Search the Community

Just wanted to say, Hello! From reading through various posts in the forums it seems like a great community and I hope to become a part of it. So I got the hankering for some Thief as of late and stumbled on TDM through some googling. After purchasing Doom 3 through Steam and instaling TDM, I have been nostalgiacly playing through many of the FMs and have also decided to d/l the Radiant editor and start making a mission, maybe many, we'll see. As it turns out also, I just started (today!) my 1 week vacation from work and intend to dive in to the Radiant editor and am currently going through the A-Z wiki on it. A bit of background on me, I 'used' to work in application support till the economic crash a couple years ago and was laid off and am now running a machining center at a local machine shop, using Mastercam daily, 2D/3D stuff and have always wanted to make a mission/game, and decided since I've always enjoyed the Thief series and stealth gameplay so much, this is where I would start. After getting to my third year in Mechanical Technology I changed my major to Information Technology (should have went with straight Computer Science but ahhh hindsight). I've always loved building things and designing things and also really enjoy computers, art, audio, and the entire visual experience as presented to a user. I have created a couple playable maps before using the older source engine editor so I'm vaguely familiar with 3D modeling, skyboxes, lighting, AI pathing, etc. That's been over 10 years ago though. I got familiar with 3dsmax, ProE, Autocad, and Mastercam in my first major during school so that helps a bit when familiarizing with a new editor and as previously mentioned I've dabbled around in the Valve Source editor. I'm also very much looking forward to the Crucible of Omens campaign created by the marvelous talent at TDM and would like to help in any way I can once I'm familiar with the Radiant engine. I can also do many many voices, I've often thought about moving out to Cali from Indiana and finding work in voice-overs, voice acting, etc. All this started as a youngster with little friends, time on my hands, and imaginary friends. Wow that's hard to admit. So anyway, I've been working on a shadowy Garrett voice, and can do guards and some women characters with old, old english, gruff, slippery, sneaky, terrifying, voices and personalities. Just thought I'd mention that as it may be a way that I could contribute early on and would also enjoy. So anyway, too much about me and not enough A-Z wiki, back to the tutorial! Glad to be here and hope for good things to come.

For the last 1-2 weeks the forums have been really slow and unresponsive for me, when I type a post half the time it just sits there etc.. is anyone else having the same issues..?

Does anybody else have this problem? In the (European) evenings the forum is unbearable slow. The server is delivering about 8Kbyte/s, sometimes less and usually stops midwhere during loading the page. Sometimes you can't even get the index page, sometimes you can log in, but then only get half of the overview etc. In the mornings everything is snappy.

I've upgraded IPB to the latest stable version, and since this was a major upgrade (from 2.3.6) I also had to re-do the forum style. Most of the new stuff is in place, but I bet that the logo will be changed. One of the many new features in version 3 is rating of posts and also a "report spammer" ability which will make it easier to single out spam bots and ban then at sight. Hopefully this will stop some of the spam threads we've seen recently. Make sure to empty your browser cache if you're experiencing any problems. And please report any errors etc in this thread. Cheers, ~m2

So... What was up with the forums all day yesterday..?

Note: If you do not want to read the whole thing then skip down to the last paragraph for a summary. First off I want to tell you how impressive your work as a team is. What can I say other than everything I've seen so far looks very professional and I congratulate your team's hard work and dedication. I cannot wait to be able to create my own missions with your tools and look forward to your campaign. Now on to me. My name is Jon and I live on base at WPAFB (Wright Patterson Air Force Base), OH. I am not in the military but my dad is. I currently do not have a job or go to school because I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. For those not knowing what my illness is let me explain a little. I'm paranoid because I do not trust anyone, and I always think something bad is going to happen to me or to other people. I'm a schizophrenic because I have basic visual hallucinations, and extreme auditory hallucinations. I see flashes of lights everywhere I look and I hear voices. For those wondering if I have a split personality, I do not. Schizophrenia does not mean split personality but rather split mind. Most of my thoughts that I have are dillusional. I currently see a psychiatrist once a week, and between my medication and supplements I take over 80 pills a day. If anybody is interested in exactly which medicines I take and the milligrams I will be glad to post them. I hope that last paragraph wasn't to long to read. As to what I spend my time doing, I edit games and buy either computer hardware or training videos for different applications and subjects with what little money I get from the United States Government which is not a whole lot after buying half of my supplements every month. I hope I didn't sound ungrateful to the United States Government in that last sentence, its just that I've seen more military doctors in a span of a month then most people seen in a lifetime, and only one doctor wanted to take my case. Now I need honest criticism on two textures that I've created. Please note that they are WIP. Here's the link http://photobucket.com/albums/y182/Outlaw706/ I also put up in jpeg form the diffuse, local, specular (only on the brick texture) and an ingame shot of both textures. I'm still learning about how to create proper height templates and making a normal map off of that. The local maps were created by using the 'desaturate' command in photoshop and then running the nvidia normal map plug-in filter for these textures. When I learn more about height templates I'll apply them to these two textures and every other texture I make. I know this was a long post so I'll summarize it up right here. Your team's work is most impressive and I can't wait for the tools and the campaign. I have several mental illnesses some of them I'm not going to post, so that gives me a lot of time to dedicate myself to a project, and I would love to help out The Dark Mod project in any way I can. Last thing don't forget to leave constructive criticism on the two textures I created. Thanks for reading especially if you got throught the whole post.