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Crispy came across a very talented modeler on the indiegames forums, who goes by the name of Tricko. Since we're in pretty good shape as far as characters go, he suggest Tricko apply as an object modeler. I agree with this as well. Here is some of his modeling work. http://www.wazgrafix.com/

Followup: one way to fix the failure to run (this is on the dev/deployment side): -main article: http://llbit.se/?p=19 -thread with the specifics on how (specifically, the fourth post): http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost....65&SiteID=1

Well, I'm sure Steam will gain more sales for DM than it loses. You can disable the auto updates on Steam. And yes I know about EA's service, it's why I said I'd rather support Valve's solution. By the way the last Steam update fixed what I said I didn't like in my last post, the "store view" popping up at first... You can once again set it to pop up the games list as before. Just thought I'd mention it... Also as far as I know Steam lets you disable it from starting on windows startup from within its own settings. I'm not sure if it actually works, perhaps it didn't and I had used a registry editor, I don't remember. But the option's there, if bugged... And for the illiterate consumers Steam is a good thing to be honest, as they now don't have to wonder why their game doesn't work online anymore like every time a patch was released in the past. Now they get it automatically so have no problems... It helps noobs more than you think.

GOD is punishing the Giants huh. OK, now you've gone too far, please leave the forums immediately

We've already used some concave cms successfully. I'm pretty sure we posted that exact quote in another thread. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?s=&am...st&p=137162

Can you head to the C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder and tell me which version the file dbghelp.dll has on your end? Right-click the file, go to properties and then version. My version is 5.1.2600.2180 which seems to be the most recent one, according to information I found on some forums.

You can, but eventually it would be easiest if you got yourself hooked up with SVN. Then you can download the mod and look at all our assets, as well as upload anything new that you make. Instructions are here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=5449

The milestone goals for the coding and sound department have been defined and posted to the bugtracker. See also this post in the information forum: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=7262 For the animation department, we just have a vague which might need some redefinition. Does the animation department want to define some goals they want to achieve till June? I believe that clear goals could help to focus on what's important, but ultimately this has to be decided by the people who actually do the work on our characters. Please post here what you think what's wise - I can help you guys putting the stuff in the tracker, if you want me to.

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=6840 The thief fov was off 270 degrees according to Spring so I switched skeletons on the thief so he'd use the city's rig (because the original mesh was facing the z-axis when it should be facing the x-axis). I added player specific animations like crouching (in third person he no longer gets stuck in crouching position because he now has crouch up/down anims) & creeping. The fov now looks fixed. Other issues I fixed were timing the footsteps so no player can tap the movement keys & stay silent. The footsteps are within 2-4 frames within the start of the animation, so if a player taps up/down/left/right, there will be footstep sounds instead of silence. His lower leather tunic thingies still clip into the legs so that's one issue with the mesh. Let me know what you think. As usual I might've forgot to commit something. EDIT: There are leaning animations but there's no support script-wise. Oh yeah, thanks to squill for the new citywatch animation rig. I used them for the player anims model_src on svn has the new source maya animations . . .

There's this one, I think that's the most current one: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=4888

Okay guys 'n' gals. I rerigged the thief & I'm applying the citywatch animations to him, as well as adding player specific anims, because of the 270 degree visual cone (and the model is facing the z-axis when he should be facing the x-axis) as seen here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=6840 The rig is still being tweaked because his legs are clipping through the lower tunic (or that fancy skirt thingy he's wearing). What's the cvar to see an ai's visual cone?

I have no idea how to fix this, but from reading the forums..it doesn't feel like we have a very good workflow/pipeline or whatever it's called, for animation. It looks like we're on the right track, creating a 'master' rig, but then perhaps things seem to get a little hazy. I'm a bit concerned about that as it could mean having to cover a lot more of the same work over again in the future. Are these new rigs going to add special bones for attachments, like they did in T3? I was following that in another thread, but I'm not sure I understand exactly what was decided there.

Welcome aboard, Tricko. I think your permissions are now set. You've got a lot of reading ahead of you! You should definitely check out our models webpage: http://www.tjoff.com/jens/darkmod/gallery/...m.php?albumID=4 (the password is in http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=609) This will give you easy access to models that are completed, so you can check out styles, etc. There is also a master list of models still needed in the model forum. And, as greebo said, don't hesitate to ask.

@Tricko: Once you're setup with the correct permissions, be sure to check out this post. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=6694 I wrote this as some sort of startup guide for Beta Mappers/Contributors, which should cover things like our SVN repository, licensing issues and general notes about our Team "policies" (if this deserves this name). Generally, don't hesitate to ask us if you're running into troubles with anything. Don't silently chew on things - this would be a waste of time.

The sword joint is not going to move. The object will go from being attached to the sword joint to the hand joint. Basically, just animate it as if the sword/weapon doesn't exist. See: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?s=&am...st&p=142216

squill, can you make these controls for the tweaked rig I post in this thread? http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=7259 So we have one standard and to not make skin job on two rigs istead of only one. Its still ascottk's rig, but with model tweaked to more closely match the bones.

The Pope needs a plugin:http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...&id=6839916 & these settings work for that maya plugin: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?s=&am...st&p=143138

I have read in that thread about issues with forceware drivers: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=7078 Could this be applicable in your case?

Welcome to the forums! We're badly in need of animators - be sure to send New Horizon a PM, so he can bring you into the Applicants forum.

Yes, you can do that sort of blending with vertex maps, I think it only works with ASE files exported from max. I remember talking about it on the doom3world forums a few years ago, if you ask there you'll get a clearer answer.

I think things look very promising. For now Tricko, I'll set you up as a contributor and also give you access to the beta mapper forums. You'll have contact with actual mappers and be able to take requests for anything we might not have.

Welcome to the forums! Glad to see the demo has stimulated some people to try out mapping for it. There will eventually be a user-friendly objectives editor in DarkRadiant, but right now the only way to enter them in is with spawnargs, and it's not user-friendly at all (although I think maybe easier than DromEd ). I'm also still revising some things in the objectives system, so it's still subject to change. You can take a look at how they were handled in the Thief's den map, by looking for an entity called target_tdm_addobjectives. That's where the objective information is stored, although I think Fidcal also did some tricks with triggers and counters to set up certain objectives. [EDIT: Just saw the video for your mod, it looks very interesting, and looks like it has very different gameplay from Doom3, which is good!]

Right so Ive been back for a few days now and finally managed to jump back into it Heres a question: How do I get the renderbump command to reference the objects UV map? Whenever I run the command I get the default 1-sided map (which isnt even registered as a UVmap) O Ive been tinkering a bit and learning more about the engine through various forums so Ive got the model in game, just really the normal maps that are causing the only issues. Ive already got a basic .mtr file that should work fine, soooo.. Hints, tips, tricks? thanks

This is a half life 2 thread but it might help. http://www.halflife2.net/forums/archive/in...hp/t-72866.html

There is usually always somebody around on these forums, so why should this change after the 15th?