Going to try Darkradiant again - how to set up correctly?

[Mr Mike]

Hi, it seems to me that most articles still refer to setting up darkradiant referring to the Doom3 folder. What is the correct way to now set this up so I don't accidentally use any of Doom's assets?

[New Horizon]

Hi, it seems to me that most articles still refer to setting up darkradiant referring to the Doom3 folder. What is the correct way to now set this up so I don't accidentally use any of Doom's assets?

 

Since you don't need to install Doom 3 anymore, there is no chance of mistakenly using D3's assets. As for the correct way, just select the game type as doom3 and then set the path to the root of where darkmod is installed. So if you have darkmod installed to c:\games\darkmod then your path would be c:\games

 

I do believe that should do it.

[Mr Mike]

Thanks NH, I'll give that a try tonight. I should have pointed out that I still have Doom3 and TDM installed. Probably best if I do a clean install of TDM.

[stumpy]

doesn't matter it wont use doom 3 assets if doom 3 is still installed.

[Mr Mike]

Are you sure stumpy? I may have had the directory set up incorrectly but I think it gave me all of Doom 3's assets on my first try of loading it back up?

[SteveL]

Must admit I'm a bit unclear too on what all the DR parameters do, but try adding a mod base parameter as well specifying your TDM installation. So if you have TDM installed in E:\darkmod:

 

engine path -- E:\

mod base -- darkmod

 

NB you might have it set up right already. TDM standalone comes with some assets which look like doom3 assets and which are outside the darkmod/ folder tree (whether you're looking at entities, textures or whatever). Most of the stuff for TDM is inside the darkmod/ folder in those browsers, but there will be a bunch of other folders with a few things in each. Like the "Common" folder on the media tab. It's outside the darkmod folder but it has all of TDM's nodraw and caulk textures etc. There are some assets that look to me more like Doom3 than TDM (the Hell stuff?) although I never played or owned doom3 so I'm not sure.

[Xarg]

Stuff like Hell assets may have been replaced to avoid breaking old missions that were built well before 2.0 was a possibility, and haven't been updated since. Though I find myself wondering about that, since it would have made sense to move the replacement stuff into the tdm section properly, not only trimming down the number of folders but putting said assets where they would otherwise belong (that said, I LOVE whoever finally organised the sounds in DR by group, thank you!)

[Mr Mike]

I'm sure it's not just the replacement assets as I can see all the computer console textures etc. Also lots of them still have 'shader not found' in the preview, which shouldn't be the case with any TDM textures (i'm guessing?).