[SOLVED] Playing TDM standalone (without Doom 3)

[plotzzz]

Hi guys,

 

As a long term taffer I'm very happy that the team had the courage to start making TDM work as a standalone! I'm aware there must be plenty of work left, but I dare asking about one little (I hope) thing:

It looks like half of the missions would already be playable ... if only torches would emit light. Any idea when this could be achieved ? Thanks.

Edited October 28, 2012 by plotzzz

[New Horizon]

Would be great if we could be fully standalone by 1.09, but it's difficult to predict how far the next update will take us. Perhaps if we get some help from the community...but that's wishful thinking.

[demagogue]

Somebody that understands the technical side will have to answer about what's the issue with the torches, but I might recommend giving some priority to replacing elements which will make the most number of FMs work, or that will be visibly more important to FMs (as opposed to assets that are often hidden in back corners, as long as the FM still runs without them, unless they're easy replacements).

 

Or we might even have a list of the FMs closest to striking distance of getting fully standalone, and doing what we can to get them that way, one FM at a time. Then even if we aren't fully standalone, we can still have a few FMs that are playable without Doom3 to get some buzz going.

[Tels]

The torches is probably missing either light textures or the light texture shaders. It's a bit hard to tell from the console output which is which and which is missing.

[plotzzz]

The torches is probably missing either light textures or the light texture shaders.

I don't have any knowledge about this, all I know is I tried 2 or 3 FMs and there is something wrong with the light, most obvious is about torches: you can see the flame (some black squares above supposed to be smoke but that's OK) and no light. I guess it should be one of these http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Standalone_Progress

[lost_soul]

This happened to me the other day, and I couldn't figure out why. Then I realized my TDM installation wasn't reading the Doom pk4 files. In the meantime, I figured out that if you set r_renderer to nv10 instead of the default "best", the torches DO emit light. It just looks like shit because nv10 is for something like Geforce 2 or 3 hardware and there is no bump mapping or specular.

[plotzzz]

if you set r_renderer to nv10 instead of the default "best", the torches DO emit light.

I'm afraid that doesn't fix it for a standalone TDM.

[lost_soul]

I recommend getting 8 bucks together and just grabbing this. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00006C2HA/ref=sr_1_2_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1351104735&sr=8-2&keywords=doom+3&condition=used

 

Its not Steam-laiden, so you can snag a used copy. Its much better than wasting your time trying to do something that at best will constantly crash during gameplay due to missing assets like the above mentioned skeleton zombies.

[simplen00b]

I recommend getting 8 bucks together and just grabbing this. http://www.amazon.co...&condition=used

 

Its not Steam-laiden, so you can snag a used copy. Its much better than wasting your time trying to do something that at best will constantly crash during gameplay due to missing assets like the above mentioned skeleton zombies.

+1. Got mine for £6 from Amazon UK. Never played Doom itself - not keen on splat-em-ups - but it's the best £6 I've ever spent on a game

[Springheel]

Guys, using TDM with anything other than the retail version of Doom3 is not allowed by the license that we're still under as long as we're using D3 assets. I know it's exciting, but until we're fully independent of D3 assets we can't afford to support anything that contradicts our license. Any discussion of this matter will have to happen outside these forums.