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Headbobbing definitely seems like something for the player rather than the mapper to control. In fact, the headbobbing in TDM is a criticism I often saw on the TTLG forums, so it would be good to at least allow them to disable or reduce it.

hey stgatilov, I'm trying to compile TDM source, but it seems the source compilation guide here is out of date, it still recommends VS2017 when the source now requires VS 2022 and after installing the latest VS, I get a bunch of unresolved external symbol errors for OpenAL mostly, I assume I need to update OpenAL soft? I'm still a little green about this type of errors, when they happen, they are the ones that stump me the most. Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(helpers.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(alfstream.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(ambdec.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(chorus.cpp.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(fshifter.cpp.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(modulator.cpp.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(vmorpher.cpp.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(threads.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(alconfig.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(cpu_caps.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(convolution.cpp.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(winmm.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(wave.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(hrtf.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(panning.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(event.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(null.cpp.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(wasapi.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(dsound.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(alc.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(logging.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(voice.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(auxeffectslot.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\pugixml.lib(pugixml.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(buffer.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(source.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __GSHandlerCheck_EH4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(state.obj) 1 Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol __imp___std_init_once_begin_initialize referenced in function alcOpenDevice DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(alc.obj) 1 Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol __imp___std_init_once_complete referenced in function alcOpenDevice DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(alc.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __std_reverse_copy_trivially_copyable_1 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(hrtf.obj) 1 Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol __std_reverse_copy_trivially_copyable_8 referenced in function "class std::unique_ptr<struct HrtfStore,struct std::default_delete<struct HrtfStore> > __cdecl `anonymous namespace'::LoadHrtf02(class std::basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,char const *)" (?LoadHrtf02@?A0xe8b25d95@@YA?AV?$unique_ptr@UHrtfStore@@U?$default_delete@UHrtfStore@@@std@@@std@@AEAV?$basic_istream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@3@PEBD@Z) DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(hrtf.obj) 1 Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol __std_reverse_copy_trivially_copyable_4 referenced in function "void __cdecl MixDirectHrtfBase<&void __cdecl `anonymous namespace'::ApplyCoeffs(class std::array<float,2> * __restrict,unsigned __int64,class std::array<class std::array<float,2>,128> const &,float,float)>(class std::array<float,1024> &,class std::array<float,1024> &,class al::span<class std::array<float,1024> const ,-1>,class std::array<float,2> * __restrict,float *,struct HrtfChannelState *,unsigned __int64,unsigned __int64)" (??$MixDirectHrtfBase@$1?ApplyCoeffs@?A0xd07b7227@@YAXPEIAV?$array@M$01@std@@_KAEBV?$array@V?$array@M$01@std@@$0IA@@4@MM@Z@@YAXAEAV?$array@M$0EAA@@std@@0V?$span@$$CBV?$array@M$0EAA@@std@@$0?0@al@@PEIAV?$array@M$01@1@PEAMPEAUHrtfChannelState@@_K5@Z) DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(mixer_c.obj) 1 Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __std_reverse_copy_trivially_copyable_4 DarkModTools L:\darkmod_src\OpenAL32.lib(mixer_sse.obj) 1 Error LNK1120 6 unresolved externals DarkModTools L:\darkmod\TheDarkModx64.exe 1

Welcome to forums! Thanks for sharing this! The main problem with having more ways to install/build TDM is maintaining all of them, and making sure players don't get into more problems. That's why we keep away from having official TDM packages in Linux distributions and similar stuff. Is there any benefit in this flatpak approach, compared to running tdm_installer manually? P.S. You should not specify checksum for tdm_installer.linux64.zip, because this file is regularly updated, and each update changes the checksum.

I was thinking about how I've been a bit of a pessimist whenever I post stuff in the off-topic section of The Dark Mod Forums, and whilst I do stand by the fact that it's healthy to face unhappy realities of the world in order to provide discussion so that people will spread that discussion and the problems are eventually gained notice of and fixed, I also realize that it's kind of depressing, talking about war and strife. So, I decided to talk about a topic of how we can make the lives of people who are sick and dying happier, and help them experience things they wouldn't be able to otherwise due to their conditions, such as elderly in retirement homes or cancer patient children undergoing chemotherapy or other people who can't go out and travel much. I was thinking about how I haven't gone to the Zoo, Aquarium, or Museum for over a decade, and how I haven't gone to an amusement park, water park, or the beach in summer since covid started. Then I thinks to myself, at least you've done that in your life, some people aren't as lucky or well-off as you've been in life; some people never got around to doing that sort of stuff in their life and now they're stuck in a nursing home, or some are still young but stuck sick in the hospital, and may not live long enough to do that stuff. So I got to thinking, I've seen people on The Dark Mod Forums who've discussed making a VR version of The Dark Mod. And I wonder to myself, hey, you don't know how to program any of this for the less fortunate, but you like to suggest stuff to people, plant seeds in their ears like, so I decided to suggest this to you guys: What about making VIrtual Reality Experiences for the less fortunate? Zoos, Aquariums, Amusement Parks, Carnivals, Circuses, Fairs of the normal and medieval variety, Museums, that sort of thing. And they don't just have to be based on reality, with V.R. you could create a zoo full of unicorns, dragons, zombie animals, aliens, demons, and other fantastical beasts, or make Amusement Park rides that aren't feasibly safe with modern technology, like a roller coaster that reaches up into outer space and through an asteroid belt! I know this comes out of nowhere, but the idea hit me and I'd feel guilty if I didn't share it.

The issue for me is that you're opening one thread after another full of nonsense and/or vulgar ranting about one thing or another and otherwise only seem to engage minimally with the TDM theme or community on these forums. Have you tried playing some fan missions and posting your thoughts on them in the forums, or maybe teaming up with an FM author since you seem to have quite a lot of ideas? That would be much, much more welcome participation than the endless ranting which effectively amounts to trolling and as nbohr1more said can be grounds for a ban. If those things are your primary interests you'd be much better off finding somewhere else that's designed for hosting those kinds of discussions.

Let me elaborate on this tactic: 1) Postulate some crazy concepts about historical events until one gains a little traction either by morons or people who find it to be an amusing meme 2) Test the waters in different forums and social media spaces to see how folks react to this 3) If the forum crowd is determined to be largely left-wing and rationale, overamplify how "idiotic" people are for believing XYZ and then slowly begin associating these "idiots" with anyone they consider their social or political adversaries until you get large numbers of forum members to rant about right-wing "Trump-tards" (etc) and foam at the mouth about all their political grievances 4) Pretend to be a right leaning person, act like a jerk, and get your posts censored 5) Go to right leaning forums and show them that this "theory" is being censored and see if you can get them to integrate it into the larger narrative of "true things that the left is censoring". ( Eg, add it to the pile of Qanon nonsense ). 6) Return to the left leaning forums to mock the right leaning folks for doing step 5. Mission accomplished, you've entrenched more poorly educated people into an absurd belief system and you've ignited a bunch of left-wing derision against them. This type of agitated polarization works well whether you are Putin, the Republican Party, Democrats, etc. Divide and conquer. Here's a tip: Nobody needs to grouse around about what "idiotic" things people believe. If you don't like people believing dumb things, then create a blog, youtube video, or podcast explaining the topic in easy ( and friendly ) terms to those you wish to evangelize into the world of being "not idiotic". The language of referring to people as "those idiots who believe" is a cancer that we suffer too much of these days with political propaganda organizations such as "Media Matters for America" (MMFA) who basically write a single set of political jokes about a daily topic and feed them to all the Late Night television hosts so that if you don't hear them say "republican person X did \ said this dumb thing" from one late night personality, you surely will hear it from another one and the version of what is told omits any nuance or rational counterpoint. In some cases, the words are out-right fabricated from out-of-context statements or things that MMFA thinks people will believe. Here's a perfect example: To this day, late night comedians treat the incriminating emails on Hunter Biden's laptop as "fake Russian slander" even though the New York Times has corroborated their authenticity and they are DKIM signed. They use the laptop story as a talking point about how Republican's are "pro Russian idiots" even though nobody of either political party would be happy to have the son of a vice president using his father's position to arrange financial scams and deals with geopolitical enemies ( China ). Because the latter information is largely invisible to over 50% of the US populace, it serves as a perfect place for political divide and conquer. If the entirety of mainstream entertainment and news are gonna bury or distort legitimate news stories about their allies, what are the chances that anyone will vote for a moderate "middle" candidate? The left will see right-leaning voters who discuss the laptop story as Russian traitors and the Right will see the left as "idiots" who get all their news from television comedians and insane "woke" SJW blue hairs. Perfectly divisive. People need to stop looking at the proles on the ground and start thinking about all the groups that are trying to pull the strings. So I state again, this is no place for astro-turfers, propagandists, and non-linear warfare. Nobody here really cares about what dumb things are floating through the brains of a small group of internet denizens. If these "idiots" grow in numbers, calling them idiots "louder" will not "cure" them or shrink their numbers. The only thing you will achieve is more entrenchment and polarization.

Maybe it's easier to google the issue to see what the forums come up with.

Four years ago I was in the process of creating a PDF guide for DOOM 3 mapping using Darkradiant and it's been on my HDD ever since waiting to be finished. I've been updating it to the latest version of Darkradiant and I've noticed that the anim property for enemy entities has now been removed. How are enemy animations added for DOOM 3 maps in later versions of Darkradiant?

I may see about it in a day or two but right off the bat I am pretty sure func_group never got around to being implemented. SteveL stopped posting on the forums altogether about a year after that post and I've not heard hide nor hair from the feature. I remember testing it, though after five years it's difficult to recall whether it was in 2.03 or 2.04. It "worked" in a very gimped way and I've not touched it or used it in my mapping since. The whole functionality of it has largely been superseded by Dark Radiant's grouping feature, though of course my hope was that this was going to be a wedge for the possible implementation of instanced map regions/map section nesting, like Valve's Hammer editor had (and there's been discussions of that very thing in the forums, recently too I think). The wiki article might simply be useless but you or I could give the func_group thing a whirl in-game and actually check to what extent it works. This week's busy though so unless there are any brave experimenters it will take me to the weekend to get to it.

https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21333-tdm-wont-run/&do=findComment&comment=471717

Hey Xolvix! Yes there has been a long wait between act 2 and 3, longer than I would have preferred. But between personal events that have popped up and taken my time away from mapping and also big world issues, it has just extended that time even further. Work is being made though, in fact I actually just took a break from working on Act 3 to check the forums and saw your message. The wait should be over soon Re: your spoiler question

I am locking this thread. There have already been a few discussions about Islam in these forums and this does not need to be another referendum on that topic. There are plenty of online spaces where people who are anti-religion congregate and espouse their grievances. The TDM forums are not an appropriate venue for that topic since we welcome people of all religious backgrounds whether atheist or fundamentalist. If some militant religious extremist decides to proselytize here, their threads will be locked too.

Thread created in the Beta test forums!

https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21207-210-x-rays/ Another big gameplay addition in 2.10 were the improved security cameras. Other features which indirectly impact gameplay were things like removing the entity limit (my mission would not function without substantial compromises if that was not done) and the productivity boosts which came from compile time optimization and the connection and collaboration features added to DR.

Yes, Q4 and ET:QW both had their own implementations but D3 never did. (It appears from the leaked D3 demo that at one stage its parser was going to use the C preprocessor, or something like it. DECAL_MACRO is a leftover from that era but is no longer implemented in the same way; probably id never used the preprocessor for anything else and decided it wasn't worth it.) Someone did make this though: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/18843-material-generator-bash-script/

After giving this some thought (and nobody answering) I conclude that GUIDE files are probably made by Raven software and not open sourced.

I was reading https://modwiki.dhewm3.org/Guide_(decl) about (Quake 4) GUIDE files. Does TDM support these? I thought they could possibly be useful for writing material files.

I've NEVER played a modern game that "just worked" out of the box. They ALWAYS had settings that I didn't like or want (motion blur, AA set to something weird, really low default FOV, weird FPS caps). So I'm not really sure where you're coming from with that statement. Like I wrote earlier, nobody should be starting a game without looking at the options menu. That's your own fault for not learning what options are available, then coming into the forums requesting changes that are already present.

It's an attachment to the post of kcghost with the name tdm_loot_stealth_stats.pk4 . https://forums.thedarkmod.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=17190

No dice Not surprising as the Lenovo readme states that there are no significant changes in any of the releases since the one I have. Version Info <10.18.14.4414> (j4d214ww) - (Fix) Fixed security issue. <10.18.10.3431> (j4d211ww) - (Fix) Fixed an issue that Intel video driver can't do upgrade install. <10.18.10.3431> (j4d210ww) - (Fix) Fixed an issue that can't change resolution successfully with DP1.2 mointor. <9.18.10.3272> (j4d208ww) - (New) Initial release for Thinkpad L440, L540. Googling the problem I see that in previous versions of TDM someone had the same problem and you solved it for them by telling them to delete "the gamex86.dll files then running tdm_updater to get new versions" https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/14667-tdm-wont-start-doom3exe-has-stopped-working/ I don't see any such files in my version of TDM. Is there something similar I could try?

Will there be more work to improve performance? For example include common performance workaround tweaks into standard game settings? I mean particularly ”Disabling standard graphics features” I use a fairly newer budget laptop. The new patch helped loading times a lot and I'm glad to see this. But standard performance seems to be inconsistent, especially with EAX. I really want to keep native resolution and EAX on. Everything else doesn't matter to me. Minimum graphics solutions are also described on the forums here: here: And on the wiki here: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Performance_Tweaks#Disabling_standard_graphics_features

TDM has come a long way since its standalone release, and I've been enjoying 2.10 quite a bit on my legacy machine, which finally is no longer prey to slow loading times! Because of all technical achievements in the past 3 or so releases I wonder if perhaps it could be a good time for the team to show some love to some more outwardly aspects of TDM. This is because I still think the TDM default package is a bit too bare-bones to incentivize new players to invest time into it, and there are some simple yet significant changes that I believe that could change that. I will try to make a short list of suggestions in no particular order for your consideration and for community discussion. Finish St. Lucia campaign - I think that one of the most disappointing aspects of the core TDM package is the lack of a full official campaign. I remember Springheel mentioning many aspects for the 3rd final mission were underway but left incomplete, and that these resources could be ceded to any interested FM creator who was interested in finishing the mission. Why not taking the initiative and do a public announcement? A better training mission - The current TDM training mission is a strange sandbox that doesn't blend too well with the rest of the package. I think something similar to Goldwell's Thief training mission remake would be a more suitable and shorter solution to teach the basics of the game while keeping it within the narrative. It could even be included in the St. Lucia campaign as Mission 0. Better, clearer main menu - even with the most recent changes, I still feel the TDM menu needs a redesign. I'm not quite sure what would be the best approach, so the only suggestion I have at the moment is to have the Mission Downloader available straight from the main menu, instead of being somewhat hidden on the corner of the New Mission section. This is mainly because the game focuses heavily on downloadable, content and thus should immediately point new players towards it. Two-mission community FM sample - one easy way to make the TDM package more complete is by adding a sample of two FMs to the main package - one short, and one long - so that new players can enjoy a small curated selection of what the game offers without having to browse the forums for mission descriptions. These missions could be selected by community vote and then tweaked before inclusion in the package, with the consent of their authors of course. A better intro sequence - The old glowing TDM logo video is really starting to show its age. I wonder if it could be replaced with a better hi-res version, or even with a simple logo texture with an after effect applied, discarding the need for an FMV sequence. Let me know what are your thoughts. I would like also ask the TDM team members if anything similar to these suggestions is already in development.

Nice. See also our comments in topic: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20573-winter-ember-isometric-stealth-game-inspired-by-the-thief-series/

Couldn't find this info anywhere: What is the current implemented version of wxgtk? Is this wxgtk2 3.05 or wxgtk3 3.05? According to the Linux comiling guide the requirement for Ubuntu 20.04+ is libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev but for Arch linux is wxgtk2 . Is this incorrect info, or is the wxgtk version really different per distro?

I think I might have tracked down the bug. I stupidly had a locationseparator with a negative sound_loss spawnarg- ie. it amplifies the sound. I'm guessing the sound bounces around the map multiple times, passing through the megaphone repeatedly, getting amplified to crazy volumes. No wonder the guards were going berserk. This patch fixes the problem on my Windows machine: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21260-down-and-out-on-newford-road-by-thebigh-jan-26-2022-christmas-connections-contest-entry/&do=findComment&comment=470839 It's still not clear to me why this should be OS dependent though. Idiotic bug or not, it should behave the same on Linux as it does on Windows.