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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.

Is it possible to seperate the columns/rows on a patch, or at the very least, quickly replicate the shape of a specific curve by using individual patches, so the end result is near-identical to the original but with each column a seperate patch? This is the shape in question, trying to create some 'steps' with this shape. Replicating each column takes far too long and has pretty inaccurate results.

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

The link in the wiki is broken, can someone provide? I need it. :\

Does anyone know why these occur, or how to avoid them? Left image shows DR screenshot of an endcap, which has been thickened. It looks okay and it has been func_staticified. The right image shows the same scene ingame. See the difference? The patch leaking from the sides. Looks ugly and sloppy. But in DR it looks correct! The second image shows a vault end cap, which has been capped with a inverted endcap. There is this small but distinctly visible stripe, as if the end cap itself or it's inverted endcap part were improperly aligned. BUT in DR everything seems snugly fit! There is no small gaps! Why is this happening? How can I avoid it?

Evening Well after 5 hrs and much swearing and desk bashing... I have to ask several questions at this point: # why is it so bloody convoluted and over complicated to align the texture on two faces, for example to bricks whose faces are just slight out. 1. in the texture tools the two faces always appear miles away from each other so i have to zoom out and drap one near t the other - can this be fixed..? 2. when I do have both faces next to each and I find one is oriented the wrong why or why does it then get moved miles away again so that i have to zoom out and drag it back...AAARRGGHH!! and this is the same for Horz/vert-flip or rotate.. 3. why cant the faces in texture spin or flip in place - god this would speed thing up considerably. # I know I ave this before, but christ it would be so much easer if I could just cut a hole in a patch like I can with a brush. 1. aliging two patches of a curved wall is best described as self inflicted agony.. 2. the ability to copy parts of a patch would be extremely useful.. Anyway after all the hard work see the screenies here... http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/10003-so-what-are-you-working-on-right-now/page__st__425__gopid__216653entry216653

For those of you who aren't aware, Arkane has just released a final patch for Arx Fatalis, and the source code: http://www.ttlg.com/...ad.php?t=134554 I've always thought that there would be so much creative potential for fan made missions in Arx Fatalis, maybe now this is something we may start to see. Of course this release doesn't included an editor, and the way levels were built in Arx is not exactly ideal (build the world geometry in 3D StudioMax, then convert / import), maybe to begin with we could see new quests set in the existing world geometry. The year 2011 seems to be the year for source code releases, hopefully Rage is released on time and we get to see idTech4 source code later this year.