DromEd Basic Toolkit 1.13

muzboz on 13/9/2013 at 11:39

Quote Posted by Ricebug

Did you install everything via (http://www.bogadocious.com/thief.html) TafferPatcher? If not, you definitely should. It adds an improved menu that toggles light on/off, among other things. Ctrl-Shift-O (View menu)

Some other awesome resources on your page there, too, Ricebug! Thanks.

muzboz on 13/9/2013 at 11:42

Quick question...

If I use DromEd 1.21 to make a new mission (or to update an old one), will it still work fine for someone who is using Thief 1.18?

- Murray

Daraan on 13/9/2013 at 12:33

Quote Posted by muzboz

If I use DromEd 1.21 to make a new mission (or to update an old one), will it still work fine for someone who is using Thief 1.18?

No
or to be more precise the chance is very high that not everything will work like it worked for you or the level won't start. So no.

R Soul on 13/9/2013 at 16:08

Actually, 'no' was the more precise answer. A NewDark mission just will not load.

muzboz on 13/9/2013 at 16:30

I'm all set up but I can't get Darkloader to load my missions into Thief 1.21.

It just starts a normal Thief original game, even though I've selected my own Fan Mission level.

Is this a compatibility thing?

Should I be using something other than DarkLoader, once upgrading to New Dark? I used to use Darkloader 4.1, and it had been working fine until I started using DromEd 1.21. I tried installed Darkloader 4.3, but it didn't seem to help. Same problem. Is there another loader I should be using instead?

I like the new DromEd (1.21), and the latest Thief 1.21 looks and runs great, but I can't get my own Fan Mission to load...

I can play right through my mission directly in DromEd (using Alt-G), although it doesn't seem to find the book text files when I read a book in the game). Do I need to change the folder structure inside my Fan Mission, or add/remove some of the files, or something?

All I've done so far is resave over the old missionX.mis file, and hoped it'd work by just zipping up the same old Fan Mission package, but I'm not having much luck.

Any help would be awesome!

MysteryMan on 13/9/2013 at 16:44

Quote Posted by muzboz

fm selector

Ricebug on 13/9/2013 at 19:21

DL 4.3 works fine for me. You may have to re-install it from the ground up, however.

muzboz on 14/9/2013 at 00:23

Thanks heaps guys for your help. After a night's sleep, and trying your advice, it dawned on me that I was zipping my mission from one folder down, so the .mis file was not at the root.

It was like...

LordLomat'sFlute/miss24.mis
LordLomat'sFlute/etc

I zipped it properly and now it works. Derrr!

It works fine with the older Darkloader 4.1, as well, out of interest.

Ravenhook on 17/9/2013 at 15:32

I had serious problems with the "alt-e" function to leave an in-game play test not working, but seeing the basic toolkit 1.1 linked to newdark I decided to overwrite my 1.0 versin and bingo the old combination of "alt-g and alt-e" work properly and my newdark version is still showing up as v2.0...great.
Now all I have to do is sort out why I can't re-texture secret doors like the 4x4 slid secret door with the irograte texture using shape/txtrepl r0...as it stands at the moment it doesn't work.
But great to get the thing to work at last...thanks for the hard work.
:thumb::thumb:

muzboz on 20/9/2013 at 02:30

This is awesome, I'm loving the updated DromEd.

I'm wondering, is there a way to specify your own shortcut keys to the DromEd menus.cfg?

I really want to make a shortcut key for Play Scheme and Stop Schema.

I'd like to make it F9 and F10.

What would be awesome amazing, would be to have a Play Schema button in the Object Hierarchy that simply gives a preview of the schema that's highlighted! But I guess that's beyond what's possible with the modifications that can be done to DromEd at this point. :)

Is there any other tool or way to easily and quickly browse schemas and hear them previewed?

Thanks!