Newbie Thief 2 question (about mantling)

[Goldwell]

So I am going through the seemingly infinite amount of FM's for Thief 2 and I am having a great time except for the mantling. Often I am trying to mantle off a rope arrow onto a ledge or something and instead I miss and hit the floor wearing apparent metal boots with a loud thud.

 

Also sometimes I am sneaking around a house then decide to jump through a window and Garrett just never seems to grab onto the ledge and instead I usually just jump up and down and the person in the house wakes up wondering wtf is happening. This is a bit frustrating but is there a way to fix this? Something like Darkmods mantle button would be great because just using jump can be a bit risky

 

I have installed the latest version of NewDark which is meant to have improved mantling support however I fail to notice that, is there some secret trick to getting mantling to work right in Thief 2?

 

Also (and this may have nothing to do with it) but does anyone know if DarkLoader defaults to using NewDark? I have Thief2.exe and Thief2_ND.exe in my main folder and I was wondering if I should rename Thief2_ND to just Thief2.exe and remove the original Thief2 exe?

Edited March 31, 2014 by Goldwell

[demagogue]

I don't know if it's a trick, but I think there is a sweet spot where the ledge meets your "body" where the mantle happens. IIRC it might help to back up a touch and jump with some forward momentum looking more horizontally so the edge comes at you more horizontally at your chest or midriff, as opposed to being directly under it and jumping straight up looking up at it, and it comes down to you vertically and doesn't hit the chest sweetspot as squarely. If that makes sense.

[simplen00b]

May be worth checking your 'cam_ext.cfg' file - look for:

 

; enable new mantling code

new_mantle

 

Make sure there isn't a semi-colon in front of 'new_mantle'

Edited April 1, 2014 by simplen00b

[Deadlove]

This is probably something you may already be doing, hold the run button while jumping and hold the jump button until the mantle is over.

[Goldwell]

May be worth checking your 'cam_ext.cfg' file - look for:

 

; enable new mantling code

new_mantle

 

Make sure there isn't a semi-colon in front of 'new_mantle'

 

Ah there was a semi-colon there, just removed it and going to test it in game. Thanks!

[simplen00b]

Ah there was a semi-colon there, just removed it and going to test it in game. Thanks!

Hope it works. I haven't played a NewDark FM for a while, but I seem to remember this made a real difference for me - it almost felt like I was playing TDM.