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Hello! Tracking down information on software and plug-ins that work with D3 / TDM can be a tough. So I have created a thread here where people can post what software/ plug-ins/ tutorials or other references they've had success or failure with in TDM. 3DS MAX 2013 64bit .ase - Default .ASE model exporter works. However you have to open the .ase file in text edit and manual change the *BITMAP line on each material to read something like: "//base/textures/common/collision" which allows the engine to read the correct material path. md5.mesh / animation - Beserker's md5 exporter/importers for 3dsmax. http://www.katsbits.com/tools, Importing and exporting works. The model must be textured, UV'd, with a skin modifier attached to the bones to export. PM me (Kingsal) for help with this. Imported models using the script will not be weighted appropriately, so this is not recommended if you are simply trying to edit existing tdm content. (Use blender instead) MAYA 2011 32bit md5.mesh - So far I've not had any luck with Maya 2011. I am using Greebo's MayaImportx86 for Maya 2011. I've got the importer working however I get a "Unexpected Internal Failure(kFailure)" and the import fails. This could be due to something finicky in Maya that I am not doing correctly. Will keep trying.. Blender 2.7 about - Blender is commonly used and pretty well supported on the forums/ wiki. Various versions may work as well - https://www.blender.org/download/ md5.mesh / animation Blender MD5 importer/exporter (io_scene_md5.zip): https://sourceforge.net/projects/blenderbitsbobs/files/ Sotha's guide Blender Male/ Female rigs by Arcturus - Here Edit by Dragofer: more links found in this post.

TDM 2.12 introduced a subtle rebalance to player footstep sound volumes. This was meant to be the first step towards an overhaul for all footstep sounds, both in volume levels and variety, since quite a few materials share sound files. 2.13 added "improved footstep sounds for broken glass and ice material surfaces" One year later, this project has completely stagnated; as a regular user that tried to chip in, I've seen the motivation fade out from the devs and mappers involved, or at least that's the impression I get from the radio silence in our group. So instead of letting it rot, I've made the early attempts to achieve this overhaul into a mod. Footstep Tweaks is a mod that bumps up the player and NPCs footstep sound volumes. TDM desperately needs noticeable and consistent volume levels. Your own footsteps are too quiet to recognize how much noise you are making, and NPCs don't give you enough room to hear them coming from afar. In other words, both should walk "unrealistically" loud to make sound stand out and serve as a game mechanic. The scope includes: Generally increase sound shader dB values for the player footsteps, keeping a close eye to the final propagation values, which determine how loud they will be perceived by the AI Generally increase sound shader dB values for NPC footsteps, particularly humanoids. They must be traceable sooner than TDM defaults, but not so much that they give off a false sense of closeness Fix sound files that clip (go beyond 0dB) or amplify files that are too quiet to represent the propagation values assigned to them Keep .sndshd files clean and organized, hopefully motivating TDM team to at least merge this part of the mod to the main game Take custom footstep sounds from fan missions in consideration for FM-specific versions of the mod. The custom sounds (always properly credited) might be also included as an optional addon with this mod. Copy the .pk4 file to TDM root folder to use the mod. (Inside the "Soundpacks" folder you will find alternative versions: "Volta footsteps mod" by Kingsal and "Thiefier Sounds" by Gin. Copy the respective .pk4 instead of the numbered one if you wish to use those sounds.) There are also optional tweaks that reduce motion sickness and enhance sound design and movement feel, which can be found in the "Optional" folder. Please take in mind that changing the movement speed affects gameplay balance. Special thanks to Daft Mugi and WellingtonCrab for carrying the brief but powerful efforts to start cleaning this up. Download: https://drive.proton.me/urls/HQ0FNXJVD8#1FcGthZViq8S If any dev is interested in starting and merging a stable implementation, I would suggest some considerations: Fix jumping stepvol modifiers, if they even exist. Right now the player perceives different ranges of noise when jumping, but AI always hears the loudest value possible... Make wiki documentation for every TDM material on how noisy their footsteps are for AIs. I've included all material final propagation values (as shown by the "tdm_spr_debug 1; con_noPrint 0" command) in a "Docs" folder. Inspect all entity .def files to detect missing sound material definitions Besides that, sound files are all over the place. I would propose this for both sfx .pk4s: tdm_sound_sfx01.pk4 Move all player climbing files from sound/sfx/movement/footsteps in tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 to a sound/sfx/movement/climbing folder here. Move all humanoid rustle files from sound/sfx/movement/footsteps in tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 to sound/sfx/movement/rustles here. (and any other rustle files that wander around the .pk4s) tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 Move all used player footsteps in sound/sfx/movement/footsteps or sound/sfx/movement/footsteps/human to sound/sfx/movement/footsteps/player. (You would need file duplication for some files, since core player declarations currently shares many files with NPCs...) Move all used NPC footsteps in sound/sfx/movement/footsteps to sound/sfx/movement/footsteps/human. Check and delete unused variation files of materials (there are a lot). Changelog --v0.9.2-- - Included Volta footsteps mod compress, decompress and underwater sounds to all versions of the mod, amplifying compress & underwater files due to TDM underwater sound filter - Included Volta mod's NPC noble foosteps to all versions of the mod - Re-amplified some of Volta mod's footsteps files exported to the highest quality as to not introduce compression - Shortened SeriousToni's water jump file to avoid cut-offs when moving immediately after jumping - Shortened swim_walk02.ogg, the second burst sound in the file didn't mix well with the other two files - Created male and female NPC versions of the new squeakboard sounds. They won't be used currently because their .def files need definitions for this material --v0.9.1-- - Bundled all of "Collection of adjusted sounds" by Ujtudor, including Metal footsteps and Dirt crouch-creep footsteps. (the adjusted Dirt running files are unused core files and their quality clashes with Dirt core walking files) - Included some of the water footstep files from "Alternative Footstep Sound Package" mod by SeriousToni, deprecating TDM Modpack compatibility patch. - Included higher quality player underwater files from Kingsal's Fan Missions, credited to STiFU. - Created new, exclusive squeak board player footsteps from the wood files of the "Alternative Footstep Sound Package" mod by SeriousToni. - Commented out the first wood ladder file, uncommented the third and fourth and deleted the references to two wood guard files. - Alternative versions with "Volta footsteps mod" by Kingsal and "Thiefier Sounds" by Gin zipped with the main mod. --v0.9-- - All used, shared footsteps have their separate player and NPC version. - Renamed the female carpet files as "barefoot" and created higher-pitched versions of the carpet footsteps for females. - Increased all NPC maxDistance values. Now patrols should finally be heard coming down an alley instead of approaching like ghosts. --v0.6-- - Player and guard NPCs have their own, unique sound files for the most part (some materials are pending for testing); shared footsteps are now differentiated by a lower-pitched version for guards. Females don't need this treatment since they have their own set. - The weak-sounding guard stone and grass footsteps have been changed for the player's with a lower pitch. --v0.4-- - Player finally has its own sound shaders for all materials. - Player now has straw sounds, taken from the NPCs shaders. Tuned according to final propagation values. - Added TDM Modpack compatibility mod, tuning the included water sounds accordingly. --v0.3-- - Player footstep volumes tuned according to final propagation values. - Ice crouch-run and walk propagation modifiers fixed; propagation values were switched. - All swimming, dirt, foliage, gravel files and jump glass file amplified with Tenacity. They were too quiet to reach the proper volumes. - The player now uses the same carpet sounds as NPCs; they were old placeholders already used for barefoot footsteps. - Massive clean-up of the .sndshd files. - Added missing no_dup properties to shaders with multiple sound files. --v0.1-- - Initial release. Player and NPC footstep volumes have been increased, but need proper tuning. - Certain metal and water sound files have been declipped. Thanks to JoseJL for this.

This topic is intended to give each other tips on how to make TDM work well on DIII4a on Android. Githubpage: https://github.com/glKarin/com.n0n3m4.diii4a Android Package https://github.com/glKarin/com.n0n3m4.diii4a/releases https://f-droid.org/packages/com.karin.idTech4Amm/ Installation: download tdm 2.12 full package from moddb, extract the "darkmod"-folder, create a folder on the storage of your device, give it the name "diii4a" move the "darkmod" folder to that folder. Download the apk from the releases page, install the apk, accept the storage permissions. Running the game: open the app, select the profile for TDM and hit the start game button. After this you get a black screen and wait some seconds (8 or 10) until the tdm menu appears. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysLQTV8PZ-Q

============== -= IRIS =- ============== WELLINGTONCRAB TDM v 2.11 REQ Ver. 1.3 *For Maureen* -=- "Carry the light of the Builder, Brother. Unto its end." -Valediction of the Devoted "What year is this? Am I dreaming?" -Plea of the Thief Dear Iris, I am old and broken. When we were young it felt like the words came easily. Now I find the ink has long dried on the pen and I'm as wanting for words as coin in my purse. I can tell we are nearing the end of the tale; time enough for one more job before the curtain call... ============== -Installation- Requires minimum version of TDM 2.11 **Dev build dev17056-10800 (2.13) fixes several visual effects which have been broken in the mission since the release of 2.11. For that reason playing with that version or later is currently recommended** -Iris does not support mods or the Unofficial Patch- Download and place the following .pk4 into you FMs directory: Iris Download ============== *Thank you for playing. Iris is a large mission which can either take as quickly or as long as you are compelled to play. I hope someone out there enjoys it and this initial release is not completely busted - I tried the best I could!* *Iris both is and isn't what it seems. If commenting please use spoiler tags where appropriate. If you are not certain if it would be appropriate a good assumption would be to use a spoiler tag* *Support TDM by rating missions on Thief Guild: https://www.thiefguild.com/* ============== WITH LASTING GRATITUDE: OBSTORTTE - Whose gameplay scripts from his thread laid the foundation which made the mission seem like something I could even pull off at all. Also fantastic tutorial videos! DRAGOFER - Who built upon that foundation and made it shine even brighter! And whom also provided immeasurable quantities of help and encouragement the past couple years on the TDM discord. ORBWEAVER & GIGAGOOGA - For generously offering their ambient music up for use. EPIFIRE - Who lent me his fine trash and trash receptacle models. AMADEUS - Who was the first person who wasn't me to play the damn thing and provided his excellent editorial services to improving the readers experience playing TESTERS AND TROUBLESHOOTERS: AMADEUS * DATISWOUS * SPOOKS * ALUMINUMHASTE * JAXA * JACKFARMER * WESP5 * ATE0ATE * MADTAFFER * STGATILOV * DRAGOFER * KINGSAL * KLATREMUS - What can I possibly say? Playing this thing over and over again could not have been easy. Deepest thanks and all apologies. -=THANKS TO ALL ON THE TDM DISCORD AND FORUM=- ==SEE README.TXT FOR ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTIONS & INFORMATION== HONORABLE MENTION: GOLDWELL - If I hadn't by chance stumbled into Northdale back in 2018/2019 I would probably still be trying to get this thing to work in TDS, which means it probably would not exist - though more details on that in readme. ============== Boring Technical Information: *Iris is a performance intensive mission and I recommend a GTX 1060 or equivalent. I find the performance similar to other demanding TDM missions on my machine, but mileage may vary and my apologies if this prevents anyone from enjoying the mission.* *Iris heavily modifies the behavior of AI in the game, how they relate/respond to each other and the player. So they may act even stranger than they do typically in TDM. Feedback on this is useful - as it can potentially be improved and expanded upon in future patches.* -=- This is my first release and it has been a long time coming! If I forgot anything please let me know! God Speed. 2.10 Features Used:

Here is another sidequest to run TDM on Android: There is "Winlator", a frontend for WINE on Android. (It is like valve proton) https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator and https://winlator.org/ TDM Windows executable runs on it (using default settings): Got the TDM menu working, but crashes during loading a mission. To me, it is a nice app to run Windows games/applications on Android (such as DR/Thief1234/Steam) But you dont get the native speed and graphics of TDM, like in DIII4a. And it is a battery-energy drainer! ==== Installation in short: Download & install the apk for winlator and accept the app-permissions. In Winlator, create a new container, In the settings of the container, go to drives and point the targetpath for the drive d to the dIII4a folder on the storage. (or somewhere else) start the container. in the application "computer" (file browser), navigate to d-drive > darkmod folder > in the darkmod folder, double-finger-tab on the "Thedarkmod64.exe" > to get the quickmenu and hit "create shortcut". Close the session: hit your phone back-button and in the menu, click on "exit". (start > wine boot > exit windows. > ok.) You will find a shortcut to tdm executable in winlator shortcuts. from shortcuts menu, you can simply run the tdm executable by clicking on the the tdm shortcut. And use the settings menu of the shortcut, to change things of the container. In the session, hit your phone back-button, to get a menu. where you can change the input controls to a overlayed virtual-pad, keyboard, etc. ====

I tried to post on TTLG Forums first, but despite registering i am still unable to make new posts so i asked elsewhere. Meanwhile I figured the problem by simply scaling down cutscenes resolution. My native screen resolution is 1280x800 and cutscenes in that format work well. Sorry for any double posting or using wrong forums for posting my question. Thank you for all the replies and help so far.

The game cannot find the map file under /darkmod/fms/name_of_mission/maps/ Perhaps you have the wrong folder design or you packed your mission with the parent folder included in the pack?

Greetings everyone! I recently got into TDM and am already having a lot of fun playing through and ghosting missions. However, coming from Thief, I am mostly relying on the rules and my experience with that game, while there are clearly differences in how TDM works. Right now, there is talk in the ghosting discussion thread on TTLG to amend the ruleset and include clarifications pertaining to TDM. So I wanted to drop by and ask: is there an active TDM ghosting community already and have any rules for this playstyle been developed? I would also like to ask someone to take a look at the draft of this addendum to see whether everything looks correct: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148487&page=16&p=2473352&viewfull=1#post2473352 Thanks!

Download Link: https://filebin.net/62a1qsachwybqorw You'll need to install reshade via selecting the dark mod folder, OpenGL. After Reshade is installed to the game folder, copy the contents of the Tdmreshade.7z to the game folder. Once installed it should popup allowing you to press the "Home" keyboard key to see enabled shaders. Everything should be enabled by default. ATA, SMAA, and Zenteon Framework are all part of the new AA system. Disabling Zenteon Framework and ATA will significantly improve performance, SMAA can be left on with minimal performance impact. Lightroom contains all changes to colors/whitebalance, disabling will restore TDM colors but won't impact performance much. MXAO/Ambient Occlusion is the biggest impact visually and and is set to the highest performance mode, FGFX provides some ambient light scattering/fake volumetric fx, can be disabled for minimal performance gain. Ambient Light can be a bit of a performance hog, so if you need to disable something for more fps I'd start there. If motion is too blurry try setting motion quality to high in the Zenteon Framework shader, or disable ATA and Zenteon Framework entirely if you don't like TAA. It should be a bit cleaner in motion than typical TAA implementation like Unreal. If you like some aspects of the changed coloring but not all, dig through lightroom, many things can be adjusted to taste. If it looks under-saturated you can increase saturation, think of saturation as "color compression" whereas vibrance increases the dynamic range of colors. Adjusting white balance is an easy way to make lighting appear warmer or cooler. Upon revisiting TDM after a 5-10 year hiatus, I've found reshade is actually quite usable now, and can add high quality Temporal AA, Ambient Occlusion (much better than TDM's default/noisy AO, Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (for those who find the in game sharpening is too strong/noisy), and a faked volumetric lighting type effect that runs much better on low end hardware. Not only do these fx often look better than TDM's built in options, in many cases they run better too. I'll post a config when I get around to it, but here's an idea of what it can look like, I also use a color correction shader as well: Before: After:

Main post updated with the new version and changelog. I intended to avoid modifying sound files to increase their loudness, but idTech4 doesn't seem to care about ReplayGain tags...

My wish is to play TDM on my widescreen tv with a game controller, ideally replacing my aging Linux pc setup. My tv is connected to an Nvidia Shield 2017 (Android 11), but I also have the possibility to connect my Motorola Edge 50 Pro (Android 15) with USB-C video output. So I've started trying to get TDM 2.13 to work with idTech4a++, latest version from F-droid (build 11068). Level of success varies a lot. I copied the 'darkmod' folder from my pc onto both devices, including configurations. On the Shield I can't get things to work yet. Menu and mission selection works, but the game crashes after loading a mission. On the Moto some missions load. I tried the Training Mission and A New Job, both load fine and seem playable. The Painter's Wife doesn't load at all, the game crashes upon pressing 'Start this Mission'. Iris crashes halfway mission loading. Of course both are heavily scripted and very large missions and more likely to refuse working properly. Are there other people around who have tried (and hopefully succeeded) playing TDM on Nvidia Shield? And have some tips 'n tricks?

And I thought you fixed your problem: https://www.thiefguild.com/topics/95063/thief-the-black-parade-cutscenes-problem By the way, I can only recommend to patch your clean Thief Gold installation with TFix Lite instead of TFix. That way, you will avoid any potential issue with the mods you may or may not have enabled in the full TFix. Best for a fan mission install to use TFix Lite. And, another by the way: You will have much better luck to find help with your problem on forums which are dedicated to Thief Gold. This forum is for the Dark Mod. Try https://www.ttlg.com/ , for example.

Well damn - I just remade it on a different style lamp in a test map and now it's working! I have a lot to unpack here [edit] ok, reloaded the lamp, texture, material in the project and now it works! Don't know what I did, but I'll take it [edit] it was the folder structure.

Alright, here it is: https://filebin.net/62a1qsachwybqorw You'll need to install reshade selecting the dark mod folder, choose OpenGL. After Reshade is installed to the game folder, copy the contents of the Tdmreshade.7z to the game folder. Once installed it should popup allowing you to press the "Home" keyboard key to see enabled shaders. Everything should be enabled by default. ATA, SMAA, and Zenteon Framework are all part of the new AA system. Disabling Zenteon Framework and ATA will significantly improve performance, SMAA can be left on with minimal performance impact. Lightroom contains all changes to colors/whitebalance, disabling will restore TDM colors but won't impact performance much. MXAO/Ambient Occlusion is the biggest impact visually and and is set to the highest performance mode, FGFX provides some ambient light scattering/fake volumetric fx, can be disabled for minimal performance gain. Ambient Light can be a bit of a performance hog, so if you need to disable something for more fps I'd start there. If motion is too blurry try setting motion quality to high in the Zenteon Framework shader, or disable ATA and Zenteon Framework entirely if you don't like TAA. It should be a bit cleaner in motion than typical TAA implementation like Unreal. If you like some aspects of the changed coloring but not all, dig through lightroom, many things can be adjusted to taste. If it looks under-saturated you can increase saturation, think of saturation as "color compression" whereas vibrance increases the dynamic range of colors. Adjusting white balance is an easy way to make lighting appear warmer or cooler.

Yes, on first sight it looks like you didn't get the mission packaging right. So that's what you can look up. I'd say the first time through every aspiring mapper really ought to just follow Fidcal's A to Z tutorial straight, doing exactly what it says. https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php/A_-_Z_Beginner_Full_Guide_Start_Here! Then you know you've covered every step from start to finish. But of course everybody has different approaches that work for them. Ok, I guess I'll add a little more. As you probably already know, there are two ways to run a mission, from inside DR, where you need to package everything directly into TDM's folder structure (some people even make a separate install for editing), and from inside the game, where you package up a .pk4 and run the mission from that, although that might be seem a little less efficient. I recall doing it both ways, making periodic landmark .pk4 versions, and then doing little changes running them through DR, until it felt like enough had changed that I'd pack it into a new .pk4. I think some people only make the .pk4 at the end, and I imagine some people run off .pk4s every time. Just learn how to package missions both ways and figure out what works for you.

Great. I've included both your footsteps version and Gin's inside the main .zip, so don't look for that folder anymore. ^^" Thanks for mentioning those sounds! Player .def file has a comment stating that the game needs specific sounds for entering, surfacing and being underwater. It was playing some lame "subtle splash" file for the first two, so I'll include your 3 files in all versions of the mod. I'm also thinking nobles having distinct footsteps can't hurt, either. Yours deserve to be included generally, too.

Another modpack uploaded to the "Experimental" folder. @Gin "Thiefier Sounds" are superb; if I hadn't started the mod with the premise of improving all core volume sounds, I would have included them as a replacement from the start. I created the usual guard and female versions as well. Regarding the rest of custom sounds: @Ujtudor edits to impact sounds make a lot of sense, and the balanced dirt and metal footsteps seem to sound better than the core files. I think I'll use their footsteps in the main mod; the metal files declipped by my pal JoseJL are unfortunately muffled in comparison... I've asked around in case someone knows of outright better, free-licensed metal (and water) footsteps. Toni's pack is an honest effort, but personally I don't find many footsteps exciting. Not to say there aren't good ones; TDM uses all of Toni's guard and female sounds, and the player's snow sounds. Player wood sounds also seem nice for the squeak board material, specially the walk-creep files. The water files need editing, though. This also happens with the core metal files to a less extent, but Toni's water footsteps have channel imbalance; the right speaker sounds louder than the left speaker. I'll look into both core metal files and Toni's water files.

I'm the developer of AngelLoader, a fan mission loader/manager for Thief 1/2/3/SS2. I recently decided to try adding Dark Mod support. The latest release is here: https://github.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/releases I'm going to keep a log of issues, ideas, notes, etc. here and we can discuss them or whatnot. If anyone has ideas or suggestions, feel free to post them here. TDM version requirement: I've only tested it with TDM 2.11. I'm not sure but I dimly remember FMs used to be stored differently at some point in the past? If so, it wouldn't work with those older versions. I assume people would normally keep their TDM install up to date, but just a heads up. How it works: In the Settings window -> Paths tab, choose your Dark Mod executable. Click OK. Now your TDM FMs will be detected, scanned, and added to the list. For the other supported games, there is the concept of "installed" vs "not installed", this is because they normally come in archive files and then the loader can "install" them (extract the file into the "installed FMs" folder). For TDM there is no such concept (FMs are always installed), so the green checkmark "installed" indicator means that that FM is the currently selected one (the one that is loaded up when you start TDM), and only one TDM FM can be "selected" at a time. This indicator is kept in sync with the game, so if you change your selected FM inside TDM, AngelLoader will update its "selected" indicator in-app. Notes & Issues: Deleting FMs: Deleting TDM FMs is not supported yet. I notice TDM itself doesn't allow you to delete FMs either; it has been noted that people have accidentally lost their data and so the option was removed. AngelLoader puts files into the recycle bin when it deletes them, and I could add the option, but figured it was okay to leave it out initially since the game doesn't let you do it either. Note, though, that you can still delete TDM FMs from AngelLoader's database if you've manually deleted the actual FM from disk first. To do this, first click the "Show only unavailable FMs" button (red X page icon on the top bar). Last Played and Finished-On-Difficulty: Finished-on difficulty is now autodetected. Last played date is taken from the game's database only if AngelLoader doesn't have one in its own (its own is more granular). In the FMs folder, there is a file missions.tdminfo which stores certain pieces of data about FMs. Included among this data is which difficulty the mission has been finished on, and the last played date (down to the day only). AngelLoader also stores this information, but it doesn't get these values from this file at the moment. Instead, the last played date (down to the instant, not just the day) is set whenever an FM is started, and the finished-on state must be set manually. I could have it watch the file for changes and update the finished-on-difficulty automatically for the current FM. This would override the user setting, but in theory should be accurate anyway. I could also auto-update the last played date, but because it's only down to the day, that would be less optimal than just setting it on FM start, which would give a more granular date and would have sorting working better. So if you played two FMs in one day, the latest played one would sort at the top. Mods tab is disabled: For NewDark games, there is built-in support for mods, and they can be enabled or disabled per-FM in an official capacity. I've disabled the Mods tab for TDM because - from a cursory look anyway - I don't think there's such a per-FM method of mod management. Language selection is disabled: In the Edit FM tab, there's an option to choose which language to play an FM with. I've disabled it for TDM because there's a language option in-game (not the case with NewDark) and I haven't looked into how I would scan a TDM FM for supported languages anyway. "Play Without FM" Option: For the other games, there is the option (in the bottom bar) to play them with no FM. For TDM there is no such thing as "no FM", but the option is still there currently. It will simply start TDM without passing it anything, and whatever FM it has selected will be there. I might remove the option since it doesn't really make sense. This might make people wonder "where's the button for TDM" but on the other hand having it isn't really useful. Not sure. Mission downloading and updating: An in-app mission downloader is in progress. There is no mission downloader or anything like that currently. It simply lists what you've got on disk. This means that to get new FMs or check for updates to existing ones, you still have to go in-game. I don't know how people feel about the convenience factor of this, having to go in-game to get your FMs and then back out to AngelLoader. However, duplicating the TDM download functionality would mean it might well break if TDM ever changes anything about its downloader. Custom resource stats: In the Statistics tab, custom resource display is disabled for TDM. I haven't looked into what sort of "custom" things a TDM FM can have and how I can detect them. I may do this in the future.

This is an experimental GUI app for managing and packing Dark Mod missions. It's a successor to FM Packer but with a GUI, that I've been working on for some time. It's now at a stage where I feel somewhat comfortable sharing. Having a GUI unlocks potential for more in depth management of fms, which I intend to explore in the future. You can download the binaries here: https://github.com/Skaruts/tdm_packer_2/releases Currently: it can pack your selected mission into the pk4 at a click of a button it provides an editor for a .pkignore file where you specify which files to exclude from the pk4 it gives you a handy tree view of both the included and excluded files (Shift+LMB to fully expand/contract branches) it can launch TDM or DarkRadiant for the selected mission, or run a second installation of TDM to test your pk4 in isolation (see the menu Settings->Paths) it automatically writes your map sequence into the appropriate file all maps, except the ones in the map sequence, are auto excluded from the pk4 Important: This is still an experimental alpha version, so backup your missions before using it. Note: For now I provided binaries for Windows and Linux. I don't have a Linux system to test the binaries yet, though, so they may or may not work properly. As a last resort, one can still run this app from the source code by running the Godot Engine itself from the terminal with the "--path path/to/project" argument. (Godot itself is just a simple executable and requires no installation.)

Guess I will be betraying my own roadmap (not that I had one planned). I'll take my time with this one and make it an addon to load alongside the main mod, instead of putting the whole thing inside like the early Volta pack. Think I said it before but some of those made it to core, like the whole female folder and the snow footsteps.

@kingsal I've uploaded a quick version of my mod with your footsteps inside a "Experimental" folder in the OP link. Let me know what you think. I've had to use the Amplify effect of Tenacity in all of your files with a Peak amplitude of 0.0 dB (without allowing clipping). Also created a "new" carpet version for the guards by reducing the files' pitch by 20%; might also want one for commoner females with a +20% pitch instead. If you would rather prefer these modifications to be done with your raw sound files I'll delete the sound files and let you handle it properly. I just uploaded them to show how my shader values would sound. I've also noticed many of your missions have a player_swim_burst01/02/03.ogg set that sound a lot better than the core files, but the credit is still attributed to STiFU.

Still don't see an increase or decrease in loudness for the AI if I change maxDistance. I'd say it makes some sense; something so important as sound propagation shouldn't be messed with in sound shaders. I may be dense, though! I could do that, but right now the three core .sndshd files are in such a state that you need the whole mod to make sure no declaration wins over mine. Besides that, sound files are all over the place. I would propose this for both sfx .pk4s: tdm_sound_sfx01.pk4 Move all player climbing files from sound/sfx/movement/footsteps in tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 to a sound/sfx/movement/climbing folder here. Move all humanoid rustle files from sound/sfx/movement/footsteps in tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 to sound/sfx/movement/rustles here. tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 Move all used player footsteps in sound/sfx/movement/footsteps or sound/sfx/movement/footsteps/human to sound/sfx/movement/footsteps/player. (You would need file duplication for some files, since core player declarations currently shares many files with NPCs...) Move all used NPC footsteps in sound/sfx/movement/footsteps to sound/sfx/movement/footsteps/human. Check and delete unused variation files of materials (there are a lot). And of course, specify all player-exclusive shaders in tdm_player_thief.def I basically just went for 35 in most shares, so you weren't far off. I was under the impression that the jump land bug just plays the sound at the full volume you set it at in shader declarations. And if you could provide the latest iteration of your sound mod that would be great.

Neonsstyle recently pointed out to me that my seamless mass teleportation script doesn't seem to work when the setup is rotated, and I realised that the version I linked to in this thread even relies on manually adjusting the script. It was also inefficient because it had two nearly identical script functions for each direction, and it only supported one teleportation setup per map. As this is an old script it was clearly time to rewrite it. To begin with, the purpose of the script is to enable seamless teleportation without the player noticing that it has happened, giving the illusion that two areas of the map are physically connected. There should be two identical-looking locations, preferrably an S-shaped corridor to limit how much the player can see in the moment he is teleported and thus how much needs to be duplicated. The locations should also be AI-free, since I expect their patrols will break after teleportation. There are two trigger brushes at either end: a narrow brush that initiates the teleportation procedure, and a larger "zone" trigger_touch brush around it that applies the teleportation to the player and all AIs and moveables in its volume. The narrow brushes are in slightly different positions at either location to avoid that the player gets stuck in an infinite teleportation loop. The teleportation vector is automatically calculated from the origins of the departure and destination zone entity, so it's important you keep this in the same relative position. The image above shows the setup: the arrow represents the player's expected direction of movement through each location; the narrow box represents the trigger brush which initiates the teleportation; the large box represents the teleportation zone from which everything that can move gets teleported; the red cross represents the origin of the teleportation zone used to calculate the teleportation vector. To setup, copy the script into your map script or add it to your /script folder. Copy a pair of altogether 4 trigger brushes to your 2 identical-looking locations and change the "zone_departure" and "zone_destination" spawnargs on each of the narrow trigger brushes to point to the trigger zone brushes. With this new version of the script, it should be possible to have as many mass teleportation setups in your map as you want, and rotation should be no problem given the fully automatic calculation of the teleportation vector. mass_teleport.scriptmass_teleport.map

For the people eager to play with the latest state of development, two things are provided: regular dev builds source code SVN repository Development builds are created once per a few weeks from the current trunk. They can be obtained via tdm_installer. Just run the installer, check "Get Custom Version" on the first page, then select proper version in "dev" folder on the second page. Name of any dev version looks like devXXXXX-YYYY, where XXXXX and YYYY are SVN revision numbers from which the build was created. The topmost version in the list is usually the most recent one. Note: unless otherwise specified, savegames are incompatible between any two versions of TDM! Programmers can obtain source code from SVN repository. Trunk can be checked out from here: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/publicsvn/darkmod_src/trunk/ SVN root is: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/publicsvn/darkmod_src Build instructions are provided inside repository. Note that while you can build executable from the SVN repository, TDM installation of compatible version is required to run it. Official TDM releases are compatible with source code archives provided on the website, and also with corresponding release tags in SVN. A dev build is compatible with SVN trunk of revision YYYY, where YYYY is the second number in its version (as described above). If you only want to experiment with the latest trunk, using the latest dev build gives you the maximum chance of success. P.S. Needless to say, all of this comes with no support. Although we would be glad if you catch and report bugs before the next beta phase starts