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Is there something wrong with the forums lately, or is it my browser? I've been having trouble formatting posts, and just now I couldn't format anything at all.
I'm using Vivaldi.
Usually I have to: select text, click bold, nothing happens, select again, click bold, then it works.
Same for other stuff, like creating spoilers, bullet points, links. Nothing works the first time.
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I have no problem. I use Firefox. @Zerg Rush also uses Vivaldi. Have you tried without extensions, or in another browser?
(btw. bold, italic and underline have shortcut keys: Ctrl B, Ctrl I and Ctrl U, you could try that)
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When I open the Material Editor in DR , I get the following error and DR freezes: It's frozen, so I can't click yes or no. This sometimes happens, usually it just crashes to desktop (possibly giving the same error, but it's too fast to see).
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Tidings, I have an issue with a map I am working on where Darkradiant suddenly won’t open it without hard crashing. I was editing the map and had the game open in connection mode - everything was working fine - the map was compiling and loading fine - so I saved my work for the day and closed DR. I realized I wanted to do a couple of other things but now the map will not open and I receive the following error prompts: The map itself continues to compile and open without an issue in the game, so whatever is going on with the map file is not preventing it from working in TDM - simply I cannot open and edit it in DR. I had the author I am working with test opening the map as well and they are receiving the same error. They generated a program dump which is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19PiDR2x4uQPi3vELAqmbA4UH40724Yj4/view?usp=share_link Any ideas on this issue would be greatly appreciated as we are trying to finish up a project as quickly as we can! -
I used to use 1080p screen for a long while and even back then lines were kinda thin and hard to see at times (for example, triggers would blend with grid in ortho views). Now I am on 1440p screen and it's a disaster - very hard to distinguish things as they blend with the grid in ortho views. Is there a fix for this issue? Maybe a way to make non-world entities lines thicker (triggers, etc.) ? -
I ran into an error when compiling The Dark Mod on Linux with glibc 2.34. Building CXX object CMakeFiles/TheDarkMod.dir/tests/TestRun.cpp.o In file included from /home/dm/darkmod_src/tests/testing.h:22, from /home/dm/darkmod_src/tests/TestRun.cpp:18: /home/dm/darkmod_src/ThirdParty/artefacts/doctest/include/doctest/doctest.h:3998:47: error: size of array ‘altStackMem’ is not an integral constant-expression 3998 | static char altStackMem[4 * SIGSTKSZ]; | ^ make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/TheDarkMod.dir/build.make:3071: CMakeFiles/TheDarkMod.dir/tests/TestRun.cpp.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:95: CMakeFiles/TheDarkMod.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:103: all] Error 2 Updating "ThirdParty/artefacts/doctest/include/doctest/doctest.h" to 2.4.8 fixed it for me. https://github.com/doctest/doctest/blob/v2.4.8/doctest/doctest.h See "Can't compile with glibc master (future 2.34): SIGSTKSZ is no longer a constant" (https://github.com/doctest/doctest/issues/473)
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*Fixed!* Worked the past -12- hours on a little something and get "Failure parsing entity 19: Pared invalid value '}' for key'. Aaand of course I don't have a backup, but the map is still running in TDM in test mode. Is there a way to fix this or dump the map file from the game? Edit: I opened the .map file with Wordpad (Not Noteblock, as it can't save in the right format), searched and removed the responsible lines corrupting the file and were able to load the map into DR again. -
Since Aluminum directed me here ( https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/9082-newbie-darkradiant-questions/page/437/#comment-475263 ) can we have unlimited renderer effects? Well, maybe not unlimited, by maybe 3-5? Thanks.
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Since I wasn't the one mainly asking, I'll just cite you in the original thread instead.
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There already is a kind of sorting, sort nearest, sort decal, sort <n>. For things like windows and such, sort nearest should probably have the desirable affect, though looking through multiple translucent shaders might kill performance.
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Is having multiple render effects really killing performance that badly? I don't understand. You're saying that if I have two transparent objects side-by-side, then they'll just count as two render effects, but when combined, they somehow become something much more difficult to render?
Never-the-less, unless we're talking some kind of infinite portal problem, why not let the mapper choose how much he wants to kill performance? Just warn him against putting too many effects close together.
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Woo!! 2.10 Beta "Release Candidate" ( 210-07 ) is out:
https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/21198-beta-testing-210/
It wont be long now
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I don't think there's a link to thedarkmod.com on forums.thedarkmod.com ...
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Yeah and the wiki and moddb. It should have those links in the footer I think. Probably easy to add by an admin.
Edit: And a link to the bugtracker. I'm always searching for a post in the forum that links to that because I can't remember the url.
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I drew attention to this several times in the last few years. No one payed it any attention, so I just gave up.
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Reluctance to improve the forums is matched by reluctance to allow more people to work on it. Talk about trust and power.
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Sometimes I just want to come here and say stuff like "hah, how about those biscotti biscuits, eh? Tried for the first time and my mind was blown into a million tiny biscobits. They're pretty good! also, I'm a dad now. anyway, bye" But I feel a new topic would be too strong, and I'm not yet sold on the Discord. I was an avid IRC user in the past (where I met my current wife, btw) but even so discord still doesn't work for me, I don't know. So yeah, I am a dad now! that is actually a thing. He looks like me and is very tiny and I love him. Also, the easiest personality to raise a child I've ever seen! this is baby easy mode, for sure. He barely screams and cries and just generally makes my life happier. The day before he was born I was super insecure and afraid. Would I love him? would I raise him well? as soon as I held him I knew that if anything happened to him I would murder an entire football team with my bare hands and then kill myself. As grim as that sounds this is actually a good thing. Also, a good use for this topic is for all of us to dump our TDM-unrelated game dev projects! I decided to make a game for the SEGA Mega Drive (Genesis for the Americans). It's a grid platformer akin to Flashback, prince of persia, blackthorne and others. I reject the term "cinematic platformer"; I think it's silly. But, brushing aside nostalgia, the only things I like about those games is the animation, obviously, and the grid snapping. There is potential for strategic gameplay in grid-based games and I think those games I mentioned should have focused less on precision platforming and more on semi puzzle gameplay. So I'm making it a stealth game! I don't think Mega Drive has any of those yet. Having some fun with debug logs: I have currently 4 game dev projects, which I cycle through periodically, but this is my main obsession right now. -
We're seeing 1TB SSD's coming in at $120 now. The hard drive manufacturers must be starting to sweat. Reports are that costs of flash will fall even more next year. I hope the hard drive manufacturers get thrashed by cheap SSDs, for not decreasing the price of 2-3TB drives much at all in the past four years.
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@Bikerdude, the performance metric that makes SSDs great is random I/O. It's unfortunate that sustained writes would drop off a cliff, but not the end of the world.
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@Jaxa, yeah that was my primary reason for getting one. On the Sustained reads/writes - I had to reimaged my PC last night so coped my games folder (200gb) to my Crucial P1 1TB, and sure enough 75% of the way through the write speed dropped off a cliff, 400-500mb/a down to 95mbs (that speed I think is only slightly faster than my old WD mechanical HDD.
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Can't knock the read speed though - got decent chipset and RAM, then you're always first in the game and get pick of the roles in Red Orchestra 2.
It's nice to push the on button and have windows boot up before you've had a chance to sit down and take a sip of tea.
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Hi everyone! Ok, I'm a great fan of Thief series that has been apart for years from the fans community... until now. Days ago I found the DDFix mod, then the HD Mod, and now this! Such a GORGEOUS mod guys, I have seen the demos! I can't wait to play it! Ok, but not that fast. After a hard time with the downloading (I live in the mountains and I connect to internet with a modem service in which I pay for every Mb downloaded), the game won't start. I get first a white screen when loading, and then a big black screen with beautiful and mysterious music (just to grow up my pain ). If I move the mouse cursor, I hear the sounds of the cursor being over the menu elements and I see some grey empty squares, without text. My computer equipement: - Toshiba Satellite (notebook), Intel DualCore T6500 2.10 Ghz processor, 3 Gb RAM - Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits (Spanish). - External monitor Sony Bravia Smart TV (1920 x 1080 maximum). - Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Graphics GMA 4500MHD (128 Mb dedicated memory video). I have already search for this problem, and the only references to it which I have found involve Linux OS. The description of the bug is exactly the same, but the solutions are not applied to me. The only coincidence that I have noticed is that also involve an Intel Graphic card. I have tried also some editions of the file Darkmod.cfg and to replace the file tdm_base01.pk4 with another one patched for some Intel problem, but withou success. I needyour help guys, I'm about to break in tears. I feel I have all to play this game, but I don't have the knowledge to fix it by myself. Thanks forehand... Elojah.
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Hi everyone! Ok, I'm a great fan of Thief series that has been apart for years from the fans community... until now. Days ago I found the DDFix mod, then the HD Mod, and now this! Such a GORGEOUS mod guys, I have seen the demos! I can't wait to play it! Ok, but not that fast. After a hard time with the downloading (I live in the mountains and I connect to internet with a modem service in which I pay for every Mb downloaded), the game won't start. I get first a white screen when loading, and then a big black screen with beautiful and mysterious music (just to grow up my pain :'( ). If I move the mouse cursor, I hear the sounds of the cursor being over the menu elements and I see some grey empty squares, without text. My computer equipement: - Toshiba Satellite (notebook), Intel DualCore T6500 2.10 Ghz processor, 3 Gb RAM - Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits (Spanish). - External monitor Sony Bravia Smart TV (1920 x 1080 maximum). - Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Graphics GMA 4500MHD (128 Mb dedicated memory video). I have already search for this problem, and the only references to it which I have found involve Linux OS. The description of the bug is exactly the same, but the solutions are not applied to me. The only coincidence that I have noticed is that also involve an Intel Graphic card. I have tried also some editions of the file Darkmod.cfg and to replace the file tdm_base01.pk4 with another one patched for some Intel problem, but withou success. I needyour help guys, I'm about to break in tears. I feel I have all to play this game, but I don't have the knowledge to fix it by myself. Thanks forehand... Elojah.
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Hello folks, Is it possible for you to mirror the game as a Google Drive or a torrent download? Downloading from the mirrors has always been hellishly slow, not to mention slower broadband speeds in Turkey.
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I got a hard drive that vibrates so much that you can feel it on the outside of the PC case! Is that a bad sign? It is brand new. But damn, I never saw one induce so much vibration.
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@Biker - But he said it's a brand new drive. Perhaps defective?
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Cheaper high-density SSDs can't come soon enough.
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SSDs can also fail unexpectedly.
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I updated my darkmod and darkmod_src repos this morning, and the first attempt at building a 64-bit Windows binary ran into the following error: 2> Creating library E:\Trunk\darkmod_src\..\darkmod\TypeInfo.lib and object E:\Trunk\darkmod_src\..\darkmod\TypeInfo.exp 2>idLib.lib(Simd_SSE2.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class idCVarBool r_legacyTangents" (?r_legacyTangents@@3VidCVarBool@@A) 2>E:\Trunk\darkmod_src\..\darkmod\TypeInfo.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals 2>Done building project "typeinfo.vcxproj" -- FAILED. Can anyone who's been working in this area please fix this? Thanks!
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Not so long ago I found what could make a pretty good profile picture and decided to try it out on these new forums. But I couldn't find a button anywhere that would let me change it. I asked on Discord and it seems Spooks also couldn't find anything anywhere. So I logged into an old alternative account and, lo and behold, that account has a button. This is on the first screen I get when I: 1) click on my account name in the top-right of the browser -> 2) click on 'profile'. Compared to my actual account: Are you also missing this button on your account? It'd be very much appreciated if that functionality could be restored to any of the affected accounts.
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I have an SSD hard drive that I bought last year, strictly for installing games on. In the last month or two, loading times seem to have increased drastically, and I've been getting some freezes on a few newer games I've played. I've already checked my RAM using MemTest. What's the best (hopefully free) program to use for checking hard drive integrity?
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Lost_soul introduces The Dark Drive: A USB flash drive with both TDM and a bootable installation of Linux on it. Even if the hard drive dies in the PC, you can still play TDM!
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32 GB is as low as $8 though (US Black Friday)
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Yeah, but some of the lowest-end drives can be extremely slow. This is a problem if you're gonna run an entire session off of them. I can't post an "iso" of this for a wide variety of reasons, sorry... but anybody can do a Lubuntu install to a flash drive, install their video drivers, and load up TDM.
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That's a well known problem with a known solution: you spend more money. You can have an anybrand 32 GB USB 2.0 stick for $8, or you can get something like Sandisk Extreme for about $1/GB with high sequential and random speeds.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-review,3477.html
Model in review is 64 GB, 16 and 32 GB versions are available on Newegg.
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Hi, I need to know what the code is to use Spoiler Tags. I am using my tablet and I don't have the options to use anything, like spoiler tags, quote tags, text changes etc. Thanks
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So from my entire The Dark Mod experience I noticed that I roleplay the main character (be it Garrett or someone else in the FM) harder than I realized. What do I mean by that? Doing things that are "pointless" in terms of the game mechanics or AI mechanics. For example closing all shelfs, chests, doors after being finished exploring/stealing to leave them the way they been before I arrived. As far as I know guards can't tell whenever the shelf or chest was closed before and they do not become suspicious of that, but I close them anyway. Doors on other hands, from my experience I noticed that they do realize the fact that the door was closed, and they do become suspicious and proceed to investigate then close them, but they will not be alterted thus they do not affect the player progress in any way. Anyway I do close all of the doors, unless they were already open; it's pointless from success point of view, but I do it anyway for immersion. Same goes for movement. I know that TDM can still be a little exploited in terms of footstep sounds, and AI cone of view, so I try to be as stealthy as possible where I will not make more noise than it would seem reasonable; or hide in places which in my honest opinion wouldn't be good hiding spots in reality. I'm pointing that out only because I saw countless walkthroughs and lets plays of FMs where people/players doesn't really immerse themselves into the envoirment or simply mission itself (which I'm not saying is wrong, but it's different from what I'm used to do) and because of it it's obvious that I am on completly different level than most. I'm just curious if anyone has the same mindset as I do when playing FMs or if I potentially might be mentally damaged at this point from playing TDM for so long, lol. Cheers.
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lost_soul's half-assed solution of the day: There's a hard drive with over 100 bad sectors, making everything run EXTREMELY SLOW. Instead of swapping out the hard drive, I moved the OS to the later half, away from the bad sectors! Now it runs fast and fine!
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Oi nutter, replace the drive. If its under warranty get it swapped, if not they are so cheap just buy another one.
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How old is this drive? Modern drives should remap bad sectors automatically so the OS doesn't even see them.
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That could be a harbinger of bricked drive to come.
Also, running a full format on the drive should mark and bad sectors and never write to them so you can use the remainder of the drive but as mentioned above, if its an older drive, it may be going to the grave.
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One of my usb drive spins down about every 5 mins or so. That's not long enough. If I'm using it every few minutes it's fine but if I don't access for ten or fifteen minutes then it hangs while it spins up. I thought there used to be a simple setting in the power setting in Control panel but I can't see it now. Tried right click drive - properties (that shows all drives so not easy to tell which physical drive this is,) tried google, even as a last resort tried Windows help (haha!) but no luck.
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Still spreading the word about TDM on forums to new peops... Funny to see people say "Awesome, I loved playing Thief back in the day!"
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Yes it was in a discussion where someone was saying how unhappy they are with the way game companies grant themselves permission to do whatever they like to your PC and personal info today. I pointed out that giving up games completely is an unnecessarily overkill solution when there are free games like TDM to play.
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Honestly the mod/Indie genre is still really booming right now. And they aint got no reason to do shady invasive privacy bs.
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What Epifire said. :-)
