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@GadavreUntil you get this new variable you could use this customised particle file to make the most common fog particles invisible. z_nofog.prt You have to be logged in to download it. (edit: should be renamed to a_nofog.prt) To use it, close TDM and create a folder called "particles" in your "darkmod" folder and put this file inside it. Result: darkmod/particles/z_nofog.prt. Some FMs like The Black Mage have custom versions of fog particles, which means this file might not work 100%. So you can create a folder called "particles" in the fm's folder and put a copy of the file inside it. Result: darkmod/fms/black_mage/particles/z_nofog.prt.

Hi I started testing the new "The Black Mage" mission in versions 2.09b and 2.10. I wanted to turn off the fog for better visibility and better performance. But I couldn't as my favorite variable stopped working! seta r_skipFogLights "1" In version 2.07 this variable worked and I was able to disable fog in Thief's Den 3 mission (Heart of Lone Salvation) Maybe there is other variables to disable fog in the latest versions of the game? If this is a bug, please fix it.

@duzenko So I managed to compile the svn version (2.10 #9675, supposedly), but the issue still appears to be present with black mirrors mirrors (screenshot: far right) and visual glitches on the silverware (screenshot: middle and left) in version 0.9 of my FM:

I think I fixed black mirrors in svn but I'm not sure how problematic the silverware is now I'd think it hasn't changed much for a while

The black mirror happens to me as well in svn. Will look into it.

In this case, isn't it the primary issue that the mirror itself is black?

I just tried deleting all the entities with shading issues in the room being discussed on version dev16390-9648 (map version 0.9 - link above) and this seems to have no effect on the mirror. The mirror texture was still black weather the serving platters were present in the sealed room or not.

Hello, I just tested my mission using the most recent development build and in this case the problem is not present, but the reflective mirror texture that I am using is also entirely gone/missing (all mirrors appear completely black). I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this... Does the "textures/common/mirror" texture behave differently in 2.10 or should I perhaps use an entirely different texture to be 2.10 compatible?

@Dragofer Thanks for your feedback. I thought I should also mention that there is one other instance where this also seems to be to be the case. In this example, I have a door frame with a glass awning on top (model name "models/darkmod/architecture/modules/interior_mansion01/mansion01_door02.lwo"): I managed to solve this in my mission by inserting a black texture just behind the glass part, so for me this is not an issue - but perhaps others might stumble into this same problem.

I'm guessing this needs to be run in the windows command shell? In any case that's what I did. I only get a black screen with no music, left it for a while, clicked pressed alt+ctrl+², got nothing, no console, no map, no music, just a black screen. I decided to test a little further and started the game normaly, tried to launch the in-game console but it wouldn't appear neither. So I rolled back to the versions that worked and launched the command that you gave and it worked, on 2.07 the map launches but on 2.09 it does not. I even changed some of the cfg lines to check it out but no luck.

I am using (The Dark Mod 2.09 FULL) and i get the black menu with music playing pc spec: AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core. 3.80 Ghz RAM: 6 GB Video card: ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics

Ok I tried what you said. I cannot generate a qconsole log with 2.09 or any of the test releases I tried. I tried test15973-8787 again. It doesnt run and I get the same problem. I tried test15973-8797. It doesn't even start, no black screen no music and mouse noises in the background, just a crash and I get a blue crash window with "error during initialization. too few!" written on top, whatever that means. I tried test16019-8980. Same problem as above with the too few thingy. Normal log says nothing usefull, no qconsole log. I went back to 2.07 to generate a qconsole log as I couldn't with the others. I couldn't get this release from the installer by the way as my antivirus blocks it saying it's a trojan and when it's disabled it shows, after a little while : ERROR: Missing chunk 51451011..40965251 (4284481536 bytes) after downloading URL http://mirror.mstrmnds.me/releases/zipsync/release/release207_from_release206/tdm_shared_stuff.zip Warning: Showing error message: Missing chunk 51451011..40965251 (4284481536 bytes) after downloading URL http://mirror.mstrmnds.me/releases/zipsync/release/release207_from_release206/tdm_shared_stuff.zip So I had to get this version from moddb. Other versions I tried download normally from the installer. Anyways I still got a few problems with 2.07, mainly that some textures are pink, but not all the time. For exemple in the training mission, the food plates in one of the rooms turn pink when I approach them while they are the normal gray color otherwise, same thing happens in other missions with these plates. There is some pink stuff above some doors too, and the FM "Coercion" has a big pink spot outside of a window. I believe this is visible in the qconsole log of 2.07 that I will attach here. I'm thinking this whole shit could be an Opengl error. I'm not sure my GPU is capable of running Opengl3.3 fully. It runs 3.1 I believe but I'm not entirely sure it runs 3.3 on windows 10. qconsole.logqconsole.log qconsole.log

So I got back to my desktop and installed the dark mod 2.09a, but when I start it I get a gray screen for a couple of seconds then a black screen. I can hear the music and the menu sounds when I move my mouse but I can't see anything. I tried some things from what I could see in the forums but nothing worked. I have a pretty old GPU but it should run it no problem I believe (a Radeon hd 4850). Things i tried: -Downloading the latest dev build -Downloading the build test15973-8787 -changing glcore from 2 to 1 and to 0 -changing the resolution to 800x600 -starting it in compatibility mode windows 7 -changing glsl -changing shadow to 0 - downloading an executable posted by stgatilov in a post about the same problem (I can't find it anymore) None of this worked and the log file doesn't show any issues. Any idea how to fix this or if I need an older version, because I believe the GPU should be able to launch the game properly at least?

I have the same problem, grey screen turns to black music plays and if i move my mouse i hear the clicking of the menu but no image. AMD A10-6800K 4.00 GHz / screen 1920 x 1080 / AMD R7 370 Gaming 2GB / 8GB DDR3 It was working on my shitty laptop upgraded for TDM and darkradiant then i get this

Regarding 2.09 vs 2.09a / hotfix: Did you install TDM using tdm_installer.exe ? You can see whether you have 2.09a or 2.09 by looking at .zipsync/lastinstall.ini: [Version] version=release209a Or you can find line seta logFile "0" in darkmod.cfg and change it to seta logFile "1", then find qconsole.log and attach it here. It should contain engine revision number, which can be used to understand which version it is. Anyway, your problem will most likely happen both in 2.09 and 2.09a. Regarding the black screen problem. Most likely it is the same issue @freyk linked above. Especially since you confirm that test15973-8787 works properly. The current workaround for this problem is to set following in darkmod.cfg: seta r_glCoreProfile "0" After that 2.09a should work fine. Also, this problem is fixed on the latest dev build. But dev build are not recommended for normal playing: better use release2.09a with core profile fix. Also, I think we will release another hotfix for 2.09 (that would be 2.09b) somewhere in November. Specifically to fix this particular problem, and maybe something else. Make sure to install this second hotfix when it is released.

OK Guys i thought id installed OK but at the end i got a compatability error and when i tryed to launch i got a black screen ! I then tryed to reinstall with compatability settings and the installer said i had installed successfully ! Tryed to launch and got the black screen again. I did a little search on the forums and it's looking like this might be a known problem. Is it a compatability issue with radeon drivers or am i missunderstanding the thread i read ? I have an Asus R9 270 which I hope is still good enough to run this game ! I used to be !! I alreao read about a hotfix but dont wish to do anything untill i get advice. Thanks got your help in advance.

As far as I remember, TDM 2.09 requires OpenGL 3.3 to start. So either your OpenGL does not fit the requirement, or (as I guessed above) it has separate GL versions for core and deprecated profile. Perhaps version in core profile is newer than 3.3, but the version in deprecated profile is only 3.1 By the way, do you also have the problem with black screen in main menu and sound playing?

I only have the default missions installed, the menu isn't visible at all. just a black screen with sound.

Right, The game now runs but the screen is black. I can hear the menu music and when I move the mouse I can hear the menu names being selected.

@duzenkoTwo problems, first I did have my folders named darkmod in succession so I renamed to tdm and darkmod respectively. But the asset issue was fixed cause I forgot to run the flippin launcher... LOL So the engine boots up however... @stgatilovThe first time running, it decompressed textures but the game wouldn't start. Launched a second time and I get a fullscreen window, but it hangs on a black screen, last item in terminal is "Async thread started". When I run "thedarkmod.custom.debug" I get an ELF Exec error like it's compiled for wrong architecture, however a 'file' shows it is an aarch64 ARM executable. My terminal output below: EDIT: I noticed below the line "Unknown command '#'", I do know one project I was compiling on required me to modify a C file and change the # hashtags to // double forward slashes as ARM assembly uses // for comments. *Shrug* wooty@wootylx2k-ubn:~/build/tdm/darkmod$ ./thedarkmod.custom TDM 2.10/64 #9574 (1435:9574M) linux-aarch64 Aug 23 2021 01:34:57 failed parsing /proc/cpuinfo measured CPU frequency: 1000.1 MHz 1000 MHz unsupported CPU found interface lo - loopback found interface enx00249b1e62ae - 151.151.88.220/255.255.0.0 found interface virbr0 - 192.168.122.1/255.255.255.0 Found Unsupported CPU, features: TDM using Generic for SIMD processing. 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I've been optimizing my map to boost fps from in a lot of cases 25-30 to 45-65, doing this systematically. I have a newbie perspective, this being my first FM - so .... be kind. First off, when building the .map I began by dropping in shadow/no_shadow lights with zero care - just looking to light the areas being worked on. Same for entities, dropping them in with little care except for aesthetics and creating shadows for the player to hide in. That procedure made for a very unoptimized map. So, what's been the optimizing plan? First, clean up the geometry. Second, go thru' the map section by section, setting shadow/no_shadow on entities. There's a tradeoff: complexity of geometry multiplied by shadows gets out of hand, so a lot of care needed here. With a first pass on that done, redo the lighting. I eliminated all the small ambients I'd put in, whether shadowcasting or not, leaving just those lights attached to fixtures of some kind, which I wanted to be in general shadowcasting. I reset these shadowcasters to not overlap so far as viable. I was amazed to find that this made for a much much better looking map coupled with much more acceptable frame rates. I use hide_distance on entities sparingly as I don't like the pop-outs. Not at all! My map has a lot of transparent windows/doors. I use func_portals with hide_distance set on every one of these. Controlling pop-outs caused by func_portals is fairly simple. The func_portal pop-outs tend to be marked by abrupt lighting changes. These are very ugly and getting rid of them or making them unobtrusive is a priority. I cant see using any kind of light pop-out/pop-in spawnarg. Rather, I could see using a shadow/no_shadow hide_distance setting, which could be used more universally and quite unobtrusively. If that's possible now, please tell me how! Also, I could see using a fade-to-black hide_distance on lights, so there'd be no lights a popping.

Alright: When I load my FM in DarkRadiant I see just a handful of relevant messages highlighted in orange or red in its console. Stage keyword not recognised: portalrendermap Stage keyword not recognised: screen ShaderLibrary: definition not found: black ShaderLibrary: definition not found: Default ShaderLibrary: definition not found: textures/darkmod/wood/floor/boa Error parsing mirrorRenderMap. Expected two integers: stoi Stage keyword not recognised: _scratch2 [shaders] Unable to load texture: textures/decals/stain01bwet.tga ShaderLibrary: definition not found: tudor01_doorwin_mix ShaderLibrary: definition not found: models/md5/chars/nobles/noblewoman/noblelegs The last two lines seem to address exactly what I'm seeing: Missing leg texture for the female mage, plus a missing window texture for one of the Tudor buildings.

Last issue I'm personally aware of, please report any others here if you've seen them. In the bushes category there's one entity called atdm:nature_bush_large_3 which has an invalid model and appears as a black box. All other bushes are fine on my end and it's just this one that has a problem.

Using the latest dev build, I'm noticing some of the default assets have issues with missing shaders or skins even certain meshes. Some entities appear as black boxes in-game whereas certain skins for good models come out as transparent white surfaces instead of a proper texture. I figured I should make a thread for reporting these seeing the issue is rather widespread to quite a few of the default models and entities. Here's one to start off with: Create an atdm:ai_mage01 then give it the skin plain_robes. The outer coat looks fine but the inner clothing causes ghosting.

With a currently .tga background and default darkmod.cfg cvars from updating to the main menu beta: Can't see an image_compression cvar in my darkmod.cfg, and the console doesn't seem to know it. My other seemingly compression-related cvars are: seta s_decompressionLimit "6" > seems to be something for audio files (max uncompressed sample length), so I didn't experiment with it seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1" > setting this to 0 has no effect on the background and turns pretty much everything else into black rectangles/screens seta image_useNormalCompression "1" > setting this to 0 has no effect seta image_useAllFormats "1" > setting this to 0 has no effect seta image_useCompression "1" > setting this to 0 cures the problem. As sharp as ingame. Yes, I tried it in .tga, .dds and .jpg and made sure I didn't have both a .tga and a .dds in valid locations simultaneously.