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Springheel
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Yes, I tend to agree.   If Garreth wants to back up his rather extraordinary claims, he can do so in another thread in the off-topic forum. If he doesn't care to, that's fine, but then he shouldn't e

Airship Ballet
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Even if there weren't apparently crippling bugs, I wouldn't play it just because of your attitude.

Garreth
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i halfed the number, disabled specular, don't know if that was good, but it is faster, and i try'd to seperate most of em. the framerate went up 50 to 70 percent. removed all but 2 lanterns doors auto

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On another note, i was offered recently to make a videogame - long story short, since this engine is open source i would like to use it, and maybe i could use mappers who can work from concept art all from the comfort of home. and then leave scripting and animations to a professional studio like Eidos. so it would be sort of an indy game on open source engine released by Eidos, it is quite to soon to start off but i am thinking about it, it could make the engine and all it's internals legal.

and it would make the Thief series created by Thief fans.

more about this later on i guess, nothing is sure

this would be separate from the darkmod, since the work done by a studio can not be used for free.

 

If by "this engine" you're referring to TDM ...

 

Since Eidos will prolly want to make money from this endeavor, you can't use TDM's engine, since it can't be used for commercial purposes.

 

Please read LICENSE.TXT, in the main TDM folder.

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Is that with the link in the first post or isn't that the latest

 

The beta test is going on elsewhere, not here. The link in the OP is gone, and a new release thread will appear when beta test is over and Garreth is ready to re-release his work. If it's possible, I'd recommend that this thread be deleted at that time, to reduce confusion.

 

Edit: Well, the link is there after all. Feel free to use it, I guess, but know that the mission isn't finished yet.

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i am thinking about it, it could make the engine and all it's internals legal.

and it would make the Thief series created by Thief fans.

 

Some clarification would be good here. What do you mean by all of this? When you say "Thief" are you talking about just "thieflike" or a spiritual successor type thing?

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Some clarification would be good here. What do you mean by all of this? When you say "Thief" are you talking about just "thieflike" or a spiritual successor type thing?

 

Thief without a number? i have no idea. can't ever have a number since the engine is older.

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If by "this engine" you're referring to TDM ...

 

Since Eidos will prolly want to make money from this endeavor, you can't use TDM's engine, since it can't be used for commercial purposes.

 

Please read LICENSE.TXT, in the main TDM folder.

 

O.o well there will be some other engine that works on darkradiant, i showed it to a professional, and he said it had more functions that the one they where using and made it work with the engine they where working on, i think it was Farcry or Tombraider

so it will be at least edited with darkradiant.

nothing is sure, maybe they give me Thief 5 but i guess they expect something new.

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I don't believe spending time on trying to visportal the outside would be of any benefit (now that there are opaque windows), the amount of tris being rendered and drawcalls is totally reasonable.

 

I imagine simply separating and reducing the lights will take care of things.

Visportals are also used for proper sound propagation, so visportaliazing the outside is definetely needed, even if it does not affect performance.

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O.o well there will be some other engine that works on darkradiant, i showed it to a professional, and he said it had more functions that the one they where using and made it work with the engine they where working on, i think it was Farcry or Tombraider

 

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Dark Radiant is going to work with anything besides TDM and Doom3.

 

Who's going to give you Thief 5? Sorry, but It seems like a lot of things you are saying just don't make sense.

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I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Dark Radiant is going to work with anything besides TDM and Doom3.

 

Who's going to give you Thief 5? Sorry, but It seems like a lot of things you are saying just don't make sense.

 

i directed a few thing before with success.

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Who's going to give you Thief 5? Sorry, but It seems like a lot of things you are saying just don't make sense.

 

Apparently garreth is making Thief 5. I'm not really sure what to say to that. I'm completely lost for words.

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I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Dark Radiant is going to work with anything besides TDM and Doom3.

 

The Preferences->Game dialogue in DR says it can make maps for:

 

Doom 3

 

Doom 3 Demo

 

Quake 4

 

XreaL

 

TDM's included in the "Doom 3" mode.

 

So I guess any engine that uses the idTech4 map format can use DR for its missions. I don't know if DR produces anything other than idTech4 format.

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Far Cry and Tombraider use completely different map building formats. I don't even know where this person would begin to make Darkradiant work with such completely different engines. It would require months of work. Maybe they exported a .obj model or something...but you can't just 'make it work.

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Except you're talking about your next big Thief game in that same topic. As it's a beta testing topic, the FM is not yet finished, but you're talking about the sequel before it's finished. If you want to be technical about it, I mean. Judging by reports of the initial release's quality, you should definitely refine your scope to just this for now, regardless of my skepticism about you being in contact with Eidos.

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Shenanigans is the word that comes to mind, to put it politely.

 

What comes to my mind reading this is 'Shadowhide'.

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