Questions about 2.0

[Melan]

Business as usual in the modern gaming world. Very few games have editors.

 

Actually, the only reason there is a Thief editor was because the community asked for it, and LGS complied.

[demagogue]

I have to admit love the architectural assets in Dishonored and would have a field day mapping with it. I thought it most of it looked beautiful, and I wish we had a lot of those assets to work with.

 

I don't like the gameplay as much as I like TDM's minimalism, and I don't like DH's cartoonishly big moveables, and I think I could make actual better maps in TDM, if only because I know DR better & it's more versatile like Sotha was saying. But I'd definitely be in favor of DH releasing an editor, and would definitely try out it's FMs if any got made.

[Diego]

This would be a good time to play them all again! since I can't do that at the moment, one will have to do. Any suggestions? Maybe one with that great looking new skeleton!

[Moonbo]

I'll be officially releasing my new FM in two hours or so when I get home from work :-).

[Diego]

ooh! I'll wait for that then! thanks for the heads up

[Dunedain19]

Just a question about DarkRadiant and 2.0. I moved my darkmod folder out of the Doom 3 folder; however, when I start up DR v. 1.7.3 it tries to detect Doom 3 in the preferences menu (an operation which I cancel) and now I cannot access any textures. How do I get DarkRadiant to use only DarkMod assets?

Edited October 8, 2013 by Dunedain19

[Springheel]

Yeah, we need to get that info up on the wiki for mappers.

[Springheel]

In the meantime, here's some info:

 

For all those wanting to edit maps with TDM 2.0 here are some before and after settings:

 

Bikerdude's settings -

 

TDM 1.08:

TDM and DR shortcuts:

• E:\Doom\darkmod\TheDarkMod.exe +set r_fullscreen 0 +set com_allowConsole 1 +set fs_currentfm alberic
  
• C:\Program Files\DarkRadiant\DarkRadiant.exe" fs_game=darkmod/fms/alberic
  

Folder structure...

• E:\Doom\darkmod
  
• E:\Doom\darkmod\fms
  

The DR game settings...

• Game - Doom 3
  
• Engine path - E:/Doom/
  
• Mod (fs_game) darkmod/fms/alberic
  
• Mod Base - Darkmod
  

TDM 2.0:

 

TDM and DR shortcuts:

• E:\Darkmod\TheDarkMod.exe +set r_fullscreen 0 +set com_allowConsole 1 +set fs_currentfm alberic
  
• C:\Program Files\DarkRadiant\DarkRadiant.exe" fs_game=darkmod/fms/alberic
  

Folder structure...

• E:\Darkmod
  
• E:\Darkmod\fms
  

DR Game prefs...

• Game - Doom 3
  
• Engine path - E:/
  
• Mod (fs_game) fms/alberic
  
• Mod Base - Darkmod
  

Greyman's settings -

 

Folder structure...

• C:\darkmod
  
• C:\TDM\Missions\steele\ws2_homeagainORG\
  

The DR game settings...

• Engine Path: (blank)
  
• Mod: darkmod
  
• Mod_base: TDM/Missions/steele/ws2_homeagainORG
  

I removed the "+set fs_game ..." in the DR shortcut.

Fidcal's settings -

 

Folder structure...

• G:\darkmod
  
• E:\testmaps\thiefs_den
  

DR game settings...

• Engine Path: G:/
  
• Mod: thiefs_den
  
• Mod_base: E:/testmaps
  

[Inimitable]

I haven't touched TDM since 2010, but I'm elated to see this release! Great excuse to dive back in.

 

Is there a torrent available for 2.0 files? The updater is struggling to hit 11kb/s right now.

Edit: it actually looks like half of the mirrors are handling it well and half are handling it... not so well. fidcal.com is not happy right now.

Edited October 9, 2013 by Inimitable

[Springheel]

We don't have a torrent set up at the moment, but we may do that...I know our mirrors are being hit pretty heavy right now.

[Serpentine]

We don't have a torrent set up at the moment, but we may do that...I know our mirrors are being hit pretty heavy right now.

 

Hmm, I would be happy to mirror a tb or two, if it helps?

I think taaaki may also be able to help out with a similar size chunk, if he isn't already

 

Would you be able to update the list? (I go to bed in two-ish hours)

[MacD11]

I personally havent had much trouble with the updater, but some people would like to see a torrent or regular download released for the game, particularly this person:

 

http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1313916&p=42462549&viewfull=1#post42462549

 

Do any of you on the team think this could be done?

[Springheel]

There are now some torrents set up, in case people missed it: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/15105-torrent-for-20/page__pid__321687?do=findComment&comment=321687

[Bikerdude]

I personally havent had much trouble with the updater,

 

this might help -

 

- http://forums.thedar...rs/#entry321737

[SeriousToni]

If I'm using this setup for 2.0 then I'm losing all the textures, models and entities in my map. (I changed "alberic" to my folder name where my map lies)

 

TDM 2.0:

 

TDM and DR shortcuts:

• E:\Darkmod\TheDarkMod.exe +set r_fullscreen 0 +set com_allowConsole 1 +set fs_currentfm alberic
  
• C:\Program Files\DarkRadiant\DarkRadiant.exe" fs_game=darkmod/fms/alberic
  

Folder structure...

• E:\Darkmod
  
• E:\Darkmod\fms
  

DR Game prefs...

• Game - Doom 3
  
• Engine path - E:/
  
• Mod (fs_game) fms/alberic
  
• Mod Base - Darkmod
  

[SeriousToni]

Hmm - seems to work now. It seems I can't leave the Game Engine Path blank like some of you did. I guess that was the error.