Jump to content
The Dark Mod Forums

Recommended Posts

Posted (edited)

Dunno, i found it had a story. :) Although, typically, i play such a game for the atmosphere, gameplay, game world, and the quests. You know, if you do all the side quests, you can easily forget about the main story completely...

Aaaaaaaaaaand maybe this works for Skyrim, but not for a DX title.

Edited by lowenz

Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S.

Posted

You're right. Funnily, i didn't even perceive MD's story as thin, or hardly existant. But, i'll be cautious, because, sometimes your perception can really trick you.

 

I don't know if that was sarcasm but The Elder Scrolls main stories were very superficial. And then compare it to what Daggerfall had. A couple of endings and an interesting plot intrigue. It was all text. But goddammit that script had more consideration than the Hollywood Oblivion or Skyrim. Can't say about Morrowind though because I missed it.

"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

Posted

It wasn't sarcasm, i really mean it. Sometimes, when you have a positive general impression of a game, it can make you think that certain aspects of the game were great, even though they may not have been. Even though i still think MD's story wasn't half bad.

  • Like 1
  • 1 year later...
Posted

Happy 16th birthday? :D

Thief3-2020-05-07-23-25-48-103.png

Original Textures but ESRGAN rescaled (see the thread on TTLG forums), just a bit of Ambient Occlusion HBAO+ (nVidia GPU)

No Bloom, MSAA 4x

  • Like 1

Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S.

Posted (edited)

I saw that thread on TTLG, but I have my doubts on whether he actually knows what he's doing. He says he "fixed" T3 materials by adding normalmaps or generating new ones. The thing is, they weren't added on purpose.

Edited by peter_spy
Posted (edited)

That is what I've thought, but maybe for performance reasons only. Other reasons?

Still more choices for the ones loving the original look&feel vs John P. work.

Edited by lowenz

Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S.

Posted (edited)
4 hours ago, lowenz said:

That is what I've thought, but maybe for performance reasons only. Other reasons?

IMO normalmaps were not added for smooth surfaces (like stucco in his example), because textures at the time of release were mostly 256 and 512. There was no point in making normals for those, because you couldn't have fine details with such resolution. Normalmaps he created for rescaled versions look bad, probably auto-generated from a diffuse texture, without thinking how normalmaps should work for a given material type. And if there's sense to include them at all. Sometimes there isn't. 

Edited by peter_spy

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


  • Recent Status Updates

    • JackFarmer

      "The Year of the Rat." 
      😄

      Al Stewart must be proud of you!
      Happy testing!
      @MirceaKitsune
      · 1 reply
    • datiswous

      I posted about it before, but I think the default tdm logo video looks outdated. For a (i.m.o.) better looking version, you can download the pk4 attached to this post and plonk it in your tdm root folder. Every mission that starts with the tdm logo then starts with the better looking one. Try for example mission COS1 Pearls and Swine.
      tdm_logo_video.pk4
      · 2 replies
    • JackFarmer

      Kill the bots! (see the "Who is online" bar)
      · 3 replies
    • STiFU

      I finished DOOM - The Dark Ages the other day. It is a decent shooter, but not as great as its predecessors, especially because of the soundtrack.
      · 5 replies
×
×
  • Create New...