So, what are you working on right now?

[Amadeus]

It's like Victorian Blade Runner, just oozing with style. Great work!!!

[MirceaKitsune]

2 hours ago, Airship-Ballet said:

(Link) "Your breathing difficulties are not Bridgeport-related."

That looks quite promising! Love the atmosphere... not as something I'd like to live in of course, but definitely something I'd love seeing in a FM

[grodenglaive]

On 2/11/2025 at 2:55 PM, Airship-Ballet said:

(Link) "Your breathing difficulties are not Bridgeport-related."

video no longer available, Did I miss a good joke?

[Airship-Ballet]

1 hour ago, grodenglaive said:

video no longer available, Did I miss a good joke?

Oh wow, Streamable got a lot more mercenary since I last used it.

[Goblin of Akenash]

Working on the highly anticipated update to the only-est FM of 2025 as of writing

I figured since there wasn't much room for facades or alot of 3d stuff in the distance I'd use a foggy skybox and cover up the bottom of it for the most part as a fix for outdoor areas looking odd, hows it look?

Screenshots!

Spoiler

 

[Airship-Ballet]

somebody pull me away from these volumetric lights

  

9 hours ago, Goblin of Akenash said:

I figured since there wasn't much room for facades or alot of 3d stuff in the distance I'd use a foggy skybox and cover up the bottom of it for the most part as a fix for outdoor areas looking odd, hows it look?

You can use a patch inside your skybox to resemble the ground blending into the distance instead of covering it up, but it takes a lot of fiddling to line it up and if your FM is high up, the regular skybox looks fine!

 

Edited February 20 by Airship-Ballet

[datiswous]

On 2/20/2025 at 4:41 PM, Airship-Ballet said:

somebody pull me away from these volumetric lights

I find the animation a bit illogical. Seems mostly going horizontal loop, while the cog is moving round. Maybe it's normal, but I think I've seen better examples.

[thebigh]

It looks pretty logical to me. The shadows of the spokes, and the lit beams between them, should move horizontally as their orientation to the red light in the background changes.

[Airship-Ballet]

11 hours ago, datiswous said:

I find the animation a bit illogical. Seems mostly going horizontal loop, while the cog is moving round. Maybe it's normal, but I think I've seen better examples.

It's just a regular old point light, so as far as the engine is concerned that's how it should look! That said, I subscribe to the rule of cool in any case

Also, the elves at the prefab factory have been hard at work.

Edited February 23 by Airship-Ballet

[peter_spy]

Very cool, I remember my ex had something like that in her house, but it was a much smaller box, kind of like a portable seamstress kit, I think? It had a carrying handle in the middle. I should have photos of that, buried in depths of my drive somewhere  

Edited February 23 by peter_spy

[Airship-Ballet]

Yeah spot on! It's a sewing kit in big

[grodenglaive]

My mother had one of those, similarly patterned as well. Ironically, she used it for sewing supplies. It was perhaps half a metre long, if I recall correctly.

[datiswous]

22 hours ago, peter_spy said:

Very cool, I remember my ex had something like that in her house, but it was a much smaller box, kind of like a portable seamstress kit, I think? It had a carrying handle in the middle.

I have that one. Found it on the streets. I might post a picture later. I use it for electronic components.

[datiswous]

On 2/22/2025 at 10:52 PM, thebigh said:

The shadows of the spokes

Ah now I understand the motion better. I think I just miss a giant shadow of the cogg on the ground, but maybe that's normal.

[Geep]

I just released a prototype Windows-desktop app, LangPeeker, for quick lookup of translation strings associated with #str_ values. For the whole enchilada, see the new wiki entry https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=LangPeeker

[datiswous]

@GeepI think you forgot to add a license. I think you should.

[Geep]

18 hours ago, datiswous said:

think you forgot to add a license. I think you should.

There is a line in the source code Form1.cs:

/* by Geep for The Dark Mod. Open source as with other TDM assets */

Yeah, pretty vague. I agree that, since I'm releasing source in a .zip file, I could easily include a license file. I'll have to research what that might say, which might take a while. The 60,000-character LICENSE.txt file distributed with TDM installs is not a good fit for this.

[datiswous]

Maybe this info helps, maybe not:

https://choosealicense.com/

[Geep]

I was just looking at that. I'm currently thinking to go with MIT License, since that's also used by the .Net Framework components I'm redistributing. Except for non-software (like app icon), probably CC Non-commercial 3.0 Share Alike.

For now, I plan to just add a link to the wiki to the license; later, on next code update, add it into the zip download.

Edit: Link to license done.

[grodenglaive]

 

[datiswous]

Awsome!

[Wolfmond]

Victorian cooking book as .xd

Today I implemented an idea that I've had in my head for a few days. Since the setting of The Dark Mod also blends with elements from the Victorian era, I started to copy a few first pages from a very popular German cookbook from 1849. The cookbook is one of my favorites. I've attached a few screenshots. 

The current version of the cookbook is 2025-04-20_b.
This book is optimized for the GUI: book_calig_mac_humaine.gui
File: davidis_kochbuch_2025-04-20_b.xd

I will gradually add more recipes to the cookbook.

BTW: Happy Easter

Edited April 20 by Wolfmond

[Geep]

Here's a new wiki entry on an old but under-explained topic:

https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Books_with_Illuminated_Capitals,