Random Questions

[Winkler Oszkár]

A little question: Will a level designer be able to put player voices into a map, like the player enters an area, and says something, like Garrett did in the original games?

[Tels]

A little question: Will a level designer be able to put player voices into a map, like the player enters an area, and says something, like Garrett did in the original games?

 

Yeah, that should be possible with either setting spawnargs or some scripting. Almost everything is possible

[Winkler Oszkár]

Will a designer be able to create a whole campaign without any interruption. 5-6 missions with briefings (intro/outro) etc.?

[Winkler Oszkár]

Will a designer be able to create new objects, like lootable, movable items, specials, etc? If yes, how? Will be an object editor or something? How it works?

[SneaksieDave]

Currently many such things already work, others are work in progress, but since the game is being made by us (the community) and we have scripting and some day full open source, you can rest assured that almost everything will be possible.

[Winkler Oszkár]

Sorry, I am an anxious guy... But after this comment I will rest in peace.

[Winkler Oszkár]

Just wondering: Will a designer be able to use the original Doom 3 contents with TDM, like enemies, objects, etc?

[Tels]

Just wondering: Will a designer be able to use the original Doom 3 contents with TDM, like enemies, objects, etc?

 

Probably not. It depends:

 

* when TDM is released before D3 is open-source, we will depend on the engine and an original install of D3 to run TDM. However, the D3 entities are not setup to work with TDM, so it will likely fail. Some things, like textures and sounds can be used (actually, we still reference a handful sounds and light textures somewhere) but monsters etc. very likely not.

* when TDM is released after D3 is open-source, we will very likely strip every content from D3 out of it and bundle just the render engine with out own content so you can play it without buying D3 beforehand. In that case using D3 content is not really usable, unless you want every player of your FM to buy original D3, too.

 

In any event, we hope to have a fully decked out collection of textures, objects, sounds and so on, so you can concentrate on building maps and not creating objects for them.

 

Hope that explains it

[Winkler Oszkár]

Absolutely. Thank you!

[Springheel]

* when TDM is released after D3 is open-source, we will very likely strip every content from D3 out of it and bundle just the render engine with out own content so you can play it without buying D3 beforehand.

 

I wouldn't bet on that. We use a great deal of D3 resources and I have a hard time imagining someone having the time and inclination to go through and replace (let alone find) all the models, textures, animations, sounds, and md5meshes that we use just so that we can release the mod without D3.

[Winkler Oszkár]

I have an idea. Is it possible if a designer creates a briefing video than the mission map loads in during the video is playing?

[Winkler Oszkár]

I have an idea. Is it possible if a designer creates a briefing video than the mission map loads in during the video is playing?

[Crispy]

Doom 3 does support playing videos (in a special "ROQ" format), but whether they would work during the loading screen is hard to know without actually trying it.

 

(Nobody answered your question before because nobody knows the answer. )

[Winkler Oszkár]

Probably you should give it a try.

[Oszkár Winkler]

TDM 1.0 is fantastic! Congratulations! However, I have got a problem. My monitor is way too dark. I tried to improve it with the brightness and gamma settings in the options menu but didn't help me. When I change the "r_gamma", "r_brightness" and "r_lightscale" console commands to an even higher value (3.5+), it becomes fine, but after I leave TDM, these changes reset to defaults. With normal Doom 3, I can create a starter ".BAT" file, containing this line: doom3.exe +com_precisetic 0 +r_gamma 2.5 +r_lightscale 3.6 This is a way to enable console commands automaticly so you don't need to reenter them every time. (I need "com_precisetic 0" because the game stutters like hell on my PC.) I tried to do this to the TDM's starter EXE file with no success. Could you help me with this? Thank you!

Edited October 18, 2009 by Oszkár Winkler

[Crispy]

Put custom command-line arguments into Doom3/darkmod/dmargs.txt. tdmlauncher.exe should pick them up and apply them.

[Oszkár Winkler]

Put custom command-line arguments into Doom3/darkmod/dmargs.txt. tdmlauncher.exe should pick them up and apply them.

 

 

Thank you very much!

[Oszkár Winkler]

Maybe it's a stupid question but when I place a torch in Dark Radiant, the orthoview (with F3) doesn't show it's light in the room... what should I do? Any other light sources work fine.

[Mortem Desino]

What, exactly, did you place? Is it a func_static? Is it a light_torchflame_moving?

[Oszkár Winkler]

What, exactly, did you place? Is it a func_static? Is it a light_torchflame_moving?

 

 

It is only a torch. When I test the mission, it works, but if I don't see the result in the editor, I cannot design well enough...

[SneaksieDave]

You're no doubt using one of the combo light entities, which don't emit light in the editor (yet). They're not a light source entity (which does emit light in-editor), but rather a defined (scripted) multi-entity made up of a torch, a particle, a sound, a light... Not yet 100% supported in DR for render mode. It's not necessary to use them (you can assemble a torch manually), but they provide a nice convenience to mappers.

 

One workaround is to place a real light entity there, and set up its size and shape, color and brightness, then write that info down, place your torch, and assign those values to it. Don't forget to delete the 'dummy' light entity afterword.

 

One second; let me find an important wiki article for you...

 

Edit: Here you go, this will be needed to add the proper values on the flame of the torch entity. Near the bottom of the article, "Setting spawnargs": http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Combined_light_entities

[Oszkár Winkler]

You're no doubt using one of the combo entities, which don't emit light in the editor (yet). They're not a light source entity (which does emit light in-editor), but rather a defined (scripted) multi-entity made up of a torch, a particle, a sound, a light... Not yet 100% supported in DR for render mode. It's not necessary to use them (you can assemble a torch manually), but they provide a nice convenience to mappers.

 

One workaround is to place a real light entity there, and set up its size and shape, color and brightness, then write that info down, place your torch, and assign those values to it. Don't forget to delete the 'dummy' light entity afterword.

 

One second; let me find an important wiki article for you...

 

Edit: Here you go, this will be needed to add the proper values on the flame of the torch entity. Near the bottom of the article: http://modetwo.net/d..._light_entities

 

 

Oh... I see. Thank you!