Fendora on 3/11/2022 at 10:06
What a great fm, thank you, I loved it
draconigen on 4/11/2022 at 13:25
Beatiful mission! I just seem to be doing something wrong, even after installing the scripts mentioned in the first post and restarting the mission, the particle beams in the police station still won't turn off. Help? :s
NVScript.htm and NVScript.osm are both in the game directory, are they loaded/included automatically somehow? As for the Public Scripts, I just ran the installer and passed it the game path, setup appeared to be successful.
Thief 2 "1.26 ND" via GOG (game path: C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Thief 2 - The Metal Age\)
Launched via AngelLoader 1.5.2
baeuchlein on 4/11/2022 at 15:11
It is possible that you have to update to Thief 2 NewDark v1.27 for this to work. v1.27 has been the newest version for at least one or two years now.
Galaer on 4/11/2022 at 17:06
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
It is possible that you have to update to Thief 2 NewDark v1.27 for this to work. v1.27 has been the newest version for at least one or two years now.
That's definitely not an issue as I beat this mission with Tafferpatcher 1.25 without any technical problems. The problem is most likely that your scripts are outdated. For some reason it's possible for scripts to stop working overtime. I had this with Deceptive Perception 2. Couple of years ago I played this mission without issue, but when I tried it this year I was forced to install newest scripts, because older scripts that worked in the past stopped working. I have no idea where you can download newest scripts, they appear from time to time and sometimes someone will link to archive. Though i would prefer link to some thread where these newest scripts get released instead of relying on other people.
draconigen on 4/11/2022 at 19:11
Omg fortuni, that worked 89%! I have no idea why it seems I had outdated scripts, since I installed them just yesterday from the links provided in the first post (probably picked the wrong download) but now eight out of nine beams in the police station are off! :D
fortuni on 4/11/2022 at 19:39
Your best bet to to keep your T2 installation up to date by patching with the latest (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149669) T2Fx (currently ND 1.27e) it includes all the latest scripts, has numerous fixes included, 100's of dml's area automatically installed and much much more.
More importantly most authors make missions with the latest T2Fix patched and missions are never beta tested with older patches installed, so it is possible if not probable you'll come across issues when playing with older patches installed.
baeuchlein on 4/11/2022 at 22:08
As far as I know there is no newer version of that "T2 Script-Bundle 1.1". The scripts in there seem to be up to date anyway, with one exception: NVScript in there is v1.2.5, which seems to be rather outdated. T2Fix v1.27e uses a somewhat newer NVScript, but the newest one is found (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134166) here. You'll find v1.2.9 there, from January 2022.
gen.osm and convict.osm are most likely taken from some Thief 2 version. tnhScripts and Public scripts can currently be found at (
https://www.thiefmissions.com/telliamed/thief/) this URL, but these scripts have not been updated for years, so maybe these are stable versions.
Anyway, the english translation of the german readme file in the T2 Script-Bundle would be this:
T2-Scripts Bundle.
These scripts are needed to play T2 fan missions.
Contents:
-gen.osm of March 27th, 2000; convict.osm
-NVScripts 1.25
-tnhScripts 2.1
-Telliamed's Public Scripts 2.1
Installation: You need a functioning Thief 2 installation (of at least version 1.18).
Unpack all files directly into the main directory [=folder]
of the Thief 2 installation and leave them there.However, the last line might not be accurate. Modern T2Fix versions instead put those scripts into the OSM subdirectory of the Thief 2 installation, and unpacking another version of these scripts into another directory of the game might cause some confusion - which script version would be used? And would a future T2Fix take care of any outdated scripts which are
not in the OSM directory?
john9818a on 4/11/2022 at 23:18
Fortuni I saw your PM, but I'll respond here. That link/zip file has a newer (not latest) version of NV Scripts, but everything else is current. The two Thief 2 default scripts, convict.osm and gen.osm shouldn't be in that zip file as they are distributed on the Thief2 discs. I changed the link above to the link baeuchlein posted about NV Scripts v1.2.9. I guess I figured that the scripts page was being updated but apparently it wasn't updated. I left the link to the Public scripts as is.
fortuni on 4/11/2022 at 23:28
If someone who knows which the latest script are could put together a new Scripts-Bundle 1.2 I'll post it in the Brief summaries thread.
Better still everyone should just patch their thief install with the latest T2Fix.....problem solved.