Fan Mission: Requiem by Gelo "Moonbo" Fleisher (2013/10/6)

[datiswous]

Btw. I'm almost done with the subtitles, so currently not recomended to start creating them.

Edited January 24, 2023 by datiswous

[datiswous]

I'm playing this mission know, but I'm totally stuck at the puzzle with the soul jar that is in the cage in the temple. I tried activating the shrines in order, but I don't know which is the beckoning earth and maybe I'm missing something in general.

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Yes, indeed, I made the subtitles before playing the mission for the first time. In hindsight not the right order.

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by datiswous

[Moonbo]

Yeah, a few people got stuck on that one:

 

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It's the green one in the center :-).

 

[datiswous]

I just finished it.

Amazing mission I have to say. Graphics still hold up a decade after release. Gameplay and story also good.

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I especially liked the part about unthroning the skeleton warriors and the enemies in the end having the same ability as you in the game kind of.

Edited January 29, 2023 by datiswous

[nbohr1more]

The mission database has been updated with a new version that includes subtitles courtesy of datiswous! 

Thank you!

[Cambridge Spy]

I think he may have consulted my playthrough video of Requiem for the subtitles.

[datiswous]

No not at all, the subtitles were generated from speech and corrected by Moonbo. Only when I was looking for a hint, because I was a bit stuck (I missed a staircase) I found your video and saw that it has subtitles.

[datiswous]

Here some screenshots of "bugs" I encountered: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hz-_xDTqusfE4_HJ4srrJzhFBEgPAFzf?usp=sharing (not much though)

Edited January 29, 2023 by datiswous

[Moonbo]

Glad you enjoyed it datiswous, and thank you again for the subtitles! Most of those bugs you found are just simple mistakes I made (or are inherent in the mod), but the two related to light textures are bugs that were introduced due to the game updating - you can see the proper textures on earlier let's plays. Alas, thankfully they're not too bad. 

 

[datiswous]

5 hours ago, Moonbo said:

but the two related to light textures are bugs that were introduced due to the game updating - you can see the proper textures on earlier let's plays.

So the game links to light textures that were previously in core, but were removed? In that case they could be preserved ( by loading a previous version) and then included in the mission.

I just played the mission under TDM 2.06 and indeed these 2 textures work fine.

In fact I also made this screenshot, that I didn't upload:

This seems a similar light to that is also used for the (not working) bottom lights in the temple.

I'll take a look and see if I can preserve the original look. Isn't there a cvar to see the texture url in 3d game view?

 

Edited January 29, 2023 by datiswous

[datiswous]

There's a missing material in core (the dds file and the editor image itself are present). If I include it in the materials folder of Requiem the 2 missing textures show up in game.

Material:

textures/darkmod/window/simple_square01_lit
{
	glass
	noselfshadow
	qer_editorimage	textures/darkmod/window/simple_square01_lit_ed
	diffusemap _black
	{
		blend add
		map	textures/darkmod/window/simple_square01_lit
		rgb 1
	}
}

2 options:

1. Include the material back in core
2. Include the material in Requiem materials folder

Edited January 30, 2023 by datiswous

[Moonbo]

It'll probably just be easier to include it in the materials folder. Thank you for all this future-proofing work!

[datiswous]

I tried ai-upscaling the end of mission credits video (just a test). Not sure what to think of it..

Maybe I used too much de-noising.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vsk7ac1BpR-mn5_CqbkYdaXABRaC2n-M/view?usp=share_link  (download for best quality view)

Edited January 30, 2023 by datiswous

[nbohr1more]

The light def that datiswous identified is now in the mission database for this mission. Thanks again!

[Cambridge Spy]

After a long time waiting for the right moment, here's a remastered playthrough of Requiem, which happens to be my 100th video covering The Dark Mod: