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TDM has tons of textures from "free" texture resources that do not allow redistribution and cannot be incorporated into a commercial project. Someone would need to create a huge replacement pack of textures that do not break the look of existing missions and do not infringe on the copyrighted textures. Also, many artists who contributed to this project do not want 3rd party entities to use their work in commercial projects. They intended the models, textures, sounds, animations to be exclusively used for Darkmod content. You would either have to replace ALL assets or contact every contributor and ask them to re-license their assets. Many contributors are no longer active with the project and haven't visited the forums in years so it would be no easy feat. I cannot speak to Debian policy but I think that they treat installers that add non-free content the same as non-free content itself. One could argue that Steam is such an installer but I guess Debian would counter that there are a few fully Libre games on Steam. I think Debian, Ubuntu, or Linux Mint need to consider a repo that allows for games (etc) that include non-libre content but intentionally offer this content for free to the community with no stipulations other than "don't try to sell it as a product".

The gamepad implementation allows for a great degree of flexibility to personalize settings, aside from a few minor issues that I mentioned here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22337-gamepad-bindings/ I would say that playing TDM with a gamepad works very well, especially considering that it was implemented as experimental and hasn't been changed since then. If I could, I'd go back to 2021-you and congratulate you on buying that gamepad. I notice that your DarkmodPadbinds.cfg looks very different from mine...

It seems like more and more "thief" and "thief players" is becoming a short hand to dismiss community members earnest desire to improve the game - which happens to be a barely legally distinct "thief style" game which was made by thief fans for thief fans and is "designed to simulate the stealth gameplay of Thief". Who is the predominant player base of the game supposed to be beyond fans of the thief games? Is there some better avenue to find feedback for the game beyond this forum? FOSS and linux forums? I have seen maybe half a dozen posts from that segment. I am a thief fan, I play thief fms, my association with those games is what drives me to play and make things for this game. Are we supposed to pretend the original games are not a huge reason why most of us are here at all? TL;DR version:

Thanks! 1) Doing LONG_PRESS PAD_A (what I, for lack of knowledge, call "jump-mantle" or "_jumpmantle") differs from doing PRESS PAD_A ("_jump"). "_jumpmantle" differs from "_mantle", so they must be mapped to different button-calls. "_jumpmantle" differs from "_jump", so they must also be mapped to different button-calls. This appears to be the case, but it is not evident (or changeable) in DarkmodPadbinds.cfg. "_jumpmantle" seems to be hard coded to always connect to the same button as "_jump" but with a long press. It is as if bindPadButton PRESS PAD_A "_jump" is not actually just binding PRESS PAD_A to "_jump", but rather interpreted as "link PAD_A (regardless of button press time) to behave exactly like keyboard SPACE for short and long presses". I would have expected the default DarkmodPadbinds.cfg to explicitly read: bindPadButton PRESS PAD_A "_jump" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_A "_jumpmantle" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_B "_crouch" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_B "_mantle" ... but neither LONG_PRESS PAD_A or "_jumpmantle" is listed in the file. If there are actions "_jump" and "_mantle", I suppose there must also be an action "_jumpmantle" since it is possible for the player to do all those movements: * "_mantle" does the movements "crouch on the high surface, then stand up" * "_jumpmantle" idoes the movements "jump slightly forward, then land standing on the high surface" * "_jump" idoes the movements "jump up, then land exactly where you started" If the actions "_jump" and "_moveup" are not synonymous, then perhaps the action "_moveup" is what i call "_jumpmantle"? 2) Thanks for the link! It was useful in more than one way. I'll link to that page from https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Bindings_and_User_Settings#Gamepad_Default_Bindings if I can get an account on the wiki, which proved more difficult than i thought (https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22327-how-can-i-create-an-account-on-the-tdm-wiki/). However, it does not answer my question how to find out the name ("<button>") used for a button on my gamepad. Basically, I would need to press the button on my gamepad and some program could tell me "That button is called 'PAD_A'". In my case, I have a gamepad "Logitech F310" (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logitech_F310_Gamepad.jpg) which has a "Logitech button" (see image) that I want to use. I was hoping to find out the "button name" for that button and then edit DarkmodPadbinds.cfg to map it to a function. 3) ... but if that button has an "unusual name" that TDM does not recognize, then it may perhaps not work. E.g. if that button is called "PAD_LOGITECH" and TDM cannot recognize that name, then I cannot map anything to it via DarkmodPadbinds.cfg. Using QJoyPad I can map any keyboard key to it instead, as a workaround, but I cannot map MODIFIER to it (since MODIFIER cannot be set to a keyboard key). If current implementation is still called "experimental", then I must say it works very well; @cabalistic: kudos for that! I may not have continued playing TDM had it not worked with a gamepad.

It is possible that this is a setting that needs to be activated to work: https://mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23221

Mandrasola is a small sized map in which aspiring thief Thomas Porter steals some herbal products from a smuggler. The mission was created by me, Sotha and I wish to thank Bikerdude, BrokenArts and Ocn for playtesting and voice acting. Thanks goes naturally to everyone contributing and making TDM possible. This mission occurs chronologically before the Knighton's Manor, making it the first mission in the Thomas Porter series. Events in chronological order are: Mandrasola, The Knighton's Manor, The Beleaguered Fence, The Glenham Tower and The Transaction. The winter came early and suddenly this year. Weeks of strong blizzards and extremely harsh cold weather hit Bridgeport hard. With the seas completely frozen, a rare occurence indeed, most of the City harbor commerce has stopped completely. Vessels are stuck in the ice and no ship can leave or enter the City, resulting in the availability imported goods declining and their prices skyrocketing. One of these imported items is Mandrasola, a rare herbal product, which is imported overseas from the far southern continents. Mandrasola has its uses in alchemical cures and poisons, but mostly this substance is used for its narcotic qualities by commoners and even the nobility. The problem with Mandrasola is that excessive use is extremely addicting and the withdrawal effects are most grievious. Many are utterly incapable of stopping using Mandrasola and are transformed into quivering human ruins if they do no get their daily dose. And now this expensive and rare substance is running out from the whole City. Me and my fence, Lark Butternose, would love to grab this monopoly to ourselves: selling the last few doses in the City would probably be worth a fortune. According to Lark's sources, there remains only one smuggling lord who still has Mandrasola in stock. The problem is that this individual maintains an exclusive clandestine operation and only supplies a few nobles. Despite our best information gathering efforts we couldn't learn who the smuggler is and where he or she operates. Luckily we have an alternate plan. While searching for Mandrasola related information, we learned that a noblewoman called Lady Ludmilla is addicted to the substance and has paid high prices for small amounts of it. We also know that she has visited frequently someone in the Tanner's Ward waterfront, and since she goes to the area personally we believe she is visiting the smuggler. The plan is simple: I must monitor Ludmilla's most likely entryway to the Waterfront and then follow her to the smugglers hideout. I'd better be very careful around Ludmilla. She must not realise I'm following her or she probably won't lead me to her dealer. Hurting her is also out of the question. After she leads me to the smuggler's hideout, I can take my time to break in carefully and steal all the Mandrasola I can find. While I'm there it wouldn't be a bad idea to grab some loose valuables as well. I've now waited in the blistering cold for a few hours already. Looks like there are a few city watch patrols in the area to complicate matters... I think I heard a womans voice beyond the north gate. That must be lady Ludmilla, I haven't seen many ladies in these parts. I'd better get ready.. Links: Use the ingame downloader to get it. WARNING! Someone always fails to use spoiler tags. I do not recommend reading any further until you've played the mission.

I am going to sort-of reveal that this is loosely like the nature of my upcoming mission. I noted it here when JackFarmer asked about things that are coming along in this post: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/profile/37993-jackfarmer/&status=3943&type=status It too is a builder church. The player is requested by a hopefully famous character in another mission to handle some business that is affecting the congregation. I am looking to invoke some info and history laid down in other missions as a hook story.

I created the page: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Lightgem In the source I placed the following text: <!-- Page text made by forum user Fiver: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22327-how-can-i-create-an-account-on-the-tdm-wiki/&do=findComment&comment=491145 --> Personally I think the page isn't really necessary because the info is already present under HUD.

In the first post of the other topic Geep proposed: Then Stgatilov's answer: But I think applying subtitles in different languages shouldn't be too hard I would think, but I don't know how the current translation system works. The engine should apply the correct subtitles based on the applied language setting, this doesn't need a whole new language system I think. Not sure who's going to write those subtitles though. I can only do Dutch and English and nobody needs Dutch I think. I suggest further discussion of this to take place in topic https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21741-subtitles-possibilities-beyond-211/

Creating a new thread for this as it was being discussed in an old beta-testing thread starting here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21822-beta-testing-high-expectations/&do=findComment&comment=490751 I suppose the main questions are: when should this spawnarg be used, if at all? why was it introduced in the first place? Can we get it documented properly on the Wiki so misuse isn't propagated? @stgatilov @Dragofer

Hello! Tracking down information on software and plug-ins that work with D3 / TDM can be a tough. So I have created a thread here where people can post what software/ plug-ins/ tutorials or other references they've had success or failure with in TDM. 3DS MAX 2013 64bit .ase - Default .ASE model exporter works. However you have to open the .ase file in text edit and manual change the *BITMAP line on each material to read something like: "//base/textures/common/collision" which allows the engine to read the correct material path. md5.mesh / animation - Beserker's md5 exporter/importers for 3dsmax. http://www.katsbits.com/tools, Importing and exporting works. The model must be textured, UV'd, with a skin modifier attached to the bones to export. PM me (Kingsal) for help with this. Imported models using the script will not be weighted appropriately, so this is not recommended if you are simply trying to edit existing tdm content. (Use blender instead) MAYA 2011 32bit md5.mesh - So far I've not had any luck with Maya 2011. I am using Greebo's MayaImportx86 for Maya 2011. I've got the importer working however I get a "Unexpected Internal Failure(kFailure)" and the import fails. This could be due to something finicky in Maya that I am not doing correctly. Will keep trying.. Blender 2.7 about - Blender is commonly used and pretty well supported on the forums/ wiki. Various versions may work as well - https://www.blender.org/download/ md5.mesh / animation Blender MD5 importer/exporter (io_scene_md5.zip): https://sourceforge.net/projects/blenderbitsbobs/files/ Sotha's guide Blender Male/ Female rigs by Arcturus - Here Edit by Dragofer: more links found in this post.

There's a group of players who have meticulously tested and adjusted ghosting rules for The Dark Mod. Please see: Official Ghosting Rules: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148523 Ghost Rules Discussion: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148487 Why alienate an established group of dedicated players?

Ambient atmospheres are in my opinion one of the best parts of the Dark Mod experience, not just for getting a mission to have the right feel but also for inspiration and to have them playing in the background when creating maps. The more the merrier, so here's a thread to collect all the links to ambient music and environmental sounds that could have a spot in TDM's setting. Ambients from the TDM forums Gast's Eerie Lullabies Magnanimous Merry's Miscellanea Orbweaver's Dark Ambients Spadey's Ambients Radioteque's Ambients Kyyrma's Composing Ambient Tracks for Dummies - Kyyrma shows how ambient soundtracks can be made from a set of sounds. Also contains some of his finished ambients. Request for more interior sounds - this thread is a very productive community session where members came up with a large and good selection of new ambients. Uncle Peti's Sound Den Dragofer's Ambients - post #6 in this thread SeriousToni's Ambients - posts #8, 12, 15 and 19 in this thread Ambients from the TTLG forums Custom resources list Gigagooga's Ambients 1 - possibly the largest pack of ambient musics and nature sounds, all of them high quality. Gigagooga's Ambients 2 - this pack puts more weight on shorter swells/hits/pads to be layered on top of a subtle ambient. Gigagooga's Ambients 3 Yandros' ambient loop Sephy's Ambients - a large collection of ambient pieces, including many shorter ones which will be valuable for anyone wanting to try a layered ambience approach like in the Thief OMs and Full Moon Fever. Internet databases www.freesound.org - some of the better composers in my opinion are ERH and BrandonNyte. www.purple-planet.com - a large selection of all kinds of ambient and musical soundtracks to be used freely. www.darkwinter.com - an internet label that publishes a lot of dark ambient music under a Creative Commons license. www.endlessascent.com - sister website of Darkwinter for non-dark ambients. Youtube Asatru Dark - also has very nice reference images for outdoor stone memorials, statue arrangements etc. #4 Void by Raffaele du Marteau & #6 Dreaming of Nowhere by Raffaele du Marteau - possibly the most forlorn pieces I've found on the internet. Alacazam - a prolific Creative Commons ambients composer . Cryo Chamber - for-profit label for dark ambient music with a large selection on offer. Going by their Youtube comments they're fine with people using their soundtracks for games etc., although you'd probably need to buy the soundtracks first. Dark Ambient Mixed Session - as much ambient as something to have in the background while mapping.

Looking at the code, the originals were "pm_mantle_pull 750" and "pm_mantle_pullFast 450". The new "pm_mantle_pull" value is "400". A "pm_mantle_pullFast" value of "450" would be slower than regular pull, not faster. With both being set to "400", they are at least similar. Other than that, it's subjective and the feedback from playtesters was positive. Also, referenced internally here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22256-movementcontrols-settings-in-main-menu/&do=findComment&comment=489158

That sort of tone doesn't fly in our forums.

DarkRadiant 3.8.0 is ready for download. What's new: Feature: Support new frob-related material keywords Improvement: Mission selection list in Game setup is not alphabetically sorted Improvement: Better distinction between inherited and regular spawnargs Improvement: Silence sound shader button Improvement: Add Reload Definitions button to Model Chooser Fixed: Model Selector widgets are cut off and flicker constantly on Linux Fixed: DarkRadiant will not start without Dark Mod plugins Fixed: GenericEntityNode not calculating the direction correctly with "editor_rotatable" Fixed: RenderableArrow not drawing the tip correctly for arbitrary rotations Fixed: Light Inspector crashes on Linux Fixed: Models glitch out when filtering then showing them Fixed: Skin Editor: models not centered well in preview Fixed: "Copy Resource Path" includes top level folders Fixed: Skin Editor: internal test skins are shown if Material Editor was open previously Fixed: Changing Game/Project doesn't update loaded assets correctly Fixed: Model Chooser: initially hidden materials aren't revealed when enabling them Fixed: Choosing AI entity class 'atdm:townsfolk_commoner_update' causes crash Fixed: Sporadic assertion failure on shutdown due to LocalBitmapArtProvider destruction Fixed: Prefab Selector spams infinite error dialogs on Linux Windows and Mac Downloads are available on Github: https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant/releases/tag/3.8.0 and of course linked from the website https://www.darkradiant.net Thanks to all the awesome people who keep using DarkRadiant to create Fan Missions - they are the main reason for me to keep going. Please report any bugs or feature requests here in these forums, following these guidelines: Bugs (including steps for reproduction) can go directly on the tracker. When unsure about a bug/issue, feel free to ask. If you run into a crash, please record a crashdump: Crashdump Instructions Feature requests should be suggested (and possibly discussed) here in these forums before they may be added to the tracker. The list of changes can be found on the our bugtracker changelog. Keep on mapping!

Hello, I'm updating my post to include a guide to get TDM running with VR headsets using Vorpx. I'll leave the original post below, as it's not my intent to revise history. I think it makes sense to try to keep these discussions consolidated, but please let me know if you'd prefer I start a new topic. With the release of the 2.05, the unlocked framerate makes TDM work better with Vorpx. While the original post aimed to share what I discovered and start a discussion, I think people may find it more helpful now to have the necessary steps on display in the OP when coming across this topic. If you're looking to play TDM with a VR headset and need assistance, please see the guide below: 1. Buy& install vorpx: http://www.vorpx.com/. Vorpx is a stereo injector that allows you to play non-VR games in VR. There are other free options out there that are being worked on that may be worth keeping an eye on for the future (vireio, a re-shade branch), but as far as I know, Vorpx is the only way to get TDM working at present. 2. Open your TDM installation folder & find your Darkmod.cfg file. Back it up. I have a folder with a monitor cfg and one with a VR cfg. You can switch from one to the other just by dropping in the respective file and overwriting. 3. Open Darkmod.cfg and find the lines seta r_customHeight & seta r_customWidth to set an 8:9 aspect ratio. For example, 1280x1440, 960x1080, 1600x1800, and 1920x2160. Choose the highest your system can handle. I'm using 1600x1800, so my .cfg file has these entries: seta r_customHeight "1800" seta r_customWidth "1600" Note: you may wish to try 4:3/5:4 or any other aspect ratio. Just keep in mind you'll need to tweak the fov_ratio to compensate. Which leads us to... 4. With the Darkmod.cfg still open, find seta r_fovRatio and change it to 0.9 if you're using an 8:9 resolution as indicated in step 2. It should look like this: seta r_fovRatio "0.9." If you're using a different aspect ratio, it may take some trial and error to find the right value to enter here. You'll know it's off if everything appears either "too zoomed in" or has a fisheye warping effect. 5. Save & close the Darkmod.cfg file. 6. Create an autoexec.cfg file in the same folder as your Darkmod.cfg and open it up. You can just copy the Darkmod.cfg file, rename it to autoexec.cfg and delete all of the contents. 7. In that file, add these lines: seta com_fixedtic "1" seta r_displayRefresh "90" This will allow the game to go above 60fps and/or allow vorpx to set it's "Async render" to 45fps or 90fps (depending on your hardware) allowing for a smoother experience than would otherwise be possible, as far as I understand it. 8. Save & close the autoexec.cfg file. 9. (Optional) If you would like to eliminate the game's "head bob," which can help with motion sickness, you'll need to bind it to a key-press. First, create an autocommands.cfg file inside the same folder and add these lines: seta pm_bobroll "0" seta pm_bobpitch "0" seta pm_bobup "0" Unfortunately I could not get this to auto-load with this file or the autoexec file. So I bound it to F11 by opening the Darkmod.cfg file and finding bind "F11." "It should look like this: bind "F11" "exec autocommands.cfg" 10. Save & close the autocommands.cfg file. 11. Download either grodenglaive's (Vive) or bucklebean's (Rift) vorpx cloud profile using the vorpx config app & follow the instructions to import it. Either profile may be a good starting point for either headset. It might be wise to try each & go from there. 12. Depending on your headset, you'll need to launch SteamVR or Oculus Home. 13. Lanuch vorpx 14. Launch TDM & disable post processing. Otherwise, you'll get flickering light sources. I also suggest disabling in-game AA to maintain decent FPS. 15. Vorpx translates mouse movement into head tracking. You should consider setting smooth mouse to off. You're going to want to tweak your in-game mouse sensitivity along with the vorpx head tracking sensitivity which can be found in the vorpx in-game menu. 16. Play TDM in VR - You'll probably want/need to press edge-peek (MMB default) to navigate the menu. Some things to consider: - Sometimes the main menu can flicker or completely disappear! Don't fear. Just press the edge peek button (MMB default) and your menu should come back. - The skybox doesn't appear correctly in 3D. There's a console command to remove the skybox completely, but the sky will flash/flicker. I don't have a fix. - Vorpx has a few 3D modes - G3D, Z-normal & Z-adaptive. The Z-modes DO NOT WORK. If you accidentally set one of these, you'll be greeted with blurry horizontal lines. You should be able to press your keyboard left & right arrow keys to set it back to G3D. If you can't, you're best bet is to shut down the game. You may not have saved that config, so a restart of the game might fix it. If not, you can try jumping back in and navigating the vorpx menu blind, but it's probably easier to just restore the cloud profile in the vorpx config app. - The settings from the vorpx cloud profiles might not be to your taste. Once in-game, press the "DEL" key to open up the vorpx menu. Here you'll find several tabs where you can make numerous tweaks to personalize your experience. You may even want to create your own custom profile to share. Some of the tweaks need "advanced settings" to be enabled on the main page of the vorpx launcher. - If you find that game objects, NPCs, doorways, etc... appear to be too large or too small, you'll want to adjust the stereo separation to taste. - If you find the game too bright or dark, you can adjust the gamma. The in-game gamma & brightness does not work. - You may want to adjust the sharpness setting to taste. My default profile has this all the way up. - If you set "fluidsync" on, the game will lock to no greater than 45fps. You may find this more comfortable than a variable framerate. I prefer to have this off most of the time because the Vive, Rift, & vorpx all have built-in software solutions to help with this. I want to be clear, VR, especially with vorpx requires a lot of power to run. However, with these software solutions, framerates that drop even into the 20's or 30's are surprisingly playable. What you are willing to put up with is going to be a matter of personal preference. You can check your framerate by pressing att+f. It might be wise to take a look at the TDM wiki for information on how to improve performance. You want to maintain as high a framerate as possible for the most comfortable experience. If your framerates are just so bad & you can't handle it at all, you may want to try turning off 3D entirely in the vorpx menu. You will lose depth (obviously) but your framerate will skyrocket. It should be close to what you normally see outside of VR. While the 3D is particularly excellent for this title, even by vorpx standards, it's not everything. The performance hit is huge and it's a trade-off you may wish to consider. - You may want to play with the letterbox & pixel 1:1 settings in the vorpx menu to assist with FOV adjustment. Use these in conjunction with the aspect ratio settings and the fov ratio settings. - You can set how far the screen pops out for edge peek. You may find it preferable to move it closer to make readables easier. This requires the advanced settings to be enabled in the vorpx config app. - You can play with motion controls as controller input. The controllers will be represented in the game world, but cannot interact with anything without a button press. It's interesting and may increase immersion, but I still prefer M+KB. YMMV. If you want to do this, you'll have to open the in-game vorpx menu by pressing "DEL" or the controller equivalent & remap the buttons to your liking. - Check out HTRF audio. It's totally worth it. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17689-improve-your-tdm-experience-by-playing-with-openal-soft-hrtf-better-3d-audio/ Here's a video that Grodenglaive put together about a year ago showing this working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYVq4jgy5k&t=139s Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. Original Post below: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Hi Everyone, Apologies for the long post ahead... I'd really like to thank everyone working on this project. You've truly created something very special here and I feel quite fortunate to have stumbled onto this a couple of years ago. When I received the DK2 last summer, one of the first things I did was attempt to get The Dark Mod working with 3rd -party injection drivers vireio perception (http://www.mtbs3d.com/new-vireio-site) and vorpx (http://www.vorpx.com/). Sadly, neither would hook because they are based on directx and TDM uses opengl. I talked to some folks working on the Doom 3 oculus implementation project and even downloaded TDM source code with the intent to try my hand at support, but quickly learned I was in WAY over my head. Fast-forward to 10/23/15 and the latest version of vorpx has preliminary support for opengl titles. The first thing I tried was TDM and it hooked! Huge disclaimer: the game does not have official support. There is NO 3D effect, nor is there positional tracking. Head tracking is intact, so your head movements are like mouse-look, but not the full 6-degrees of freedom (like leaning forward, backward, up, down...). Framerate is also a minor issue (see below). I want to be very clear that this is far from perfect. VR purists would probably not touch this. I am, however, quite pleased as punch. I learned a long time ago not to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good. FWIW, in a very short time I have determined that this will be my preferred method of playing. I booted up Tears of Saint Lucia and I can't describe the feeling of looking up at the buildings. The sense of scale is spot on. And oh my god, this game is DARK on the OLED screen. The flickering torches and candles in the distance... the lighting in this game is glorious. The atmosphere is visceral. The slow, careful, stealth pacing is perfect for VR. Frantic movements are generally not good. This is the opposite. There are some things that need consideration: - Framerate - generally, a rock-solid 75fps is required to have a good experience on the DK2. TDM is locked to 60 (or 62/63?). I could not figure out how to unlock it again. I had done that before when I got my 144hz monitor, which I quickly learned was a mistake. The speed of the game was all out of whack. Still, I'd like to see how it operates at 75. Nevertheless, the very good news is the latest version of vorpx also incorporates asynchronous timewarp, which eliminates the stutter/judder that occurs when the framerate drops below 75. The game is smooth sailing and would not be playable without this feature. - Resolution, FOV - because of the odd shape of the screen and the need to render 2 images, normally, when a game runs at a 16:9 aspect ratio, you need an FOV of around 120 to get it to look right. TDM used to allow you to set a custom FOV, but I cannot figure out if that's still possible. Instead (and likely for the better), you need to set a custom 8:9 resolution (I used 1280x1440) in the .ini files and set r_fovratio to about 0.85 (still playing with it, but a value somewhere between 0.85 - 0.888 should work). This gets the FOV almost perfect. See here for more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3q2nup/vorpx_09_performance_tip_custom_89_resolution/ - I created an autocommands file to eliminate the head bob. YMMV. For me, when in VR, head movements not controlled by the player can make me nauseous. Even on a monitor, honestly. See here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/7763-can-the-view-tilting-while-moving-be-turned-off/ And that's it! Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. I'd be curious to see how others are getting on. For reference, I have played the following in VR: Dishonoed Deus Ex GOTY DXHR Thief Gold Thief 2 + T2X Thief 2014 Neon Struct The first 3 on that list I have done complete playthroughs, including DLC. The rest to varying degrees. The stealth genre is so perfect for VR because combat can be avoided (if desired), you can usually move at your own place, exploration is rewarded, and the atmosphere in these games is among the best. I often find myself just sitting quietly listening to the patter of the rain or the crackle of a fireplace, soaking it all in. p.s. - It's also helpful to be pretty familiar with the game mechanics because you can't see the m+kb.

I would use this massive list for any fan missions, it includes campaigns too: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148090 There are a lot of Fan Missions for the picking, I myself go for the lesser known ones and the short variety, because sometimes they hide a gem or two. Just like jaxa, I'm a bit outdated after the temporal retirement, but I do remember some amazing campaigns like "The Black Frog". If you intend to play The Black Frog, you should play the first two of the L'Arsene series missions, it's how I did it myself. Also, yes, L'Arsene are a fantastic series. The first mission of L'Arsene is a "rough draft", author was a bit new to Thief level making, but still great either way, after the 3rd you will see how his skill increased by a massive amount.

Unfortunately, TDM forum deletes the separator between the numbers. So I have to guess where one number ends and the next starts Also, user can rename screenshot manually, or push it through something that would rename it automatically. Thenwe won't see coordinates on screenshot address on forums.

tdm_show_viewpos cvar and screenshot_viewpos command: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22310-212-viewpos-on-player-hud-and-screenshots/

Relax @Näkki, it's great to hear you enjoyed the game. My personal expectations were just a bit different when I read the Steam page, although the various trailers should have been a warning that stealth maybe wasn't the biggest priority of the devs. From the Steam page: "Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS." Also "Blood West is a stealth FPS inspired by the genre classics such as the Thief series (whose fans will be happy to hear the voice of Stephen Russell, the actor voicing the master-thief Garrett, returning here as the protagonist), S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, or - from the contemporary catalog - Hunt: Showdown. The gameplay rewards the careful approach: scouting the area, stalking your enemies, and striking from the shadows. Can you figure out a way to clear a fort full of ghouls and monsters without raising an alarm?" From my personal experience I think the game is predominantly Hunt: Showdown, a bit of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and a very small portion Thief. Stealth is very unforgiving and makes it almost impossible early game when there are various enemies around, but hey maybe I just suck at it. I don't see Deus Ex in it, unless the skill leveling is the Deus Ex part for you and then I have to disagree with you, as that seems like the trait system in Hunt: Showdown. Edit: What I also understood from the Steam forums is that the original VA was dropped close before the release of the full version and replaced by Russell with no real explanation from the devs why this was done.

Of course, it is one of the reasons for the decline of online forums, since the advent of mobile phones. Forums on a mobile are a pain in the ass, but on the other hand, for certain things there are no real alternatives to forums, social networks cannot be with their sequential threads, where it is almost impossible to retrieve answers to a question that is asked. has done days ago. For devs for internal communication, the only thing offered is a collaborative app, such as System D (not to be confused with systemd). FOSS, free and anonymous registration, access further members only by invitation, full encrypted and private. https://www.system-d.org

So, if I understand you, no Thief Gold FM does sound and text notifications of completed objectives? The missions in The Black Parade surely did. I'm completely confused now. I was sure that original Thief Gold had those objective complete notifications (at least the sound). Reading this thread suggests otherwise though: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132977

Greetings everyone! I recently got into TDM and am already having a lot of fun playing through and ghosting missions. However, coming from Thief, I am mostly relying on the rules and my experience with that game, while there are clearly differences in how TDM works. Right now, there is talk in the ghosting discussion thread on TTLG to amend the ruleset and include clarifications pertaining to TDM. So I wanted to drop by and ask: is there an active TDM ghosting community already and have any rules for this playstyle been developed? I would also like to ask someone to take a look at the draft of this addendum to see whether everything looks correct: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148487&page=16&p=2473352&viewfull=1#post2473352 Thanks!

A Problem Arises I've paused subtitling of the Lady02 vocal set, because of a problem with the voice clips described here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21741-subtitles-possibilities-beyond-211/&do=findComment&comment=490151 While a way forward is being determined, I'll work on a different vocal set. Maybe manbeast, for which Kingsal just provided me the voice script.