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

The Dark Mod is clearly one of the best mods I have played. It captures so much of the Thief experience, and I have made it clear (I hope) in other threads that many of the first ever (!) missions for TDM are fantastic. However, I have a few gripes about the mod and the way missions are handled. I'm going to make a poll, because I wonder whether people really do not mind those issues or they just don't come over to the forums. Right now, the 13 missions I have in the doom3 root folder take up 460MB of disk space. From the in-game menu, I can install them but there is no way to remove those folders. I think that if you're making a nice interface to install FMs, especially helpful for clueless players, you can't ask them to remove the folders manually to free some space. Also error-prone (oops I accidentally base folder).Linked indirectly to the first remark, I find that having the game restart when installing/uninstalling a mission through the in-game list (which is without the ability to sort/filter the missions and only 15 of them displayed at a time in 1680x1050) is quite annoying. I KNOW an external launcher has been discussed and was decided against, but quite frankly I disagree. I also don't see the point to spend some dev time keeping it all to the in-game launcher when it is bound to have the limitations imposed by Doom3. An OS-integrated interface is the fastest, cleanest way to go.Finally, I had another suggestion in another thread: This was present in the original games, how about adding it in?

To make FMs do you need to use codes?, If they are easily provided or easy to learn then ok but if theyre really hard then OH NO!!

[update] Spoke to Marcus @AMD UK on the phone and as it turns out a number of complaints have been made against "Spyre". My AMD forum account has been unbarred and my Ip address unblocked!!! Bought a new gfx card for xmas, been having issues with mainly the driver So I though a good place to look for support and polity vent etc - or so I thought My second post got flamed by some smart arse fanboy and then promptly locked, to which I reported the posted asking why it had been locked.. and then my account on there got deleted and my Ip blocked (untill the isp dhcp refreshed etc) so I cant login even with a different account name. I have emailed AMD directly about this as I did nothing wrong according the t&c's and I got no warning Pm or email from the forum mods. Now I've been over at the nVidia forums a long while back when I had the 8800GTX when I was equally frustrated when posting about the driver issue with thief etc, but at no point did a thread get locked or worse my account deleted. I don't have loyalty to AMD or nVidia but depending on the answer I get from AMD next week this card maybe going back and AMD will be added to the list of manufactures I will never buy anything from again. So whats the moral of this story, well take your pick.. [update] found cached copies of 1 of my posts Cached AMD frum link Cached AMD forum link2

when i do a search, it give me some results, I click on a result and exspect to get taken to the post it specifies - but no..... I get taken to the first post of the bloody thread it is in..ggrrr

I was playing the thief 2 fm King's Story last night, and noticed the heavy use of classical music throughout. What are people's opinions on this? Does it detract from gameplay, or is it stylistically out of place? Personally, I liked it, but as somewhat of a classical music junkie, this is not unexpected. I'm toying with the idea of making a mission inspired by the orchestral song-cycle "The Old Burying Ground" by Evan Chambers with music from the cycle playing a role not only in ambiance/mood, but also having some gameplay implications. Do people think this could be effective and fun (if done well, of course) or would people think that this was "not consistent with the ideals of TDM"

Every time I try to install a new FM, I get this error: --------- Initializing Game ---------- The Dark Mod 1.00, code revision 3718 Build date: Oct 13 2009 Initializing event system ...759 event definitions Initializing class hierarchy ...183 classes, 400752 bytes for event callbacks Initializing scripts --------- Game Map Shutdown ---------- -------------------------------------- ******************** ERROR: Error: file script/tdm_events.script, line 41: Unknown event 'frobHilight' ******************** Error during initialization Shutting down OpenGL subsystem ...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success ...deleting GL context: success ...releasing DC: success ...destroying window ...resetting display ...shutting down QGL ...unloading OpenGL DLL I can load my existing installed FM just fine. What's going on?

why are they so slow this evening..??

The forums have been upgraded, please see this thread: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/9845-forums-upgraded-to-ipb-3-0-3

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Just returned from a 7 day holiday, opened up this forum, had at least 4 pages of "new content". Made it past page 2 (to about June 03), and then had to take care of a few things here. When I came back, the forum had logged me out (timeout?), and when you log out, it forgets all "new content". So you log in, and it says "there is nothing new for you". Great, now I never know what I missed between May 30th and June 03.... grrrrrrrrr With email, you would still have all unread messages *sigh* Is there a way to change this behaviour? It has annoyed me in the past, but not as much as this time.. Edit: It's even worse, there is "no new content", but when I go f.i. into the "off topic" sub-forum, it still shows me threads as unread that I definitely already did read an hour ago. So I can't even just look at all the "unread" threads. Oh boy...

Announcement: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=8900 Please post any comments, bug notices, etc in this thread. If you have any issues with the new forums, please try to refresh/remove your Internet browser cache. Thanks ~m2

I've just completed the upgrade from IPB 2.2.x to 2.3.6, the newest official release of IPB. This was done to stay ahead on the IPB version 3 that is currently in the beta stages. Please post any comments, bug notices, etc in this thread. PS: If you have any issues with the new forums, please try to refresh/remove your Internet browser cache. Thanks, ~m2

can someone tell me some of the best/classic thief gold and thief 2 FMs that i might play since generally all the ones i have played as of now are all crap.

The dark mod has come along way. with dark radiant released and many Thief FM makers out there along with the hype about this mod in the thief community maybe You guys should add in some new parts of the forums. For editor Discusion, and just general mapping. along with coding and stuff. so there is help here for the mappers that are at work learning and using the D3 editor. just a thought it would be a good move to create a really good base of DM editors for the release. it would help us solve the problems we are having and get better as we talk about it and learn the editor. also maybe a FM concepts forum to. to talk about ideas for good maps and for ppl to req mappers and coders for DM projects... i think its the right move. it would also bring a lot of new people interested in the mod's comunity on a daily bases. maybe we can steel some of the fm makers from the first two thiefs haha. hopefully. theres alot of amazing FM's out there for the first 2.

I will upgrade the DarkMod forums this Friday to the newest IPB version. This will hopefully help us stop the spammers from signing up so we can get rid of the manual authentication process. The forums will be unavailable for some time, and the skin might not look normal after the upgrade. Just a heads up. Cheers, ~m2

Okay, I just wanted to know, that when we make our FMs using the toolset you guys release, where do we upload them? I remember T1 and T2 had a site called the inner circle. Will Darkmod.com have a down load section, where we can upload our FMs and download other people's FMs?

Hey guys. The forums have been successfully upgraded, although it took longer than I thought due to some extensive mysql queries that had to be run. This version of IPB is the newest, and it includes changes, new features and more. Please have a look around! IMPORTANT: Since a lot of the client-script files have been updated it is mandatory to empty your cached files from this forum. You can either empty your browser cache if you want to (check the settings), or you can do a hard refresh (this is usually done by holding the Ctrl-button while you hit 'Refresh'). Yes, the skin is currently toe default IPB skin, but this will be changed ASAP. It takes some time to update the changes in the original darkmod-skin, so please be patient. If you spot anything out of order (e.g. bugs) or you have suggestions or general feedback, please use this thread. Because of a new CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) system introduced in this version, I have now disabled the manual validation process of new members. Cheers, ~m2

Alright, the forum has successfully been upgraded to IPB version 2.2.2. If you have any comments, bug reports, suggestion or general feedback, post it here. IMPORTANT: Since a lot of the client-script files have been updated it is mandatory to empty your cached files from this forum. You can either empty your browser cache if you want to (check the settings), or you can do a hard refresh (this is usually done by holding the Ctrl-button while you hit 'Refresh'). Cheers, ~m2

Composer to composer forum @ finalemusic: http://acf.finalemusic.com/ This fairly new & isn't very busy at all. http://www.music-web.org/forum/index.php Better organized & a lot busier. So this would be a great place to introduce ourselves It has music theory, composition showcase, music encyclopedia, & more.

cool i knew brown barn spiders are worth something.