Flyinhammer on 28/9/2012 at 09:48
Question regarding the 1.19 FM Loader.
I have T2X installed, testing if i could have it used as a fan mission by the 1.19 FM loader, i moved the "t2x" folder created by the installation into the FMs directory.
Launching the 1.19 FM loader has "t2x" being listed and selectable.
I can launch it from there and start a game.
I played 5 minutes so far without obvious problems.
But should i expect problems from doing this or should it play OK ?
intruder on 28/9/2012 at 10:19
Quote Posted by LarryG
My question is, has anyone tried the 64-bit version of libmp3lame.dll and verified that it works? I wonder if it has to be the 32-bit version like it says. Anyone know? How about anyone know a good test mission with guaranteed mp3s to decode so I can test it on my 64-bit machine?
I can confirm Firehawk's finding: using the 64bit version does not work. It still says "Mp3 to Wav conversion not possible".
Using the 32bit version however works.
dbrilliant on 28/9/2012 at 11:12
Quote Posted by Yandros
Mike, that sounds awesome! I guess the only disadvantage of leaving them installed is the disk space they take up uncompressed. I'l have to play with the FM loader once I've finished mucking around in Dromed.
Yandros, we all know how much you love Dromed though! :cheeky::joke:
Mike, thanks for the input. I'll have to give that a go.
Yandros on 28/9/2012 at 11:58
I imagine that the FMSel program is a 32-bit program, and that's probably why it can't use the 64-bit decoder.
@Larry, some of my older FMs used mp3s, try (
http://thiefmissions.com/m/bhinnv2) Burrick's Head Inn v2.
Chiron on 28/9/2012 at 13:09
Is it possible to let the FMSelector show the FM Names instead of the archive names ?
Renault on 28/9/2012 at 14:02
Quote Posted by demagogue
I'm having two issues with it.
1) It is not recognizing sub-folders in my main FMs folder. If I click a folder with subfolders, it treats it as if it's an FM itself (what it looks like, e.g., if you click "info files" it shows files from multiple FMs in there), and then it just starts the vanilla game.
2) If I drop a .zip file in the top folder, even if I click refresh, it's still invisible in the FM Selector.
The only way I've gotten it to run an FM is if I manually unzip the .zip in the top FMs folder myself. Then it can see that and I can play it from there when I click on its folder.
Hmm, some of this is confusing, but it sounds like you've got your FM folder locations mixed up. The /fm directory within your Thief installation directory is where FM Selector will extract your FMs, but you shouldn't put the zip files here yourself. In fact, the directions say not to. Your FM zip files should go in a completely different location, and then that location should be specified within FM Selector under the gear icon.
By example, for testing, I put my FMs (the zip files) into: j:/T2 FMs. When I install an FM through FM Selector, it extracts all the files for me into C:\games\T2\fms. It creates a new directory for each FM, so for instance if I installed Black Frog, all of the unzipped files for that mission would be in C:\games\T2\fms\TheBlackFrog\.
Quote Posted by demagogue
I also had a question, where do the saves go? Would it possible to migrate my old saves into a new folder so I could still use them with FMSelector?
If you look in the fms directory under your Thief installation (c:\games\T2\fms in my example above) there should be a directory below that for each FM, and within that directory, a "saves" directory. Again, using the above example, it would be something like C:\Games\T2\fms\TheBlackFrog\saves\.
In other news -
I also updated the original post with the info on the 64 bit version of libmp3lame. Hoping to experiment a bit this weekend with T1, Thief Gold, and T2X, I'll always update the original post with any updated instructions. Also want to play around with using FM Selector while also using other FM loaders like Darkloader and Garrettloader.
cattamer on 29/9/2012 at 00:57
While testing 1.19 I tried the German only TG mission Das dunkle Geheimnis1.
Unless I cut The files in the folders
"D:\ThiefG\FMs\Das_dunkle_Geheimnis1\intrface\miss20\german"
"D:\ThiefG\FMs\Das_dunkle_Geheimnis1\books\german"
and paste them respectively to
"D:\ThiefG\FMs\Das_dunkle_Geheimnis1\intrface\miss20"
"D:\ThiefG\FMs\Das_dunkle_Geheimnis1\books"
books and mission goals were empty.
I'm using the English version of TG.
The mission may have been translated into English but I've got the German only version.
Yandros on 29/9/2012 at 03:19
Only if you never plan to uninstall it, I guess.
Firehawk on 29/9/2012 at 08:34
@cattamer
I have this problem on Fms with only english language with this installer. I have the german version of thief. But fibanocci found out what to do. We need to change a line in the darkinst.cfg
language german is my entry in the file and i must change to this language german+english
Now FMs with english language only text and goals works fine
snobel on 29/9/2012 at 11:33
Quote Posted by Albert
I can see it becoming as feature-heavy as Darkloader, and even TFMM which had some great ideas but was bogged down by it copying all the resources over for every FM.
TFMM and ModernLoader don't copy the files, they link them. So very little extra space is needed.
I'll be having a look at the FMSel code to see if I can make it work with T3 (to go together with my patch). Having a common interface for all 3 games would be good.
