ulbe001 on 20/3/2006 at 17:02
Hi!
I played through Deadly Shadows this weekend, and was delightfully impressed! After finishing it, I installed some of John P's high-rez textures, and used T3Tweak to set the game up for another run-through.
I made some manual adjustments to the default.ini too; I've increased the speed multiplier of the crawl and upped the cache-size (it was set to 1 for some reason, I upped to 64), following a tweak guide Google served me.
However, something most went bad; now I've got no text in books or notes, I have no text in the user interface (can't see the number of arrows, the value or % of loot and so on), I have no text in briefing, can't read signs and the game menus (save/load/options etc) gets smeared when I scroll them. Quotes and tip-of-the-day still works fine.
Does anyone have a clue as to what might have messed up the text? Which part of my edits could have that effect? Where should I start looking?
Thanks in advance, for your time and effort!
//Ulf
John P. on 20/3/2006 at 22:28
Well - as a start, I can tell you that my installers don't change anything that have to do with fonts, or any system files at all. All they do is hex edit the .ibt files, and extract texture files to a folder.
Of course, there could hypothetically have been some problem during the hex editing so an .ibt was damaged, but I highly doubt it. Though it rarely happens (never heard of it so far), that's the reason I recommend backing up the .ibt files.
I'm working hard on a new and improved installer, with improved + new textures, but these things take time.
Does it happen as soon as you start the game, or after some time of playing?
ulbe001 on 20/3/2006 at 22:43
Quote Posted by John P.
Well - as a start, I can tell you that my installers don't change anything that have to do with fonts, or any system files at all. All they do is hex edit the .ibt files, and extract texture files to a folder.
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I don't want you to feel I blame your installer or anything, I just mentioned what I did before the game broke.
I am quite impressed by your textures and have been showing your work for a couple of my graphic oriented colleagues today, and they pointed out the amount of work you must've been puting into this. Very good work! Is this something you're doing profesionally?
If you're working on a new installer, perhaps you can do one with all the textures included in a single package? It would be sweet.
As for my problem, I spent some time with it and got it sorted. (With your textures still installed ^^), I got a fresh copy of the default INI and the game was back up. I then performed my previous edits one at a time to see what broke it, but my changes were not to blame. It was not until I used the T3Tweaker to remove the startup movies that the text broke.
So, now I'm just going to google for removing those movies manually, and then it's back to business.
John P. on 20/3/2006 at 23:09
Quote Posted by ulbe001
I don't want you to feel I blame your installer or anything, I just mentioned what I did before the game broke.
No no - I just thought I'd mention that it would be unlikely that my installers would cause this exact problem. :)
Quote Posted by ulbe001
I am quite impressed by your textures and have been showing your work for a couple of my graphic oriented colleagues today, and they pointed out the amount of work you must've been putting into this. Very good work! Is this something you're doing professionally?
Thank you, and no, unfortunately - it's just a hobby of mine.
Quote Posted by ulbe001
If you're working on a new installer, perhaps you can do one with all the textures included in a single package? It would be sweet.
-That's exactly what I'm doing. :)
In addition, the installer I'm now working on will be literally ten times faster to install/uninstall compared to my older big pack (Misc. pack). So instead of twenty minutes to install/uninstall, expect two minutes.
-Glad to hear you sorted it out.
T-Smith on 21/3/2006 at 00:16
Quote Posted by John P.
In addition, the installer I'm now working on will be literally ten times faster to install/uninstall compared to my older big pack (Misc. pack). So instead of twenty minutes to install/uninstall, expect two minutes.
That's hot right there :p.
You mentioned above you were doing new/improved ones? Don't suppose you could drop us a hint as to who/what is getting the John P. overhaul this time around?
