier versions can be found here.

Changelog of 2.11 development: beta211-08 (rev 16770-10264) * Fixed crash when minimizing TDM on Windows (post). * Added HD carpets (thread). * Fixed player getting delayed and lower damage on high fall ending with mantle (6231). * Removed wrong LOD stage in atdm:env_ragdoll_commoner_female. * Reverted addition of default "map of" inventory item. * Made it easier for modders to substitute invgrid parchment background (6241). beta211-07 (rev 16758-10258) * Fixed extinguished candles stim-lighting each other on game start (6223). * Added menu settings for sheathe toggle, and changed default (6232 thread). * Saint Lucia mission improvements (thread). * Fixed GUI warnings in New Job. * Renamed "New Missions" to "Missions List" in main menu (6230). * Fixed initial difficulty highlight on Objectives screen (6229). * Fixed Objectives title slightly cut off on low text scale (6234). * Added mansion01 window assets (6235). * Fixed normal map of turquoise_uneven (6222). * Allow user to tweak pm_noclipspeed (6237). beta211-06 (rev 16739-10248) * Saint Lucia mission improvements (thread). * Fixed rare crash during melee combat (6225). * Fixed func_peek crash on Linux (5553). * Fixed bottle crash in "Pearls and Swine" (6227). * Fixed textures of cheapbeermug (post). * Fixed warnings in book_ornate_gothic readables (post). * Fixed minor issue in broad phase of collision detection. beta211-05 (rev 16727-10239) * Fixed rare NaN blocks from volumetric lights on AMD driver (post). * Fixed rare thin holes in geometry on low "render scale". * Fixed major performance regression in "r_shadowMapSinglePass 1" mode. * Added subtitles to New Job mission (5914). * Fixed subtitles hidden during CameraView type of cutscene (6197). * Fixed last character of subtitles occasionally clipped away (5914). * Fixed missed alert count if player hides into darkness during guard's combat startup (6211). * Added blueprint assets by Dram. * Fixed UV map in bwindow01_frame model (6217). * Allow female guards to sleep on floor (6208). * Dmap messages about PlanarGraph and EarCut now include 3D world position. * Some minor rounding changes in text placement in GUI. * Restored value of pm_bobup from 2.10. beta211-04 (rev 16714-10226) * Fixed wrong lightgem values briefly after game load/start (6088). * Fixed alert counter for civilians immediate alert (5286). * Some main menu text made translatable (2960). * New assets: Precursor "ancient" loot by Kingsal, galleon wreck, gothic cabinet, grandfather clock with new clock scriptobject, pagan menir (standing stone statue), pair of large marble lion statues, feather duster prop * Make sure all newly created door entities have the right rotate value set (5051) * Fix missing normalmap for audiograph, fixed shadowmesh for armchair_victorian_02.ase * Various small asset fixes (missing faces in LOD stage of boiler02_med.lwo, mangled stairs in galleon.lwo, gaps in spade models, normals on desk2 and desk3 models, UV issues on various other models) (3771). * Improved resolution for shield_goldarms texture (4894). * Added "looping" keyword to looping clock ticking sounds. * Exclude female pagan materials from release builds. beta211-03 (rev 16689-10219) * Avoid copying of large array on AMD, fixing a terrible performance regression (thread). * Enabled Frontend Acceleration = r_useParallelAddModels by default. * Fixed error when same decl file exists packed and unpacked with different case (post). * Don't crash TDM if automation port is occupied: warn, retry, and disable instead (thread). * New Job: the mission is no longer unfinishable if you guess the safe combination without visiting the Lord's room + visportal fixes. * Ambient world prefab: expanded light radius from 1K to 10K. * Added currency pack, cobblestone pack, furniture pack and tiling treasure hoard texture * Added wall mounted locks, improved sofa and leather ottoman * Added star wallpaper * Block CMake build without setting build type (post), fixed CMake + MSVC build. beta211-02 (rev 16670-10208) * Fixed bugs with counting number of alerts (5286, 6186). * Fixed bugs in in-game and savegame screenshots (link). * Disable GL debug groups to fix performance on some AMD drivers. * Added a lot of new assets from Epifire's missions (6188). * Added and refactored locks/safes by Obsttorte, Epifire, Dragofer. * Added book skins by Wellingtoncrab. * Fixed missing wastebasket material in Hazard Pay (link). * Support r_skipAmbient and r_skipInteractions in new backend. * Added spawnarg call_used_action_script on frobable movers. * Fixed definitions of ambient lights with normal-dependent color (6090). * Fixed KOBoxSize not being restored for the sake of blackjack. beta211-01 (rev 16656-10189) * Many improvements in new volumetric lights implementation + added cvars (5850, thread). * r_softShadowsMipmaps: fixed render scale, fixed screenshots. * Faster shadow volume generation with BVH, more cvars and tweaking (5886). * Optimized stencil shadows: turbo shadow vertices are static on GPU. * Improved solidness / visibility logic on models (6175). * Added spawnargs allow_idle_anims and allow_random_headturning. * Avoid sound amplification due to negative sound loss spawnarg (5913). * Fixed weird glitch on game load (6149). * Removed one frame of latency from "com_smp 0" mode (5875). dev16650-10157 * Volumetric lights reimplemented: dither pattern removed, performance improved (5850). * Added audiograph entity and assets. * Fixed shader compilation with r_softShadowsMipmaps on some Linux AMD GPUs (post). * Fixed bug in new frobstage_xxx material macros (5427). * Massive frobstages refactoring in materials: new macros are used now (5427). * Trace model: limits increased and refactoring (5887). * Massive cleaning of prefabs, automaton station script fix (6013). * Fixed rotten_paper_nancy_hand GUI in world view. * Perfume bottle model uses smooth shading, lampion skin fixes. * Some cleanup: idRenderMatrix memory alignment, face planes in SEED model clone, Elbrus FFmpeg compile fix, old shaders disabled. dev16629-10139 * Added implicit generation of frobstages and simple customization macros (5427, thread). * Added support for OBJ models (thread). * Fixed chandelier_gas4 model (6125), improved wooden chest prefab sounds (4206). * Optimized silhouette preprocessing during model loading. dev16625-10132 * "Light from above" behavior applies only to lights of ambient_world type (6090). * Major changes in normal-dependent ambient shading (6090). * Optimized FixGlobalTJunctions in dmap, restored vertex grid snapping (6085). * Updated "Tears of Saint Lucia" mission with EFX and other fixes (thread). * Replaced algorithm for assigning shadow maps resolution. * Fixed a brief wrong frame with X-ray (6109). * Added getCurInvItemCount script function (6096). * Fixed old rendering backend. * Slightly better culling due to fixed depth bounds computation. * Added textures/darkmod/window/metal_irregularpanes_moonlit_bright (6119). dev16617-10107 * Major changes in ambient/interaction shaders for more consistency (5828, thread). * Major changes in blackjack knockout behavior (4289 thread). * Optimized stencil shadows with antialiasing by using scissors (5851). * Stencil shadow shadows tile-based culling optimization (6076 thread). * Added wiki article (link) about Tracy timeline profiler; thread names fix, print version. * More asset changes to fix warnings, added "load all assets" test maps (6019). * Added teleportArea command, which allows to find area by number (6083). * Refactored ambient interaction shader, deleted unused ambientRimColor (5828). * Fixed overflow crash in idAASBuild::GetFaceForPortal. * Enabled GL debug groups by default, fixed borderless FBO mismatch warnings. * Added transparent grate textures (6089). * Fixed textures/common/mirror. Known issues: * ambientCubicMap broken yet, will be restored in future (6090). * Visual look has changed, mostly with stronger specular. dev16599-10071 * Fixed startup error on: Night to Remember, Cole Hurst 1 Eaton (5845). * Shadow maps refactoring: now volumetrics work if stencil shadows are selected (5880, post). * Fixed SSAO on new AMD driver (post). * Ensured that mission decls silently override same-named core decls (5766). * Fixed order of operations in expressions in materials and GUI scripts (6026). * GUI scripts: do not block autoupdate for window registers referenced in scripts; fixed vector component indexing, allow expressions on the right side of Set command (6028, thread). * Major refactor of objectives GUI: checkboxes no longer empty on failure screen (5852). * Added pm_mantle_tilt_mod cvar to tone down mantle movements. * Fixed noclip while shouldering a body (5244). * Fixed textures/skies/cubeSky material (5218). * Fixed items frobability in cabinet prefabs (6025). * Hundreds of fixes for core asset issues that were detected by a new systematic procedure. There should be far fewer broken assets and console warnings. Ongoing process (6019). * testmap command no longer sets developer mode, saving us from some warnings. * Started refactoring of interaction shaders (5828). dev16574-10036 * Add Dragofer's fully mapped ship prefabs, vintage lamps set, barouche carriage and camgoyle sentry turret with power source (4687) * Added BVH-based interaction culling for large meshes (5886, thread). * Added warnings for wrong GUI code, fixed them in core GUI (5869, thread). * Fixed leaning against non-axis-aligned door (5899). * Fixed skin of non-rotating security camera (6004). * Tweaked inlining and optimization, new debug builds Fast/Editable. * Disabled multiple rendercopies for warping materials (post). * Created materials for previously unreferenced textures, now available for use (5563, 5178) * Fixed 50 skin-related, auto-detected bugs that were generating console warnings (6019) * Female mage legs are now textured (5994) * Adjusted LOD offsets for atdm:nature_pine to avoid popping (3987) * Wooden torches now have burning/burnt tops (1293) * tdm_grass_clump and tdm_wildgrass particles no longer render fullbright (5689) * Added inclusion guards to all core script files (4427) * small_round_furnace_openable.pfb fixed with regards to model gaps and door origin (6018) * Fixed underwater_bubblesbubbles particle (5198) * Fixed burnt log end cap texture alignment (4896) * Added unlit and moonlit versions of textures/darkmod/window/ornate/round_spokes01 (5857) * Added specularmap to rivet_strip01 textures (5999) * Restored plain_robes skin for mages, pagan_orb_effect particle, fix windows in tudor building4 etc. (5690) * Fixed models that made use of missing materials (4390) * Diffusemap for wallpaper_ornamental_01_red now matches its normalmap (4798) * Hardwood materials now use wooden footstep sounds (4988) * Fixed skins for 6-candle chandeliers and nails (5900, 5217) * All fence_spike_01_tall models are now solid (6010) * Fixed typo in shouldered manbeast name (5877) dev16519-9985 * Now AIs think once per frame on low FPS when several game tics are modelled (5992). * More responsive crouch toggle (5973, thread). * Added "absence_alert_increase" as correct implementation of "absence_alert" (5987). * Allow drawing up to 4 postprocessing surfaces, as long as draw order is right (thread). * Missions can be sorted by date in in-game mission downloader. * Added getAnimRate/setAnimRate script events (540). * Fixed lean-peeking sound not always stopping when player goes away from door (5899). * Fixed wrong sounds of func_fracture after save/load (5363). * Fixed scorch and smear01 decals (5970). * Fixed fx/sparks effect, set "triggered 1" for newly added effects (5034). * Fixed startup image/sound warnings on some AIs (5993). * Fixed joints warnings on zombies (5466). * Fixed "screw" skin not showing in DR on appropriate models (5217). * Fixed for frobability in kitchen_cupboard_openable.pfb (5989). * Added editor images for panel_halfcircle_walnut and panel_vase_polished_walnut. * Bumped maximum number of edges to 1 million for stencil shadows, added overflow warning. * Fixed debug cvars tdm_ai_opt_forceopt and tdm_ai_opt_forcedormant 5992). * Tiny optimization: memcpy is now using streaming stores only at vertex cache. * Removed support of bindless textures (5891). * Extracted tdm_package and removed tdm_update source code (5076). dev16498-9944 * Updated Tracy library, hopefully fixed running on Windows 7 (post). * Fixed crash on loading save done while elemental is dying (5845). * Implemented multiloot on holding frob button (5984). * Crouched state does not affect player speed on ladder/rope (5961). * Crouch-toggle takes effect on keydown rather than release (5973). * Added setviewpos to screenshot filename (5819). * Show estimate for total number of pickpockets on end-mission screen (5678). * In-game downloader: show asterisk/sharp at the beginning (5842). * Trigger entities now work on AI which stands still (5319). * Added setObjectiveNotification, which allows to change objective silently (5967). * Added script functions to add/remove frob peers (5976). * AIs notice destroyed fracture entities (5978). * Enabled frobhelper by default (post). * Fixed some architecture skins by Nort. * Fix graffiti materials (5930). * Now default quicksave/quickload are F5/F9 (post). * Minor optimizations: SSE in idRenderMatrix, cache "drunk" spawnarg. * Looped bind does not cause crash, although behavior is undefined (post). Known problems: * Night to Remember, Cole Hurst 1 Eaton: cannot start missions due to hard error. * Painter's Wife: killing elemental should cause hard error (mission fixed). dev16487-9919 * Fixed saving/loading JPEG crash on Linux (5881). * Fixed wrong sound on strafe right (5554). * Major refactoring and optimization on LOD system, LOD entities no longer "think" (5944). * Improved time distribution of stims and LOD checks for more solid performance. * Optimized creation/destruction of script threads. * Optimized idClip = broad phase collision detection (5954). * Reduced size of Linux executable back from 24 MB to 18 MB by removing globals. * Now in-game downloader prints URL of download to game console. Known problems: * Won't boot on Windows 7 dev16485-9903 * Optimized iteration over active entities by switching from linked list to array. * Fixed bow sometimes not working on savegame load (5928). * Allow headbob cvar changes to persist between sessions (post). * Player speed modifiers (like pm_runmod) are no longer archived (post). * Applied Clang build fixes by @Partmedia (post). * Fixed "testVideo withAudio" command. * Fixed unbounded brush AAS warning by trying to process each edge of brush once (5648). * Use double precision for winding splits in dmap and collision. * Reworked FFmpeg player to not use deprecated functions, fixed protocol warning (5881). * Fixed 2GB overflow in printMemInfo. Known problems: * Won't boot on Windows 7 * JPEG saving and loading crashes on Linux. Setting r_screenshot_format to "png" may help... dev16481-9881 * Updated Visual C++ from 2017 to 2022, build game and idlib as on VC project (5820). * Updated all third-party libraries (5881). * Render scale does not affect main menu GUI. * Optimized compass rendering: don't copy depth buffer. * Fixed debug polygons not showing up. * Don't draw debug lines in subviews. * Don't open game console by tilde if com_allowConsole is 0 on Linux (post). * Moving GUI slider with mouse now results in discrete increments. * Restored code for 16-bit colors (via r_fboColorBits cvar only). * Game console bottom line gets thinner on smaller console font. * Added tuneDown command to quickly ender very low graphics mode. * Added r_fboScaling cvar which allows to change Render scale filtering to nearest. * Avoid purging/reloading all images on Alt+Tabbing in Windows. Known problems: * Won't boot on Windows 7 Changelog of earlier versions can be found here.

NHAT Part 2 and I had forgotten how many changes you made to the starting point Part way through and only two problems The coins under the stairs - accessed by moving the floorboard - you can't see them The stash given to the fence - I just can't get it to go under the table it just goes onto the top

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@datiswous, made that correction fm_test.subs --> fm_conversations.subs @stgatilov, about srt naming and file location, would you be OK with the following edit? New/changed stuff in italics: srt command is followed by paths to a sound sample and its .srt file, typically with matching filenames. An .srt file is usually placed either with its sound file or in a "subtitles" folder. The .srt file format is described e.g. [1]. The file must be in engine-native encoding (internationalization is not supported yet anyway) and have no BOM mark. It contains a sequence of text messages to show during the sound sample, each with start and end timestamps within the sample's timeline. It is recommended to use common software to create .srt files for sound samples, instead of writing them manually. This way is more flexible but more complicated, and it is only necessary for long sounds, for instance sound sample of a briefing video. It's a simple enough standard that it can be shown as an short example, demonstrating that subtitle segments can have time gaps between them. And the example can show correct TDM usage, without requiring a trip off-site and picking through features that TDM doesn't support. Specifically, the example shows how to define two lines by direct entry, rather than using unsupported message location tags (X1, Y1, etc.). And skips other unavailable SRT font markups like italics, mentioned in the wikipedia description. The example would also show the TDM-specific path treatment. The example could be inserted before the sentence "It is recommended to use common software...."

Oh what did I miss? I see there's a test map but what do I need to revisit? Are there any problems with my footstep sounds in this map?

The problem with a "theme" system (I think) is that it's forcing the assets into categories they may not fit well into or that don't make sense; or I mean it's forcing the mapper to think in terms of discrete "categories" at all, when that may not be most effective. Whereas a tagging system doesn't impose any "system"... Tags are completely open-ended, and could be at any level of scale or heirarchy -- you could have: bathroom-furniture, made-of-wood, Victorian, X-author's set, good for triggers, items for a bookshelf, architectural, magic, etc, etc... as tags, but not all of those categories make sense as discrete themes with other co-themes at the same level. I guess this is a longwinded say tagging more intuitively lets you target what you want without imposing a structure you have to wedge it into ... just a totally open field of tags from any walk of life. Edit: This is not to say tags should be arbitrarily specific. There should be tags of general categories too of course; even these will be the backbone of the system. But the whole point is tagging allows multiple layers, so you can use the general category tags to start your search, then ween it down with increasingly specific tag sets, whatever is best for the asset set. Some asset sets, or especially combinations, will categorize differently than others, and tagging is ok with that. Edit2: The image I have in my mind anyway is like a photo-collection tagged collection. There's an opening page with a tag cloud with the most common basic tags (general category) the largest in size and minor ones smaller, which you click on and then you get a browser with that set of textures. Then on the left hand bar will be all the tag-combinations within that set (other tags textures in the set are carrying; then in parentheses maybe the number of AND-textures it'd filter down to / OR-new textures they'd bring in), the major tags again larger or highlighted somehow, which if you click one of those new tags, it'd filter the browser to show the AND set. And maybe there's also an option so you could have an OR set and get both (or even select a new OR set from the full tag cloud), which adds new textures into the browser window, and also new sets of tags in the left-bar (the new tags carried by one or more textures in the new set). Also there's a place you could back out of a tag to cut that subset out. So you could open up & winnow down the set as you desire. It ends up a kind of way to browse through the whole collection by navigating through tag AND/OR combinations. Also there's a search bar where you could type in a tag at any time also.

Oh boy am I in Trouble...running Windows 7 64bit. I have the TDM running correctly and have been enjoying the brilliant fm's....so I thought I'd install the editor and take the plunge. I copied my TDM folder and renamed it so as not to muck up the original, I tested the copy and it worked fine on some fm's, I then downloaded the 64 bit Radient installer and installed it into the renamed folder...when I double click on the Radient editor I get "Dark Radient cant start MSVCR120.dll missing". I googled around and found a fix but I still get the error..VisualC++ thingy is uptodate and everything else is running quite happily, obviously I have done something wrong. Help please, Thank you.

Congratulations on the release. Downloading now. :D

I hope that is not the new TDM version. https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20784-render-bug-large-black-box-occluding-screen/

Changelog of 2.10 development: dev16202-9175 * Major changes in security camera (5528, 4731, Wiki). * Entity limit removed raised to 64K (5439, announcement). * Added secrets tracking system for mappers to use (5549, Wiki). * Integrated Sotha's "automaton" AI from Ulysses into core assets. * Menu: improved the main page and the "new game" page to make it easier for new players. * Menu: ask for confirmation on game restart, fixed menu music setting. * Menu: show checkboxes near objectives after mission is failed (5049). * Fixed rare crash in script-generated frobs (5542). * Added idPlayer::GetObjectiveVisible script event (5543). * Fixed rare collision bug causing lags (5439, r9157). * Debug visualization no longer blocks SMP performance improvements (5468). * Fixed script-generated game saves by disabling screenshot due to SMP. * Added missing frob highlight to plaster materials (4487). * Removed missing material reference in skin "wench/purple_bodice". * Minor fixes to mirroring: puddle, bc_teatray. Known problems: Volta 1, Volta 2, and Snowed Inn don't start due to broken menu. dev16215-9224 * More work on security camera (5528, Wiki) --- not finished yet. * Massive changes in dmap to make it faster (5562, 5488, announcement). * Fixed vertices merging in dmap which could cause sparklies (5486). * OpenAL (sound) upgraded to 1.21.1, fixing bsinc resampler (5564). * Added first implementation of tooltips in settings menu (2626). dev16225-9284 * Map loading optimizations: texture storage, parallel image loading, models loading (5591). * Fixed map not starting after prior error + removed 5 seconds delay at the end of loading (5118). * Removed mandatory snapping from dmap, fixing thin objects like ropes (5486). * Improved precision of windings in dmap compilation (5580). * SIMD code cleanup: enabled AVX on Linux, disabled denormals (4550). * Dropped visportals are now further classified as "leaky" and generic ones (5353, wiki). * Fixed creation of script threads with object method call (4713). * Added cvar s_alReverbGain to tone down EFX reverb (5587). * r_materialOverride fixed with Frontend Acceleration. * Fixed when player is in the void with "r_useLightAreaCulling 0". * Minor fixes in menu tooltips. * Fixed GL debug groups on AMD (5280). * Changes in FPS counter, which make displayed value more stable when com_showFpsAvg is large. dev16238-9330 * Frob highlight replaced with frob outline (5427) --- not finished yet. * Linux platform-specific code now uses GLFW for window, GL-init and input handling (5510, 5293, testing). * Windows build can change desktop resolution once again; also made "borderless" mode default (5510). * New dmap diagnostics for location separators and location entities (5354). * Dmap leak pointfiles are much shorter now (5592). * FFmpeg video formats further restricted to mp4+h264+aac and roq (4845, announcement). * Fixed occasional crash at the end of RunScript AI task, happening e.g. in WS3 mission (5538). * Debug cvars r_lockSurfaces and r_maxTri improved. * Upgraded GLFW to 3.3.4. * Added generic hash map in the code; fixed race condition in shader loading during map start (5597). * Refactoring of Clear methods in code (5593). * Added slider in menu for reverb cvar s_alReverbGain (5587). * Menu tooltip improvements. * Experimental: localization system now accepts string placeholders (5261). dev16256-9358 * Implemented new object manipulation and body dragging physics (5599 announcement). * Extracted static geometry into its own VBO in VertexCache, fixing performance regression since 2.07 (5598). * Added weapons to inventory grid (5601). * Fixed in-game mission downloader warning when downloading localization pack (5551). * Fixed in-game mission downloader warning when FM is not available on the chosen mirror (5551). * Disabled bindless textures by default because it does not work on modern AMD GPUs. * Reduced lower limit on texture units to 32, probably fixing the "Too few!" startup error on bad GL drivers. * Allow choosing adaptive VSync in setting menu. * Fullscreen options in menu: borderless goes first + block resolution when borderless is selected. * Interaction table performance optimization when loading from savefile. * Changed number of contacts in physics to 32 everywhere + minor filling optimization (3871). * Save missions.tdminfo immediately after FM download finishes. * Better logging of FM downloads under LC_MAINMENU & LT_INFO (5551). * Saint Lucia FM: adjusted mission loading GUI to display tip for about 20% of loading time (5118). dev16269-9407 * Reimplemented frob-highlighting of surfaces (5427). * Removed TDM version display in the main menu. * Replaced r_glProfiling and r_logSmpTimings with Tracy profiler library. * Better handling of position-independent executable setting on Linux. * Improved third-party libs usage: fixed OpenAL build on GCC10, fixed rebuilding libs with GCC different from 5. dev16325-9462 * PNG image format is now supported in materials, PCX support removed (5665). * Major refactoring of image formats in: SEED, screenshots of all kind. DevIL library removed (5665). * Rough prototype of .srt subtitles in briefing video (2454). * Fixed stack overflow crash if CPU-resident image is defaulted e.g. when not found (5665). * Mission statistics now show number of game loads. * Silenced "missing vertex or index cache" console warning. * Calling "set" in GUI script with not enough arguments now results in Error instead of crash (5323). * Debug cvar r_skipFog expanded to filter out boundaries. * r_immediateRenderingEmulate = 1 by default, probably fixing debug visualization for people using deprecated GL profile. * Fixed GPL header in source code files. dev16330-9508 * Extended support of subtitles to both briefing video and in-game sounds (2454: BEWARE interface will change!) * Support updating the currently installed mission in in-game downloader (5661). * Supported hide_distance for particle emitters and geometry of light entities (5668). * JPG and PNG images are no longer compressed by pk4/zip (they are already compressed by themselves). * Fixed entity arguments broken in event system after entity limit removal (5439). The bug crashed Snowed Inn on startup. * Refactored entity think code, optimized away thinking of frobable entities. * Added con_nowrap cvar: it caps lengthy lines in game console instead of wrapping them to the next line. * Added a ton of trace scopes in game, dmap, and loading (enabled by com_enableTracing 1 and Tracy connection). * Minor fixes: parallelSky, r_showViewEntities, image_preload 0, r_singleModelName. Known problems: GUI is not drawn in-game until paper is frob-highlighted. dev16335-9550 * Added hot-reload support: LOD settings, _color and shaderParms, noshadows, angle, targets, frobmovers + rotate/translate, bound entities (5683). * Fixed error on respawning an AI (5683). * Added con_fontSize cvar, which allows making console font smaller, also enabled mipmapping. * Refactored shaders loading, which fixes SMP-specific crash on AMD drivers (5012). * Non-bound lights are turned off when they are hidden e.g. using LOD (post). * Fixed noshadows_lod_N not working sometimes (5691). * Fixed GUI rendering on parchments --- known problem from previous build. * Fixed color banding in lockpick success/failure highlights. * Changing tdm_lod_bias has immediate effect without restart. * Small fix towards loading RGTC normal maps from DDS. * Removed old broken code for entities binding/unbinding (5414). * Some showPrimitives fixes. * Automation: fixed bug with astronomical timer for game controls (not used anywhere yet). dev16342-9552 * Merged branch with major changes in main menu GUI (5323, thread). Known problems: All the missions from the list do not work as expected in main menu: custom background is missing, empty briefing page is shown, in rare cases even briefing/debriefing video can disappear. This will be properly fixed only when 2.10 is released. Right now you can download fixed pk4 file by direct link from the same page --- fixed version should work as expected. dev16350-9577 * Support "set X on head" spawnarg for attached heads (post). * Fixed lockpicking getting stuck if you go away (5715). * Hopefully fixed random flickering when frob-highlighting objects with stencil shadows enabled. * Fast and deterministic normal maps compression on CPU (5716). * Optimized OGG files loading. * Optimized TGA files loading. * Continued work on X-ray support. * Continued work on subtitles support (2454). * Added new models and prefabs by @Wellingtoncrab. * Added material textures/darkmod/window/wooden_frame01/wooden_frame01_dark. * Probably fixed reloadModels for .lwo files. dev16358-9588 * Fixed crashes in image loading on AMD driver (5591). * Fixed occasional crashes in TGA loading optimization (5716). * Generate mipmaps for non-DDS textures in software, see cvar image_mipmapMode. * Frob outline disabled by default, see r_frobOutline (thread). * Tweaked render order ("sort last") for particle materials. * Continued work on subtitles (2454). * Removed [cleanup] button in mod selection menu (thread). dev16368-9627 (*) * Major changes in frob highlight/outline: translucency, alpha test, shine-through (5427). * Restored geometric frob outline under r_frobOutline 2 (5427, post). * Fixed bug breaking GL core profile, which usually caused black menu on AMD (post). * (WIP) Volumetric light effect. * Renderer's "safe mode" changed to windowed 800 x 600 (post). * Cap volume parameter in sound shader by 1.5 (4627). * Lockpicking sound no longer affected by EFX reverb. * Some changes in time handling, fixed timescale on uncapped FPS (5324, 4698). * Reduced pause on game start from 1.0 to 0.1 seconds (5314). * Minor dmap (aas) acceleration (5562). * Minor optimizations in models / sounds loading. * Don't drop held item after bumping dead/unconscious AIs (3516). * Tweaked render order ("sort last") for particle materials, reverting some. * Some changes in randomization (5763). * Minor fix in game console. * Adjusted stlucia.pk4 to avoid tdm_installer analysis... unsuccessfully. * Changed integration of doctest unit tests. Known problems: some maps broken with "clip model outside world bounds" warning spam. dev16390-9648 * Fixed "clip model outside world bounds" warning spam on some maps (post). * Fixed sparklies on hard geometric frob outline with bloom (5427). * DDS textures can be used in image programs, although they should not (5781). * Fixed spotlights/projected lights illuminating objects outside their frustum (5529). * Continued work on volumetric light shader: LOD, stencil, etc. (5816). * Allow xray shader in GUI overlays, fixed rare crash. * Do not spam warnings when index cache is not ready yet, e.g. during noclip on large map. * Minor fix of game console behavior. * (WIP) Changed frustum of spotlights when near != 0 (5815). * Fixed AlertDuration of security camera (5528). * Fixed normalmaps: flagstones_mossy_01 (5777), flagstones_gravel (5760), ash_001 and ash01_crumb_edge (5784), blocks_large_mildew (5786), ornament_shield_white_eagleandpallets (5803). * Added material for rough_grey_blocks (5789). * Added missing "torn" skins for all paintings. * Commented out additional camera screen materials (5676). beta210-01 (rev 16399-9702) * Projected lights: restored TDM 2.07 behavior, fix lighting outside frustum (5815). * Fixed light frustum precision (4888). * Major changes in volumetric lights (5816). * Continued work on security camera (5528). * X-ray improvements. * Fixed severe slowdown with soft stencil shadows and antialiasing. * Allow lifting ragdolls above ground, unless they have "ground_when_dragged" (5599). * Fixed mirrors getting black under "image_useTexStorage 1" (topic). * Added script events: vecRotate, getCalibratedLightgemValue, setSolid, getEntityFlag. * Take entity orientation account in flinderization offsets. * Removed "emitter_size" spawnarg. * Fixed r_showLights. * Refactor shaders: extracted common code to includes. beta210-02 (rev 16411-9731) * Fixed dbghelp.dll issue which blocked running TDM on fresh Windows 7 (issue). * Fixed rare depth fighting when SSAO is on. * Fixed OpenGL error with shadow maps when no light fallbacks to stencil implementation. * Fixed envshot command (5796). * Restored materials and prefabs for multiple camera GUIs. * X-ray: supported "suppressInSubview" spawnarg on lights (also affects other subviews like mirrors) * Added X-ray related assets: materials, visible/invisible skins. * Added script events: getLocationPoint, pointIsInBounds, getTraceSurfType. * Preserve opacity towards AIs and restore frobability in script event setSolid. * Func_emitters can now be bound without the particle flickering rapidly. * Fixed "condump unwrap". * Added display case models without glass to allow them to have breakable glass. * Added forcescreenaspect + hcenter GUI keywords for aspect-ratio-independent images. * Removed a few subtitles lines which were for testing only. * Internal typeinfo changes. beta210-03 (rev 16421-9771) * Reverted to 2.09 frob-highlight: no outline, use material frob stages. * Added three new frob outline presets by @kingsal and @nbohr1more. * Changed the way volumetric lights are set up (see wiki page). * Volumetric lights respect noshadows and don't affect lightgem. * Added script events: getHealth, setHealth, setSolid,projectDecal; fixed getLocationPoint. * Added script event getEnemy and canSee to security camera. * Add Epifire's flinder models to the security cameras. * Fixed subtitles going sticky on save/load. * Slightly reduced subtitles font size, added semi-transparent black background. * Added subtitles to Saint Lucia mission. * Fixed dmap issue in generating unoptimized collision maps for patch-only entities (5859). * Elemental no longer has 8 legs, wasting time in inverse kinematics. * Some optimizations in frontend: fix disabled optimization, avoid vertex data copy. * Added r_useInteractionTriCulling -1 mode to move some CPU load to GPU. * Fixed lamp cubemap light textures. * Fixed language switches broken by new main menu GUI. * Fixed occasional spam about slow jobs (threshold is now 100 ms instead of 10 ms). * Corrected OpenGL usage of clipping planes in shadow map generation. * Console printing is now threadsafe, which could crash Frontend Acceleration. * Improvements in system console on Windows. * Allow all SIMD code supported by compiler on Elbrus CPU. beta210-04 (rev 16441-9798) * Security camera now supports AI detection, also fixed volumetric lights. * Fixed save/load for volumetric lights, supported scrolling light materials. * Fixed scrolling light textures (5860). * Fixed uncompressed normal maps and backface lighting (5862). * stain01bwet material now works as it always did, no depth fighting (5325). * Skip X-ray rendering when it is already within subview. * Removed parchment from message about secrets (5549). * Fixed and upscaled droppuddle texture (5870). * Extended tooltips in video settings menu. * Fixed randomization of gui::random_value on game load. * A bit more subtitles in Saint Lucia mission. * Fixed 1280 x 960 resolution in 4:3. * Fixed rare graphic bug in some debug tools. * Small optimization in frontend: reuse index array for interaction. beta210-05 (rev 16457-9815) * Fixed bright lines on the boundary of light volume on AMD drivers (5876). * Fixed secret counter increased multiple times on single-count entities (5549). * Security camera: "sweepWaitSoundOffset" spawnarg controls snd_end timing. * Security camera: snd_sparks and snd_death can be used simultaneously. * Security camera: split "seeAI" spawnarg into "seeAI", "seeAnimals", "seeBodies". * Fixed the xray model stuck in place when shouldered. * Improved player GUI for taking damage. * Added spawnarg "animal_patrol_wait" to allow animals that move continuously (post). * Portal sky scissor optimization. * A bit of cleaning in source code conan dependencies (5839). * Fixed hover highlight on Restart Game button in settings menu. * Volumetric lights refactoring. beta210-06 (rev 16472-9845) * Fixed saving/loading of suppressInSubview for X-ray. * Fixed language setting being ignored on restart (post). * Reimplemented rotation in new grabber code, rotating heavy objects is easy now (post). * Fixed weird spots sticking on screen sometimes when bloom is on (post). * Fixed seeAI setting for security camera towards AIs on hostile teams; updated editor descriptions. * Fixed one more bug causing tdm_installer to analyze installation. * image_downsize no longer affects loading screens and other GUIs. * Fixed lighting with "image_useNormalCompression 0". * Added editor description for nodrop spawnarg. * Reorganized mapper tool prefabs, fixed Epifire's wall-mounted security camera prefab. * Removed non-working 16-bit color option from the menu settings. * Improved EFX in New Job mission (5594). * Fixed issue in Saint Lucia mission: all voiceovers being played on mission restart (4828). * Some more corrections to subtitles in Saint Lucia mission. beta210-07 (rev 16474-9850) * Set r_useMultiDrawIndirect to 0, fixing NaN flickering on AMD drivers. * Fixed X-ray combined with Render Scale. beta210-08 (rev16475-9853) * Fixed crash on index cache resize with now default "r_useMultiDrawIndirect 0". Changelog of earlier versions can be found here.

Changelog of 2.10 development: dev16202-9175 * Major changes in security camera (5528, 4731, Wiki). * Entity limit removed raised to 64K (5439, announcement). * Added secrets tracking system for mappers to use (5549, Wiki). * Integrated Sotha's "automaton" AI from Ulysses into core assets. * Menu: improved the main page and the "new game" page to make it easier for new players. * Menu: ask for confirmation on game restart, fixed menu music setting. * Menu: show checkboxes near objectives after mission is failed (5049). * Fixed rare crash in script-generated frobs (5542). * Added idPlayer::GetObjectiveVisible script event (5543). * Fixed rare collision bug causing lags (5439, r9157). * Debug visualization no longer blocks SMP performance improvements (5468). * Fixed script-generated game saves by disabling screenshot due to SMP. * Added missing frob highlight to plaster materials (4487). * Removed missing material reference in skin "wench/purple_bodice". * Minor fixes to mirroring: puddle, bc_teatray. Known problems: Volta 1, Volta 2, and Snowed Inn don't start due to broken menu. dev16215-9224 * More work on security camera (5528, Wiki) --- not finished yet. * Massive changes in dmap to make it faster (5562, 5488, announcement). * Fixed vertices merging in dmap which could cause sparklies (5486). * OpenAL (sound) upgraded to 1.21.1, fixing bsinc resampler (5564). * Added first implementation of tooltips in settings menu (2626). dev16225-9284 * Map loading optimizations: texture storage, parallel image loading, models loading (5591). * Fixed map not starting after prior error + removed 5 seconds delay at the end of loading (5118). * Removed mandatory snapping from dmap, fixing thin objects like ropes (5486). * Improved precision of windings in dmap compilation (5580). * SIMD code cleanup: enabled AVX on Linux, disabled denormals (4550). * Dropped visportals are now further classified as "leaky" and generic ones (5353, wiki). * Fixed creation of script threads with object method call (4713). * Added cvar s_alReverbGain to tone down EFX reverb (5587). * r_materialOverride fixed with Frontend Acceleration. * Fixed when player is in the void with "r_useLightAreaCulling 0". * Minor fixes in menu tooltips. * Fixed GL debug groups on AMD (5280). * Changes in FPS counter, which make displayed value more stable when com_showFpsAvg is large. dev16238-9330 * Frob highlight replaced with frob outline (5427) --- not finished yet. * Linux platform-specific code now uses GLFW for window, GL-init and input handling (5510, 5293, testing). * Windows build can change desktop resolution once again; also made "borderless" mode default (5510). * New dmap diagnostics for location separators and location entities (5354). * Dmap leak pointfiles are much shorter now (5592). * FFmpeg video formats further restricted to mp4+h264+aac and roq (4845, announcement). * Fixed occasional crash at the end of RunScript AI task, happening e.g. in WS3 mission (5538). * Debug cvars r_lockSurfaces and r_maxTri improved. * Upgraded GLFW to 3.3.4. * Added generic hash map in the code; fixed race condition in shader loading during map start (5597). * Refactoring of Clear methods in code (5593). * Added slider in menu for reverb cvar s_alReverbGain (5587). * Menu tooltip improvements. * Experimental: localization system now accepts string placeholders (5261). dev16256-9358 * Implemented new object manipulation and body dragging physics (5599 announcement). * Extracted static geometry into its own VBO in VertexCache, fixing performance regression since 2.07 (5598). * Added weapons to inventory grid (5601). * Fixed in-game mission downloader warning when downloading localization pack (5551). * Fixed in-game mission downloader warning when FM is not available on the chosen mirror (5551). * Disabled bindless textures by default because it does not work on modern AMD GPUs. * Reduced lower limit on texture units to 32, probably fixing the "Too few!" startup error on bad GL drivers. * Allow choosing adaptive VSync in setting menu. * Fullscreen options in menu: borderless goes first + block resolution when borderless is selected. * Interaction table performance optimization when loading from savefile. * Changed number of contacts in physics to 32 everywhere + minor filling optimization (3871). * Save missions.tdminfo immediately after FM download finishes. * Better logging of FM downloads under LC_MAINMENU & LT_INFO (5551). * Saint Lucia FM: adjusted mission loading GUI to display tip for about 20% of loading time (5118). dev16269-9407 * Reimplemented frob-highlighting of surfaces (5427). * Removed TDM version display in the main menu. * Replaced r_glProfiling and r_logSmpTimings with Tracy profiler library. * Better handling of position-independent executable setting on Linux. * Improved third-party libs usage: fixed OpenAL build on GCC10, fixed rebuilding libs with GCC different from 5. dev16325-9462 * PNG image format is now supported in materials, PCX support removed (5665). * Major refactoring of image formats in: SEED, screenshots of all kind. DevIL library removed (5665). * Rough prototype of .srt subtitles in briefing video (2454). * Fixed stack overflow crash if CPU-resident image is defaulted e.g. when not found (5665). * Mission statistics now show number of game loads. * Silenced "missing vertex or index cache" console warning. * Calling "set" in GUI script with not enough arguments now results in Error instead of crash (5323). * Debug cvar r_skipFog expanded to filter out boundaries. * r_immediateRenderingEmulate = 1 by default, probably fixing debug visualization for people using deprecated GL profile. * Fixed GPL header in source code files. dev16330-9508 * Extended support of subtitles to both briefing video and in-game sounds (2454: BEWARE interface will change!) * Support updating the currently installed mission in in-game downloader (5661). * Supported hide_distance for particle emitters and geometry of light entities (5668). * JPG and PNG images are no longer compressed by pk4/zip (they are already compressed by themselves). * Fixed entity arguments broken in event system after entity limit removal (5439). The bug crashed Snowed Inn on startup. * Refactored entity think code, optimized away thinking of frobable entities. * Added con_nowrap cvar: it caps lengthy lines in game console instead of wrapping them to the next line. * Added a ton of trace scopes in game, dmap, and loading (enabled by com_enableTracing 1 and Tracy connection). * Minor fixes: parallelSky, r_showViewEntities, image_preload 0, r_singleModelName. Known problems: GUI is not drawn in-game until paper is frob-highlighted. dev16335-9550 * Added hot-reload support: LOD settings, _color and shaderParms, noshadows, angle, targets, frobmovers + rotate/translate, bound entities (5683). * Fixed error on respawning an AI (5683). * Added con_fontSize cvar, which allows making console font smaller, also enabled mipmapping. * Refactored shaders loading, which fixes SMP-specific crash on AMD drivers (5012). * Non-bound lights are turned off when they are hidden e.g. using LOD (post). * Fixed noshadows_lod_N not working sometimes (5691). * Fixed GUI rendering on parchments --- known problem from previous build. * Fixed color banding in lockpick success/failure highlights. * Changing tdm_lod_bias has immediate effect without restart. * Small fix towards loading RGTC normal maps from DDS. * Removed old broken code for entities binding/unbinding (5414). * Some showPrimitives fixes. * Automation: fixed bug with astronomical timer for game controls (not used anywhere yet). dev16342-9552 * Merged branch with major changes in main menu GUI (5323, thread). Known problems: All the missions from the list do not work as expected in main menu: custom background is missing, empty briefing page is shown, in rare cases even briefing/debriefing video can disappear. This will be properly fixed only when 2.10 is released. Right now you can download fixed pk4 file by direct link from the same page --- fixed version should work as expected. dev16350-9577 * Support "set X on head" spawnarg for attached heads (post). * Fixed lockpicking getting stuck if you go away (5715). * Hopefully fixed random flickering when frob-highlighting objects with stencil shadows enabled. * Fast and deterministic normal maps compression on CPU (5716). * Optimized OGG files loading. * Optimized TGA files loading. * Continued work on X-ray support. * Continued work on subtitles support (2454). * Added new models and prefabs by @Wellingtoncrab. * Added material textures/darkmod/window/wooden_frame01/wooden_frame01_dark. * Probably fixed reloadModels for .lwo files. dev16358-9588 * Fixed crashes in image loading on AMD driver (5591). * Fixed occasional crashes in TGA loading optimization (5716). * Generate mipmaps for non-DDS textures in software, see cvar image_mipmapMode. * Frob outline disabled by default, see r_frobOutline (thread). * Tweaked render order ("sort last") for particle materials. * Continued work on subtitles (2454). * Removed [cleanup] button in mod selection menu (thread). dev16368-9627 (*) * Major changes in frob highlight/outline: translucency, alpha test, shine-through (5427). * Restored geometric frob outline under r_frobOutline 2 (5427, post). * Fixed bug breaking GL core profile, which usually caused black menu on AMD (post). * (WIP) Volumetric light effect. * Renderer's "safe mode" changed to windowed 800 x 600 (post). * Cap volume parameter in sound shader by 1.5 (4627). * Lockpicking sound no longer affected by EFX reverb. * Some changes in time handling, fixed timescale on uncapped FPS (5324, 4698). * Reduced pause on game start from 1.0 to 0.1 seconds (5314). * Minor dmap (aas) acceleration (5562). * Minor optimizations in models / sounds loading. * Don't drop held item after bumping dead/unconscious AIs (3516). * Tweaked render order ("sort last") for particle materials, reverting some. * Some changes in randomization (5763). * Minor fix in game console. * Adjusted stlucia.pk4 to avoid tdm_installer analysis... unsuccessfully. * Changed integration of doctest unit tests. Known problems: some maps broken with "clip model outside world bounds" warning spam. dev16390-9648 * Fixed "clip model outside world bounds" warning spam on some maps (post). * Fixed sparklies on hard geometric frob outline with bloom (5427). * DDS textures can be used in image programs, although they should not (5781). * Fixed spotlights/projected lights illuminating objects outside their frustum (5529). * Continued work on volumetric light shader: LOD, stencil, etc. (5816). * Allow xray shader in GUI overlays, fixed rare crash. * Do not spam warnings when index cache is not ready yet, e.g. during noclip on large map. * Minor fix of game console behavior. * (WIP) Changed frustum of spotlights when near != 0 (5815). * Fixed AlertDuration of security camera (5528). * Fixed normalmaps: flagstones_mossy_01 (5777), flagstones_gravel (5760), ash_001 and ash01_crumb_edge (5784), blocks_large_mildew (5786), ornament_shield_white_eagleandpallets (5803). * Added material for rough_grey_blocks (5789). * Added missing "torn" skins for all paintings. * Commented out additional camera screen materials (5676). beta210-01 (rev 16399-9702) * Projected lights: restored TDM 2.07 behavior, fix lighting outside frustum (5815). * Fixed light frustum precision (4888). * Major changes in volumetric lights (5816). * Continued work on security camera (5528). * X-ray improvements. * Fixed severe slowdown with soft stencil shadows and antialiasing. * Allow lifting ragdolls above ground, unless they have "ground_when_dragged" (5599). * Fixed mirrors getting black under "image_useTexStorage 1" (topic). * Added script events: vecRotate, getCalibratedLightgemValue, setSolid, getEntityFlag. * Take entity orientation account in flinderization offsets. * Removed "emitter_size" spawnarg. * Fixed r_showLights. * Refactor shaders: extracted common code to includes. beta210-02 (rev 16411-9731) * Fixed dbghelp.dll issue which blocked running TDM on fresh Windows 7 (issue). * Fixed rare depth fighting when SSAO is on. * Fixed OpenGL error with shadow maps when no light fallbacks to stencil implementation. * Fixed envshot command (5796). * Restored materials and prefabs for multiple camera GUIs. * X-ray: supported "suppressInSubview" spawnarg on lights (also affects other subviews like mirrors) * Added X-ray related assets: materials, visible/invisible skins. * Added script events: getLocationPoint, pointIsInBounds, getTraceSurfType. * Preserve opacity towards AIs and restore frobability in script event setSolid. * Func_emitters can now be bound without the particle flickering rapidly. * Fixed "condump unwrap". * Added display case models without glass to allow them to have breakable glass. * Added forcescreenaspect + hcenter GUI keywords for aspect-ratio-independent images. * Removed a few subtitles lines which were for testing only. * Internal typeinfo changes. beta210-03 (rev 16421-9771) * Reverted to 2.09 frob-highlight: no outline, use material frob stages. * Added three new frob outline presets by @kingsal and @nbohr1more. * Changed the way volumetric lights are set up (see wiki page). * Volumetric lights respect noshadows and don't affect lightgem. * Added script events: getHealth, setHealth, setSolid,projectDecal; fixed getLocationPoint. * Added script event getEnemy and canSee to security camera. * Add Epifire's flinder models to the security cameras. * Fixed subtitles going sticky on save/load. * Slightly reduced subtitles font size, added semi-transparent black background. * Added subtitles to Saint Lucia mission. * Fixed dmap issue in generating unoptimized collision maps for patch-only entities (5859). * Elemental no longer has 8 legs, wasting time in inverse kinematics. * Some optimizations in frontend: fix disabled optimization, avoid vertex data copy. * Added r_useInteractionTriCulling -1 mode to move some CPU load to GPU. * Fixed lamp cubemap light textures. * Fixed language switches broken by new main menu GUI. * Fixed occasional spam about slow jobs (threshold is now 100 ms instead of 10 ms). * Corrected OpenGL usage of clipping planes in shadow map generation. * Console printing is now threadsafe, which could crash Frontend Acceleration. * Improvements in system console on Windows. * Allow all SIMD code supported by compiler on Elbrus CPU. beta210-04 (rev 16441-9798) * Security camera now supports AI detection, also fixed volumetric lights. * Fixed save/load for volumetric lights, supported scrolling light materials. * Fixed scrolling light textures (5860). * Fixed uncompressed normal maps and backface lighting (5862). * stain01bwet material now works as it always did, no depth fighting (5325). * Skip X-ray rendering when it is already within subview. * Removed parchment from message about secrets (5549). * Fixed and upscaled droppuddle texture (5870). * Extended tooltips in video settings menu. * Fixed randomization of gui::random_value on game load. * A bit more subtitles in Saint Lucia mission. * Fixed 1280 x 960 resolution in 4:3. * Fixed rare graphic bug in some debug tools. * Small optimization in frontend: reuse index array for interaction. beta210-05 (rev 16457-9815) * Fixed bright lines on the boundary of light volume on AMD drivers (5876). * Fixed secret counter increased multiple times on single-count entities (5549). * Security camera: "sweepWaitSoundOffset" spawnarg controls snd_end timing. * Security camera: snd_sparks and snd_death can be used simultaneously. * Security camera: split "seeAI" spawnarg into "seeAI", "seeAnimals", "seeBodies". * Fixed the xray model stuck in place when shouldered. * Improved player GUI for taking damage. * Added spawnarg "animal_patrol_wait" to allow animals that move continuously (post). * Portal sky scissor optimization. * A bit of cleaning in source code conan dependencies (5839). * Fixed hover highlight on Restart Game button in settings menu. * Volumetric lights refactoring. beta210-06 (rev 16472-9845) * Fixed saving/loading of suppressInSubview for X-ray. * Fixed language setting being ignored on restart (post). * Reimplemented rotation in new grabber code, rotating heavy objects is easy now (post). * Fixed weird spots sticking on screen sometimes when bloom is on (post). * Fixed seeAI setting for security camera towards AIs on hostile teams; updated editor descriptions. * Fixed one more bug causing tdm_installer to analyze installation. * image_downsize no longer affects loading screens and other GUIs. * Fixed lighting with "image_useNormalCompression 0". * Added editor description for nodrop spawnarg. * Reorganized mapper tool prefabs, fixed Epifire's wall-mounted security camera prefab. * Removed non-working 16-bit color option from the menu settings. * Improved EFX in New Job mission (5594). * Fixed issue in Saint Lucia mission: all voiceovers being played on mission restart (4828). * Some more corrections to subtitles in Saint Lucia mission. beta210-07 (rev 16474-9850) * Set r_useMultiDrawIndirect to 0, fixing NaN flickering on AMD drivers. * Fixed X-ray combined with Render Scale. beta210-08 (rev16475-9853) * Fixed crash on index cache resize with now default "r_useMultiDrawIndirect 0". Changelog of earlier versions can be found here.

Hi. I would welcome some help on how I get into I am running v1.0, but have not had problems with it.

Stone 24pt Font Upgrade, June 20, 2024 Final Release With this third and (I hope) final update, Stone 24pt becomes TDM's only font+size that fully provides all 256 characters defined in the TDM custom character map. This last update concludes adding the more difficult characters, chiefly symbols, Icelandic, and remaining accented letters. Plus general overall tweaks to improve character rendering and spacing (as evaluated with testSubtitlesANSI), while preserving important metrics, e.g., xSkip of ASCII alphanumerics. Unwanted overlapping boundaries were eliminated, and things made more consistent. As one example, the metrics for the lower-case "e", and accented characters based on it, were adjusted a year ago to suppress stray marks, but at the expense of clipping the glyphs, making them less stylish. With the added insight now provided by datBounds visualization, it was possible to restore the style while keeping the stray marks away. In summary - 16 new glyphs were created. 64 existing characters got tweaks. These were mostly affecting the .dat, but some glyphs were moved in the bitmap (a little or a lot) to solve various problems. Download: 2024 June 20 Stone 24 Final Font Update.zip As with the prior interim releases, this download is made up of - .dat and 2 .dds files, for distribution/game inclusion .ref [with changes annotated] and .xcf [master source GIMP project, including datBounds layers] The hand-annotations in the .ref file are neither absolutely conclusive, nor necessary to preserve for future work. You may generate a fresh .ref without them from the .dat file by using refont. Enumeration of Changes: There will be some follow-on work, e.g., expressed earlier in this thread in a bugtracker entry.

Hi! Welcome to this forum. Like many others who would like to compile TDM for their favourite Linux Distro: We advice to look for sollutions or do it yourself (using some guides), let us know how you did it and where you got stuck. Or Dont compile the code and just try the binaries. This by downloading the tdm installer binary (from the website or your packagemanager) and use it to download the game files. (Or downloading old standalone package from moddb) Installation guide: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Installer_and_Manual_Installation Compiling Guide: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=The_Dark_Mod_-_Compilation_Guide After reading and following the guides, do a forum and google search and then try again. For example, I found a TDM on nixos issue on github: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/98936

So updated to 2.05 pre1 and I am seeing VC++ dll error - Now this is interesting because GoG Galaxy also uses VC++ 2015 and when I try to run that I get the same error. The issue is either whole or partly todo with the fact I am running windows 8.1, and I am seeing a number of issue with this bloody OS over win7 - this being the latest. I have reinstalled VC+ 2015 x64 and it dosent fix this issue, any idea's..?

This is with the original mission.tdminfo and this is with it deleted As an aside - if a mission is installed any updates to that mission don't appear in the downloader list

For free ambience tracks it's as Freky said: you look around on the internet for tracks with the appropriate license to be included in your FM. Fortunately, you likely don't even need to bother doing this as a beginner as there's an entire "Music & SFX" section of the forums full of good ambient tracks for you to use if the stock tracks do not meet your fancy. You might also be interested in Orbweaver's "Dark Ambients", which come with a sndshd file already written for you.

I would agree with @snatcher, and I think it was the original idea. Speech level is for people who hear sounds well, but don't understand spoken English well (like me), especially if it is stylized (e.g. drunk). Effect level is something even more widespread. It might be useful in the distant future for people who have problems with hearing or just lack speakers/headphones today for whatever reason. I heavily doubt we'll be able to support this case properly, but added this level early anyway. For instance, "Heyyah!" should most likely be on Effect level. Story level was added as default for TDM veterans who also hear well but don't understand English well (like me). I don't want to see these "I've got him cornered here!" and "Just you wait!" all the time, it's enough that I hear them all the time Whether speech is dangerous or not does not matter. If some speech has angry tone instead of quiet, then you can add exclamation mark to carry this information (useful in case player has hearing problems). But whether guards are just talking calm or already want to hang player up --- that he should understand himself by reading the text and listening to intonation. Actually, I don't like the idea of giving any visual difference between Story and Speech for this exact reason. We use subtitles to help player understand English, not to help him draw correct conclusions from it. He should be able to understand himself whether some text is important for his quest or interesting, or not.

For the FM? For beta 1 it's here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/H1QBB04GA0#oBZTb1CmVFQb I've already done around 100 fixes though, so you might want to wait for beta 2 which should be ready in a couple of days hopefully. All links are in the first post of the beta thread here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22439-the-lieutenant-3-foreign-affairs-beta-testing/

I believe you can look in tdm_installer logs or game console (at least on the latest dev build) to see which URL is used. I have just returned from vacation in Turkey, and suffered from abysmally slow internet there. It took me several days to download 10 MB installer for a program, because download speed was 50 KB/s and the download was frequently stopped (I use Firefox). Perhaps hotel managers do it intentionally so that people give up on the virtual world, go to the beach and rest better This forum was very slow to load. Posts were loaded almost one by one. I had to refresh some pages 5+ times (worse for longer threads) because loading process often stopped before being finished. Updating gmail and browsing other sites was not much better actually. On the last days there, I decided to try tdm_installer to see how it behaves in such conditions. I did not attempt clean install because it would obviously take longer than my vacation, but I did some 50-80 MB updates. I could not even imagine internet could be so bad! HTTP requests were dropped frequently (timeout due to effective download speed averaged for the last 10 seconds dropping lower than 1 KB/s). Once timeout happened during downloading tdm_installer.ini (8714 bytes text file). I did some improvements to make installer more stable, but it still managed to stop with error: it failed to download 4 KB piece of a file two times in a row! I have also noticed that mirrors behave differently. Cabalistic's mirror is Germany was the most reliable for me, and the main TDM server in Canada was the worst one. Note that the main TDM server is not used for FM or game downloads. However, it is solely used to obtain some "trusted" files: installer exe, .ini file and 2 MB manifest. It turned out that downloading 2 MB manifest from the main server was the hardest challenge for the installer. I can speculate that Canada is on the farthest end from Turkey in terms of connectivity. Which is interesting because physical distance from Novosibirsk to Canada is about the same as the physical distance from Turkey to Canada, and for me all our mirrors and the main server work perfectly well and fast. Note that in-game download is much less reliable than tdm_installer, because it can only download whole FM in single curl request, it does not try to break it into smaller pieces and retry. Resumable downloads are not supported neither by tdm_installer nor by in-game downloader: that would be a mess to implement and maintain. For me, the conclusion is: we need to support alternative ways of downloading, because no matter what we try, there would be people who cannot use our custom downloaders. For missions it is already available: you can download mission from mirror by direct link on mission database on website. For the game itself, I guess we need to create and seed torrent for the most recent stable version.

Extensive customization options are appropriate during the pre-release testing or early roll out of a new feature. The people testing the feature can't know yet what configuration will work best for them, much less the people making the patch. My expectation is that by the time you have to make a final decision about including this patch in the next official update of TDM, there will be a rough consensus about the optimal parameters for the new mechanics, and you will only need one toggle for the new behavior. Or, preferably, there would be no need for an option at all if we can only get over our OCD about preserving arbitrary semantic grouping in our key-bind allocations; and embrace a superior control scheme that's not designed around highlighting an old gimmick feature whose trendiness expired with the Half-Life 2 era of FPS. But that's a pipe dream. Maybe instead we can just all agree that the general>gameplay options are getting a bit crowded. Perhaps we could split some of them off into an "appearance" or "accessibility" tag. As more people make their own mods and we modernize our accessibility options it is going to become a problem regardless. Best to get ahead of it. I agree, and that is one of TDM's strengths. It borrows and combines many of the best features from the three beloved Thief games, but it also gives FM creators tools to expand their creative vision in new directions. To some Thief purists that will never be an enticing proposition. But I don't see this feature as throwing a bone to those Thief players specifically, but just player in general who are bouncing off our game because it deviates from some genre conventions for no obvious reason, which makes them think this is an unpolished product. It is true that Thief was what set these conventions, and (shockingly/s) it is mostly Thief players who are interested enough in TDM to give it a try... but our responsibility to address these problems (if we can) is the same as if AMD or Linux players were having technical problems with TDM. They are people who we want to be part of our community because we never know if one of them might make the next FM like Iris, or do something crazy-innovative with TDM that we can't even imagine!

I referred to my work in the bugtracker mainly as a way to show that I have good intentions. Not that I don't make mistakes. I do. Thank you for providing feedback about 0006540 (feedback which may also then apply to 0006542). I was not aware that Z-fighting (if that is the culprit) was mission specific. I thought it, similar to 0006361, was related to coding or the models. Had I known it was mission specific I would not have logged it in the bugtracker. Feel free to enter them where they better belong (in the forum?), add a comment in the bugtracker with a URL to the new location to those places and then close the issues so that I and others can see what is the proper way to work. I really am trying to do the right thing and I do appreciate your feedback. The wiki article Reporting Problem describes how to report a problem, but is there documentation on where different problems shall be reported or how to work in the bugtracker? I'd be happy to read it and follow such a guideline. I have looked for it but cannot find it. This is also something I'd be willing to document on the wiki if it does not exist, or link to it if it does exist so that others can easily find it. It is more effective and less friction to write down what is the right way to work rather than correcting someone on a case-by-case basis when they do something wrong but that they didn't know was wrong. I actually had a private conversation about this with another forum member a few months back and they suggested you had a good grasp of the bugtracker workflow. Maybe you'd be willing to write something down? If you want I can give feedback and ask for clarifications and point out aspects that a new user may want to know. I have a firm grasp of Mantis as a system, but practical use of it may differ between organizations. The thing is that other than finding, reproducing, reporting and organizing defects, I think one of my strong points is documentation of products and workflows. I want to branch out from there, but I also want to document missing information along the way so that others who wonder the same things as I can easily find it.