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Sharing my stuff here (with permanent links this time!) Use them however you like Let me know if there's any issue with any of it and I'll fix them or get them up to standard! Merry Chests 2 Download These are on hold for the moment while I work on actual missions. I got as far as making 8 new containers/chests that are drop and go prefabs, made a little more efficiently and flexibly than the first lot. Technically 1 is from the first lot, I just liked it enough that I wanted to give it a refresh. They all come with little loot lights inside that switch on and off as the lid opens and closes for optimisation and visibility. Frob boxes, keys you can use or not, etc etc. Merry Paintings 2 Download I needed some office-appropriate paintings that were a bit more neutral than Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes so I grabbed 20 (mostly) C19th still life paintings, all public domain and CC0 scans. Some chiaroscuro, some pastoral, some with kitties This time around I've packaged them as light as possible so they're not the highest definition, just something to fill your walls with rather than lootable centerpieces.

I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. If agent A publishes a work W under a license L1 that allows agent B to build on the work as long as B publishes the derivative work under L1, then if A later decide to also offer W under another licence L2 (with similar stipulations about publishing derivative works under L2) then B can choose if their additions to W should be licenced under L1 or L2 or both. However, if the scrips in question were released as GPL then it would significantly reduce the risk of publishing derivative works based on them.

A Bridge Too Far (version 1.0, 2023-09-22) In this small scale mission, you seek to steal the original copy of a book from the boss of a counterfeit crime outfit, which are located on a bridge. Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IeGCBdiGY9W3k_r5Ip8tGtJq9lo5f_PF/view Much thanks to the beta-testers for all of their feedback (link to beta thread - @thebigh - @Cambridge Spy - @Zerg Rush - @wesp5 - @Shadow Screenshots:

The mission easily goes to my list of replayable missions, which is my second highest rank. Yes, some vertexes aren't snipped together and there was a single piece of loot I wasn't able to get , but these are negligible issues. I appreciated the creative elements and little secrets and the way you used the light sources. Thank you for your work.

also depends a bit on your CPU though bottlenecks are far from being as severe as they are touted it does matter to get the most out of it. example for a 6th gen intel like my old system core i7 6950x i probably would not go higher than a 2080 ti / rtx 3070 or radeon 6800. for my somewhat newer ryzen 5900x it could probably work well enough with even an rtx 5000 series or for AMD a 7900 or 9070 series. but it also depends if gaming at 4k or closer to 1080p as at 4k the CPU matters less. for intels gfx cards the 6th gen models all lack rebar in bios so that card wont work "AT ALL!" with it. then you have to look at where you get the most for your money which at this time can be a bit of a jungle. used cards can sometimes be an ok investment but you also run the risk that the card dies tomorrow or a week after and they usually dont come with warranty so...

I took some time to sit on my thoughts on this one, so I forget my exact totals, but I completed this mission in around 2hrs and had ~7000/11000 loot on the middle difficulty setting. I enjoyed my time overall? But a lot of quality issues held me back on this one: - The AI really seemed to be out for my blood, and I'm not sure why or how they saw me lots of times. I think at one point I had 6 guards running around the market place. I think this was maybe a portaling issue? Because I managed to piss off guards in neighboring buildings or on different streets often during this mission. - The do-not-kill objective didn't work. I discovered this by blackjacking a sleeping commoner who bethesda-physics'd into the wall so hard that she died (a TDM classic, not the fault of this mission), and the objective didn't tick failure. I used this to my advantage for the second half of the mission and made the streets run red because of my previous AI woes. - The mission was very flat. There weren't a lot of opportunities to run across rooftops, crawl through sewers, or emerge through vent shafts to new floors of buildings. There was a little bit of all of that, but I was struck by how isolated and one-off those moments felt, and how the streets were perfectly level from one side of the map to the other. - I found lots of polish issues in the geometry, including a pretty sizeable gap in the ceiling of a side room in the pumping station, windows not aligned to the buildings they were supposed to be attached to, and a visible seam through the second floor of the manor under a bedroom door. That said, I liked the ambition and creativity overall, and that kept me going. I think I'm at like a 6/10 or 7/10 on this mission. Good effort, solid ambition, needs refinement.

Improved formatting: Thread 38 "Frontend" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fffb98006c0 (LWP 1220544)] 0x00007ffff48d5d29 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff48d5d29 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 #1 0x0000000000be43c7 in GLSLProgram::Destroy (this=0x10fe9290) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgram.cpp:61 #2 0x0000000000bece3e in GLSLProgramManager::LoadFromGenerator(char const*, std::function<void (GLSLProgram*)> const&) (this=0x2107cc0 <programManagerInstance>, name=0x7fffb013a1f0 "ambientEnvironment", generator=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgramManager.cpp:103 #3 0x0000000000bec407 in GLSLProgramManager::Load (this=0x2107cc0 <programManagerInstance>, name=..., defines=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/GLSLProgramManager.cpp:74 #4 0x0000000000cc642f in GLSL_LoadMaterialStageProgram (name=0x7ffed4053f40 "ambientEnvironment") at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:783 #5 0x0000000000cc9602 in idMaterial::ParseStage (this=0x7ffed40069b0, src=..., trpDefault=TR_REPEAT) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:1568 #6 0x0000000000ccd04e in idMaterial::ParseMaterial (this=0x7ffed40069b0, src=...) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:2470 #7 0x0000000000ccd626 in idMaterial::Parse (this=0x7ffed40069b0, text=0x7fffb97eda30 "\n\npainting03_L\n{\n\tqer_editorimage\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting03_l_d_ed\n\twood\n\n\tdiffusemap\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting03_l_d\n\tbumpmap\t\tmodels/darkmod/props/textures/painting01_loc"..., textLength=1329) at darkmod_src/renderer/resources/Material.cpp:2559 #8 0x000000000049631d in idDeclLocal::ParseLocal (this=0x57c0bd0) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:2318 #9 0x000000000049263f in idDeclManagerLocal::FindType (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, type=DECL_MATERIAL, name=0x7ffed40c03f0 "painting03_l", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1235 #10 0x0000000000494300 in idDeclManagerLocal::FindMaterial (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, name=0x7ffed40c03f0 "painting03_l", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1633 #11 0x000000000049f3ed in idDeclSkin::Parse (this=0x7ffed4034ad0, text=0x7fffb97ee290 "\n\nportrait_with_skull02_torn\n{\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01.lwo\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_m.lwo\nmodel models/darkmod/decorative/wall/painting01_l.lwo\nmodel mod"..., textLength=404) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclSkin.cpp:78 #12 0x000000000049631d in idDeclLocal::ParseLocal (this=0x59f3e10) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:2318 #13 0x000000000049263f in idDeclManagerLocal::FindType (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, type=DECL_SKIN, name=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1235 #14 0x0000000000494382 in idDeclManagerLocal::FindSkin (this=0x16fdc00 <declManagerLocal>, name=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn", makeDefault=true) at darkmod_src/framework/DeclManager.cpp:1643 --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging-- #15 0x000000000055a6bb in idEntity::Event_SetSkin (this=0x7ffed408d324, skinname=0x7ffed408bc6c "portrait_with_skull02_torn") at darkmod_src/game/Entity.cpp:7114 #16 0x0000000000987646 in idClass::ProcessEventArgPtr (this=0x7ffed408d324, ev=0x1f5ef00 <EV_SetSkin>, data=0x7fffb97ee600) at darkmod_src/game/gamesys/Callbacks.cpp:26 #17 0x0000000000a5a847 in idInterpreter::CallEvent (this=0x7ffed408b444, func=0x7ffff7961388, argsize=132) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Interpreter.cpp:817 #18 0x0000000000a5b1f7 in idInterpreter::Execute (this=0x7ffed408b444) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Interpreter.cpp:1091 #19 0x0000000000a6a0ce in idThread::Execute (this=0x7ffed408b414) at darkmod_src/game/script/Script_Thread.cpp:949 #20 0x0000000000561c23 in idEntity::FrobAction (this=0x16762504, frobMaster=true, isFrobPeerAction=false) at darkmod_src/game/Entity.cpp:9544 #21 0x000000000067d033 in idPlayer::PerformFrob (this=0x156bf4e4, impulseState=EPressed, target=0x16762504, allowUseCurrentInvItem=true) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:11843 #22 0x000000000067d916 in idPlayer::PerformFrob (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:12047 #23 0x000000000066884c in idPlayer::PerformImpulse (this=0x156bf4e4, impulse=41) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:5935 #24 0x00000000006696f4 in idPlayer::EvaluateControls (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:6347 #25 0x000000000066e72d in idPlayer::Think (this=0x156bf4e4) at darkmod_src/game/Player.cpp:7616 #26 0x00000000005ba9dd in idGameLocal::RunFrame (this=0x16b3a40 <gameLocal>, clientCmds=0x7fffb97eebe0, timestepMs=17, minorTic=false) at darkmod_src/game/Game_local.cpp:3397 #27 0x00000000004cac3c in idSessionLocal::RunGameTic (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>, timestepMs=17, minorTic=false) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:2997 #28 0x00000000004cb020 in idSessionLocal::RunGameTics (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3043 #29 0x00000000004cb291 in idSessionLocal::FrontendThreadFunction (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3104 #30 0x00000000004cb6bc in operator() (__closure=0x0, x=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3186 #31 0x00000000004cb6e4 in _FUN () at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:3188 #32 0x00007ffff769caa4 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_create.c:447 #33 0x00007ffff7729c3c in clone3 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78 (gdb) thread 1 [Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7ccf4c0 (LWP 1220498))] #0 0x00007ffff771b4cd in __GI___poll (fds=0x7fffffffd4e8, nfds=1, timeout=1000) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29 warning: 29 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c: No such file or directory (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff771b4cd in __GI___poll (fds=0x7fffffffd4e8, nfds=1, timeout=1000) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:29 #1 0x00007fffd661d9df in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.570.124.04 #2 0x00007fffd6603b11 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.570.124.04 #3 0x00007ffff3f7a1ec in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 #4 0x00007ffff3f48500 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 #5 0x0000000000d95c36 in GLimp_SwapBuffers () at darkmod_src/sys/linux/glimp.cpp:76 #6 0x0000000000bf4ba0 in RB_SwapBuffers () at darkmod_src/renderer/backend/tr_backend.cpp:608 #7 0x000000000074adf1 in R_IssueRenderCommands (frameData=0x1fb31a0 <smpFrameData+96>) at darkmod_src/renderer/RenderSystem.cpp:173 #8 0x000000000074c6e6 in idRenderSystemLocal::EndFrame (this=0x1fa7c60 <tr>, frontEndMsec=0x0, backEndMsec=0x0) at darkmod_src/renderer/RenderSystem.cpp:768 #9 0x00000000004c9cb9 in idSessionLocal::UpdateScreen (this=0x17055a0 <sessLocal>, outOfSequence=false) at darkmod_src/framework/Session.cpp:2716 #10 0x000000000047477f in idCommonLocal::Frame (this=0x16de8c0 <commonLocal>) at darkmod_src/framework/Common.cpp:2479 #11 0x0000000000d99481 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdd68) at darkmod_src/sys/posix/platform_linux.cpp:490

Yeah they are stock. I was aware this one was pretty loud, and tried to make a custom version of the shader and reduce the volume on it using the volume keyword, but it didn't actually do anything, and I never could figure out why. Maybe something to do with the location system? The other thing I could have done was reduce the volume on the location entities themselves, which does work. But by this point I had added that ambient to loads of locations already and didn't want to go and update them all (lazy, I know). Also, the wiki seemed to advise against doing this for some reason, so I just decided to rely on the ambient volume slider in the menu. If I do an update, I will just update the location entities, unless someone knows why updating the sound shader doesn't seem to do anything.

I don't know if this bug has been found before and has made into the bug tracker, but there is a strange behaviour with key object in TDM. apparently you can make yourself float in the air with this key bug i have posted another video on the current beta testing thread, I videoed this bug in a mission called ‘training mission’ to avoid spoilers

I personally still feel it's now a lost cause without first getting clarification over the licence for the def and script files from the original Doom 3, which is why, until such clarification is officially made I'm not doing anything further towards it. I believe that while currently Microsoft may turn a blind eye to copy and pasted text from these files in TDM due to its' non-commercial nature, the moment it were to become Libre then the ability to use it commercially could lead to problems. However to answer your question (bearing in mind I have a very limited knowledge of Doom 3/TDM modding other than what I learnt attempting to get a compiled cut-down version running). In terms of the game scripts the following are the only non-GPL header game scripts and you can comment them out from being loaded in source code: tdm_grandfather_clock.script tdm_turret.script tdm_audiograph.script tdm_camgoyle.script tdm_safe_lock.script tdm_safe.script Also Grayman put the values as comments in code for these two files so they can be easily created: tdm_soundprop.def tdm_ai_base.def It would be easier to seek out Greebo and Springheel and ask them to GPL their work since that would open up all the base def files without the task of re-creating them. I suspect that it would take a very long time to recreate all the def files, also bear in mind that some functionality is copy/paste from Doom 3 eula protected files (func_static for example). As regards the work done by Grayman, that would always remain NC-BY, however access to the SVN commits would allow you to diff remove his non-GPL edits from the .def files. The UI function calls for TDM are all within the GPL source code, and as the UI is all a text based language it probably wouldn't take more than a couple of days to re-create a basic (though not pretty) UI. There are many comments within the source code relating to the UI string references, so a relatively complete UI string language file can be re-created as well.

I think this has some promising signals. For one thing let's acknowledge that, after the Thief 4 reboot failure, it can't have been easy to get this thing made. The first reboot was a studio mandate project, clearly designed by a committee of brainless marketing execs to chase the proven Deus Ex HR buyer market. But who is the target market for this game? The legion of VR equipped Thief fanatics--all ten of them? No. This looks to me like it could be someone's passion project that somehow bubbled up through the studio system. Notice also that this one is far more naratively daring than 4. Firstly they are not trying to gaslight us with a fake Garrett. Instead they are actually trying to do a woman apprentice as teased by the ending of Deadly Shadows. Secondly, while it's easy to joke about Garrett becoming The Eye, that is actually a really interesting way of renewing the cycle. In the original trilogy The Eye was an enigma. It had no real explanation in either of its appearances. By transmuting the old protagonist into the new equivalent of that enigma, all the events of the previous games become legendary, and that lends the new story an opportunity for mythological gravitas that Theif 4 never had. Does that mean I expect it to be good? Hell no! The record for recent female led soft reboots of male led franchises is terrible. And making good stealth games is hard at the best of times. But there is the possibility. It seems like they are trying to learn from the sins of Thief 4. If they can thread the needle with the new protagonist, making her genuinely suffer and struggle without becoming pathetic, and get the gameplay right... Maybe.

No no let them keep telling on themselves. This thread has been very informative.

Yeah that's my bad, I misread the title of this thread and didn't think it was posted on yet.

Ooooof, I missed this post before I tossed up an announcement thread of my own. Yeah, I'm pretty excited. Totally not what I expected on my bingo card for today.

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.

Hi folks, and thanks so much to the devs & mappers for such a great game. After playing a bunch over Christmas week after many years gap, I got curious about how it all went together, and decided to learn by picking a challenge - specifically, when I looked at scripting, I wondered how hard it would be to add library calls, for functionality that would never be in core, in a not-completely-hacky-way. Attached is an example of a few rough scripts - one which runs a pluggable webserver, one which logs anything you pick up to a webpage, one which does text-to-speech and has a Phi2 LLM chatbot ("Borland, the angry archery instructor"). The last is gimmicky, and takes 20-90s to generate responses on my i7 CPU while TDM runs, but if you really wanted something like this, you could host it and just do API calls from the process. The Piper text-to-speech is much more potentially useful IMO. Thanks to snatcher whose Forward Lantern and Smart Objects mods helped me pull example scripts together. I had a few other ideas in mind, like custom AI path-finding algorithms that could not be fitted into scripts, math/data algorithms, statistical models, or video generation/processing, etc. but really interested if anyone has ideas for use-cases. TL;DR: the upshot was a proof-of-concept, where PK4s can load new DLLs at runtime, scripts can call them within and across PK4 using "header files", and TDM scripting was patched with some syntax to support discovery and making matching calls, with proper script-compile-time checking. Why? Mostly curiosity, but also because I wanted to see what would happen if scripts could use text-to-speech and dynamically-defined sound shaders. I also could see that simply hard-coding it into a fork would not be very constructive or enlightening, so tried to pick a paradigm that fits (mostly) with what is there. In short, I added a Library idClass (that definitely needs work) that will instantiate a child Library for each PK4-defined external lib, each holding an eventCallbacks function table of callbacks defined in the .so file. This almost follows the idClass::ProcessEventArgsPtr flow normally. As such, the so/DLL extensions mostly behave as sys event calls in scripting. Critically, while I have tried to limit function reference jumps and var copies to almost the same count as the comparable sys event calls, this is not intended for performance critical code - more things like text-to-speech that use third-party libraries and are slow enough to need their own (OS) thread. Why Rust? While I have coded for many years, I am not a gamedev or modder, so I am learning as I go on the subject in general - my assumption was that this is not already a supported approach due to stability and security. It seems clear that you could mod TDM in C++ by loading a DLL alongside and reaching into the vtable, and pulling strings, or do something like https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3-sdk/ . However, while you can certainly kill a game with a script, it seems harder to compile something that will do bad things with pointers or accidentally shove a gigabyte of data into a string, corrupt disks, run bitcoin miners, etc. and if you want to do this in a modular way to load a bunch of such mods then that doesn't seem so great. So, I thought "what provides a lot of flexibility, but some protection against subtle memory bugs", and decided that a very basic Rust SDK would make it easy to define a library extension as something like: #[therustymod_lib(daemon=true)] mod mod_web_browser { use crate::http::launch; async fn __run() { print!("Launching rocket...\n"); launch().await } fn init_mod_web_browser() -> bool { log::add_to_log("init".to_string(), MODULE_NAME.to_string()).is_ok() } fn register_module(name: *const c_char, author: *const c_char, tags: *const c_char, link: *const c_char, description: *const c_char) -> c_int { ... and then Rust macros can handle mapping return types to ReturnFloat(...) calls, etc. at compile-time rather than having to add layers of function call indirection. Ironically, I did not take it as far as building in the unsafe wrapping/unwrapping of C/C++ types via the macro, so the addon-writer person then has to do write unsafe calls to take *const c_char to string and v.v.. However, once that's done, the events can then call out to methods on a singleton and do actual work in safe Rust. While these functions correspond to dynamically-generated TDM events, I do not let the idClass get explicitly leaked to Rust to avoid overexposing the C++ side, so they are class methods in the vtable only to fool the compiler and not break Callback.cpp. For the examples in Rust, I was moving fast to do a PoC, so they are not idiomatic Rust and there is little error handling, but like a script, when it fails, it fails explicitly, rather than (normally) in subtle user-defined C++ buffer overflow ways. Having an always-running async executor (tokio) lets actual computation get shipped off fast to a real system thread, and the TDM event calls return immediately, with the caller able to poll for results by calling a second Rust TDM event from an idThread. As an example of a (synchronous) Rust call in a script: extern mod_web_browser { void init_mod_web_browser(); boolean do_log_to_web_browser(int module_num, string log_line); int register_module(string name, string author, string tags, string link, string description); void register_page(int module_num, bytes page); void update_status(int module_num, string status_data); } void mod_grab_log_init() { boolean grabbed_check = false; entity grabbed_entity = $null_entity; float web_module_id = mod_web_browser::register_module( "mod_grab_log", "philtweir based on snatcher's work", "Event,Grab", "https://github.com/philtweir/therustymod/", "Logs to web every time the player grabs something." ); On the verifiability point, both as there are transpiled TDM headers and to mandate source code checkability, the SDK is AGPL. What state is it in? The code goes from early-stage but kinda (hopefully) logical - e.g. what's in my TDM fork - through to basic, what's in the SDK - through to rough - what's in the first couple examples - through to hacky - what's in the fun stretch-goal example, with an AI chatbot talking on a dynamically-loaded sound shader. (see below) The important bit is the first, the TDM approach, but I did not see much point in refining it too far without feedback or a proper demonstration of what this could enable. Note that the TDM approach does not assume Rust, I wanted that as a baseline neutral thing - it passes out a short set of allowed callbacks according to a .h file, so language than can produce dynamically-linkable objects should be able to hook in. What functionality would be essential but is missing? support for anything other than Linux x86 (but I use TDM's dlsym wrappers so should not be a huge issue, if the type sizes, etc. match up) ability to conditionally call an external library function (the dependencies can be loaded out of order and used from any script, but now every referenced callback needs to be in place with matching signatures by the time the main load sequence finishes or it will complain) packaging a .so+DLL into the PK4, with verification of source and checksum tidying up the Rust SDK to be less brittle and (optionally) transparently manage pre-Rustified input/output types some way of semantic-versioning the headers and (easily) maintaining backwards compatibility in the external libraries right now, a dedicated .script file has to be written to define the interface for each .so/DLL - this could be dynamic via an autogenerated SDK callback to avoid mistakes maintaining any non-disposable state in the library seems like an inherently bad idea, but perhaps Rust-side Save/Restore hooks any way to pass entities from a script, although I'm skeptical that this is desirable at all One of the most obvious architectural issues is that I added a bytes type (for uncopied char* pointers) in the scripting to be useful - not for the script to interact with directly but so, for instance, a lib can pass back a Decl definition (for example) that can be held in a variable until the script calls a subsequent (sys) event call to parse it straight from memory. That breaks a bunch of assumptions about event arguments, I think, and likely save/restore. Keen for suggestions - making indexed entries in a global event arg pointer lookup table, say, that the script can safely pass about? Adding CreateNewDeclFromMemory to the exposed ABI instead? While I know that there is no network play at the moment, I also saw somebody had experimented and did not want to make that harder, so also conscious that would need thought about. One maybe interesting idea for a two-player stealth mode could be a player-capturable companion to take across the map, like a capture-the-AI-flag, and pluggable libs might help with adding statistical models for logic and behaviour more easily than scripts, so I can see ways dynamic libraries and multiplayer would be complementary if the technical friction could be resolved. Why am I telling anybody? I know this would not remotely be mergeable, and everyone has bigger priorities, but I did wonder if the general direction was sensible. Then I thought, "hey, maybe I can get feedback from the core team if this concept is even desirable and, if so, see how long that journey would be". And here I am. [EDITED: for some reason I said "speech-to-text" instead of "text-to-speech" everywhere the first time, although tbh I thought both would be interesting]

The Dark Mod 2.13 has been released! A new era in accurate AI Vision! When id Software released the Doom 3 modding SDK, The Dark Mod team saw the potential for something more than a multi-player cops vs robbers game like Thievery UT. The sheer amount of access to essential game-play systems meant that a true Thief style experience could potentially be created. One of the first things the team did was to investigate how a light-gem system could be implemented. Having a good way for both the player and AI to know when the player is visible to others is a crucial part of the Thief experience so if we couldn’t build it then the dream of a Thief style experience was over. Fortunately, there were enough parts of the AI visual logic and more than a few stub pieces of the Render code that gave us the ability to build a robust system. The downside of the light-gem system was performance. Even though we did our best to limit the viewport and resolution of the light-gem image captures, often the light-gem would cut FPS in half ( or less ). This was pretty painful, especially since most computers could just barely run vanilla Doom 3 at acceptable FPS. After this system was fully functional, other aspects of AI vision were investigated. Obviously, we could not afford to run the light-gem render for every object or body the AI might see so it was decided that the AI would do a more simplified light-gem calculation for things other than the player. This meant that ( to the AI visual scan ) all light volumes would be either cubes or pyramids with perfect exponential falloff. We would run a line-of-sight check to the objects then ( if it hit ) calculate the pixel brightness by the location of the spot in relation to the center of the light(s). This was far cheaper than rendering the whole scene but heavily impacted accuracy. Many solutions were proposed to improve things but a solution evaded us for years. 2.13 changes things! Now we have a "stochastic sampler" model that does regular measurements of the actual light volume pixels and builds a "running average" of how illuminated different entities are. The days of seeing knocked-out AI in the middle of a bright spotlight get ignored are over. Now all AI and loot entities (etc) essentially have their own light-gem and it performs excellently! Magnificent Mission Management! Daft Mugi has drastically improved the GUI menus for mission management. The Dark Mod mission list and in-game downloader now have a search filter window that follows modern conventions of reducing the listed items as each new letter eliminates a possible matching mission name. Both lists can be sorted by actual name ( The Rats Triumphant ) or Chicago Style ( Rats Triumphant, The ). Additional mission details ( readme data ) can now be scrolled so players can see more information about the mission without having to navigate to the darkmod/fms folders. The menus have also been tuned with smaller font sizes for more practical mission listing and have been hardened against buggy order of operations issues so that you will be far less likely to encounter strange issues or crashes when downloading and installing missions. Parallax Occlusion Mapping! Stgatilov has added the oft requested POM feature to the latest Dark Mod release! WellingtonCrab has coordinated with him to provide examples and check the functionality and quality. Now The Dark Mod is ready to offer a quantum leap in perceived geometric detail with all sorts of surfaces realistically showing 3D parallax rather than the flatter looking normal maps we usually offer. WellingtonCrab also created many texture variants that are tuned to look better with POM enabled. Other Graphics Goodies! Now cubemaps \ environment maps respect more stage keywords. This means that faked reflections on water shaders can now move in relation to the water texture movement offering a more convincing illusion! Subviews ( cameras, portals, mirrors, xray, etc ) can now be nested. You can now have a skybox render in a camera view, etc. Volumetric lights and particles now render in mirrors! Alpha-tested surfaces get alpha shadows in Shadow Maps mode. Tone-mapping now supports range compression to prevent unwanted overbright areas. Arcturus has introduced some new metal materials that use improved cubemaps as well as skyboxes with clouds that use POM! Stability and Performance! The console variable system ( CVAR ) has been improved to be thread safe. This should resolve some rare crashes that involve weapon scripts that rely on CVAR values. We now automatically detect the number of CPU cores and allocate Jobs based on the detected specifications. Level loading has been given more parallel execution optimizations including optimizations for loading audio samples in parallel. Uncapped FPS is enabled by default so Linux players will not have a poor first time experience and many audio and video playback timing bugs that occur only in classic capped mode are avoided. Finally, Linux vsync support has been greatly improved. Improved Training Mission! The Training Mission is supposed to help players understand the basics of Dark Mod game-play and controls. It was created to coincide with The Dark Mod v1.0 and was not significantly altered until TDM v1.08 ( when Bikerdude did some texture replacement for 2.0 standalone and improved the overall visuals ). As such, many new game-play features that were added since 1.0 were never included in the mission. Now the mission has been upgraded to include more game-play features such as the Vine Arrow as well as getting further visual upgrades and EFX Reverb! Drunken AI! Now that the AI have better visual accuracy, Amadeus decided to balance things out by fixing many of the broken behaviors of Drunken AI so that they are more reliable and consistent for use in missions by default ( no need to extensively customize the defs or use scripting to improve them ). Potions! Dragofer and Amadeus have completed the work on the Slowfall potion originally prototyped by VanishedOne. They also incorporated the invisibility potion by Kingsal ! These now have pre-defined slots in the gameplay menu as well as the default shop menu design. Assets Galore! Along with new POM textures, we now have: A new modular pipe set A new Lampion entity Some new Factory Machine entities Ornate wood and stone relief textures A new AI praying animation A new AI smoking animation And many fixes or improvements to existing assets EFX Reverb Location Preset! Frost_Salamander took some time away from his continued work on the excellent “The Lieutenant” series missions to make EFX reverb setup easier for himself and other mission authors. You can now add EFX preset spawnargs to location entities rather than having to use the EFX def file. Translation Packs! Between TDM 1.06 and 2.0 Tels and the translating community started translating many missions but these translations required that the original mission be altered in a way that made it harder for the mission authors to revise. That meant that translation packs were in limbo being hosted by 3rd party sites \ forums along with their orphaned old missions. The translators over at the Darkfate forums came up with an solution by including not only the translation strings in the translation pack but also the altered map files, GUI defs, etc that had translation work done to them. This would leave the original mission untouched but allow translation packs to override some parts. We have gone through the old archives of these translations and have reworked them to work with the latest version of TDM (and the associated missions). Most of the translations are Russian ( due to the continued work of the Darkfate people ) but many of the early TDM missions also have German, Italian, French, etc translations too. Also Nolok contributed a brand new Catalan menu translation! Subtitles! Datiswous has been creating story subtitles for many of the existing missions in the TDM mission database. Most authors have incorporated these into their official releases, otherwise players can still add them to the FM folder. A detailed list of changes can be seen here: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=What's_new_in_TDM_2.13 To UPDATE, simply run the tdm_installer.exe file in your darkmod folder. Note that tdm_update.exe is no longer supported, but you can download the new installer from the Downloads page if you don’t have it yet. Please be aware that old saved games will not be compatible with 2.13, so finish any missions you might be in the middle of first! Also, some missions created prior to 2.13 may need to be updated so they will be playable in 2.13. Before upgrading, set TDM to use one of the built-in missions ( Training Mission, A New Job, Tears of St Lucia ) then use the in-game mission downloader to check for updates

Since upgrading my gpu to an nVidia RTX 3060, I can only set v-sync via driver setting Sync to Vblank. At least I thought that's what that setting does. Enabling V-sync in TDM does nothing. I use Manjaro Linux xfce Both TDM 2.11 and 2.12

The Black Mage ============================================================= Title: The Black Mage Filename: black_mage.pk4 Authors: Grayman, Jack Farmer Testers: datiswous, joebarnin, Shadow, Amadeus, madtaffer, wesp5 Release date: 24.12.2021 (version 1) - 05.03.2022 (version 2) - 23.12.2023 (version 3) Version: 3 (available via in game downloader) ============================================================= Grayman - Mapping, scripting & text for briefing video JackFarmer - Additional mapping & scripting, drafts for readables, conversations and in game comments Amadeus - Revision & editing of all readables, conversations and in game comments Dragofer, joebarnin, datiswous - Troubleshooting ============================================================= Voice Talents (in alphabetical order): AndrosTheOxen - Worried father / Counsel Lester Morlan (fincancial advisor to the lord) Bikerdude - Sami "Sausage" McNulty (the castle's chef) BoyLag - Percy Lockhard (the castle's chronicler) Goldchocobo - Robert (the son of the worried father) / Colton (a fallen Builder) Jedi_Wannabe - Friend of the worried father / Bennett (a fallen Builder) Malasdair - Lt. Godric (chief security officer) New Horizon - Lord Ewan Davenport (the Black Mage) Purgator - The Thief ============================================================= Paintings: New paintings provided by OGDA Grayman avatar painting created by Zerg Rush ============================================================= Assets: New kitchen equipment models provided by STRUNK ============================================================= Geometry: Selected cave architecture orginally created by Bikerdude & Dram for "Blackheart Manor" and later modified for "The Gatehouse" (rearranged with the orignal authors approval) ============================================================= Sound: Wind_rusting trees sound (main menu) taken from freesound.org produced by funwithsound "Madrigal" (briefing video) performed by Anthony Holborne Pub audience sound (briefing video) taken from freesound.org produced by yap-audio-production Footsteps sound (briefing video) taken from freesound.org produced by Nox_Sound Stand up from chair sound (briefing video) taken from freesound.org produced by kupp2 Tape-deck-startup sound (phonogram recording) taken from freesound.org produced by soundjoao Short metal scrape sound (phonogram recording) taken from freesound.org produced by Timbre Chains sound (phonogram recording) taken from freesound.org produced by arnaud-coutancier All other new ambient and sound fx recorded and produced by JackFarmer sometimes with altered sound effects/ambient sounds orginally produced by Gigagooga ============================================================= Video: Story board and sound arrangement by JackFarmer Briefing video produced by SirSmokeALot ============================================================= Known bugs: If you quicksave too soon after killing a fire elemental (within 4-5 seconds), the quickload crashes. (2.09 and 2.10) ============================================================= Production notes: Graymans's son gave this work in progress to the Dark Mod community according to grayman's will in June 2021. After discussions with Dragofer, I overtook this mission in June 2021 and started working on it in September 2021. Since I didn't know what else Grayman had planned, I made up my own story from the end of the briefing. The voice actors did an incredible job. Everyone I asked immediately agreed to complete this work of Grayman. This has now led to a fabulous eight voice actors taking part in this mission - from England, Ireland, Canada and the USA. ============================================================== Let's raise our glasses in Grayman's honor. Otherwise I wish you all happy holidays. Take care of yourself, your loved ones, and all of your friends.

Hello again. I haven't posted much in the last year or so, mostly because I've been busy working on a new FM (one that's occupied all my time since almost immediately after "The Threepenny Revue"), and it's finally in a state where I want some outside help in playtesting and bug-hunting. This is a significantly larger map than my first outing, and as such I'm sure there's plenty of rough edges that still need sanding off. If anybody's willing to help out, please reply here and I'll make a thread in the Beta Testing subforum afterwards. Thanks.

there was a megatexture demo for doom3 at some point with a really detailed map of a mountain with vegetation and a ski lift, that one map was bigger than the entire doom3 game . so yah the megamap code in doom3 actually does work but since it uses uncompressed targa format the stuff tended to be on the BIG !!! side. there has been some work on updating the code from one modder icecoldduke which replaced the targa format with compressed jpeg format and other bug fixes to the code. virtual texturing actually helps with large textures as its not as heavy on vram as loading huge tiled ones.

For the people eager to play with the latest state of development, two things are provided: regular dev builds source code SVN repository Development builds are created once per a few weeks from the current trunk. They can be obtained via tdm_installer. Just run the installer, check "Get Custom Version" on the first page, then select proper version in "dev" folder on the second page. Name of any dev version looks like devXXXXX-YYYY, where XXXXX and YYYY are SVN revision numbers from which the build was created. The topmost version in the list is usually the most recent one. Note: unless otherwise specified, savegames are incompatible between any two versions of TDM! Programmers can obtain source code from SVN repository. Trunk can be checked out from here: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/publicsvn/darkmod_src/trunk/ SVN root is: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/publicsvn/darkmod_src Build instructions are provided inside repository. Note that while you can build executable from the SVN repository, TDM installation of compatible version is required to run it. Official TDM releases are compatible with source code archives provided on the website, and also with corresponding release tags in SVN. A dev build is compatible with SVN trunk of revision YYYY, where YYYY is the second number in its version (as described above). If you only want to experiment with the latest trunk, using the latest dev build gives you the maximum chance of success. P.S. Needless to say, all of this comes with no support. Although we would be glad if you catch and report bugs before the next beta phase starts

Thought it would be a good idea to collate a useful list for new and old mappers alike and this post will update as we go. Abandoned works: Any WIP projects that were abandoned by the original author - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/12713-abandoned-works/ Darkradiant & Darkmod shortcut settings: Some example settings for new mappers - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/15152-darkradiant-and-darkmod-shortcut-folder-settings/ Darkradiant howto, must knows, tips and faqs - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/12558-usefull-important-editing-links/?do=findComment&comment=272581 Info for Beginners: Newbie DarkRadiant Questions - http://forums.thedar...iant-questions/ Dark Radient Must Know Basic Intro - http://wiki.thedarkm...now_Basic_Intro Editing Tips for Beginners - http://wiki.thedarkm...s_for_Beginners Editing FAQ (Troubleshooting & How-To) - http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Editing_FAQ_-_Troubleshooting_%26_How-To Sotha's excellent Mapping Tutorial series: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18680-lets-map-tdm-with-sotha-the-bakery-job/ Springheel's New Mapper's Workshop: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18945-tdm-new-mappers-workshop/ Inspiration: Collection of screenshots and images people have found online - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/11610-darkmod-inspiration-thread/ Mapping Resources: List of Voice actors available for voice recording - http://modetwo.net/d...6-voice-actors/ Lengthy collection of city reference pictures - http://modetwo.net/d...rence-pictures/ Collection of texture resource sites - http://modetwo.net/d...ture-resources/ Free Ambient Tracks - http://skeksisnetlabel.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/10-songs-for-free-download-vol-10-full-moon-over-noricum/ Mapping Tools: 3 useful tools for texture creation - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18581-must-have-tools-for-the-descerning-mapper/ Modular Building: What is Modular building - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/14832-modular-building-techniques/ Working example tutorial on modular building - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18680-lets-map-tdm-with-sotha-the-bakery-job/ Springheels new modular models - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18683-using-springheels-205-modules/ Some related mapper recipies - Easy Vaults - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/14859-easy-vault-recipe/?hl=%2Beasy+%2Brecipe Easy Outdoors - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/16159-easy-outdoors-recipe/?hl=%2Beasy+%2Brecipe Easy Caverns - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/14469-quick-caverns-recipe/?hl=recipe Easy Alert Ai - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17157-easy-alert-ai-recipe/?hl=%2Beasy+%2Brecipe Easy Alert Ai Custom Behavour - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17160-easy-alert-ai-custom-behavior-recipe/?hl=recipe Tutorials: Collection of video tutorials for DR - http://modetwo.net/d...in-darkradiant/ Using Lighting and detail effectively: - http://forums.thedar...l-and-lighting/ Voice Actors list: List of available voice actors - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/12556-list-of-available-voice-actors/ Usefull Console commands: A list of console commands for testing in-game - http://wiki.thedarkm...Useful_Controls

Story: "Sir Barrington, as he likes to be known, enjoys a prestigious reputation of having lavish yet intimate dinner parties. I've heard the tales about what goes on in the noble's dining room, but I believed none of them 'till now. Orbach, a local shop-keep who makes special deliveries to the people of 'high stature' heard Sir Henry Hughbellow raving about Sir Barrington's special 'Elixir', It cures your ails and gives you vigor... By the Hammer, it extends your very life! he exclaimed. Orbach begged Sir Henry for a small sample, and after one sip he was sure that the potion was nothing more than mineral water and spirit. He asked Sir Henry if other folks were as fond of the elixir as he was, and he found out that folks are paying handsomely for these small vials on a weekly basis. Some lords pay for exclusive treatments and bathe in the tonic. Lord Barrington even brings in an occult expert every month, where supposedly the power of the elixir is renewed by the full moon. Never one to pass up the opportunity for a good scam, Orbach has decided to take a cut of this 'elixir' business. He has made an elixir of his own, but needs to convince Sir Henry that it's really the same as the 'magical' tonic that Lord Barrington has been selling. And that's where I come in. Its rumered that Sir Barrington's prized possession is a painting of the revolutionary inventor 'Guillermo de Sohase' the day after he won the Battle of Billinsdune. If I can steal this painting, Orbach can use it to 'prove' that he also got the elixir from Sir Barrington. Once Sir Henry tells all his friends that Orbach's stolen elixir is healing his heart, soothing his pains, and igniting his libido, they'll be lining up at his shop. Its time to go." Build Time: Version 1.0 was speed build of sorts, to build upon Springheels video's with the new modules. Took roughly 20hrs to build but this ended up happening over the space of a few months.http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18808-bikerdudes-speedish-build-using-the-new-modules/?hl=%2Bspeed+%2BbuildThanks: Co-auther: Obstortte for all his custom entities, scripting and showing me a thing or two about perfing.Resource: Springheel - new modulesReadables: nbhor1moreTesters: Bienie, Judith, Abusimplea, Cambridge Spy, Gerberox, MayheM, Amadeus, Goldwell, nbhor1more.Download: - mega Info: Repeat after me, "Read and explore, Read and explore"Known issues: This mission has been heavily tweaked and worked on to provide a playable experience for even low end machines.For very low end PC's please make use of the in-game LOD slider, as not only are details reduced, but the ambient_world fog is removed at the lowest setting.The medium difficulty is partially broken, the mission wont end when the player gets to the exit location. As this is the only issue with that difficulty level, I will fix this when I next update it to include the intro.