LarryG on 27/1/2014 at 23:15
Seriously, you don't want to start with the old 1.37 version. The bugs and crashes will bury you. Use NewDark. It is the best thing since sliced bread. Stable and full of improvements. Don't confuse your initial setup issues with NewDark issues. Just use tafferpatcher to get everything working. And if you have problems, post them in the tafferpatcher thread.
Garrett2014 on 27/1/2014 at 23:24
OK . Im trying to edit for TG and i thought Taffer Patcher was for T2 ! Next you say to extract shocked basic ! What is that and where do i find it ! :/ Might be obvious to you but its not to me :/ Ive been at this since well all evening anyway and im no further on and i think ive broken my install. Argghhhh .. Why is this so bloody difficult. EVERYTHING is fragmented. the software installation , the gmae patches, the editor the documentation EVERYTHING. Its all over the place with broken links and out of date information. 0_0 SOme one needs to take a moment to get a little page together with SPECIFICALLY what you need to do and with the links to the downloads you require in order to get the Editor to work.. I think im going to leave it more the night now and go and chill out and watch a movie or something. This is just too painfull getting. And i never even got to play with the editor. TDM Dark Radiant is MILES AHEAD of DromEd/NewDark. :/ Sorry but it is.
voodoo47 on 27/1/2014 at 23:48
yeah, TafferPatcher is for T2, small slip on LarryG's part. anyway;
Quote Posted by voodoo47
-install the game
-patch it up with the the latest TFix
-extract editor.zip from the (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141148) NewDark package to your thief folder
-extract dromed basic into your thief folder
-copy the contents of .\tools\Thief1 Gold Dromed\ to your root Thief Directory
it's five steps, with only the last three being manual. not all that difficult.
Garrett2014 on 27/1/2014 at 23:57
Its the last two parts im having trouble with . You dont say where those files are. I cant find them to install them !
voodoo47 on 28/1/2014 at 00:04
already gave you the link: (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141708)
once you extract it into yout Thief folder, you will also have the \tools\Thief1 Gold Dromed folder in there, you open it, and copy the files into the thief folder (overwrite).
LarryG on 28/1/2014 at 00:25
Sorry, when I did my TG for NewDark, I did it manually. I thought that TafferPatcher worked for both. My bad. Listen to Voodoo47.
Garrett2014 on 28/1/2014 at 13:40
Shocked Basic? Isnt that for System Shock ? Never mind. Its been edited out.
Garrett2014 on 28/1/2014 at 14:01
Ok Ive got my thief install repaired now and DromEd Final 1.21 MSVC opt playtest launces and seems to work. I also have a MONO window open like a CLI window except i cant type in there. It has :-
Set light_bright to 1
persistent_player_pos=0
Is this something i need to be aware of or is it normal operating procedure and i can ignore it ?
Finally, I can edit the DromEd CFG and if i use 1024 768 as resolution i get a larger window but nothing inbetween works and if i use 1280 1024 which is my desktop resolution i loose the Menu bar and its not windowed :/ Anything i can do about this ?
voodoo47 on 28/1/2014 at 14:22
your editor resolution needs to be lower than your desktop. try 1152*864. the console window is informational, you can't type anything in there. also, you may want to activate accelerated rendering, edit dromed.cfg and remove ; from editor_disable_gdi and edit_screen_depth 32 so they will look like this:
Code:
editor_disable_gdi
edit_screen_depth 32
should work nicely unless you are using an integrated intel gpu.
Daraan on 28/1/2014 at 14:27
Quote Posted by Garrett2014
Set light_bright to 1
persistent_player_pos=0
Is this something i need to be aware of or is it normal operating procedure and i can ignore it ?
light_bright 1 means that everything has full light = no shadows. Good for editing else it would be dark....You can toggle this via View->Toggle Lightning.
(Not directly for you Garrett: I don't have this line in my startup.cmd instead i use directly toggle_lighting there)
persistent_player_pos=0 means that when you go into game mode that you start at the point where your camara was in the editor view, else you would start at the starting point, or if none present at (0,0,0)
So it's good that these two values are there.
Quote Posted by Garrett2014
Finally, I can edit the DromEd CFG and if i use 1024 768 as resolution i get a larger window but nothing inbetween works and if i use 1280 1024 which is my desktop resolution i loose the Menu bar and its not windowed :/ Anything i can do about this ?
Sadly thats how it is... but what is often forgotten is that you can also use 1280, 960
