The Dark Mod: Teaser 2 - July 8th, 2006

[Fingernail]

I sold him my soul for the success of the mod in return

 

fair deal

[woah]

Woah, that was really amazing guys =D. Phenomenal work. The rope arrows and mantling are beyond expectations from what is visible, and even these community made maps capture the moody atmosphere of Thief strikingly well. This is exactly what I had envisioned a modern day Thief game to appear like. Great job, and I must express that Oddity's models look no less than commercial quality ingame.

 

My only pet peeve is that some of the ingame recordings are of extremely low frames per second. It's not a big deal, but the qualities of your work would have been much more noticable and prettier had the FPS been higher. If you pause the video during the ingame sections, you can really see an amazing amount of detail, but this is not nearly as noticable when the frames seem to be running at the rate of a flip-book (and--as a result--the shadows and illuminations seem to flicker). Though, I can definitely understand this could be as a result of the game being in extremely early stages of development.

 

I must also stress that seeing the light gem in action is extremely awesome =) Once again, great job.

[Necrovox]

That video is ohmygodorgasmic. You guys are insane. I'm too excited right now to even think about anything other than this mod. I think I'm going to have to go play thief or something to get my mind off of it.

[Nomad]

That was fantastic! The character movements were very impressive. I also liked the distortions in the under-water views. The rope arrow looked very cool, too. Nice attention to detail. Can't wait to get my hands on this!

[Mark]

It sounds kind of odd but as I watched it my first impression was "the frob highlight looks great." I actually think it looks better than the implementation in Thief 1&2 in that in the original games it was sometimes difficult to discern whether certain types of shiny loot were being highlighted. Overall though everything looks fantastic: it's remarkably cohesive considering that it's not done yet.

 

I'm curious to know whether all the textures are going to be normal-mapped? It's apparent that the NPC models are but some of the environment textures look flattish. Most of the textures have great detail though and they capture the steampunk atmosphere well. All the player interaction stuff is dead-on; the rope arrow especially looks almost identical to Thief 1&2. Anyway, you guys are doing a professional job even if you're not getting paid for it.

[Gildoran]

The textures will be normalmapped. Some of the older textures are missing normalmaps, but any new ones will have them.

[Ombrenuit]

I have to say that I am in complete and utter awe. I watched it three times in a row. It's what Thief 3 was always supposed to be in art; and it's atmosphere sends shivers down my spine. The opening quotes were fantastic; I really got a kick out of them. I've been coverted, oh Builder. I shall take my vows of penance and serve thee in your teachings. Doom 3 is on the way.

 

*edit* Dragging guards...that's the way it always should have been!

Edited July 10, 2006 by Ombrenuit

[ZylonBane]

What everyone else said. Now, that being said...

 

Whoever wrote the opening text needs to decide between using "SHALL" and "SHALT".

[demagogue]

Dragging guards...that's the way it always should have been!

 

I have to admit I was a little skeptical of the dragging, but watching it in action looks so intuitive. It's sort of what I'd feel like I'd want to do in that situation, to stay crouched low, and just pull a body into a corner. (Although I still hope shoulder-carrying is in).

[Ishtvan]

(Although I still hope shoulder-carrying is in).

Fear not, shoulder-carrying is still planned as an option.

[New Horizon]

What everyone else said. Now, that being said...

 

Whoever wrote the opening text needs to decide between using "SHALL" and "SHALT".

 

Ha, that would be me. In all seriousness, I should have asked you to give them a once over before release.

[satan]

Damn, my christmas-special avatar is still here. That really shows after how many days I'm visiting these forums.

[gamophyte]

The name fits. Like the looking glass has broken and it's no holds bard.

The video is all that I hoped for. The rope arrow actually works well.

Edited July 10, 2006 by gamophyte

[Komag]

no holds bard.

 

So is that like a minstrel without any hands?

 

[bob_arctor]

Well I thought the opening text was a little tongue in cheek. Methinks we are the ones supposed to be waiting...

I'd expect all aspects of the final thing to be better than that vid. The texts, the engine stuff, the maps, everything. Maybe the rope arrow and frob'll be unchanged. They seemed perfect.

[New Horizon]

Well I thought the opening text was a little tongue in cheek. Methinks we are the ones supposed to be waiting...

 

I won't say exactly what I was thinking when I wrote that...but I think your interpretation has been the closest.

[Ombrenuit]

I definitly thought the quote was fairly self-explanatory, and it really did wonders with the double meaning. I think the most important part of the trailor is that it really captures the magic of thief in that we are instantly transported to The City.

[New Horizon]

I definitly thought the quote was fairly self-explanatory, and it really did wonders with the double meaning. I think the most important part of the trailor is that it really captures the magic of thief in that we are instantly transported to The City.

 

Wow, thank you. It's so hard to tell how things are going to be received when you're planning them and are so close to the material. I feel humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response.

[gamophyte]

So is that like a minstrel without any hands?

 

 

Yeah I don't know how to spell it, so google gave me that. LOL

[firoso]

I must admit to loving the "source" of the quote, and yeah, the second time i read the into I was laughing so hard at the rather obviously satirical connotations of the quote in reference to board members... anyhow, props, so far my ONLY real gripe is that I didn't get to see much watery arrowy action.

[New Horizon]

I must admit to loving the "source" of the quote, and yeah, the second time i read the into I was laughing so hard at the rather obviously satirical connotations of the quote in reference to board members...

 

Ha ha.

[Macsen]

Great video, NH. Sorry I couldn't get my little throne room to work in the end!

[Dram]

Yay! they like it!

 

With regards to the frob highlight brightness, Gildoran created a sort of "hybrid" frob that highlights things in relation to how bright they are already, so that really dark objects dont blind you when you look at them. In the vid is the original frob highlight which is basically fullbrightness type thingy.

[Komag]

Yeah, the hybrid hilight is the best version

[grim]

Wunderbar!!

Very nice video!