General Info.. Some general info first. Thief II has most of the textures from Thief I included in its texture files, and importantly, many were re-rendered or redrawn to look better for Thief II. So, the first thing I've done is to include all the new improved textures in a zip file for use in Thief I. I'll explain how to do this in a moment. The second thing I've done, for hardware (3d accelerated) users, is to include the modifed palettes of Thief II for certain texture families instead of forcing all the improved textures to the default 256 colour Thief I palette. The benefit of this is that a much wider selection of colours is possible for the textures, which means higher (16-bit) quality. However, software users will find the textures corrupted as a result, which is why I've included two (2) versions of the texture patch - one for software, and one for hardware. The installation of each is the same however, and I've detailed this below.

First of all, download one this file:
Texture patch (HARDWARE) (5.25mb)

Secondly, if you don't have a utlility to read .ZIP files (like Winzip), download one now.

Now, once you have downloaded one the file, open it with WinZip.

Choose the "Extract" function.

In the Extract to: field, enter a directory under your main Thief directory called "fam", so the path might read something like: c:\thief\fam\

Make sure the "use folder names" option is selected, then hit the extract button.

Close WinZip, and start playing Thief.

If you dislike the new look of Thief, simply delete or rename the thief/fam directory.

However, you may also want to update the models (ie, the guards, servants and other people in the game) to Thief II standard.