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Fixed in the mission database. Delete the follow_l10n.pk4 from your fms/follow folder and download the newest translation pack.

I have committed my changes to SVN, now SVN works on the UTF-8 system. It reads all language strings from all.utf8lang file, and only reads old-style {language}.lang files for missions if the equivalent new-style files are not available. The core .lang / .map files are present yet, but will hopefully be deleted. In the end, I had to manually add some characters to utf8map to suppress warnings. They were not handled by the old engine: I simply remapped them all to the question mark. It seems that the majority of them come from language names, and I don't care if they look broken or have question marks. I have already stated my position about language names. At the current moment, .utf8lang uses the same format as .lang, but this is temporary. As I said before, this must be changed in order to not lock us into compatibility trap. The format should be a sequence of "commands", each command starting with a keyword saying which command it is. And global state should be kept to minimum (e.g. current language seems acceptable). In addition to the current "#str_{name}" placeholders, I'd like to add two more types of replacements for missions. 1) Plain-text replacements, i.e. replace "Not enough drive space to save the game." with "Não há espaço para salvar o jogo.", as I suggested before. This approach provides zero inconvenience for the mapper, but it rather unreliable. It becomes especially bad for short strings. This kind of replacements is not cheap to perform, but I think I know how to do it efficiently. The first version will do it with bruteforce algorithm, we don't have any plain-text replacements yet anyway. 2) Full-text + ID replacements, i.e. replace "Not enough drive space to save the game.#id_nospacesave#" with "Não há espaço para salvar o jogo.#id_nospacesave#". The #id_...# placeholders are stripped from the text by the engine even if translation does not exist. If translation exists, then the engine verifies the context around the placeholder and does not apply it in case of mismatch. This approach gives mild inconvenience to the mapper, since he can clearly see the original text but has to tolerance this annoying tag at the end. The mapper can even edit the text without touching the placeholder: the obsolete translations will stop working automatically. I have a feeling that plain-text replacements won't be enough for the missions, and hope that such extra "tags" can be used here and there to make it more reliable.

How you can help depends a lot on what skills you have. I can Record Video Recording "Let's Play" videos or simple walkthroughs of existing missions and posting them to Youtube is great exposure for the mod (see example .) Be sure to let us know so we can link to them. If you have some editing ability, Video tutorials, where you explain how the mod works, or how to use specific tools, would also be great. Video trailers, showcasing interesting places and features, are also great for publicity. An example is . I can Write Writing reviews for missions are always nice, especially if they include good screenshots. Not only does it give us something to post on other forums, but it makes mappers feel good when their mission gets attention (especially if it's positive). We have a collective thread to post reviews in: http://forums.thedar...s-walkthroughs/ Writing reviews of the mod as a whole, targetted an an audience that doesn't know much about TDM, is also very useful. You could also try offering your services to mappers to create interesting readables, or to proofread for their mission. I can Act and Record Audio We are always on the lookout for good quality audio recordings for vocal sets. If interested, you can pick a few different lines from this script: http://wiki.thedarkm...t:_Average_Jack and send the recordings to Springheel, who then writes a script based on the type of voice you have. I can Translate We could always use translations of our menu/hud into more languages. Also, only a few FMs are aavailable in more than one language, so there is a lot of work there, see the I18N Translator's Guide in the Wiki. I can Model Great! Take a look at the model request thread:http://forums.thedar...-requests-here/ and pick something that interests you. Or just post a, "Hey, anybody want a model?" thread in this forum and I'm sure mappers will get back to you. I can Animate Fantastic. We can always use more good animations. Our current character rigs use a Maya skeleton. PM Springheel for more info. I know C++ Have a look at our coding section in the wiki, pick an issue or feature from the bugtracker of the mod or the leveleditor, download the recent sourcecode release (or better ask for an SVN checkout) and get cracking. Make sure nobody is already working on that specific issue and feel free to ask questions. I can Edit Images We can always use completely new textures and/or improved versions of older textures. How to get started and how to import them into the mod. I can Take Photos Good quality photos of useful textures (medieval-ish building facades, dirt, rocks, wood, etc) are always welcome. The fewer directional shadows and higher resolution, the better. I don't have any skills Even if you can't do any of the above, you can still help out. Talk about TDM in other forums; share your (preferably positive) experiences with other gamers you know. Last, but not least, compliment people when you like their work. Saying "thanks", to a developer or, "I really enjoyed your mission" to a mapper will make their day. -------------------- I'll update this further as more things occur to me.

In pursuit of a long-sought secret, the key to life everlasting lies deep within the recesses of an ancient athenaeum. Dragofer, Bikerdude, and I proudly present our FM for the Christmas Connections Contest titled "Written in Stone." Notes - TDM 2.10 Beta 5 or later is REQUIRED to play this mission. However, it is recommended to play using 2.10 Beta 6. You can get the latest version here. - This FM is a sequel to The Elixir. While it is not vital to play that before playing Written in Stone, there are some story connections. - This FM may be more hardware intensive than normal. LOD settings can be set below "Normal" to improve performance on low-end machines by disabling certain features. - Various areas will look better with shadow maps enabled at the possible expense of performance. - This FM implements the func_peek mechanic, allowing players to peek through any door that has a keyhole on it by leaning forward. PLEASE NOTE: This function has been known to cause crashes for a small number of players in the past, likely due to using the 32-bit version of TDM. At no point in this mission is it required to use the func_peek mechanic; it is purely optional, so feel free not to use it. As an entry in the 2.10 Christmas Connections Contest, the new features and assets used by this FM are: Download Version 1.1 This FM is available for download here: Google Drive Simply place the written.pk4 into your darkmod/fms folder and you're ready to go! Promotional Screenshots (via ThiefGuild) Credits A big thanks goes out to Wellingtoncrab for making a beautiful city map, Narrator for their wonderful voice work, nbohr1more for creating the original story premise as well as a few readables, Goldwell for animating the introduction to our briefing video and Duzenko for making certain glasses work as well as they do! A huge thank you also goes out to our beta testers: Goldwell, Wellingtoncrab, Kingsal, noodles, Krilmar, Garrett(Monolyth-42) ate0ate, and Mike_A. Thank you all very much for your keen eye to detail and great insights! Asset Credits Kingsal's Killer Assets Wellingtoncrab's Wonderful Furniture and Book Skins ***PLAYERS BEWARE*** SPOILERS lurk in the depths below. We strongly recommend playing this FM first so you don't spoil the fun for yourself!

I find it much easier just to download a fresh version off ModDB whenever it updates, and just copying— darkmod.cfg darkmodkeybinds.cfg fms / missions.tdminfo Into the new folder.

Hello and thanks for checking out this post. I'm delighted to announce that version 1.1 of my fan mission "Cole Hurst 1: Eaton" is now available to download and play. This post is spoiler free, so please don't avoid digging into the details below if you are interested. I'm just using the spoiler tags to organize this post a bit. Let me start by saying "thank you" to anyone who has either previously played - or is considering playing this mission. It really means a lot to me. I have been away for a while, but following a round of beta testing that took place some time last year, I've only just recently managed to finish this update. I'm slightly embarrassed by how long it has taken me to complete, but I wanted to make sure that the valuable feedback I received was all properly addressed. Mission description "Tonight, Eaton's wealthiest citizens will gather at Lord Mayor Zelmer's estate to celebrate the city's founding. Nobles, dignitaries, a famed musician, and even the Queen will pass through its gates. While the guests celebrate Eaton's future, Cole Hurst is looking for a way out." For those new to and/or curious about this mission: I guess I would describe it as a traditional heist-style mission - although with a couple of major plot twist along the way. It's a very large map and I think it should take most players at least a few hours to complete. Screenshots Changes in version 1.1 Countless additions and a large amount of smaller tweaks and changes have all made it into this release. I may have already forgot a few things, but here are what I consider to be the main highlights: * New secrets & optional side quests * Story tweaks and reworked readables * Subtitles * Difficulty tweaks and related changes * Stability fixes * Various cosmetic changes * Audio tweaks * TDM version 2.13 now required Contributions and acknowledgments A special thanks to all of those listed below. I'm sincerely grateful for all your contributions! Mission testers and technical support @nbohr1more, @stgatilov, @duzenko, @Acolytesix, @Dragofer, @JackFarmer, @Shadow, @Cambridge Spy, @wesp5, @madtaffer, @prjames, @suzy8track, @datiswous, @boissiere and @Bergante Story Kelly Hrupa Voice actors twhalen2600 (AKA @Benny_the_guard) and Kelly Hrupa

============== -= 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 ============== Beta Russian Language Translations by @kalinovka Mirror #1: yandex.ru Mirror #2: Google Drive ============== *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:

Looks like it's the same old script updated for latest Blender version. Just so you know, this vibe coded script below exports smaller files. It always bothered me that .md5anim files from Blender are three times bigger than they should. https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22528-md5-format-importer-exporter-for-blender-36/#findComment-508957

Loved every minute of it. What a great, sprawling, FM, and loved the addition of the notice board side quests, would love to see more of this in other FMs. I spent so long on this map that when I remembered earlier bits I had to think whether it was even the same mission. Bank heist, grave robbing, and manors all in one map. The whole campaign was simply excellent.

"When the leaves change and the air is still, there is a quiet." -Lady Blackbriar -=| DISPLACEMENT |=- BY AMADEUS & WELLINGTONCRAB = DOWNLOAD = <( | )> -REQUIRES TDM 2.14- -JOIN THE BETA NOW- "Seek not the prideful sin that is perfection The Builder's light shines through all flaws. It is His wisdom to recognize a thing is done Before it is ever truly finished." -St. Edgar's Sermon of Rust LAMPFIRE HILLS... They say the woods around here give the tourists bad dreams, but I don't mind. I like it here. I feel like a piece of me belongs here. ... That it fits. DISPLACEMENT is a medium-sized traditional manor mission with a highly variable playtime. *2.14 provides a number of improvements to gameplay, performance, and stability. It is strongly encouraged to play on the latest 2.14 beta release. Join in testing now!* *Mods such as the “Unofficial Patch” and “TDM Modpack” are not supported by this mission and should be used at your own risk* https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissions/97429/displacement CREDITS: ADDITIONAL MUSIC: -AIRSHIP BALLET -GIGAGOOGA ADDITIONAL SCRIPTING: -DRAGOFER -OBSTORTTE -FROST SALAMANDER -KINGSAL ADDITIONAL ASSETS: -KINGSAL -TDASH -SKACKY -BIKERDUDE -GOLDWELL -EPIFIRE -STRUNK -SHANNEN ART -POLYHAVEN -TEXTURES.COM -SKETCHFAB CULTURAL HERITAGE CC0 COMMUNITY -LOISTE INTERACTIVE -COLINFIZGIG -CDMIR BETA TESTERS: -KINGSAL -GOLDWELL -MAT99 -FROST SALAMANDER -MIKE A -STGATILOV -STIFU -MARBLEMAN -DETEEFF -THEBIGH FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: -STIFU FOR HIS EFFORT IN FIXING THE NOTORIOUS STUCK AI AND ARROW CRASH BUGS. -STGATILOV WHO MADE A NUMBER OF 2.14 OPTIMIZATIONS AND BUG FIXES. -KINGSAL FOR PROVIDING SOME OF THE MAIN MENU GUI ASSETS -PURAH FOR ORIGINATING THE SETTING OF LAMPFIRE HILLS, REIMAGINED HERE, IN HIS THIEF FMS. -GUY-ON THE COUCH AND JAM61 FOR THEIR SILENT HILL COMMUNITY MAPS WHICH HEAVILY INSPIRED THE LAMPFIRE HILLS REGION MAP. -SPECIAL THANKS TO LOISTE INTERACTIVE FOR ALLOWING US TO USE ASSETS FROM THEIR GAME "INFRA." SOME ADDIITONAL DETAILED LICENSING INFORMATION: SOME NOTES ON PERFORMANCE: NOTE TO MAPPERS: MOST OF THE NEW ASSETS IN THE MISSION ARE INCLUDED IN 2.14

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

Hey Brams2! Welcome to the dark mod! And you're coming in with two lovely missions to play, as well. Great work on these! One quick note: before these missions get added to the mission downloader, it's usually a good idea to get them beta-tested first. I also played the second mission and fell out of the map: But yeah, I suggest you start a beta testing thread here: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/forum/59-tdm-mission-beta-testing/

"I took the salmon.ase from an older version of Displacement and manually added it to the fms/displace(/models/***), and now the fish shows up in game again." It's the same salmon.ase @Baal is missing. This was already fixed by @nbohr1more I think.

Back in the day, Tels managed a squad of volunteer translators for TDM. I am not Tels, and could never do that. Nowadays, language translation using AI, either traditional machine learning (ML) models or large language models (LLMs), is common and increasingly fluent. It is often used as an adjunct to speed the work of professional human translators. By itself, AI translation can be imperfect but usually sufficient. Can this "sufficient" approach be used for TDM, to expedite translations? Let's see. I gave some initial thought to a bulk-translation daemon that might range across FMs and fill in all missing translations, without necessarily involving mappers. In the future, possibly AI could tackle that whole enchilada. I was at first visualizing something more modest: a backbone in a standard programming language (I sketched out C++ and C# projects, but lots of other possibilities) that would make calls to an API (I looked at those of Google Translate and ChatGPT). However, I changed focus due to certain concerns... Different FMs, and subsets with each FM, would likely have far better translations if they were properly grouped, ordered, and translated separately, with an appropriate context (e.g., phrase engineering) added. The FM's mapper is best placed to provide this grouping and context. I'll detail what I mean in the next few posts. The mapper would not be expected to know any TDM-supported languages besides English. Instead, each translated phrase could be back-translated to English and examined. Is the "round-trip" meaning OK, even if the English words have changed? Problematic translations could have their context tweaked and rerun. Many AI systems, particularly for API access, require a billing commitment (e.g., credit card). For a professional translator, this is no problem, and subscriptions allow access to more (and putatively better) models and higher quotas. This seems less appealing for TDM. A few paid AI systems have a no-subscription, pay-as-you-go account tier. The cost per translate is typically pennies. But it does introduce quota- and expense-management, and may exclude API usage. Access via API requires an API key (or at the higher end more elaborate security regime), with attendant key-security headaches. Which AI model is thought "best" for translation? Doesn't matter too much, because we can't afford the best. Furthermore, there's endless churn among AI models, with antidotal reports that a given model fluctuates in quality over time, and successor models can be worse than their predecessors. So, with these concerns in mind, I looked for public web-based AI sites that require no billing and provide low-quota but adequate AI. The mapper would enter and retrieve data manually. I will focus on ChatGPT in this exploration, after a quick preliminary test confirmed some promise. Also, as this exploration proceeds, I hope to propose changes to TDM to make it more viable for "sufficient" quality machine translation. Problem areas are incomplete fonts, space-constraints, and layout issues for translated strings. My proposals will likely surface as separate forum threads. That's enough for now. I'll be trying for 1 or 2 substantive posts per week, as I tackle a particular FM.

"Dame Fortune is a fickle mistress. Every time she opens a door, she throws a brick through your window..." I'm happy to announce that my second FM, "The Last Night on Crookshank Lane", is now available on the Mission Database: https://www.thedarkmod.com/missiondetails/?internalName=crookshank Backup download is also available here: https://share.anon-kenkai.com/crookshank.pk4 Big thanks to @Airship-Ballet, @wesp5, @JackFarmer, @taffernicus, @Bergante for beta testing and feedback. Special thanks to @datiswous for generously providing in-mission subtitles. This is a much bigger and more ambitious FM than my first attempt, and it ended up taking a year and a half to complete. It was also a very educational lesson in the importance of proper map optimization. It's a sort of soft-sequel to "The Threepenny Revue", but not part of a series per se, and can be played as a standalone mission. I took inspiration from FMs like "The Painter's Wife" in TDM, and "The Sound of a Burrick in a Room" from Thief Gold, and although I'd never put myself in the same league as either, I was always impressed by their size, scope, and detail. City exploration FMs have always been my favorite, and those maps and others like them inspired me to take a crack at something similar. Enoy!

Announcing the release of the third William Steele mission! Summary Cleighmoor takes Steele inside Cleighmoor Gaol, where Warden Fielder likes nothing better than a glass of wine and some cheese, while watching a miscreant hang from his gallows. Steele is tracking down the evidence of his parents’ murder. The mission starts in the sewers, and progresses to Cleighmoor’s compound. The William Steele Missions Cleighmoor is the third of several Steele missions. Altogether they'll tell a story of corruption, greed, and revenge. At some point, I'll start packaging them as a campaign, in addition to the single missions. If you haven’t played WS1: In the North, or WS2: Home Again, I suggest you complete those before playing WS3: Cleighmoor. Download Cleighmoor is available in the in-game downloader. Problem with Suicidal AI Occasionally, someone reports that a distant AI commits suicide. Since one of the mission objectives is to kill only in self-defense, this fails the mission when it occurs. To avoid that, I've created a replacement *.map file that you can obtain here. After you've downloaded and installed the mission, create a new folder named "maps" so that you have: darkmod/fms/ws3_cleighmoor/maps/ Unzip the replacement *.map file and place the new *.map file into the maps folder. So now you have: darkmod/fms/ws3_cleighmoor/maps/ws3_cleighmoor.map This should solve the suicide problem. A new version of the mission will be released after TDM 2.05. Build Time Nearly 4 years. (This was my first attempt at a mission, and it sat on the back burners until being folded into Steele’s story.) I18n Cleighmoor is ready for translation. Thanks Thanks to the TDM team for creating a terrific platform for storytelling and stealth gaming. Thanks to my beta testers: AluminumHaste, Bikerdude, Goldwell, Xarg, Lux, Moonbo, Deadlove, and plotzzz. Thanks to Goldwell for his voice work on the conversations. And thanks to YOU, for playing! Known Issues This is a large mission. To ease the burden on older systems, consider shutting doors behind you as you go. If you experience low frame rates, please consult the Performance Tweaks page on the Wiki. Performance Tweaks For very low end PCs I recommend the following settings: V-sync is off AA is off Aniso is 4x or lower Advanced settings are simple/default Post processing is disabled Anyone having performance issues with TDM missions can put the following cvars into their Darkmod.cfg file. This will improve the framerate and stutter/chop when in-game, but may increase loading times a little. image_usePrecompressedTextures "1" image_useNormalCompression "2" image_useAllFormats "1" image_useCompression "1" image_preload "1" Important This mission requires TDM 2.01 or later. The William Steele story is heavy with readables. Please try to read every readable you find. Most importantly, Enjoy! Screenshots WS4: The Warrens Steele ventures into The Warrens, a dangerous area near Bridgeport's docks. You can find it here.

It seems a driver problem, not really strange for me. I don't think that it is really a TDM problem. In other Forums I see a lot of different issues with Logitech Mices and drivers, myself I had also problems with Logitech Mices. Nerer had again Problems buying specifically gaming mices with cable, these are way more robust and stable for obvious reasons. Maybe changing the Mouse will solve the problem. Currently I use the Rival 3 Gen 2 from Steel Series since several Years, very precise and responsive, apart with a good price (some Years ago I paid ~€30, now it costs somewhat more as I saw in its Homepage.

Mod that polishes several sound aspects that affect the gameplay, with a sprinkle of general gameplay tweaks. 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" Almost one year later since 2.13, 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. So instead of letting it rot, I've made the early attempts to achieve this overhaul into a mod. The scope has widened a bit, since I decided to tackle annoying things such as alert 3 & 4 duration or sound propagation for blackjack/sword impact stims. Repository to report issues: https://codeberg.org/SilverKeeper/tdm-sound-polish Installation Latest release: https://codeberg.org/SilverKeeper/tdm-sound-polish/releases/download/1.2.1/Sound Polish Mod v1.2.1.7z The mod comes in three versions: x_soundpolish.pk4 is the main version, using TDM Core sounds but with handpicked improved files from other soundpacks. Read the changelog for a detailed listing. x_soundpolish_VoltaFootstepMod.pk4 has the handpicked files from the main version + footstep sounds from Kingsal's "Volta" series, both for the player and humanoid AI. x_soundpolish_ThiefierSoundsByGin.pk4 has the handpicked files from the main version + the footstep sounds from Gin's "Thiefier Sounds" soundpack, both for the player and humanoid AI. Copy one of those to TDM root folder. Additionally, you can copy autocommands.cfg or my personal autocommands_full.cfg and rename it as autocommands.cfg. Look at Gameplay and TDM settings for a brief explanation. The `Docs` folder has detailed documentation on my definition changes, final footstep propagation values (based on TDM Core `tdm_propagated_sounds.def` propagation values) and a list of FMs with custom footstep sounds to keep track of potential incompatibilities. Out of respect to FM authors, I won't be tweaking their audio files to "fix" any inconsistencies that might arise by using my mod. Hopefully they will release updates to their FMs if they themselves share my view on polishing TDM current audio design. Overview Footsteps .sndshd files for humanoid and player footsteps were a complete mess. They were mixed between 3 files when they should've been properly categorized in 2, materials shared one shader for the AI and the player, and in rare cases they outright played the wrong sound files (player carpet footsteps were "placeholders" currently used as AI barefoot footsteps). This has been the hardest part of the mod and hopefully it serves as template for TDM Core files. Both the player and AI (but particularly the player) are too quiet when they walk. The player barely hears their own footsteps, but the AI reacts strongly to them. Material sound shader values have been balanced according to the sound propagation transmitted to the AI. Jumping shaders are the loudest and speed shaders decrease the volume from there the slower you move. AI shaders start being audible too late for them to serve as a warning; their `maxDistance` has been increased. Monsters were also too stealthy, specially spiders (and particularly the small spiders). Sound files themselves had room for improvement, too. Some files needed amplifying (without clipping, of course) to have more leeway with sound shader volumes. Others were disabled/pitch-modified/replaced. In particular, AI had some weak-sounding footstep sounds. Pitch-modified variants of the player footsteps have replaced the worst AI footstep sounds. Alternative versions with "Volta footsteps mod" by Kingsal and "Thiefier Sounds" by Gin have also been created. Sound propagation and AI While TDM AI reacts to sound reasonably well, the base volume of the player's walk and creep sound propagation shaders is a bit too high, triggering alert 2 too easily. Those have been decreased for a more enjoyable gameplay. Thief featured a bait mechanic in the form of stims triggered by slamming your blackjack or sword against objects. This was nerfed in Deadly Shadows; now even walls played impact sounds, but AI was deaf to them. Currently, TDM has the potential to bring the mechanic back, but it's undercooked. All materials play the same sound propagation shader, so AI only hears you bashing wood, regardless of the material... And even that does absolutely nothing to the alert level. I've improvised material-specific shaders for both the blackjack and the sword. There seems to be a problem with value modifiers for the weapon entities... I can't take advantage of the feature. In relation with the bait mechanic, TDM Core hit sounds are incredibly lacking outside the bow's. Understandably, providing specific hit sounds for both the blackjack and shortsword isn't an easy feat, considering the amount of additional materials TDM adds to the humble Thief repertoire. This has been addressed to the best of my ability thanks to freesound.org awesome offering of free sounds. Alert 3 & 4 have insane duration and fuzzyness values. AI takes forever to go back to alert 2; duration gets... multiplied? randomly by, at most, the fuzzyness value or any number below that. Those values have been decreased for a reasonable fail state, so players don't normalize quicksaving when they get caught. Stationary AIs should play their barks frequently so you can point them out by ear before stumbling upon them. TDM Core intervals are too wide... Now barks and snores will occur more frequently. Gameplay and TDM settings Frob distance for pickpocketting has a shorter distance than other actions in TDM. While in principiple this should make pickpocketting more "tense", the bump mechanic gets in the way here. Being caught because you miscalculated the timeframe before the AI would turn around is one thing; being caught because you bumped your head into their back from forward-leaning in another. Now frob distance of objects carried by AI is more consistent with the rest of TDM and closer to Thief. AI maximum sight distance feels a bit too high. "Hidden Hands: Initiation" open areas were a good testing bed to find the right value decrease. It got reduced from 40 meters to 30. Several aspects of the movement are rather uncomfortable. Headbobbing is nauseating, footstep rate is very exaggerated and running speed feels slow. An autocommand.cfg file has been provided for this, as well as a complete autocommand_full.cfg with my personal settings for TDM. While the increased running speed shouldn't break anything, it is an opionated value from two FM authors and might not be balanced for the rest of TDM FMs. Thanks Daft Mugi and WellingtonCrab for carrying the brief but powerful efforts to start cleaning this up, and for creating the Player Footstep Sounds Test Map. Daft Mugi in particular for sharing the tuned player sound propagation values and the pickpocketting frob distance overrides. WellingtonCrab in particular for helping with AI alert 3 & 4 values and mentioning their overrides for AI barks used in their FMs. Ujtudor for their "Collection of adjusted sounds". Kingsal for their "Volta footsteps mod". SeriousToni for their "Alternative Footstep Sound Package" mod. Gin for their "Thiefier Sounds" mod. 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).

I continue the work on the animations with the new Blender rig. Walkcycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nozToZMIFR8&feature=youtu.be It's only 2 frames shorter than current animations, so it's rather similar to walk1.md5anim now.

I see we have independently noticed this problem. I have proposed named strings for these instead of numbered strings in https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23204-proposed-i18n-improvements-for-tdm-215/ Would you be willing to change your patch to use those names? I'm translating those strings into the 16 languages now. I'll look to your translations for the German versions.

Yes, instead of starting with the English text in the prompt, it is better to point it to a file instead, when the amount of text is voluminous (as it will be in my upcoming Group 3 work in https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23204-proposed-i18n-improvements-for-tdm-215/ ). Good to know Google Translate supports URL file access. So does ChatGPT (even the basic version without login).

I am attempting to enable native support for an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C controller in The Dark Mod 2.14 on Arch Linux. While the controller functions perfectly through Proton/Wine, the native Linux binary (which uses GLFW) fails to recognize it as a Gamepad, and my diagnostics via the official GLFW joystick utility confirm that the device is detected as a raw joystick but lacks a valid gamepad mapping. However, the SDL_GameControllerDB does have the mappings. So, I patched and compiled glfw to the latest db. Then, I built TDM from the github repo, with the prebuilt 3rdparty artifacts, but replacing the libglfw3.a file with the cone I compiled. The game runs, and I verified that the mappings do exist in the new tdm binary (using `strings`), but the gamepad still does not work. I am using the default DarkmodPadbinds.cfg unbindPad bindPadButton MODIFIER PAD_L2 bindPadButton PRESS PAD_A "_jump" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_B "_crouch" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_B "_mantle" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_X "_attack" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_Y "_inventory_use" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_Y "_inventory_grid" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_L1 "_lean_left" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_R1 "_lean_right" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_R1 "_parry" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_R2 "_frob" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_R2 "_attack" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_L3 "_speed" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_R3 "inventory_use '#str_02396'" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_R3 "inventory_use '#str_02395'" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_BACK "_objectives" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_BACK "savegame quick" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_START "escape" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_LEFT "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02392'" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_LEFT "_weapon1" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_LEFT "_weapon2" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_RIGHT "inventory_cycle_group '#str_02389'" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_RIGHT "_weapon3" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_RIGHT "_weapon4" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_UP "_inventory_prev" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_UP "inventory_hotkey ''" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_UP "_weapon_next" bindPadButton MOD_LONG_PRESS PAD_UP "_weapon0" bindPadButton PRESS PAD_DOWN "_inventory_next" bindPadButton LONG_PRESS PAD_DOWN "_inventory_drop" bindPadButton MOD_PRESS PAD_DOWN "_weapon_prev" The log printed is WARNING:Cannot detect SVN version! Make sure 'svnversion' command works in console on the build machine. TDM 2.14/64 #0 (Unversioned directory) linux-x86_64 Mar 15 2026 17:27:53 /proc/cpuinfo CPU frequency: 3988 MHz 3988 MHz Intel CPU with SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & SSSE3 & SSE41 & AVX found interface lo - loopback found interface tailscale0 - 100.120.168.3/255.255.255.255 found interface enp0s20f0u3u1u2 - 192.168.2.105/255.255.255.0 Found Intel CPU, features: SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 AVX TDM using AVX for SIMD processing. no 'darkmod' directory in exe path /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod, skipping WARNING: using hardcoded default base path Found 0 new missions and 0 packages. ------ Initializing File System ------ Current search path: [M] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/fms/written [M] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/fms/written/written.pk4 (1305 files - 0x9de52132) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/ [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_wood01.pk4 (466 files - 0xb5d97e73) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_window01.pk4 (405 files - 0x5a4b6ae6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_sculpted01.pk4 (475 files - 0x641965de) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_natural01.pk4 (156 files - 0xf890710d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_flat01.pk4 (328 files - 0xc3f6bde4) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_cobblestones01.pk4 (301 files - 0x65be47b7) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_stone_brick01.pk4 (572 files - 0xc18893d7) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_sfx01.pk4 (69 files - 0x6589664a) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_roof01.pk4 (84 files - 0x674c51e1) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_plaster01.pk4 (171 files - 0x32092a6e) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_paint_paper01.pk4 (105 files - 0x914e90bf) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_other01.pk4 (155 files - 0xa089e601) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_nature01.pk4 (321 files - 0x8fc5a2a1) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_metal01.pk4 (525 files - 0x6a65e0a) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_glass01.pk4 (55 files - 0xb04853d2) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_fabric01.pk4 (63 files - 0x85b5a374) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_door01.pk4 (177 files - 0xb0130166) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_decals01.pk4 (477 files - 0x10205bc5) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_carpet01.pk4 (133 files - 0x8a6e585b) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_textures_base01.pk4 (657 files - 0xbdef74a6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_standalone.pk4 (4 files - 0xb3f36d20) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals_decls01.pk4 (341 files - 0xa359aaef) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals07.pk4 (1111 files - 0x67d07bcc) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals06.pk4 (714 files - 0x1b185378) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals05.pk4 (119 files - 0x6cf23214) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals04.pk4 (2895 files - 0xf145be9a) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals03.pk4 (743 files - 0xb3f2e0f1) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals02.pk4 (1299 files - 0x5092940e) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_vocals01.pk4 (82 files - 0xf4d326b2) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4 (621 files - 0x30bde7bc) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_sfx01.pk4 (995 files - 0xf105b273) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient_decls01.pk4 (8 files - 0xd81cf846) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient03.pk4 (24 files - 0xd28ca9ec) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient02.pk4 (163 files - 0x84efad22) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_sound_ambient01.pk4 (221 files - 0xd0561b94) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_prefabs01.pk4 (1028 files - 0x77ffb2d0) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_player01.pk4 (127 files - 0xd983fc45) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models_decls01.pk4 (101 files - 0x1ab99f09) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models05.pk4 (1218 files - 0xea685065) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models04.pk4 (557 files - 0x4bb19ec8) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models03.pk4 (639 files - 0xb2ccd08d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models02.pk4 (521 files - 0x5aab96c3) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_models01.pk4 (2961 files - 0x33c2c906) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_gui_credits01.pk4 (49 files - 0xbff51863) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_gui01.pk4 (784 files - 0x707e9e6c) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_fonts01.pk4 (708 files - 0xfc83b727) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_env01.pk4 (224 files - 0xfc062cee) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_defs01.pk4 (199 files - 0xaa3f5bbf) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_base01.pk4 (208 files - 0xfd2650a6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_steambots01.pk4 (52 files - 0xdb1822f5) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_monsters_spiders01.pk4 (80 files - 0xc50c13ac) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_undead01.pk4 (55 files - 0x3a6634) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_townsfolk01.pk4 (104 files - 0x9256f66d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_pagans01.pk4 (10 files - 0x81066fb3) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_nobles01.pk4 (51 files - 0x9e9205b6) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_mages01.pk4 (8 files - 0xdf3069bf) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_heads01.pk4 (104 files - 0x770aedf3) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_guards01.pk4 (391 files - 0x2806f655) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_females01.pk4 (172 files - 0xe680b6db) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_builders01.pk4 (91 files - 0xe5bbf58d) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_beasts02.pk4 (229 files - 0x415e6e90) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_humanoid_beasts01.pk4 (23 files - 0xba9da54c) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_base01.pk4 (9 files - 0xb1ce574) [C] /home/dhruva/Games/TheDarkMod/tdm_ai_animals01.pk4 (82 files - 0x91388f45) File System Initialized. -------------------------------------- Couldn't open journal files ----- Initializing Decls ----- WARNING:file materials/bkd_blend_texture.mtr, line 8: material 'textures/common/blend' previously defined at materials/bkd_blend.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/bkd_lights.mtr, line 48: material 'lights/round_grill' previously defined at materials/bkd_lights.mtr:22 WARNING:file materials/bkd_signs.mtr, line 261: material 'models/darkmod/misc/signs/blacksmith' previously defined at materials/bkd_signs.mtr:209 WARNING:file materials/bkd_windows.mtr, line 96: material 'textures/darkmod/window/frame_ornate_wallsection_selflit' previously defined at materials/bkd_windows.mtr:17 WARNING:file materials/bkd_windows.mtr, line 112: material 'textures/darkmod/window/frame_ornate_wallsection_selflit' previously defined at materials/bkd_windows.mtr:17 WARNING:file materials/tablet_revenant.mtr, line 12: material 'tdm_spider_black_invisible' previously defined at materials/smoke_monster.mtr:128 WARNING:file materials/tablet_revenant.mtr, line 28: material 'textures/particles/revenant_smoke' previously defined at materials/smoke_monster.mtr:179 WARNING:file materials/volta_fx.mtr, line 306: material 'textures/darkmod/volta/volta_watersplash_large' previously defined at materials/kingsal.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 22: material 'book_sp2welli' previously defined at materials/welli_props.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 45: material 'book_sp3welli' previously defined at materials/welli_props.mtr:23 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 68: material 'book_sp4welli' previously defined at materials/welli_props.mtr:46 WARNING:file materials/welli_spbook.mtr, line 92: material 'book_sp5welli' previously defined at materials/welli_sp5.mtr:1 WARNING:file materials/wood.mtr, line 120: material 'textures/darkmod/wood/boards/pier_platform_snow' previously defined at materials/tdm_pier_platform_snow.mtr:1 WARNING:file skins/bkd_models_architecture_modules.skin, line 1026: skin 'timber01_blocks_mixedsize01_litwindows' previously defined at skins/amd_architecture_modules.skin:19 WARNING:file skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin, line 16: skin 'roof_snow' previously defined at skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin:1 WARNING:file skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin, line 109: skin 'roof_snow_selflit' previously defined at skins/bkd_snow_architecture.skin:89 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 6: skin 'book_sp2welli' previously defined at skins/welli_props.skin:1 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 13: skin 'book_sp3welli' previously defined at skins/welli_props.skin:6 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 20: skin 'book_sp4welli' previously defined at skins/welli_props.skin:13 WARNING:file skins/welli_spbooks.skin, line 27: skin 'book_sp5welli' previously defined at skins/welli_sp5.skin:1 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 9: sound 'crystal_bowl' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:1 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 22: sound 'cosmic_chaos' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:9 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 34: sound 'forest_sounds1' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:22 WARNING:file sound/bkd_ambient.sndshd, line 46: sound 'forest_sounds2' previously defined at sound/ambient.sndshd:34 WARNING:file sound/bkd_water.sndshd, line 7: sound 'water_medium_running' previously defined at sound/bkd_enviromental.sndshd:19 ------------------------------ I18N: SetLanguage: 'english'. I18N: Found no character remapping for english. I18N: 1347 strings read from strings/english.lang I18N: 'strings/fm/english.lang' not found. Couldn't exec editor.cfg - file does not exist. execing default.cfg Gamepad modifier button assigned to 6 execing Darkmod.cfg execing DarkmodKeybinds.cfg execing DarkmodPadbinds.cfg Gamepad modifier button assigned to 6 execing autoexec.cfg I18N: SetLanguage: 'english'. I18N: Found no character remapping for english. I18N: 1347 strings read from strings/english.lang I18N: 'strings/fm/english.lang' not found. /proc/cpuinfo CPU processors: 4 /proc/cpuinfo CPU logical cores: 8 CPU core count: 4 physical, 8 logical HDD not detected: loading threads unlimited ----- Initializing OpenAL ----- Setup OpenAL device and context OpenAL: found device 'ALSA Default' [ACTIVE] OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, ALC3254 Analog (CARD=PCH,DEV=0)' OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, P235H (CARD=PCH,DEV=3)' OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, DELL U2723QE (CARD=PCH,DEV=7)' OpenAL: found device 'HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2 (CARD=PCH,DEV=8)' OpenAL: device 'ALSA Default' opened successfully OpenAL: HRTF is available OpenAL vendor: OpenAL Community OpenAL renderer: OpenAL Soft OpenAL version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.22.2 OpenAL: found EFX extension OpenAL: HRTF is enabled (reason: 1 = ALC_HRTF_ENABLED_SOFT) OpenAL: found 256 hardware voices ----- Initializing OpenGL ----- Initializing OpenGL display Borderless fullscreen - using current video mode for monitor 0: 1920 x 1080 ...initializing QGL ------- Input Initialization ------- ------------------------------------ OpenGL vendor: AMD OpenGL renderer: AMD Radeon R5 M465 Series (radeonsi, iceland, ACO, DRM 3.64, 6.19.8-arch1-1) OpenGL version: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.0.2-arch1.1 core Checking required OpenGL features... v - using GL_VERSION_3_3 v - using GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc Checking optional OpenGL extensions... v - using GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic maxTextureAnisotropy: 16.000000 v - using GL_ARB_stencil_texturing v - using GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test v - using GL_ARB_buffer_storage v - using GL_ARB_texture_storage v - using GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect v - using GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding X - GL_ARB_compatibility not found v - using GL_KHR_debug Max active texture units in fragment shader: 32 Max combined texture units: 160 Max anti-aliasing samples: 8 Max geometry output vertices: 256 Max geometry output components: 4095 Max vertex attribs: 16 ---------- R_ReloadGLSLPrograms_f ----------- Linking GLSL program renderTools ... Linking GLSL program testImageCube ... --------------------------------- Font fonts/english/stone in size 12 not found, using size 24 instead. --------- Initializing Game ---------- The Dark Mod 2.14/64, linux-x86_64, code revision 0 Build date: Mar 15 2026 Initializing event system ...902 event definitions Initializing class hierarchy ...173 classes, 1818432 bytes for event callbacks Initializing scripts ---------- Compile stats ---------- Game script memory usage: Files: 78 Statements: 26391, 1055640 bytes (32%) Functions: 1454, 190332 bytes (47%) Variables: 123376 bytes (31%) Mem used: 2426552 bytes Allocated: 1287060 bytes Maximum object size: 888 Largest object type name: weapon_arrow ...6 aas types game initialized. -------------------------------------- Parsing material files Found 0 new missions and 0 packages. Found 70 mods in the FM folder. Parsed 77 mission declarations. No 'tdm_mapsequence.txt' file found for the current mod: written -------- Initializing Session -------- session initialized -------------------------------------- Font fonts/english/mason_glow in size 12 not found, using size 48 instead. Font fonts/english/mason_glow in size 24 not found, using size 48 instead. Font fonts/english/mason in size 12 not found, using size 48 instead. Font fonts/english/mason in size 24 not found, using size 48 instead. WARNING:file /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui, line 191: wrong number of arguments for script command set: 4 instead of [2..2], maybe missing semicolon? WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing1 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture1] [decl: guis/assets/briefing1 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing1] WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing2 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture2] [decl: guis/assets/briefing2 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing2] WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing3 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture3] [decl: guis/assets/briefing3 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing3] WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing4 [window: Desktop] [window: Briefing] [window: BriefingMovingPicture4] [decl: guis/assets/briefing4 in <implicit file>] [image: guis/assets/briefing4] Font fonts/english/stone in size 12 not found, using size 24 instead. WARNING:unknown destination 'BriefingAnimation::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:101 WARNING:resetTime target window 'BriefingAnimation' not found at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:102 WARNING:unknown destination 'BriefingAnimation::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:126 WARNING:unknown destination 'BriefingAnimation::notime' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:127 WARNING:unknown destination 'NextButton4::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:454 WARNING:unknown destination 'NextButton4::visible' of set command at /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui:526 --- Common Initialization Complete --- ------------- Warnings --------------- during The Dark Mod initialization... WARNING:Cannot detect SVN version! WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing1 WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing2 WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing3 WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/briefing4 WARNING:file /fms/written/written.pk4/guis/mainmenu_briefing.gui, line 191: wrong number of arguments for script command set: 4 instead of [2..2], maybe missing semicolon? 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Contributions downloads are at http://fidcal.com/DarkMod/index.htm Note that there is no dedicated beautiful sortable webpage list. I don't have time and also this means less delays. Just browse the folders and click on readmes and images and grab any zips. If anyone submits anything I can just upload it in a few minutes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you wish to offer coding, modelling, or any other kind of help got to the I want to help forum for discussion. If you have any extensive assets you wish to discuss also you can go to the I want to help forum. If you simply want to share an FM, prefab(s), textures, whatever then post details in this thread (there are other websites for FMs too.) Generally these need to be zipped up with a description.txt plain text file and optionally an image, and uploaded somewhere I can get them such as a fileshare website like rapidshare. Any problem with that and if you have ftp I can arrange a direct upload to a private temporary folder on my website. All submissions to this thread should be accompanied by a short description summary to go on the download page and optionally a picture(s). Such submissions will be placed on my website download page (wip) at fidcal.com. Anything suspect for any reason I reserve the right to delete. I accept no liability for downtime or even no-continuance of the download section or even the entire website for any reason. Downloaders: I accept no liability if you download anything you'd rather not: download at your own risk. Oh yes, and I am not responsible for global warming, economic depression, you name it; I'm not responsible. From there, any mappers can download what they want. The Dark Mod Team may or may not assess some items for inclusion in future Dark Mod updates. FMs may be assessed for inclusion on the Dark Mod website. Anyone feel free to mirror the download folder. Any suggestions post in this thread too.

The Adventures of Thomas: Lucy's Quest Author: gg 2022-06-20 Version: 1.1 Required TDM Version: 2.10 or higher EFX: Yes ============================================================== Cautionary note: This FM needs a strong CPU/GPU combination sufficient to play the more demanding TDM FMs. Just as for many or most of the new FMs being released with the new gfx possibilities opened up it does a world of good to tweak the advanced video settings for the best combination of settings for your PC. For example, on my weaker laptop I set shadows as stencil and soft shadows off. On my desktop I set shadows as maps and soft shadows medium. Bloom off. Ambient occlusion off. Since the FM was built and extensively tested at these settings I believe either should produce a satisfactory experience. ============================================================== Sound Credits: freemusicarchive.org music Aislinn04_-_Aislinn_-_Lovely_Maria freesound.org klankbeeld_horror_1 freesound.org/people/CarlosCarty/sounds/522687/ om_aum_mantra_male_chant_bb freesound.org/people/Still%20Frames/sounds/37720/ still_frames freemusicarchive.org music The_Mind_Orchestra_Bruwynn tecknic.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-mod-ambience-and-atmospheres Zack Bower Ancient_2, _3, _5. Solemn_1 freesound.org/people/Jagadamba/sounds/256006/ group_chanting_om_aum ============================================================== Thanks to: The TDM/DR developers for producing such a beautiful machine. The keepers of the wiki pages which are looking very good these days. Sotha for his invaluable tutorial "The Bakery Job". This tutorial is a jewel. Springheel for creating an atmosphere. Bikerdude for... ideas how to do things and scale things. Playtesters and advisors Dragofer, wesp5, datiswous, shadow. datiswous pointed out some immersion breaking lighting faults, so I got the idea. wesp5 gave me some good advice on how to tell the story - so it's more understandable. Dragofer gave me some early advice on optimizing the mission, which gave me a couple of months work with results that are well worth it. Dragofer wrote a script which optimizes CPU calculations of AI interactions. Shadow helped by testing the script, as well as testing other attempts at optimization. With the script in action only the minimal of AI interactions in the player's vicinity are called to be calculated. The script provides a general benefit but the results vary from computer to computer. The script targets a CPU task. ============================================================== Gameplay: Notes attached to objectives contain essential information on gameplay, on who the good/bad guys are, on what the player must do, and why. Mandatory objectives are linear, directing the player along a route to the goal. Optional objectives can be completed anytime. ============================================================== CAUTION: spiders, rats, undead, necrophiles, cannibals, psychotic thugs, and some generally unsavory characters. No snakes, though. The spiders ate them. ==============================================================