bluephoenix on 14/7/2004 at 01:28

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i have in fact done this with my version of thief 3. i've made the title screen that cool picture of garrett looking over the city (in blue, not yellow like the wallpaper) and used a new title screen loader which i found in the textures folder which is not used anywhere else. i want to share it but i dont quite know who to send the files to. any help would be much appreciated!

rohan on 14/7/2004 at 02:20

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Heya John P, your textures are amazing! Now that Ive seen it, I dont think I can stand playing Thief 3 without it. Thanks for sharing your work! Any dates as to when we can get some wall textures? :D

Question John P, how do you make normal maps? And what program do you use to export and import texture files? I'd like to try editing the wall textures myself. :) Please help me.

Shinigami777 on 30/10/2006 at 21:45

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Wow, it's been a coupla years, but I wonder if anyone, particularly the maker of these textures, would be interested in emailing me a copy? The link for them is down....:erg:
Help would be appreciated, but isn't expected on a thread this old...:p

Shinigami777 on 31/10/2006 at 16:47

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Alright, thanks! Cheers for the response, too, I really wasn't expecting much. :D

John P. on 7/11/2006 at 12:54

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This is because ibt_patcher.exe expects the registry path to the game install to be exactly like it is in the install folders.

In other words, it looks in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Ion Storm | Thief - Deadly Shadows | ION_ROOT in order to find the install folder path, but the registry path has to end without a backslash, or have two backslashes in a row, or other weirdness like that.

The registry path should look like this (as an EXAMPLE):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Ion Storm | Thief - Deadly Shadows | ION_ROOT | D:\Eidos\Thief - Deadly Shadows

The important thing is that the game install path at the end there looks like that, and not like this: D:\Eidos\Thief - Deadly Shadows\, or this: D:\Eidos\\Thief - Deadly Shadows

It has to be exactly as it is in the game install folder.

What causes the registry path to be incorrect I don't know - well, actually I know one thing that will cause it, and that's the Thief3Launcher.exe that people use to switch between editing the game with the editor, and playing the game. This .exe changes the registry path by adding a backslash to it at the end. So I guess other programs perhaps do the same, maybe GarrettLoader(?).

[edit] Heh - you should know, since if I'm not mistaken, you've created Thief3Launcher.exe! :) Sorry, didn't realize at first. [/edit]

If you're confident in altering things in the registry you can change it yourself. Just edit the registry entry so that the registry path to the game looks exactly like the folder path to the game's root folder.

Be careful though - editing the registry may cause trouble with your whole system if you do it wrong.