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A Winter's Tale By: Bikerdude "One of the few pleasures I have as a man of the thieving profession is to return to my old home town for the holidays and relax in the company of friends and relatives. But a local lord has been going out of his way to making the lives of the locals a miserable." Notes: - TDM 2.12 or later is REQUIRED to play this mission. - This is my entry for the speedbuilding jam. - This FM should play on the vast majority of systems. I have perf tweaked this map with low end players in-mind. And have moved the globale fog/moon lights to the ‘ better’ LOD level. - min recommended spec (as per beta testing) Intel Core i7(3rd gen), nvidia 1030 4gb (GDDR5), will get you 60fps inside and 45fps outside. - Various areas will look better with shadow maps enabled (SoftShadows set to medium/high, Shadows Softness set to zero and LOD set to 'better'), at the possible expense of performance depending on your system specs. - this mission continues the imperial theme, with this being a border town slightly further out from the main imperial lands than Brouften. - build time roughly 130hrs. Download Link: - (v1.4) - https://discord.com/channels/679083115519410186/1310012992867405855/1310022631415746632 v1.4 changes: I have been tweaking the LOD levels through-out the map - - Snow fall has been moved to LOD low/normal. - world fog moved to LOD better. - fireplace grills to LOD better. - world moonlight moved to LOD high. Other tweaks - - reduced light counts in all the fireplaces. - reduced the length of the looping menu video background. - Some new assets Gameplay: - added more ways for the player to get around. - tweaked existing routes to make some easier or more of a challenge. - and added an additional option objective. Credits: Special thanks go to - - Nbhor1more, flashing out the briefing and creation of readables. - Amadeus, Help w/custom objectives, script work, proof reading, mission design & testing. - Dragofer, for custom scripts and script work for the main objective. - Baal, for additional tweaking of the main objective and script work,. - Beta testers: Amadeus, Nbhor1more, Mat99, DavyJones, S1lverwolf, Baal & Dragofer. - Freesound.org, for ambient tracks, further details in sndshd file. Speed Jam Thread: - https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152747

Story Tease On the run from her husband, me and my girl. With a bribe to a ship's captain, we're away. What could go wrong now? Oh, dammit. Links "Away 1 - Air Pocket" Version 1.0 is available from the in-game downloader and its mirrors. As well as here. There are two extra documents contained in your installed .pk4 and also conveniently available here - For gamers needing hints, this Q&A uses "invisible ink" to selectively hide the answers: Air Pocket - Hints and Spoilers [Jan. 29, 2020].docx For understanding what's under the hood: Maintenance Guide to Away 1 - Air Pocket [Jan 29, 2020].docx For more about the innards and interations, see this FM's Beta Testing thread. Author's Note This is my first substantive TDM FM, a nautical adventure, and what I hope will be part of a longer story arc. Enjoy. Gallery Credits & Acknowledgements Thanks to TDM community members for encouragement - and assistance with newbie questions - while building this, my first FM (not counting an earlier nanoMission). Kudos in particular to Dragofer for the wonderful ship models (modified here), newly-created ship davits, and assets like kelp models from 'Down by the Riverside'. Also a custom cannon-ball hole through the hull, and much helpful guidance. The skybox is adapted from 'lagoon' by Hazel Whorley (CC BY-NC; hw_lagoon.zip at www.custommapmakers.org/skyboxes). Finally, my deep appreciation to all who tested or assisted during the beta: Biene, Cambridge Spy, Dragofer, duzenko, peter_spy, and stgatilov

Does anyone have an example of a mission where this check is done? It isn't a bad idea, and seems like something the core game should be doing, with the FMs providing whatever metadata they need to enable it. Something rings a bell recently with maybe some constant being available via script events?

The TDM Unofficial Patch is a personal project of mine to modify some small details that annoyed me in the core game. It wouldn't be possible without many others, so thanks to the whole TDM community for discussions and help, but especially to friendly modders who directly contributed code for it, like Obsttorte, Dragofer, Kingsal, Goldwell, Destined, and snatcher! You can find it under the link below and while over the years there was little progress, in recent times many things have been improved that I never even thought of when I started and some might be worth to be included in the core game. https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/addons/the-dark-mod-unofficial-patch Version Changelog: ------------------ v1.7 20.08.2022 ---- Made loot icon change right back to last tool icon, thanks snatcher. Added new whistle player skill to distract NPCs, thanks to snatcher. Made more lights extinguishable and added info for 4 beta missions. Corrected container bottom fix messing up drawers, thanks Dragofer. Improved unlit behaviour of moveable light sources, thanks snatcher. Corrected lit lamps set to extinguished in maps, thanks to Dragofer. Changed western empire maps so the location of Bridgeport is vague. Added several major city names to the small map, thanks to Kukutoo. Fixed frobing animation not working with bound and carried entities. v1.6 23.07.2022 ---- Improved extinguishing oil lamps, thanks to Dragofer and Obsttorte. Added frobing animation, thanks to Obsttorte, Goldwell and snatcher. Fixed container bottoms and training mission chest, thanks Dragofer. Made doors open faster when running, thanks Obsttorte and snatcher. Added more player tools to training mission and improved text there. Fixed Holy Water doing no damage and Hazard Pay not starting at all. Made all five oil lamps in Sotha's "The Bakery Job" extinguishable. Added blow player skill to snuff out small flames, thanks snatcher. Changed Unarmed icon to make clear that the player always has a bow. v1.5 02.07.2022 ---- Created Invisibility Potion out of cut Speed Potion, thanks Kingsal. Increased arrow head shot damage to both living and undead enemies. Replaced slow matches with easier to handle flints, thanks Kingsal. v1.4 10.03.2022 ---- Replaced Frob Helper with dark Frob Outline and updated to TDM 2.10. Made electric mine stun elite guards too and improved mission names. Renamed mission installation/selection UI mishmash to "activation". v1.3 21.02.2021 ---- Changed flashmine to stunning electric mine and updated to TDM 2.09. Edited more mission names and made threefold candles extinguishable. v1.2 26.08.2020 ---- Updated to TDM 2.08 and fixed custom holywater script compatibility. Added Numbers Scroll showing stealth and loot info, thanks Dragofer. Edited more mission names to avoid truncated descriptions in menus. Added default keys info to training mission and repaired cut lines. v1.1 03.02.2019 ---- Moveable candles can be extinguished directly by frobing the candle. More blackjack immune enemies and inextinguishable candles modified. The key frob distance has been decreased to be that of lockpicking. Holy Water bottles must be thrown directly, but they do more damage. The controls settings menu additions have been updated for TDM 2.07. New mission names have been fixed to fix format and spacing issues. Added looking up and looking down controls for people without mouse. Pointed bad prefabs container open/close sounds to existing effects. Added version info to starting screen and edited some new missions. v1.0 06.05.2018 ---- Many enemies will not become immune to blackjacking when alerted. Oil lamps can be snuffed by frobing, thanks Destined and Obsttorte. The controls settings menu lists that "use" can work on held items. Mission names were syncronized between download and online lists. The controls settings menu lists that "frob" can get or drop items. Astericks were added to official missions to move them to list top. Minor text and format bugs have been fixed in some mission infos.

Hi, I've tried to install the latest version of TDM four times now (no previous installation), each time I get the same error: ERROR: Unexpected CURL error 56 on URL The urls seem to change (examples are http://darkmod.taaki.za.net/release/zipsync/release/release200/tdm_textures_metal01.pk4, /tdm_models02.pk4, /tdm_textures_carpet01.pk4) but the installation always fails around 20% of the way through. Am I doing something wrong? I tried the default mirror and the German mirror (also version 211 just in case). I'm using Windows 10 (64 bit) and don't seem to be having any internet issues that would cause the error. Any help would be appreciated!

I think it's for good. In best case (game would be success and praised by players and critics) we would have new installment in franchise. In worst case (game would be failure and banned by the most) we would have new installment in franchise. Possibly new faces will appear in community. As for "Thief is female" - I don't care. There are Thief 2X and TDM's own Goldwell's mission Noble Affairs so it's not a problem. Making 1998-2004's Garrett some kind of relic from ancient times is not that bad. I have no VR so I hope for non-VR rerelease and/or new non-VR/VR optional game in franchise.

The Black Mage ============================================================= Title: The Black Mage Filename: black_mage.pk4 Authors: Grayman, Jack Farmer Testers: datiswous, joebarnin, Shadow, Amadeus, madtaffer, wesp5 Release date: 24.12.2021 (version 1) - 05.03.2022 (version 2) - 23.12.2023 (version 3) Version: 3 (available via in game downloader) ============================================================= Grayman - Mapping, scripting & text for briefing video JackFarmer - Additional mapping & scripting, drafts for readables, conversations and in game comments Amadeus - Revision & editing of all readables, conversations and in game comments Dragofer, joebarnin, datiswous - Troubleshooting ============================================================= Voice Talents (in alphabetical order): AndrosTheOxen - Worried father / Counsel Lester Morlan (fincancial advisor to the lord) Bikerdude - Sami "Sausage" McNulty (the castle's chef) BoyLag - Percy Lockhard (the castle's chronicler) Goldchocobo - Robert (the son of the worried father) / Colton (a fallen Builder) Jedi_Wannabe - Friend of the worried father / Bennett (a fallen Builder) Malasdair - Lt. Godric (chief security officer) New Horizon - Lord Ewan Davenport (the Black Mage) Purgator - The Thief ============================================================= Paintings: New paintings provided by OGDA Grayman avatar painting created by Zerg Rush ============================================================= Assets: New kitchen equipment models provided by STRUNK ============================================================= Geometry: Selected cave architecture orginally created by Bikerdude & Dram for "Blackheart Manor" and later modified for "The Gatehouse" (rearranged with the orignal authors approval) ============================================================= Sound: Wind_rusting trees sound (main menu) taken from freesound.org produced by funwithsound "Madrigal" (briefing video) performed by Anthony Holborne Pub audience sound (briefing video) taken from freesound.org produced by yap-audio-production Footsteps sound (briefing video) taken from freesound.org produced by Nox_Sound Stand up from chair sound (briefing video) taken from freesound.org produced by kupp2 Tape-deck-startup sound (phonogram recording) taken from freesound.org produced by soundjoao Short metal scrape sound (phonogram recording) taken from freesound.org produced by Timbre Chains sound (phonogram recording) taken from freesound.org produced by arnaud-coutancier All other new ambient and sound fx recorded and produced by JackFarmer sometimes with altered sound effects/ambient sounds orginally produced by Gigagooga ============================================================= Video: Story board and sound arrangement by JackFarmer Briefing video produced by SirSmokeALot ============================================================= Known bugs: If you quicksave too soon after killing a fire elemental (within 4-5 seconds), the quickload crashes. (2.09 and 2.10) ============================================================= Production notes: Graymans's son gave this work in progress to the Dark Mod community according to grayman's will in June 2021. After discussions with Dragofer, I overtook this mission in June 2021 and started working on it in September 2021. Since I didn't know what else Grayman had planned, I made up my own story from the end of the briefing. The voice actors did an incredible job. Everyone I asked immediately agreed to complete this work of Grayman. This has now led to a fabulous eight voice actors taking part in this mission - from England, Ireland, Canada and the USA. ============================================================== Let's raise our glasses in Grayman's honor. Otherwise I wish you all happy holidays. Take care of yourself, your loved ones, and all of your friends.

Improved formatting: Thread 38 "Frontend" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fffb98006c0 (LWP 1220544)] 0x00007ffff48d5d29 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff48d5d29 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 #1 0x0000000000be43c7 in GLSLProgram::Destroy (this=0x10fe9290) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgram.cpp:61 #2 0x0000000000bece3e in GLSLProgramManager::LoadFromGenerator(char const*, std::function<void (GLSLProgram*)> const&) (this=0x2107cc0 <programManagerInstance>, name=0x7fffb013a1f0 "ambientEnvironment", generator=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgramManager.cpp:103 #3 0x0000000000bec407 in GLSLProgramManager::Load (this=0x2107cc0 <programManagerInstance>, name=..., defines=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgramManager.cpp:74 #4 0x0000000000cc642f in GLSL_LoadMaterialStageProgram (name=0x7ffed4053f40 "ambientEnvironment") at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:783 #5 0x0000000000cc9602 in idMaterial::ParseStage (this=0x7ffed40069b0, src=..., trpDefault=TR_REPEAT) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:1568 #6 0x0000000000ccd04e in idMaterial::ParseMaterial (this=0x7ffed40069b0, src=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:2470 #7 0x0000000000ccd626 in idMaterial::Parse (this=0x7ffed40069b0, text=0x7fffb97eda30 "\n\npainting03_L\n{\n\tqer_editorimage\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting03_l_d_ed\n\twood\n\n\tdiffusemap\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting03_l_d\n\tbumpmap\t\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting01_loc"..., textLength=1329) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:2559 #8 0x000000000049631d in idDeclLocal::ParseLocal (this=0x57c0bd0) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:2318 #9 0x000000000049263f in idDeclManagerLocal::FindType (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, type=DECL_MATERIAL, name=0x7ffed40c03f0 "painting03_l", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1235 #10 0x0000000000494300 in idDeclManagerLocal::FindMaterial (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, name=0x7ffed40c03f0 "painting03_l", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1633 #11 0x000000000049f3ed in idDeclSkin::Parse (this=0x7ffed4034ad0, text=0x7fffb97ee290 "\n\nportrait_with_skull02_torn\n{\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01.lwo\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_m.lwo\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_l.lwo\nmodel mod"..., textLength=404) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclSkin.cpp:78 #12 0x000000000049631d in idDeclLocal::ParseLocal (this=0x59f3e10) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:2318 #13 0x000000000049263f in idDeclManagerLocal::FindType (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, type=DECL_SKIN, name=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1235 #14 0x0000000000494382 in idDeclManagerLocal::FindSkin (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, name=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1643 --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging-- #15 0x000000000055a6bb in idEntity::Event_SetSkin (this=0x7ffed408d324, skinname=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn") at darkmod_src/game/Entity.cpp:7114 #16 0x0000000000987646 in idClass::ProcessEventArgPtr (this=0x7ffed408d324, ev=0x1f5ef00 <EV_SetSkin>, data=0x7fffb97ee600) at darkmod_src/game/gamesys/Callbacks.cpp:26 #17 0x0000000000a5a847 in idInterpreter::CallEvent (this=0x7ffed408b444, func=0x7ffff7961388, argsize=132) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Interpreter.cpp:817 #18 0x0000000000a5b1f7 in idInterpreter::Execute (this=0x7ffed408b444) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Interpreter.cpp:1091 #19 0x0000000000a6a0ce in idThread::Execute (this=0x7ffed408b414) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Thread.cpp:949 #20 0x0000000000561c23 in idEntity::FrobAction (this=0x16762504, frobMaster=true, isFrobPeerAction=false) at darkmod_src/game/Entity.cpp:9544 #21 0x000000000067d033 in idPlayer::PerformFrob (this=0x156bf4e4, impulseState=EPressed, target=0x16762504, allowUseCurrentInvItem=true) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:11843 #22 0x000000000067d916 in idPlayer::PerformFrob (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:12047 #23 0x000000000066884c in idPlayer::PerformImpulse (this=0x156bf4e4, impulse=41) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:5935 #24 0x00000000006696f4 in idPlayer::EvaluateControls (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:6347 #25 0x000000000066e72d in idPlayer::Think (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:7616 #26 0x00000000005ba9dd in idGameLocal::RunFrame (this=0x16b3a40 <gameLocal>, clientCmds=0x7fffb97eebe0, timestepMs=17, minorTic=false) at darkmod_src/game/Game_local.cpp:3397 #27 0x00000000004cac3c in idSessionLocal::RunGameTic (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>, timestepMs=17, minorTic=false) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:2997 #28 0x00000000004cb020 in idSessionLocal::RunGameTics (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3043 #29 0x00000000004cb291 in idSessionLocal::FrontendThreadFunction (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3104 #30 0x00000000004cb6bc in operator() (__closure=0x0, x=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3186 #31 0x00000000004cb6e4 in _FUN () at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3188 #32 0x00007ffff769caa4 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_create.c:447 #33 0x00007ffff7729c3c in clone3 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78 (gdb) thread 1 [Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7ccf4c0 (LWP 1220498))] #0 0x00007ffff771b4cd in __GI___poll (fds=0x7fffffffd4e8, nfds=1, timeout=1000) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29 warning: 29 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c: No such file or directory (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff771b4cd in __GI___poll (fds=0x7fffffffd4e8, nfds=1, timeout=1000) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29 #1 0x00007fffd661d9df in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.570.124.04 #2 0x00007fffd6603b11 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.570.124.04 #3 0x00007ffff3f7a1ec in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 #4 0x00007ffff3f48500 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 #5 0x0000000000d95c36 in GLimp_SwapBuffers () at darkmod_src/sys/linux/glimp.cpp:76 #6 0x0000000000bf4ba0 in RB_SwapBuffers () at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/tr_backend.cpp:608 #7 0x000000000074adf1 in R_IssueRenderCommands (frameData=0x1fb31a0 <smpFrameData+96>) at darkmod_src/renderer/RenderSystem.cpp:173 #8 0x000000000074c6e6 in idRenderSystemLocal::EndFrame (this=0x1fa7c60 <tr>, frontEndMsec=0x0, backEndMsec=0x0) at darkmod_src/renderer/RenderSystem.cpp:768 #9 0x00000000004c9cb9 in idSessionLocal::UpdateScreen (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>, outOfSequence=false) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:2716 #10 0x000000000047477f in idCommonLocal::Frame (this=0x16de8c0 <commonLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Common.cpp:2479 #11 0x0000000000d99481 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdd68) at darkmod_src/sys/posix/platform_linux.cpp:490

Probably makes sense to discuss this issue here instead of in the generic Shadows of Northdale 1 thread (where the same issue occured). I compiled the latest Darkmod source (Debug build) and reproduced the crash with that. The crash indeed does *not* happen in the main thread, but the "Frontend" thread: Thread 38 "Frontend" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fffb98006c0 (LWP 1220544)] 0x00007ffff48d5d29 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff48d5d29 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 #1 0x0000000000be43c7 in GLSLProgram::Destroy (this=0x10fe9290) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgram.cpp:61 #2 0x0000000000bece3e in GLSLProgramManager::LoadFromGenerator(char const*, std::function<void (GLSLProgram*)> const&) (this=0x2107cc0 <programManagerInstance>, name=0x7fffb013a1f0 "ambientEnvironment", generator=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgramManager.cpp:103 #3 0x0000000000bec407 in GLSLProgramManager::Load (this=0x2107cc0 <programManagerInstance>, name=..., defines=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgramManager.cpp:74 #4 0x0000000000cc642f in GLSL_LoadMaterialStageProgram (name=0x7ffed4053f40 "ambientEnvironment") at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:783 #5 0x0000000000cc9602 in idMaterial::ParseStage (this=0x7ffed40069b0, src=..., trpDefault=TR_REPEAT) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:1568 #6 0x0000000000ccd04e in idMaterial::ParseMaterial (this=0x7ffed40069b0, src=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:2470 #7 0x0000000000ccd626 in idMaterial::Parse (this=0x7ffed40069b0, text=0x7fffb97eda30 "\n\npainting03_L\n{\n\tqer_editorimage\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting03_l_d_ed\n\twood\n\n\tdiffusemap\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting03_l_d\n\tbumpmap\t\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting01_loc"..., textLength=1329) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:2559 #8 0x000000000049631d in idDeclLocal::ParseLocal (this=0x57c0bd0) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:2318 #9 0x000000000049263f in idDeclManagerLocal::FindType (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, type=DECL_MATERIAL, name=0x7ffed40c03f0 "painting03_l", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1235 #10 0x0000000000494300 in idDeclManagerLocal::FindMaterial (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, name=0x7ffed40c03f0 "painting03_l", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1633 #11 0x000000000049f3ed in idDeclSkin::Parse (this=0x7ffed4034ad0, text=0x7fffb97ee290 "\n\nportrait_with_skull02_torn\n{\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01.lwo\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_m.lwo\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_l.lwo\nmodel mod"..., textLength=404) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclSkin.cpp:78 #12 0x000000000049631d in idDeclLocal::ParseLocal (this=0x59f3e10) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:2318 #13 0x000000000049263f in idDeclManagerLocal::FindType (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, type=DECL_SKIN, name=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1235 #14 0x0000000000494382 in idDeclManagerLocal::FindSkin (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, name=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1643 --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging-- #15 0x000000000055a6bb in idEntity::Event_SetSkin (this=0x7ffed408d324, skinname=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn") at darkmod_src/game/Entity.cpp:7114 #16 0x0000000000987646 in idClass::ProcessEventArgPtr (this=0x7ffed408d324, ev=0x1f5ef00 <EV_SetSkin>, data=0x7fffb97ee600) at darkmod_src/game/gamesys/Callbacks.cpp:26 #17 0x0000000000a5a847 in idInterpreter::CallEvent (this=0x7ffed408b444, func=0x7ffff7961388, argsize=132) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Interpreter.cpp:817 #18 0x0000000000a5b1f7 in idInterpreter::Execute (this=0x7ffed408b444) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Interpreter.cpp:1091 #19 0x0000000000a6a0ce in idThread::Execute (this=0x7ffed408b414) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Thread.cpp:949 #20 0x0000000000561c23 in idEntity::FrobAction (this=0x16762504, frobMaster=true, isFrobPeerAction=false) at darkmod_src/game/Entity.cpp:9544 #21 0x000000000067d033 in idPlayer::PerformFrob (this=0x156bf4e4, impulseState=EPressed, target=0x16762504, allowUseCurrentInvItem=true) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:11843 #22 0x000000000067d916 in idPlayer::PerformFrob (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:12047 #23 0x000000000066884c in idPlayer::PerformImpulse (this=0x156bf4e4, impulse=41) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:5935 #24 0x00000000006696f4 in idPlayer::EvaluateControls (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:6347 #25 0x000000000066e72d in idPlayer::Think (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:7616 #26 0x00000000005ba9dd in idGameLocal::RunFrame (this=0x16b3a40 <gameLocal>, clientCmds=0x7fffb97eebe0, timestepMs=17, minorTic=false) at darkmod_src/game/Game_local.cpp:3397 #27 0x00000000004cac3c in idSessionLocal::RunGameTic (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>, timestepMs=17, minorTic=false) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:2997 #28 0x00000000004cb020 in idSessionLocal::RunGameTics (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3043 #29 0x00000000004cb291 in idSessionLocal::FrontendThreadFunction (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3104 #30 0x00000000004cb6bc in operator() (__closure=0x0, x=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3186 #31 0x00000000004cb6e4 in _FUN () at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3188 #32 0x00007ffff769caa4 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_create.c:447 #33 0x00007ffff7729c3c in clone3 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78 The main thread calls GLimp_SwapBuffers() at the same time: (gdb) thread 1 [Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7ccf4c0 (LWP 1220498))] #0 0x00007ffff771b4cd in __GI___poll (fds=0x7fffffffd4e8, nfds=1, timeout=1000) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29 warning: 29 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c: No such file or directory (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff771b4cd in __GI___poll (fds=0x7fffffffd4e8, nfds=1, timeout=1000) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29 #1 0x00007fffd661d9df in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.570.124.04 #2 0x00007fffd6603b11 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.570.124.04 #3 0x00007ffff3f7a1ec in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 #4 0x00007ffff3f48500 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 #5 0x0000000000d95c36 in GLimp_SwapBuffers () at darkmod_src/sys/linux/glimp.cpp:76 #6 0x0000000000bf4ba0 in RB_SwapBuffers () at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/tr_backend.cpp:608 #7 0x000000000074adf1 in R_IssueRenderCommands (frameData=0x1fb31a0 <smpFrameData+96>) at darkmod_src/renderer/RenderSystem.cpp:173 #8 0x000000000074c6e6 in idRenderSystemLocal::EndFrame (this=0x1fa7c60 <tr>, frontEndMsec=0x0, backEndMsec=0x0) at darkmod_src/renderer/RenderSystem.cpp:768 #9 0x00000000004c9cb9 in idSessionLocal::UpdateScreen (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>, outOfSequence=false) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:2716 #10 0x000000000047477f in idCommonLocal::Frame (this=0x16de8c0 <commonLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Common.cpp:2479 #11 0x0000000000d99481 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdd68) at darkmod_src/sys/posix/platform_linux.cpp:490

@Frost_Salamander Here i am again playing V2 as told i will report at the moment i am about half-way (thirdly-) through V2 and have to give you Part 1 of my experience because something funny happened ! a Question to the other Players : nobody disrupted by stuck NPC´s ? Yeah this happens quite often in missions ! (and usually does not prevent from continuing to play) but in this wonderful mission - it diminishes my excitement and reduces the flow of the game - disturbing Frosties : I don´t want to send you my story as bug-report --- but as story-line of the play through (!Subtitles!) Have a nice weekend

Hi @Skaruts. I thought I would try this out for my next release. It seems pretty cool and I'd be happy to use it, but I'm having some issues (maybe user error but let me know ) The .pkignore editor in the 'Files' tab doesn't seem to work. It just shows a screen with 'TODO' on it. It created the .pkignore file, but I can't edit it anywhere within TDM Packer 2. The 'Test' functionality doesn't seem to do anything. I packed my mission up OK, but when I pressed the 'Test' button it launched my Test TDM instance (a fresh install of TDM 2.13 in a different location), but it didn't copy the newly packed mission to it. (EDIT: this seems to be working now, not sure what happened before). Feature requests: I like to version my releases and note the release number and timestamp in darkmod.txt and readme.txt. I was previously doing this with a tokenized search and replace in my build script. Would you be able to add something like this? Just some config where you could record a version number and it would insert it into any file with some sort of configurable token like [VERSION] or the build time with [TIMESTAMP]. Actually, this is also useful to name the .pk4 file after the release (e.g. lt4-0.2-beta.pk4). This is especially useful during beta testing when there are loads of different versions of the file flying around. Some sort of user feedback when you pack the file would be helpful, even if it's just a pop up that says 'Pack complete' or something. (EDIT: nevermind, I just noticed the console there. I had it collapsed or something before I think) This is all with version a0.3.2 on Windows.

I know sometimes in the past I've misconfigured DR's File/"Game/Project Setting..."/ and gotten mystery problems similar to what you describe.

Not a new game (2019), but had not seen it before: https://www.gog.com/en/game/mages_initiation_reign_of_the_elements It's from the people that made the King Quest 1-3 remasters (AGD)

I think this is a great mission, after having played it. Wanted to also post and say that I initially had the same issue as a user on the first page with the black untextured floors and some walls. I think the issue is the mission doesn't check the version of the game that's being played--I had 2.12 installed and it started the mission without asking me to update. After running tdm_installer and forcing a file analysis and then updating to 2.13 not only did the pure black texture issues go away but the slight framerate issues I was having in some of the outdoor areas disappeared as well.

Double topic. See also topic: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22754-thief-vr-legacy-of-shadow-announcement/

i am having a hard time searching for specific keyword in bug tracker so i decided to wade into google search and found similar thread with similar issue : https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/13723-key-drop-melee-animation-glitch/

I have got to the end, and found it very challenging and enjoyable. Much appreciated. Some general feedback. 1) The first time I found the Warwick Tower caretaker, I didn't find what I needed to go the next step in the Tower. I went back later, expecting there to be a master key I failed to spot. Which you might expect a caretaker to have. Only because I read in this thread there was a did I know to look for one. A hint in a readable would have seemed appropriate (or did I miss it?) 2) On the outward trip to Fishend, the game was semi-linear, which I found helpful, because it was not always straightforward how to progress to the next area. a) Early on it was evident that the next step was to get into the Art Dealers. b) And when I first reached the Armoury, there seemed no way forward. But because I knew there had to be one, and other options I tried didn't work, I eventually worked out what the route had to be. 3) I eventually found the room with Should I have guessed? Based on ethnicity? 4) I read in this thread what to do about the Clarice objective, but couldn't make it work. So gave up, since it was optional. 5) I did this on Difficult, but only found 7200 out of the target 8000 loot. So clearly I missed stuff, and that's on me. But at least that Objective was optional too.

For AAA or AA games, Dishonored is probably as good as it gets in terms of understanding the core elements of the game, while it was something entirely different, of course. I must say that I'm not even mad about the developers of Thief 4, for doing it the way they did, as it's a reboot, and it simply reflects their vision of a game like that. It's just that the game is irrelevant to me, as neither the gameplay or lore are on the same level as the original gameplay and lore. TBH, I'm always surprised and stunned again, how good the lore of the original Thief games is. Some real thought, imagination, and humour went into that, which is pretty much spot on in terms of what I like.

Angling along alleyways, gliding among gamblers, fleecing the financiers, and lip-locking the ladies... Here's the prequel to the earlier-released "Away 1: Air Pocket". That was a bite-sized nautical adventure, but this, the back story, is a full-featured offering. Version 2 (V2) Now Available (2022/03/24). Also BONUS illustrated document: Making of Away 0's Video Cutscenes Why Version 2? V2, built under TDM 2.10, is primarily a spit-and-polish release with little impact on the storyline. While a few of the many changes will be obvious to someone doing a re-visit, most are minor improvements. Also, you can now replay cutscenes without needing a workaround. For more, see the Release Notes. Probably you should wait until after you've played the game at least once to check the docs below out, to avoid getting too many hints. if you get stumped, the Maintenance Guide may be helpful, or the forum thread here. Additional Documents, Available Here and Within the .pk4 These are also included within the .pk4 in the /supplementals/docs/ folder: Away 0 V2 Credits & Acknowledgements.docx Now crediting those with suggestions about V1 Away 0 V2 Maintenance Guide.docx Includes information for potential translators Away 0 Use of Historic Paintings.docx Unchanged from V1 Additional Documents, Available Here Only Away 0 V2 Release Notes - Changes from V1 Release.docx Of most interest to folks giving feedback on V1 BONUS (and NSFW): Making of Away 0's Video Cutscenes.docx Alternative Downloads It is recommended to simply use your installed TDM's mission downloader menu to get this FM (now V2). But if you want to bother with a manual install, here's a link to fetch it: away0.pk4 Version 2 While Version 2 is dmap'd under 2.10, it should still work under 2.09; there are no 2.10-only features used. If you run into problems under 2.09, you can reinstall the old version from here (for a while): away0.pk4 Version 1 (original). Does not includes the Dec 16 2021 patch for then-upcoming TDM 2.10

I think what happens after detection is the major source of jank in this game vis-à-vis tedious alert states and funky running animations, but I've honestly never had any issue with blackjack behavior. It could certainly be better delineated in terms of the animation and hitbox since it's a bit flappy and covers the whole screen, but it's as simple as walking or creeping up to someone and bopping them, I don't get it. The answer is certainly not allowing people to bunny-hop up to guards and KO them on the way past 2 seconds after they've already been alerted, nor just lure them somewhere shadowy and blackjack them on full alert, as seen in the dark engine. The AI is no doubt a long-standing stick in the mud, but I don't think it's blackjacking that's the issue, moreso how detection can work strangely and how most all of the level design goes out the window once the guards are sprinting around the building at full pelt and never going back to idle.

@chakkmanBefore joining this forum I completed all available fan missions for TDM, but before playing them I had significant experience with other stealth games and fan missions for Thief series and I will tell you that I hated TDM's gameplay for its jankiness, but at the same time, paradoxically, I learned my ways around all those broken mechanics. And yet I still don't think that this jank should be a norm for TDM and your point of view only proves it, because you're not alone who may see things like this when they had better experience in other stealth games. And so this huge pile of gameplay imperfections just does TREMENDOUS disservice to the popularity of TDM, some people may try it and just say to themselves: "Screw this crap, I prefer player friendly games!" and they will be absolutely right. But why I learned to be tolerant to such things? Well, because I saw a lot of passion in all those fan missions I played and still exactly because of this I think that TDM has no right to be so broken. I think that it is mostly thanks to the modding community TDM is not dead, without all the great fan missions barely anybody would ever touch it and they just deserve better platform for their work. The problem here is that TDM wasn't created by a professional game designer, it's harsh but true. As I understand it, the dev team just had their opinion about certain things and instead of doing them in the best way possible they simply ignored all the better examples in the stealth genre.

The Dark Mod 2.13 has been released! A new era in accurate AI Vision! When id Software released the Doom 3 modding SDK, The Dark Mod team saw the potential for something more than a multi-player cops vs robbers game like Thievery UT. The sheer amount of access to essential game-play systems meant that a true Thief style experience could potentially be created. One of the first things the team did was to investigate how a light-gem system could be implemented. Having a good way for both the player and AI to know when the player is visible to others is a crucial part of the Thief experience so if we couldn’t build it then the dream of a Thief style experience was over. Fortunately, there were enough parts of the AI visual logic and more than a few stub pieces of the Render code that gave us the ability to build a robust system. The downside of the light-gem system was performance. Even though we did our best to limit the viewport and resolution of the light-gem image captures, often the light-gem would cut FPS in half ( or less ). This was pretty painful, especially since most computers could just barely run vanilla Doom 3 at acceptable FPS. After this system was fully functional, other aspects of AI vision were investigated. Obviously, we could not afford to run the light-gem render for every object or body the AI might see so it was decided that the AI would do a more simplified light-gem calculation for things other than the player. This meant that ( to the AI visual scan ) all light volumes would be either cubes or pyramids with perfect exponential falloff. We would run a line-of-sight check to the objects then ( if it hit ) calculate the pixel brightness by the location of the spot in relation to the center of the light(s). This was far cheaper than rendering the whole scene but heavily impacted accuracy. Many solutions were proposed to improve things but a solution evaded us for years. 2.13 changes things! Now we have a "stochastic sampler" model that does regular measurements of the actual light volume pixels and builds a "running average" of how illuminated different entities are. The days of seeing knocked-out AI in the middle of a bright spotlight get ignored are over. Now all AI and loot entities (etc) essentially have their own light-gem and it performs excellently! Magnificent Mission Management! Daft Mugi has drastically improved the GUI menus for mission management. The Dark Mod mission list and in-game downloader now have a search filter window that follows modern conventions of reducing the listed items as each new letter eliminates a possible matching mission name. Both lists can be sorted by actual name ( The Rats Triumphant ) or Chicago Style ( Rats Triumphant, The ). Additional mission details ( readme data ) can now be scrolled so players can see more information about the mission without having to navigate to the darkmod/fms folders. The menus have also been tuned with smaller font sizes for more practical mission listing and have been hardened against buggy order of operations issues so that you will be far less likely to encounter strange issues or crashes when downloading and installing missions. Parallax Occlusion Mapping! Stgatilov has added the oft requested POM feature to the latest Dark Mod release! WellingtonCrab has coordinated with him to provide examples and check the functionality and quality. Now The Dark Mod is ready to offer a quantum leap in perceived geometric detail with all sorts of surfaces realistically showing 3D parallax rather than the flatter looking normal maps we usually offer. WellingtonCrab also created many texture variants that are tuned to look better with POM enabled. Other Graphics Goodies! Now cubemaps \ environment maps respect more stage keywords. This means that faked reflections on water shaders can now move in relation to the water texture movement offering a more convincing illusion! Subviews ( cameras, portals, mirrors, xray, etc ) can now be nested. You can now have a skybox render in a camera view, etc. Volumetric lights and particles now render in mirrors! Alpha-tested surfaces get alpha shadows in Shadow Maps mode. Tone-mapping now supports range compression to prevent unwanted overbright areas. Arcturus has introduced some new metal materials that use improved cubemaps as well as skyboxes with clouds that use POM! Stability and Performance! The console variable system ( CVAR ) has been improved to be thread safe. This should resolve some rare crashes that involve weapon scripts that rely on CVAR values. We now automatically detect the number of CPU cores and allocate Jobs based on the detected specifications. Level loading has been given more parallel execution optimizations including optimizations for loading audio samples in parallel. Uncapped FPS is enabled by default so Linux players will not have a poor first time experience and many audio and video playback timing bugs that occur only in classic capped mode are avoided. Finally, Linux vsync support has been greatly improved. Improved Training Mission! The Training Mission is supposed to help players understand the basics of Dark Mod game-play and controls. It was created to coincide with The Dark Mod v1.0 and was not significantly altered until TDM v1.08 ( when Bikerdude did some texture replacement for 2.0 standalone and improved the overall visuals ). As such, many new game-play features that were added since 1.0 were never included in the mission. Now the mission has been upgraded to include more game-play features such as the Vine Arrow as well as getting further visual upgrades and EFX Reverb! Drunken AI! Now that the AI have better visual accuracy, Amadeus decided to balance things out by fixing many of the broken behaviors of Drunken AI so that they are more reliable and consistent for use in missions by default ( no need to extensively customize the defs or use scripting to improve them ). Potions! Dragofer and Amadeus have completed the work on the Slowfall potion originally prototyped by VanishedOne. They also incorporated the invisibility potion by Kingsal ! These now have pre-defined slots in the gameplay menu as well as the default shop menu design. Assets Galore! Along with new POM textures, we now have: A new modular pipe set A new Lampion entity Some new Factory Machine entities Ornate wood and stone relief textures A new AI praying animation A new AI smoking animation And many fixes or improvements to existing assets EFX Reverb Location Preset! Frost_Salamander took some time away from his continued work on the excellent “The Lieutenant” series missions to make EFX reverb setup easier for himself and other mission authors. You can now add EFX preset spawnargs to location entities rather than having to use the EFX def file. Translation Packs! Between TDM 1.06 and 2.0 Tels and the translating community started translating many missions but these translations required that the original mission be altered in a way that made it harder for the mission authors to revise. That meant that translation packs were in limbo being hosted by 3rd party sites \ forums along with their orphaned old missions. The translators over at the Darkfate forums came up with an solution by including not only the translation strings in the translation pack but also the altered map files, GUI defs, etc that had translation work done to them. This would leave the original mission untouched but allow translation packs to override some parts. We have gone through the old archives of these translations and have reworked them to work with the latest version of TDM (and the associated missions). Most of the translations are Russian ( due to the continued work of the Darkfate people ) but many of the early TDM missions also have German, Italian, French, etc translations too. Also Nolok contributed a brand new Catalan menu translation! Subtitles! Datiswous has been creating story subtitles for many of the existing missions in the TDM mission database. Most authors have incorporated these into their official releases, otherwise players can still add them to the FM folder. A detailed list of changes can be seen here: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=What's_new_in_TDM_2.13 To UPDATE, simply run the tdm_installer.exe file in your darkmod folder. Note that tdm_update.exe is no longer supported, but you can download the new installer from the Downloads page if you don’t have it yet. Please be aware that old saved games will not be compatible with 2.13, so finish any missions you might be in the middle of first! Also, some missions created prior to 2.13 may need to be updated so they will be playable in 2.13. Before upgrading, set TDM to use one of the built-in missions ( Training Mission, A New Job, Tears of St Lucia ) then use the in-game mission downloader to check for updates

After doing loads of Thief Gold and Thief II missions in the last year or so, I decided to play a TDM mission again, for a change. I'm not sure if it has to do with this particular mission, and the loads of marble floors in it, but, wow... I had my issues with blackjacking before, but, now, even with the indicator on, I miss 9 of 10 K.O.'s, and I have no idea why. Really, this game seriously needs a revision of the hitbox/blackjacking system. It's the biggest crap anyone has ever invented. Maybe someone will tell the person responsible that these systems need a certain amount of tolerance one day. Like, why create a system which is THAT finicky with distances or the area you hit, when most people play on a single screen anyway, where you simply can't measure distance well? Back to Thief fan missions, I guess...

I suspect intentional, since the release appears to be more about modifying Doom 3/BFG to see what enhancements can be made to its engine base for the game and less about it being a release of the idTech 4 engine. As to why I believe this is likely the case, below is the Doom3-BFG repositories read me: So, I'd say they still wanted you to own the game since the scripts and def files are game data.