Hightowne Museum Feedback Thread

Spitter on 8/3/2002 at 08:51

Yes, you heard me. Feedback! Feedback!

The truth be told, I just got myself a Soundblaster Live! card, and I forgot to put EAX settings into Hightowne. As I've decided to do a small update, I might as well fix and improve things you dislike or thought were odd. Balancing the starting equipment is already on my checklist (thanks, Tumbleweed).

So, give me some feedback!

Tumbleweed on 8/3/2002 at 10:11

Aside from the starting equipment, I'm actually hard-pressed to find anything wrong with it. Seeing that the contest is over, why not fleshing it out a bit into a larger FM? Nothing too monumental, just a few extra rooms or something.

Spitter on 8/3/2002 at 11:53

Hmm... The design doesn't really allow me to add new rooms very easily, but I'll definitely keep that in mind.

uncadonego on 8/3/2002 at 13:18

I thought the layout of the building and the interior architecture were beautiful.The criticism I have read elsewhere that it was the same solution as Lord Gervasius' masks is not true. Sure you could use rope arrows there, but you were supposed to turn of the floors with the colour coded rooms and their respective switches. I liked having to rope over to the treasure. I liked the exhibits, and some of the humour. The staircases were great. The Karras bot was a good addition to the variety of the mission. If you can do anything to it to flesh it out, maybe a few more guards would be good. Since it is all interior architecture, I don't know if it would be too difficult to start outside the building, like the Bank level in Thief 2, and then find your way in, maybe some outdoor guards, one of them holding the key. If you just want to flesh out the storyline more and stick to the interior, you could add a couple of "find some information on" objectives, and add some hidden cubby holes with the sought after info.
It's hard to find suggestions for a mission that was great to begin with!:thumb:
I will repeat that so you believe me. It's hard to find suggestions for a mission that was great to begin with!:thumb:

kfgecko on 8/3/2002 at 16:30

I voted the mission tops. The gameplay was polished, with no "get stuck" architecture, with reasonable setups and patrols such that a veteran thief could work the skillz, and the story pacing went nicely.

I loved the "descend from rope to avoid floor" mission impossible stuff, and it served as a good "climax" to the mission.

The injects of humor came at the right time, and were right in line with thief stuff.

In short, this mission has good balance and polish; something only the best FMs have.

Aemanyl on 15/8/2018 at 14:12

My gameplay video from this mission. Enjoy!

[video=youtube;kxQAPjaAoDg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxQAPjaAoDg[/video]

fortuni on 14/3/2021 at 05:04

dml courtesy Glypher

Fixes:

- doors (the hatch; blockfrobs, protection, open positions)
- lockboxes / switches
- minor fixes

Code:

DML1
//T2 FM: The Hightowne Museum (Contest 2) by Jani Saarijarvi (Spitter) / Fixes: miss19.mis.dml

//doors
ObjProp 6 "Position"
{
"Heading" c000
}
-ObjProp 6 "PhysType"
+ObjProp 6 "PhysType"
{
"Type" OBB
}
+Receptron 11 "WeaponStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
ObjProp 11 "RotDoor"
{
"Open Angle" 90
"Clockwise?" false
}
+ObjProp 11 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
+ObjProp 11 "PhysCanMant"
{
}
ObjProp 82 "RotDoor"
{
"Open Angle" 271
}
+ObjProp 82 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
ObjProp 82 "Position"
{
"Heading" 8000
}
-ObjProp 82 "PhysType"
+ObjProp 82 "PhysType"
{
"Type" OBB
}
+ObjProp 161 "DeathStage"
{
"" -1
}
+ObjProp 162 "DeathStage"
{
"" -1
}
+ObjProp 189 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
+Receptron 213 "WeaponStim"
{
Min None
Max None
Effect "Abort"
}
ObjProp 217 "Position"
{
"Location" -12.97, -25.2, 82.9
}
ObjProp 220 "Position"
{
"Location" -3.05, -17.53, 82.9
}
+ObjProp 227 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
+ObjProp 228 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
ObjProp 275 "RotDoor"
{
"Open Angle" 90
"Clockwise?" false
}
+ObjProp 300 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
+ObjProp 302 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
+ObjProp 303 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
+ObjProp 304 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
ObjProp 304 "Scripts"
{
"Don't Inherit" true
}
+ObjProp 312 "BlockFrob"
{
"" true
}
ObjProp 318 "TransDoor"
{
"Open Position" -3.58
}
-ObjProp 318 "Scripts"
+ObjProp 318 "JointPos"
{
"Joint 1" 90.00
}
+ObjProp 325 "JointPos"
{
"Joint 1" 90.00
}
ObjProp 325 "TransDoor"
{
"Open Position" -3.58
}
ObjProp 356 "TransDoor"
{
"Open Position" -6.50
}

//lockboxes / switches
ObjProp 19 "Position"
{
"Heading" 8000
}
-ObjProp 19 "PhysType"
+ObjProp 19 "PhysType"
{
"Type" OBB
}
-Link 19 36 "ControlDevice"
Link 19 18 "Lock"
{
"" 1
}
+Link 19 35 "Lock"
{
"" 1
}
-Link 36 35 "Lock"
-Link 36 19 "ControlDevice"
-Link 36 11 "ControlDevice"
+Link 36 19 "FrobProxy"
{
"FrobProxyMask" AllowDirect
}
ObjProp 36 "Position"
{
"Pitch" 0
}
-ObjProp 36 "PhysType"
+ObjProp 36 "PhysType"
{
"Type" OBB
}

//AIs
+ObjProp 91 "InvRendType"
{
"Type" Alternate Bitmap
"Resource" cswgardm
}
+ObjProp 93 "InvRendType"
{
"Type" Alternate Bitmap
"Resource" cswgardm
}
+ObjProp 433 "InvRendType"
{
"Type" Alternate Bitmap
"Resource" cswgardm
}

//banners
+ObjProp 5 "SlayResult"
{
"Effect" Destroy
}
+ObjProp 71 "SlayResult"
{
"Effect" Destroy
}

mtk on 12/10/2024 at 16:04

Thank you for the fix.

Short and sweet, a comfy map. One of those I like to go back to from time to time.
Will play again
7/10