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Yep here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=5211 I was going to link it, but didn't want to steer anyone away from a desire to make some shadow meshes. Looks like there's probably a 30% increase? Every bit helps.

Dom, I have to disagree with you here. There is a lot of harm in the fact that people are capable of simply believing something whether or not there is any evidence to point to the fact. Because once you dismiss evidence based reasoning as a way of looking at the world, you can literally believe anything. So for you, its perhaps the desire to feel there is more to life than this world, that there is something beyond. But for someone else, well, they have decided that God wants them to fly an airplane into a building full of people. A political leader decides that God speaks to him directly and that God wants him to invade Iraq and bring it "democracy."(This is true, Bush has claimed divine guidance in his war in Iraq and Afghan.) Here in the US, there are a lot of folks who believe God wants them to kill doctors that provide abortions and harrass/threaten people who are seeking such operations. Its perfectly fine to investigate, I strongly urge you to do so in any way possible, short of actually killing yourself to see whats on the other side! Asking those questions is the right thing to do. Its when you stop asking questions because you believe you have all the answers wrapped up in with a pretty bow ribbon that the trouble begins. So, you say you think there is more to life than this world and your time here, fine, great, whats the evidence you have for your position? Because minus that, you could also equally claim that you are the Grand Emporer of the Universe and that all fish are actually birds and that children give birth to their parents. Why not? By the standard of truth you have claimed, all such things are equally valuable, equally true. Do you believe such things? Of course not, because you are a alert, reasoning creature who can see such things simply do not jive with the evidence all around you. Now, take that same reasoning and apply it to your beliefs about the afterlife. What evidence do you have? The fact that others say its true isn't enough, we need much more evidence for such an important claim. Im not trying to jump on your neck, bro, but from talking with you on these forums I feel compelled to challenge these ideas of yours because frankly you deserve better from yourself. This is how knowledge is gained, through debate, examination, the winnowing out of weak ideas, not accepting one's beliefs/desires at face value. It can be hard, but this is the burden of being a rational, critical thinker in a world of superstition and irrationality. Let other run about with their mushy, half baked "just-so" childrens tales about how the world works, you are made of sterner stuff than that, sir!

I'm pretty sure they could--they could get into areas you had to crouch. I was going to use them as a base for the aas size of the spiders. Yep. I think I already uploaded that folder, along with some textures, assuming I've got this svn figured out. I made a mtr entry but no def file yet, so we can use yours. I was just using a .lwo of the spider to test the textures, so there's a chance the mesh won't point to the same material, we'll have to see. So did you already export the animations? It would be cool if we could get these guys in-game without a lot of fuss. It would give Anqua something to put in the bonehoard besides zombies.

To the forums, yes. To the internet, no.

I don't have internet access. Whenever I want to read the forums, I go to modetwo's servers and do my posting there. (Ya rly!)

Inventor Engineer (WIP): http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=5371 Noblewoman rigging/mesh fixes: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=5425

I also put in some links about human proportions on the forum: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=5333

We don't have a firm plan in mind, which is why I'm bringing it up again. From previous discussions it seemed like decals were probably the way to go, as they would adapt themselves to fit the world geometry, where meshes would not. But that's as far as we got. We have Mikebart's ivy texture: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showt...=4817&st=25, so if you'd like to take a shot at putting an ivy effect together, feel free.

Just read about komags attempted return to ttlg... I then put a post up in the general section http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112346 Lets see how long it stays up there for.. biker Update: I Pm'd some of the mod's and got this unexpected reply... I do realise the frustration some people feel over the Komag banning. And I also don't expect for a second that anyone believes me when I say I don't have a damned thing against him as a person and that he will probably always be one of the top five Saints of TTLG (if ever such a thing exists) due to his near single-handedly kicking the editing and fan mission community back to life and then doing far more than pretty much anyone else to keep it breathing until it was capable of standing up again. I think the above is never said because it honestly doesn't really need to be said. No one's under any illusions about his contributions to the Thief community, which is why the way everything ended was such a stupid and needless thing. But the tale of TTLG v. Komag is long, exceptionally Long, nobody wanted to ban him, and a lot of time and effort was spent trying to figure out a way to resolve things without it getting that far. In the end, however, the decision wasn't up to us. So we have what we have. Admins - Please lock this thread and remove all posts after this one, also change the title to just "Komag's ghost" (remove the ttlg admins are bitchy, as clearly some of them or not) please. I request this In the spirit of the ttlg admin who replied to my PM.

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112036 You will likely need to go through the TTLG FAQ to find the fixes he mentions.

Try this: Take the latest release version 0.8.1 and install it somewhere in case you haven't done this yet. Then take the DLLs from this release and pack it into your install/ folder (where you checked out the SVN stuff). Does this resolve anything?

There is also a copy of libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll in the DarkRadiant installation folder from the official release.

Indeed -- further more, the TGA textures have to be compressed to DDS and mipmaps generated at load time (if you have these options enabled), which mean loading a TGA can be considerably slower than loading the equivalent DDS. That is why Doom 3 has the precompressed DDS folder in the first place.

You'll need to download the actual mod, then install it and get a couple things set up with Dark Radiant, then you're in business. Download links and instructions are in the Beta Testing forums and on the wiki. I meant to have a good beginner setup tutorial ready, but it's not done yet, sorry.

No, I think the most recent stable build will be enough. Try this ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.14/win32/pango-1.14.9.zip and copy the DLLs from the bin/ folder into your DarkRadiant installation folder. Hopefully this will do the trick (if yes, I'll update the wiki article).

Thanks I did make it rather fast, in under 2 days. I really want to get going if I can, all I really need are textures and a direction and I will get started as soon as possible. I'm very eager at the moment because I'm currently on my reading break and I have no mid-terms or final exams in sight. How will I know if I've been accepted and how soon? I'd like to begin even tonight if possible. I am assuming that this forums is where you get judged on whether or not you can help the mod, is this correct?

For someone who spends way too much time on internet forums, your knowledge of the associated vocabulary is evidently quite lacking. The above describes you perfectly.

The number of postings is a pretty weak argument, since you can't really determine what has been done with it. And when you consider that only a very tiny part of it is posted in the public forums, the number on it's own has absolutely no meaning for team members.

Well while we're ranting... I went to a Catholic school when I was young, and it was run by nuns. By and by, it was alright, nothing bad happened really - it was just the stupid traditions that fuck with your head. Like, we were introduced to the rosemary beads, and you had to say one prayer for each of this bead, and on this day you say 2 for this other colour... etc. somthing really arbitraty and stupid. So of course, being a kid, you don't remember to do things consistently, so I was worrying about what effect that would have. And then, one day, some guy came in and talked to the class, and introduced us to this thing (that I can't remember what it's called) basically looked like 2 tags that you hung around your neck, so one tag is at the front and one tag is at the back. And the idea is, that if you happen to die while wearing it - you get straight to heaven, no matter what you did. So we all wore it for a while, and it was really uncomfortable cause it would slip backwards and strangle you all the time, and I couldn't shake the feeling of confusion, that if I could have put into words, would have sounded like "okay, the right way to do things was already decreed by god like, ages and ages ago in the bible - so how come we didn't know about this before? Why is it new? How can you have "new technological developments" in religion?" And then, I had to move to another state, so I just missed out on receiving my um... reconciliation I think its called - something you have to do when you're a teenager, involves talking to a priest or something. We were told that we had to have this done, because, when you're a kid, you commit all sorts of sins that you don't know you did, so you need to do this, or else, well we told "You don't have to have your reconciliation, but if you don't, you'll have all these sins there, soo..." we probably wouldn't go to heaven. So I spent a while worrying about that for a year or so untill I just found all the different ways to do the same thing really stupid and confusing and just naturally started to question the entire point of religion. And thus, without any discussion between us, me and my brothers eventually ditched the whole catholic thing, much to the initial shock of our parents when they found out. They thought they failed, etc. I can't imagine why anyone would stay so attached to religion after rubbish like that. This is just the natural conclusion.

The "evolution" of worship in Christianity has always struck me as pretty weird. As I understand it, Christianity sprang up as an offshoot of Judiasm in the Greco-Roman world. In the earlier Greco-Roman religions, there was a clear patronage relationship. You leave out snacks for god A, god A will do you a favor next week. The gods were not seen as morally superior (which is obvious from most of the myths associated with them). They were just superior beings to humans, and we could give physical items or mental oaths in return for help with our day to day problems. There was an afterlife (the details of which are open to interpretation), but no sure way to get in via mental devotion to a particular god. Then in Judaism you have Old Testament God. We've switched from many gods to one, but Old Testament God was still essentially a more powerful being who got angry and kicked over your sand castle if you didn't please him. He didn't help you much in mortal life, but if you made a covenant with him and followed his rules, he'd help you out in the afterlife. He made mistakes, he wasn't morally perfect, but he was someone you didn't want to piss off. In Christianity, New Testament God is supposedly morally perfect, and you don't have to leave food out for him or explicitly enter into a covenant with him. You just have to have faith in him (or his son or the triforce or whatever) and you'll be saved in the afterlife, right? If that's the case, then why are there all these pagan patronage throwbacks like praying for favors, sacrificing candles in return for helping people, and praying to entities that are even called "patron" saints for fuck's sake. Also, why do we still have to follow some of the rules handed down from crazy old "I smite 'choo" Old Testament God? As we've said, the prayer/worship/counting beads as a path to enlightenment thing falls down when you ask why is that the only path to enlightenment? And what about those Serengeti bushmen who've never heard of Jesus but still live by the same ideals that Jesus exemplified? If they acknowledge that there are many paths to enlightenment, if god is morally perfect and Serengeti bushmen aren't going to hell just because they've never heard of Jesus, then why the hell are people sitting for hours in a church and sacrificing their time and money to support some guys who do nothing but sit around and talk about Jesus? [EDIT: If you make the argument that the priesthood is just there to discuss "faith" with people and help them live a better life, then you've pretty much admitted that Christianity has no tangible benefit over any other religion, and we might as well just sit at home on Sunday and think about what our own personal interpretation of "faith" and "morality."] I guess it's true, this is just shooting the AFK, but there's so much to rant about it's hard to resist. It's hard to argue with actual Christians though, because there are so many different versions of it, their particular version may have thought of a way of surmounting the particular logical fallacy you're arguing while introducing 5 other ones you have to think about for a while to see.

I have been watching these forums and decided to start a fun poll. How stealthy are you?

With that firey discussion in the off-topic forums about hanging onto the T2 engine, I'm surprised there's a debate about this I went out and bought a cheap DX9 compatible card just to play T3, since it flatly refused to run on anything less. The release date of this game is only going to become later and later, not earlier, so our chances of people not caring that it won't work with DX8 is going to only become less as time goes on.

Yeah, I've asked about that eariler, Pink, and the consensus seems to be that it's possible. I'd like to do that (eventually) for things the AI will do a lot, like walking/running/searching, etc, so they don't all move exactly in sync. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=5157

"Docks" - I was thinking about that as well, but it's mostly architecture, which makes docks diffrent - piers, lighthouse - they can go to architecture folder. "Nautical" is fine, even better then "Ship".

What about "models/darkmod/props/docks/" similar to the graveyard folder?