Darkradiant without Doom 3

[sparhawk]

I just tried, out of curiosity, what would happen if I install DR on my office machine where I don't have D3 installed. It seems to work fine. I don't see any textures (obviously), but I still can edit map geometry without any issues, so this is quite nice. You can still use DR to block out the map geometry and only texture it later. Only annoying thing is that it keeps asking me for the D3 path every time I run it. If I have time I see how much you really can do with it, without having Doom 3 actually installed. I also plan to take a disc with the mod with me and install this, to see if I can use these assets without Doom. Should work IMO. So overall this was a nice surprise.

 

I also experienced a crash once when I closed DR.

[OrbWeaver]

You could check out the mod directory and use this as your "Doom 3" path (you might have to create a fake but empty Doom 3 folder, then create the darkmod folder underneath this so it would look like a mod). Of course you would not have access to important core assets like lights and caulk textures.

[sparhawk]

Yes, that's what I wanted to try. Are these caulk textures, special textures, or are they also just def entries? If the latter, then I could move over those def files, and document them on the wiki as well. Might be usefull later on, if we try to split TDM off from Doom 3 as a seperate install, when it became GPL.

[OrbWeaver]

They are all just DEF and MTR entries. I also think that we should have our own, so that the mod can be used without the base assets once D3 is open sourced.

[sparhawk]

Do I need anything else apart frmo the original base/material directory? Is the def branch also needed, or scripts? I guess scripts will not be checked in DR, right? Hmmm... def will probably be needed if you want to place AI, but our AI, should be independent from the original one, right? So I would expect that def is not really needed.

[OrbWeaver]

You will need def/ if you want any entities apart from worldspawn in your map, including lights. If all you want is to create geometry then you shouldn't need it.

[sparhawk]

OK. Well, def is not big, so it shouldn't hurt to install it as well.