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id Studio did a poor job in defining its categorization of variable nomenclature, so in subsequent documentation and discussions there are divergent views (or just slop). In my series, I had to choose something, and went with what I thought would be clearest for the GUI programmer: Properties, which are either Registers (like true variables) Non-registers (like tags) User Variables (also true variables) I see that your view is more along these lines (which perhaps reflects C++ internals?): Flags (like my non-registers) Properties, which are either Built-in (like my registers) Custom (like user Variables) Also, elsewhere, you refer to "registers" as temporaries. I am willing to consider that there could be temporary registers during expression evaluation, but by my interpretation those would be in addition to named property registers. I'm not sure where to go next with this particular aspect, but at least can state it.

Yes. Sure, I will change it, but I do mind. In addition to changing the forum title, I have also had the name of the pk4 changed in the mission downloader and the thiefguild.com site’s named changed. It's not just some "joke". The forum post and thread are intended to be a natural extension of the mission’s story, a concept that is already SUPER derivative of almost any haunted media story or most vaguely creepy things written on the internet in the past 10 or 15 years. Given your familiarity with myhouse.wad, you also can clearly engage with something like that on some conceptual level. Just not here on our forums? We can host several unhinged racist tirades in the off-topic section but can’t handle creepypasta without including an advisory the monsters aren’t actually under the bed? (Are they though?) I am also trying to keep an open mind, but I am not really feeling your implication that using a missing person as a framing of a work of fiction is somehow disrespectful to people who are actually gone. I have no idea as even a mediocre creative person what to say to that or why I need to be responsible for making sure nobody potentially believes some creative work I am involved in, or how that is even achievable in the first place. Anyway, apologies for the bummer. That part wasn’t intentional. I am still here. I will also clarify that while I love the game, I never got the biggest house in animal crossing either. In the end Tom Nook took even my last shiny coin.

Ok, I've got myself a copy of Maya 7.0, and I'll be slowly learning my way through it...apparently it has a steep learning curve. I'll ask all my stupid questions here. Stupid question #1...how do I load character models into Maya? It doesn't seem to recognize .lwos. A quick scan of the Maya forum at D3 world found lots of threads about exporting to various formats but virtually none about importing. Do I have to convert the .lwos to another format with another program first?

I've seen fun workarounds like that in other game modding as well. Years ago, maybe even a decade, some fella who was making a mod for Mount & Blade over at the Taleworlds forums revealed that he put invisible human NPCs on the backs of regular horse NPCs, then put the horse NPCs inside a horse corral he built for one of his mod's locations/scenes and then did some minor scripting, so the horses with invisible riders would wander around the corral. The end result was that it looked they're doing this of their own will, rather than an NPC rider being scripted to ride around the corral slowly. Necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know about the newest Mount & Blade game, but the first generation ones (2008-2022) apparently had some sort of hardcoded issue back in the earlier years, where if you left a horse NPC without a rider in its saddle, the horses would just stand around and wait and you couldn't get them to move around. Placing an invisible rider in their saddles suddenly made it viable again, at least for background scenes, of riderless horses wandering around, for added atmosphere. First generation M&B presumed you'd mostly be seeing horses in movement with riders, and the only horses-wandering-loosely animations and scripting were done for situations when the rider was knocked off their horse or dismounted in the middle of a battle. Hence the really odd workarounds. So, an invisible NPC trick might not be out of the question in TDM, even though you could probably still bump into it, despite its invisibility.

Thanks, I can also recommend gog galaxy. The idea of the custom tags is really nice, I'll have to try this out too!

YOU TAFFERS! Happy new year! Deadeye is a small/tiny assassination mission recommended for TDM newcomers and veterans alike. Briefing: Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JWslTAC3Ai9kkl1VCvJb14ZlVxWMmkUj/view?usp=sharing Enjoy! EDIT: I promised to someone to write something about the design of the map. This is in spoiler tags below. Possibly useful to new mappers or players interested in developer commentary.

Hello everyone, I am a student and just started on a project in which we will use md5 models in a raytracer. Here's what I'm talking about: The ray tracer (in c++) has no problems importing an md5 models (eg. the ones from doom3). The problem is converting maya (2009 and 2010) models to md5 models. Since you probably already dealt with issues concerning this, I think someone would be able to help. I am using "MayaImportx86.dll" (2010 version) with "doom3.exe". First I would get the error about maya not in registry, which was fixed by setting the environment variables. Then I got an error about MayaImport dll not being able to load, which was fixed by a typo in the environment path variable. Trying to export models after fixing these errors leaves me with a complete new behaviour: doom3 waits ~1 sec and exits. No errors are printed in the console. Nothing got exported. Here is what I have: I have maya 2010 installed in: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\maya2010\ Environmental variables are set: Path C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2010\bin; MAYA_LOCATION C:\Program Files\Autodesk\maya2010; Doom 3 and its .exe is in: C:\Doom3\ This directory also contains: MayaImportx86.dll (The one for Maya2010) The .def file is in: C:\Doom3\base\def Here is my .def file, named "character.def": export character { options -sourcedir models/mymodels/character -destdir models/md5/mymodels/character mesh character.mb -dest character.md5mesh anim idle.mb -dest idle.md5anim } The source directory is in: C:\Doom3\base\models\mymodels\character This folder contains: character.mb idle.mb The destination directory is in: C:\Doom3\base\models\md5\mymodels\character So now I run the game and press ctrl+alt+` to bring up the console. I enter the command: exportModels character.def (I also tried the command 'fs_game' first, as suggested somewhere on the internet.) The game sleeps for 1 seconds and then exits, no errors notified. I believe the problem lies in the models, if possible, can anyone else try to convert them and see what is wrong? Here is a link to a dummy model that gives the problem: http://www.fileshost...hp?id=0BAB5D641 This should be about it. Thanks for your time Kind regards, Lascha

Ah, pity I wasn't reading the forums back in February. I'm fond of that game, along with Bugbear's other early title, Rally Trophy. I was never too good at FlatOut, but it was always a hoot to play.

I'm trying to export a model and it's animations into md5 files with doom3, but it exits after a second i execute the line "exportModels proguard" proguard.def export proguard { options -sourcedir models/proguard -destdir models/proguard/md5 mesh proguard_idle.mb -dest proguard.md5mesh anim proguard_idle.mb -dest idle.md5anim anim proguard_idletocower1.mb -dest idletocower1.md5anim anim proguard_cower_1.mb -dest cower1.md5anim } Models and anims located: E:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\models\proguard I've got Maya 2009 (i downloaded the proper importer). I also found that doom3 had written a maya crash log, as seen in the attachment below, when i ran Process Monitor. thanks! mike

@snatcher I understand that when you feel your work doesn't live up to your goals that you don't want it out in the wild advertising your own perceived shortcomings but that leads to a troubling dilemma of authors who are never satisfied with their work offering fleeting access to their in-progress designs then rescinding them or allowing them to be lost. When I was a member of Doom3world forums, I would often see members do interesting experiments and sometimes that work would languish until someone new would examine it and pickup the torch. This seemed like a perfectly viable system until Doom3world was killed by spambots and countless projects and conceptual works were lost. I guess what I am trying to say is that mods don't need to be perfect to be valuable. If they contain some grain of a useable feature they might be adapted by mission authors in custom scenarios. They might offer instructive details that others trying to achieve the same results can examine. It would be great if known compelling works were kept somewhere safe other than via forum attachments and temporary file sharing sites. I suppose we used to collect such things in our internal SVN for safe keeping but even that isn't always viable. If folks would rather not post beta or incomplete mods to TDM's Moddb page, perhaps they would consider creating their own Moddb page or allow them to be added to my page for safe keeping. Please don't look at this as some sort of pressure campaign or anything. I fully understand anyone not willing to put their name next to something they aren't fully happy with. As a general proviso, ( if possible \ permitted ) I just want to prevent the loss of some valuable investigations and formative works. The end of Doom3world was a digital apocalypse similar to the death of photobucket. It is one of my greatest fears that TDM will become a digital memory with only the skeletons of old forum threads at the wayback archive site.

Congrats on the release! Remember to check ThiefGuild as well as the DarkFate forums (via Google Translate) for additional feedback.

Just curious, based on this discussion: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19239-soft-r-gamma/?p=427350

Ever since I worked on "Chalice of Kings" with Bikerdude, I have wanted to get flame particles with new particle glares into the core mod. My reasoning was that the candles have glares and the un-glared torches look mismatched. This proposal was met with mixed reactions, so (knowing the history of TDM feature proposals...) I have created a technical demo. You may download it here: zzz_flameglare.pk4.txt (fixed) Just rename without the .txt extension at the end and place it in your Darkmod directory. Here are some screens. Using particles for this is probably the wrong way to go now that Duzenko has an emissive light feature in his branch: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19659-feature-request-emissive-materialsvolumetric-lights/